An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Gioia Angeletti (Nominated Fellow 2022; University of Parma, Italy)
Subversive Reticence and Gender Negotiations in the Colonial Contact Zone: Lady Anne Barnard’s 'Cape' Writings
This project, Decolonising Structures in Higher Education, came together for a period of four days, 1-4 March 2022. The first two days allowed the primary participants, Dr CL Nash, Dr Siphiwe Dube and Ms. Soko-de Jong, to explore major grant applications.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Geeta Patel (Visiting Research Fellow 2022, University of Virginia)
Decolonizing on Notice: Returning Pensions to Colonial Paupers
Former Fellow Professor James Walvin OBE was one of the very first scholars to visit IASH after our foundation in 1969. Jim conducted research at the Institute in 1971, as you can see in our 50th anniversary timeline, and he writes here about the ways in which his time in Edinburgh impacted on his work and career.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Timothy Riding (Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance Postdoctoral Fellow 2021-22):
Decolonising Schools: The Darien Scheme, Colonialism and the Scottish Curriculum
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Sam Challis (African Fellow 2022):
Images of insurgency: indigenous material culture in decolonising the colonial narrative
Today sees the long-awaited publication of the second book emerging from the Dangerous Women Project (2016-17). Dangerous Women: fifty reflections on women, power and identity is published by Unbound, and available to purchase from their website or all good bookshops. This fascinating and provocative essay collection is edited by Jo Shaw, Ben Fletcher-Watson and Abrisham Ahmadzadeh.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Bharti Arora (Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow 2022):
Decolonial Praxis of Land Rights: Peasants’ Negotiation with the Nation-State
Dr Alejandro Manuel Flores Aguilar is the 2022 CSMCH-IASH Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern and Contemporary History, working on his project Raised Gaze in Ixil Time: Towards a Minor History of War (1936-2020).
Maybe you've heard about Edward Jenner and his cows as the beginning of modern vaccines, but did you know how vaccination went global? In 1803, funded by King Carlos IV of Spain, a doctor used orphaned and enslaved children to incubate the vaccine for smallpox in their own bodies. They then travelled through the Caribbean, Mexico, the Philippines, China, and back to Europe, inoculating thousands along the way.