IASH is thrilled to share that Shatha Altowai, IASH/IIE-Artist Protection Fund Fellow, has been awarded the John Byrne Award. The judges found Shatha’s paintings to be “incredibly powerful and moving.” They praised “the stark composition and restraint of Shatha’s paintings, and her honest and heartfelt entry statement.” Shatha was selected unanimously by the four-judge panel. Read more about Shatha’s award here.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is back! Shows by two former Fellows will form the centrepiece of the Traverse Theatre's programme this August, and a current Fellow brings two shows to Edinburgh after a sell-out run in London.
An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Lois Burke ( Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-21):
Recovering a Female Canon of Golden Age (1865-1920) Children's Literature in Scotland
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An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Nicole Seymour (California State University, Fullerton and Environmental Humanities Fellow 2021):
Object Lessons from Glitter
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An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Annabel Williams (Postdoctoral Fellow 2020-21):
‘A nice little robot-brain’: Arthur Koestler and the Politics of Magical Thinking
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An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Stéphanie Prévost (Université de Paris / LARCA (CNRS UMR 8225)):
Re-forming/Revolutionizing the world: Patrick Geddes, the Rawnsleys and British solutions to the Armenian question (1890s)
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An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Jivitesh Vashisht (University of Leeds):
“therapy has its own dramas”: In Therapy (2016) and the Radiophonic Clinical Vignette
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Hello, we’re Lucien and Shy, and we are this summer’s IASH interns under the University’s Employ.ed on Campus Internship Scheme. We’re looking forward to supporting and contributing to the exciting work being done at IASH, RACE.ED, and genderED over the coming twelve weeks.
Near the end of May, IASH was one of nearly 50 organisations worldwide represented at the Inaugural General Assembly of BRIDGES, an ‘open-ended and inclusive voluntary coalition of intergovernmental, governmental and non-governmental organisations, institutes, formal projects and formal networks organised under the umbrella of UNESCO’, in particular UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST).
Call for Papers – Virtual Workshop 25 - 27 August 2021
Third World Oil Crises: Global Connections, Everyday Repercussions, and the 1970s
Supported by the Susan Manning Workshop Fund from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh