Congratulations to Christopher Mole on his new publication The Unexplained Intellect. Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of Embodied Thought  

We are very pleased to have a new addition to the Sprigge Room library at IASH. Leemon McHenry, Professor of Philosophy at California State University, is a former student of Professor Sprigge and was instrumental in the foundation of that library.

Dr. Endre Szécsényi awarded prestigious title of Full Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Endre Szécsényi, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow at IASH in 2008 and visiting fellow in 2001, has been awarded the title of Full Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. This prestigious appointment was made by the President of Hungary, and is effective from June 2015.

Why is it important to Remember Srebrenica: some personal reflections

by Adam Boys, University of Edinburgh alumnus

In 1994 and early 1995, I was working for a small British charity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We, like the United Nations and many other agencies, had been trying for months to make our way through Eastern Bosnia to get food and medicine to the isolated enclave of Srebrenica. We all knew that many thousands of people had fled to the town from surrounding municipalities as a consequence of a brutal policy of “ethnic cleansing”.

Congratulations to Dr Michael Morris, who was a Postdoctoral fellow from 2013-2014, and is now in the English faculty at Liverpool John Moores University,
on the publication of his book Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833: Atlantic Archipelagos 

Professor Samuel Cohn, currently in residence as a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH, has been elected this week as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.  Professor Cohn is one of just 56 Fellows elected this year across the RSE's multidisciplinary purview spanning the arts, business, science and technology sectors.

December 2nd is the United Nation’s International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. Last month, IASH held a Speculative Lunch with the aim of bringing together colleagues from across the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to discuss reparations for slavery.