The Institute presents our annual report for academic year 2023-24. Features include an update on the final year of the Institute Project on Decoloniality, reports from RACE.ED and GENDER.ED, a calendar of our events over the past year, a full list of Fellows and Affiliates, and much more.

Dr Sequoia Barnes is a RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow. Her work is primarily textile art and ceramic sculpture but often involves stitching/embroidery, installation, and assemblage, predominately informed by her research-led exploration of black radical art practice.

We are delighted to release a new episode of our podcast, Decolonising Ideas.

Decolonising Ideas aims to introduce listeners to the theories and practice of decoloniality, explore the breadth of decolonial inquiry occurring at the Institute, and examine how IASH scholarship relates to broader issues of coloniality across the Global South and Global North.

Shatha Altowai and Saber Bamatraf, former Artist Protection Fund Fellows at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), share their experience of coming to Edinburgh, becoming part of the city’s artistic community, and exploring through art what it means to be in a place and belong to a place.

When Saber first found out that he had been awarded an Artist-at-Risk fellowship at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), he was hiding under a table.