The two-day hybrid conference ‘Rethinking the Ecological Imaginary’, supported by the Susan Manning Workshop Fund, successfully took place at IASH and online from 8am-6pm on 30-31 May 2024. Over the two days, approximately forty members of the public attended, including students, staff, community activists, and creative artists.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Allison Stevenson (Centre for Research Collections Fellow, 2024)
A kind of celebration? The “Complaints of Scotland”, the union of the Crown and the Scoto-British poets of James VI and I
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Igor Torbakov (IASH-SSPS Research Fellow, 2024)
Eurasianism: Imagining Russia as the “Anti-Imperial Empire”
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison (Centre for Research Collections Fellow, 2024)
Gender, Anti-Judaism and the Bodies of Edinburgh MS 113
The symposium Palestinian Performing Arts and the Creation of Post-memory, supported by the Susan Manning Workshop Fund, successfully took place from 10am-5pm on 13 May 2024. Forty members of the public attended the event throughout the day, including students, staff and performing arts industry professionals.
During her time as Senior Anniversary Fellow at IASH in 2023, Prof. Catriona Seth worked on Scottish artist Katherine Read (1723-1778). Read travelled from her native Dundee to Paris and Rome for her training and was a very successful portraitist in London before moving briefly to India.
An IASH Work-in-Progress Seminar, delivered by Dr Payel C Mukherjee (Nominated Fellow, 2024)
Tagore’s Geddes: An Aesthetic Friendship and the Quest for Knowledge Spaces
An IASH Work-in-Progress Seminar, delivered by Dr Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024)
Decolonial Braidings: Intermedial Readings of Peruvian Contemporary Comics (2010–)
IASH seeks to support the career development of new staff at the university and those on fixed term contracts, in order to contribute to the aims of Strategy 2030, namely to help promote a diverse, and inclusive research culture, and to provide better education and training for exceptional early career researchers. IASH is one of the most diverse units within the University, welcoming scholars from across the globe. Offering the opportunity for early career university staff to build networks with our Fellows (and vice versa) will also help seed longer-term international research collabora
Join us at TravFest24 to hear extracts of a new play by Isla Cowan (IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow, 2024)
Please note that this will be Isla's Work-in-Progress seminar, as well as a public event. IASH Fellows and Affiliates can request a free ticket by emailing iash@ed.ac.uk by 9 August. Tickets are extremely limited!