The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Director, Professor Lesley McAra CBE FRSE. She will be the eighth director of IASH since 1969, following in the footsteps of figures such as William Beattie CBE and Susan Manning, and takes over from Professor Steve Yearley in August 2022.
IASH and the Traverse Theatre are delighted to announce the joint awardees of the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship for 2022-23, Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney. They will begin their Fellowship in July 2022, working on a new play, The Union of Craic.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Kate Gibson (Centre for Research Collections Fellow 2022; University of Manchester)
Finding fostered and adopted children in the archives
A Susan Manning Workshop from IASH, University of Edinburgh/Ca’Foscari University of Venice
Monday 27 June 2022, 09:00 – 16:45 CET (08:00 - 15:45 BST)
On 10 May 2022, Summerhall in Edinburgh hosted a screening of short documentaries developed at the Scottish Documentary Institute. The screening was curated by Dr Aida Vallejo (Nominated Fellow 2021-22; University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU), as an outreach activity of her research project IDFmap, developed at the University of Edinburgh.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Victor Peterson II (RACE.ED Archival Research Fellow 2022; New York University / The New School)
Archiving Mood: Black Sound and Social Movements
A guest blog by Dr Bharti Arora (Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow 2022) on Decolonial Praxis/es of Solidarity in South Asian Literary and Cultural Discourses on Social Movements, a hybrid workshop held on 27-28 April 2022: