IASH has been awarded the 2025 Public Humanities Award for Leadership in Practice and Community by the CHCI Public Humanities Network, for our work on the Institute Project on Decoloniality (IPD) between 2021 and 2024. The Public Humanities Network Award for Leadership in Practice and Community recognizes and celebrates exemplary public humanities work engaged with communities.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Artur R. Boelderl (Digital Visiting Research Fellow, 2025)
Necessary and Impossible: The Haunting Persistence of ‘the Book’ in Digital Online Editions
This panel presentation brings together arts and geoscience researchers to discuss anthropogenic tufa—a form of limestone induced by human industrial activities. Speakers include members of a collaborative team working to create an experimental tufa artwork in the foyer and courtyard of the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences Grant Institute and Cockburn Museum.
Our friends at the Stuart Hall Foundation have announced their 2025 programme, In Search of Common Ground - a year of critical conversations that invite us to consider Stuart Hall's thinking on difference, and how we can forge a collective politics to confront our present conjuncture.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Mahnaz Zahirinejad (Alwaleed Research Fellow, 2025)
The Decline of Religiosity in Iran: Secularism and Pluralism
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Alex Brostoff (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025)
The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity
Online registration is still open for our 55th anniversary conference on 3 and 4 April 2025, although in-person tickets have now sold out. To register to attend online, please visit https://iash55.eventbrite.co.uk and select the Online (livestream) option. A Zoom Webinar link for both days will be circulated on 2 April.
The Institute is proud to announce the third book from the Dangerous Women Project:
Women Who Dared: From the Infamous to the Forgotten
Edited by Ben Fletcher-Watson, Jo Shaw
Foreword by Sara Sheridan
Paperback (Forthcoming) £14.99
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-25).
Dreaming while awake? The case of maladaptive daydreaming
Isabel Dalhousie, the eponymous heroine of the best-selling series of books by Sir Alexander McCall Smith and regular (fictional) visitor to IASH, may soon be making her way to the screen. Variety reports that the series has been optioned by Synchronicity Films, with Andrea Gibb expected to adapt the novels for television. Gibb's recent work includes Miss Austen for the BBC.