Introducing our new IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow

December 9, 2024

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.

New Fellowship for 2025-26: the Public Engagement Fellowship

December 5, 2024
An audience at the Traverse Theatre

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.

Dr Catherine Namono: "Digital applications for rock art conservation, education and tourism (DRACET):Makgabeng community heritage tourism, Limpopo Province, South Africa"

Event date: 
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Time: 
13:00-14:00
Location: 
Seminar room, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

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

Dr Raewyn Martyn: "Shape Memories"

Event date: 
Wednesday 4 December 2024
Time: 
13:00-14:00
Location: 
Seminar room, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Raewyn Martyn (Heritage Collections Research Fellow, 2024-25)

Shape Memories

Featured Fellow: Dr Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell

November 28, 2024

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. 

Call for Papers: "Displaced Arts: Creative Practices and Geographies of Asylum"

November 21, 2024
Graffiti placed by a vandal on a pole stating that refugees are welcome in the city of Groningen.

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

Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina: "OperAI: Exploring science-fiction opera and human-AI interactions in immersive opera theatre"

Event date: 
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Time: 
13:00-14:00
Location: 
Seminar room, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered Dr Alexandra Huang-Kokina (Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-25)

OperAI: Exploring science-fiction opera and human-AI interactions in immersive opera theatre

This seminar introduces my initiative, OperAI, which investigates how generative AI enhances the ‘embodied’ aspects of human creativity in musical-theatrical performances. The practice-led project has two parts.