New Discoveries in Medieval Religion

Event date: 
Thursday 13 June 2024
Time: 
11:00-17:30
Location: 
IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

This workshop will bring together new work on medieval religions, highlighting undiscovered materials, concepts and ideas.

Supported by the Susan Manning Workshop Fund from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh.

My English Persian Kitchen

Event date: 
Thursday 1 August 2024 to Sunday 25 August 2024
Location: 
Traverse Theatre, 10 Cambridge Street, EH1 2ED

IASH is pleased to be supporting the premiere of My English Persian Kitchen, by Hannah Khalil, at the Traverse Theatre in August.

What would you take if you were forced to leave home with no hope of returning? How would you make a fresh start somewhere completely new? This is the true story of one woman who loses everything.

Remembering the tastes and aromas of her mother’s kitchen with live cooking on stage, she recreates the dishes of her childhood and homeland, building a new life and community around food.


A fountain pen writes on a page. Image: Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Women Writing Socially in the Humanities

Event date: 
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Time: 
09:30 - 17:30
Location: 
IASH Conference Room, ground floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

Building on the success of the recent publication Women Writing Socially in Academia: Dispatches from Writing Rooms, this workshop seeks to address specifically gendered anxieties about writing for researchers from postgraduate through to professors. This workshop defines ‘woman’ as being inclusive of trans femme, genderqueer and non-binary identities.

Rethinking the Ecological Imaginary: Decolonial Ecologies & Black Feminism

Event date: 
Thursday 30 May 2024 to Friday 31 May 2024
Time: 
08:30 - 17:30
Location: 
IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) is hosting a two-day interdisciplinary conference on Black feminist and decolonial ecologies.

Join us for an exciting international conference on Black feminist and decolonial ecologies that will include academic papers as well as creative performances and workshops. It aims to foster debates and discussions about ways of decolonising dominant ecological imaginaries. A full schedule is available here (opens as PDF).