Dr Deval Desai: "The Anti-fiscal State"

Event date: 
Wednesday 19 June 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 Deval Desai (Sabbatical Fellow, 2024)

The Anti-fiscal State

Featured Fellow: Dr Kanwal Hameed

Dr Kanwal Hameed

Dr Kanwal Hameed is a RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow, visiting from the University of Exeter.

She is an inter-disciplinary historian with a background in Middle East Studies, and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow on the Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East project. After receiving her PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Affairs (IAIS) at the University of Exeter in 2022, she was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Orient Institut Beirut. 

Dr Suzanne Black: "Alternative canons: Topic modelling fanfiction reviews on Goodreads.com"

Event date: 
Wednesday 12 June 2024
Time: 
13:00-14:00
Location: 
Seminar Room, IASH, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh EH8 9NW

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Suzanne Black (Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024)

Alternative canons: Topic modelling fanfiction reviews on Goodreads.com

This project uses computational analysis of reviews of fanfiction texts (non-commercial works using characters, settings and plots from existing media properties) on the site Goodreads.com to interrogate how contemporary readers construct and discuss literary value.