A panel with Vanessa Montesi, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier and Emily Clifford. This event explores borders, trafficking, family migration and diasporas to discuss how nationhood and identity are formed and negotiated by those who have come from outside the UK. What does ‘nation’ mean, a decade on from the Brexit referendum?

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Martina Karels (IASH-SSPS Fellow, 2026)

From open data to feminist archiving: reimagining data sharing for the humanities and social sciences

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This one-day workshop explores critical, creative and practice-based approaches to archiving and sharing qualitative data.

This one-day workshop, Critical Approaches to Open Qualitative Data: Archiving, Practices and Possibilities, explores critical, creative, and practice-based approaches to archiving and sharing qualitative data in the humanities and social sciences.

A series of curated conversations offering twin perspectives on early-career support at university based Institutes for Advanced Studies (UBIAS)

Talk 1: Recruitment & Onboarding, 21 May 2026, 15:00-15:30 BST / 16:00-16:30 CET

A short seminar discussing how Institutes of Advanced Study advertise and select Fellows, and how they are welcomed into a new research community on arrival.

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An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Vanessa Montesi (Public Engagement Fellow, 2026)

Til Debt do Us Part: What else do we generate, when we generate data?

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri (Sabbatical Fellow, 2026)

Looking for Joy in Late Medieval Scotland

Explore how we imagine the future through literary, cultural and political perspectives, and how narratives shape today’s global challenges. Click here to view the agenda, abstracts and biographies (as PDF).

The Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, as part of Refugee Festival Scotland 2026, presents a work-in-progress reading of Strikers, a new play written and directed by former IASH Fellow Javad Daraei. The play explores labour, displacement, dignity, and resistance through stories shaped by lived experiences of survival and exile. Book tickets here. 

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered online only by Dr Alice Wolff (IASH-HCA Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-26).

Biodiversity on the Edge of Empire: Agricultural Plant Communities in Medieval Northumbria