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.
Recent IASH Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Catriona McAra, reflects on organising and delivering a public-facing Luminate Festival event at the Institute last month.
Last month, IASH hosted a Speculative Lunch on photography in research. The academic lead for the project is Dr Ella Chmielewska, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Visual Studies. The event was chaired by Dr Tom Allbeson, a research associate attached to the project. He took a few moments to reflect on why they decided a Speculative Lunch would be helpful, how the event unfolded and the potential outcomes.
IASH Director Professor Jo Shaw reflects on the Institute's most recent pop-up forum on constitutional reform in Scotland and the United Kingdom.
The Chancellor's Award, crafted by Edinburgh College of Art students, and the awards ceremony program.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities is pleased to announce that our Director, Professor Jo Shaw, has been recognised with a prestigious Chancellor’s Award for Research.
Professor Shaw accepted the award at a formal ceremony at Holyrood Palace earlier this week.
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the British Council and Edinburgh City of Literature, is delighted to announce a three months residency in Edinburgh for Korean writer, Kim Ae-ran. She will be based at the Institute and will have links to the Edinburgh literary community through colleagues in the Edinburgh City of Literature.
Amy's paper "Narrating the self-injured body" which she was working on at IASH has just been published in BMJ: Medical Humanities - http://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2014/05/08/medhum-2013-010488.short?g=w_mh_ahead_tab She is currently at the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships at the University of Edinburgh and is working on a monograph for Palgrave Macmillan - due for completion Autumn 2015 - provisionally titled "Self-injury, medicine, & society: Authentic bodies
1. The College of Humanities and Social Science has made available a new investment – via the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities – to support a number of international and interdisciplinary research groups. This new initiative is part of an active realignment of IASH to engage directly with the research strategies of the College and the Schools.
2. The funds available will support two or three groups with up to £50k for an initial year (2014-2015) with the expectation of renewal for one or two further years, depending upon budgets and plans.