The Institute is proud to announce Michael John O’Neill as the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow for 2025, a residency that will see him research and develop a new play for the Traverse Theatre, exploring the painful experience of losing someone to far-right ideologies. O’Neill’s Fellowship is the result of the Traverse’s continued partnership with IASH, which has run since 2010. Playwrights including Isla Cowan, Linda McLean, Peter Arnott and Apphia Campbell have been in residence over the past 15 years.
The Institute is pleased to announce a new Fellowship programme for 2025-26, centred on public engagement, research dissemination, outreach and knowledge exchange.
The Public Engagement Fellowship programme is aimed at postdoctoral researchers, typically up to three years post-PhD, who are seeking to develop their public engagement skills. If you are an early-career researcher with ideas for a bold, innovative, ambitious project with community-building at the heart, we would love to hear from you.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Catherine Namono (African Fellow, 2024-25).
Digital applications for rock art conservation, education and tourism (DRACET): Makgabeng community heritage tourism, Limpopo Province, South Africa
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Raewyn Martyn (Heritage Collections Research Fellow, 2024-25)
Shape Memories
Dr Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell is a Postdoctoral Fellow for 2024-25, and a researcher, writer and artist. Informed by their creative work, Evelyn’s research attempts to develop strategies of trans theorising and practice that challenge the foreclosure of gender transition as material reality. Their work has been shown, performed, read at TACO!, Kaunas Artists’ House, Auto Italia, Kupfer Project and Kingsgate Project Space.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Kelsey Granger (IASH-HCA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-25)
From Beijing to Buckingham Palace: The Pekingese Dog and Changing Views of China (1860–1930)
Call for papers: Grassroots and indigenous digital faith-based activism
Colloquium: Friday 4 April 2025
Hybrid, alongside a face-to-face gathering at the University of Edinburgh
IASH Fellows and Affiliates recently enjoyed a writing retreat in the Scottish Highlands, kindly facilitated by Dr Anna Pilz.
Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum
Symposium
Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 June 2025
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh
Supported by the Leverhulme Trust
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, UCL
Dr Esa Aldegheri, University of Glasgow