Dr Harini Amarasuriya has been appointed Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, the third woman to hold the role.
Dr Amarasuriya was a Nominated Fellow at IASH for three months in 2019, shortly before returning to Sri Lanka to become an MP.
An IASH Work-in-Progress, delivered by Dr Sequoia Barnes (RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow, 2024)
Useable Several Times
This new book from LSU Press argues that literary works by Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara reimagine subjectivity in processual and relational terms through a rewriting of maternal praxis, a technique that unveils the historical continuities between antebellum and neoliberal America.
Join us for the launch of the essay collection, Gender in South Asia and Beyond, celebrating the scholarship of Professor Patricia Jeffery, Professor Emerita in Sociology, University of Edinburgh.
GENDER.ED is delighted to co-host a screening of La Compagnie Subversive Stage Production: Thérèse d’Ulrich’s La Folle Enchère (1690) at the L’Institut français d’Ecosse, with a presentation by artistic director and actress Aurore Evain, and Q&A led by Séverine Genieys-Kirk. This will be followed by a reception/buffet.
Join us on Tuesday 15 October to celebrate the launch of Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937: Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace.
Authors Helen Kay and Rose Pipes will join Professor Fiona Mackay and Dr Rosa Campbell to discuss this, the first published biography of Chrystal Macmillan - suffragist, barrister, and campaigner for peace and human rights.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz (Sabbatical Fellow, 2024)
Freedom of Movement: A Cinematic Analysis of Gender and Space in Iranian Culture
The Institute is delighted to announce the launch of a new Fellowship aimed at artists and creative practitioners of Palestinian heritage. Thanks to the generous support of a private donor, the Artist at Risk Fellowship 2025 will support an artist to spend a period of two months as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) in 2025.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Benjamin Tilghman (Visiting Research Fellow, 2024-25)
Seeing the Stillness of Works of Art
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Siobhan Magee (Sabbatical Fellow, 2024).
Biography, mourning, and kinship in UK and US higher education philanthropy