This event aims to foster more respectful and thoughtful discussions around neurodegenerative conditions.
How does thinking in terms of ‘religious’ and ‘secular’ spheres shape our understanding of the political world?
Come and meet Shere Hite — the feminist hero whose notorious work revolutionized how we think about sex, marriage, and the female orgasm…
A panel featuring Geoffrey Gorham, Deborah Cohn and Maeve Callan, chaired by Frank Cogliano, to mark the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. A number of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were Scottish emigrants or descended from Scots, but Scots also formed a large part of Britain’s army in the Revolutionary War.
Professor Steven Yearley, former IASH Director and current Fellow of IASH, will inaugurate a prestigious new international lecture series at Cornell University in the USA, delivering his talk on Earth Day, 22 April 2026.
Steve – who is Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in the School of Social and Political Science – will give the opening lecture in the Trevor Pinch Memorial Lecture Series for Innovative Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Pietro Stefanini (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-26)
Making Colonisation Humanitarian: A Genealogy of Settler Humanitarianism in Palestine/Israel
The Institute is saddened to hear of the death of Michael Patrick, a former IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow with his writing partner Oisín Kearney.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Sarah Sharp (Visiting Research Fellow, 2026)
The Contested Cottage: Scottish Literature, Irish Partition and the Cottage Nation.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr A. Sophie Lauwers (IASH-Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-26)
Secularism, Hegemony and the Paradoxes of State Recognition
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Marta Gravela (Nominated Fellow, 2026).
Making an Alpine nation? The “Republique des Escartons” in the late medieval period.