Loving across borders
February 2, 2026
A guest blog from IASH Public Engagement Fellow Dr Vanessa Montesi:
A guest blog from IASH Public Engagement Fellow Dr Vanessa Montesi:
A 3-day Interdisciplinary Conference: Digitality, Marginality and Plural Subjectivities
The full schedule can be found here.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Katherine Inglis (IASH Sabbatical Fellow, 2026)
The Part and the Whole: Obscenity, Quotation, and Problems of Reading
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Amy Wilcockson (Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow, 2026).
Examining the ‘Edinburgh University Coterie’: Networks of Cultural Influence in the 1790s and 1800s.
A panel featuring Yawen Li, Fatima Naveed and Deepshikha Behera, chaired by Katherine Inglis. Using case studies from China, India and Pakistan, the event addresses contemporary censorship by the state: how can art be used to oppose oppression and disenfranchisement?
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Georgi Gill (Public Engagement Fellow, 2025-26)
poeMS: the possibilities of poetry writing by people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) as a tool to explore and communicate their health experiences.
A lost portrait of Scotland's national poet has been uncovered, thanks to IASH Advisory Board member Dr William Zachs. Commissioned from the celebrated Henry Raeburn in 1803, the painting disappeared for over 200 years, until a house clearance sale at Wimbledon Auctions caught Dr Zachs' eye.
Dr Georgi Gill, IASH Public Engagement Fellow for 2025-26, has written a guest blog for the Binks Hub exploring her project Poems on my Mind: poetry writing groups for people living with neurological illness.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Jack Abernethy (National Museums Scotland Postdoctoral Fellow, 2025-26)
The Scottish Merchant Community in Amsterdam in its European Context, c.1603-1707
Dr Raewyn Martyn has shared the story of her latest artworks, Petrified Paintings, recently installed within the Grant Institute Cockburn Geological Museum as part of her IASH Fellowship. These public artworks will be accessible to view in person at the Museum, online, and in an associated publication as part of the IASH Occasional Papers series: