Below are some of our recent research themes.
IASH supports interdisciplinary funded projects including the Sawyer Seminar, Scotland’s Transatlantic Relations (STAR) (2001- ), and the The David Hume Tercentenary (2011) . Regular input from Edinburgh Research and Innovation will inform participants of appropriate funding possibilities.
Information about past conferences, symposia and projects is archived here. You can also find below links to the two main libraries contained within the Institute, the Susan Manning Library and the Timothy Sprigge Library.
Hispanic Studies, University of Vigo
Dr Annette Freyberg-Inan was an IASH-SSPS Fellow from May – June 2015. At her home institution, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam, she is Associate Professor and teaches in the fields of International/World Politics, European Politics, Political Theory, Political Psychology, and Social Science Methodology. (You can find her profile on UVA’s website here.)
(Still from ‘The Perfect Fit’ – Thank you to Flore Cosquer for making this image available to us.)
Only one of Jane Austen’s novels appeared in an American edition during her lifetime (1775-1817): Emma, reprinted in 1816 by the prominent Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey. Until now, virtually nothing has been known about how this edition came to be, who read it, or why so few copies—only six—remain today. Drawing on the Carey archives and on a study of the surviving copies, two of which she rediscovered, Juliette Wells illuminates American readers’ first encounters with Austen.