This summer, IASH and its Fellows can be found across the sprawling range of festivals in Edinburgh, including the Book Festival and Festival Fringe. Tickets are available now for all events.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe:
Dr Orian Brook: Culture, Social reproduction and Inequality: Culture is Bad for You?
On 24 May 2019, Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Cheryl Lancaster organised Approaches to Genetics for Livestock Research, a workshop supported by Susan Manning Workshop Funding from IASH, that aimed to explore the history of genetics research for farming at the University of Edinburgh. The workshop aimed to bring together scholars from the humanities and sciences to discuss how heredity, genetics, and genomics has impacted livestock breeding through the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first.
On 17 May 2019 the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities hosted an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Heritage and Interreligious Coexistence in the City’, organised by Dr Daan Beekers. Created in the context of his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at IASH, this event brought together anthropologists, religious studies scholars, sociologists and historians to reflect on the role that time, history and heritage play in interreligious interactions in different parts of the world.
We are delighted to present the recorded video of David Miliband’s recent sold-out Fulbright Legacy Lecture, entitled The New "Arrogance of Power": Global Politics in the Age of Impunity. The lecture was presented in conjunction with the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the Lois Roth Endowment, the International Rescue Committee, and the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday 19th June 2019. It was chaired by the Principal, Professor Peter Mathieson.
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation Occasional Seminar:
3D Laser Scanners and the “Datafication” of Expertise
Dr. Stacy Wood
School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
3:30 pm Tuesday 23 July 2019
Old Surgeons’ Hall first floor Seminar Room,
Correcting Life through the Marketplace? Genome Editing and Academic Capitalism in South Korea
Doogab Yi (Program in History of Science, Seoul National University)
Wednesday 17th July, 3.00-4.30pm
High School Yards Teaching Centre - G.02 - Classroom 2
Abstract:
1 July 2019, 3:00-5:00pm Professor John Holloway (), Hope and the concept of capital.
Room 2.13, Institute of Geography, Drummond Street, EH8 9XP Co-sponsored by Human Geography Research Group and Citizens, Nations and Migration Network
Lewis Hetherington is our current IASH-Traverse Creative Fellow. Whilst his work as both playwright and performance-maker covers a variety of themes and genres, a consistent factor involves investigating the possibility of change. Our intern Amy McMonagle met him to discuss his fellowship, creative projects and the LGBTI+ community in advance of Pride Edinburgh this Saturday.