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2018-19 Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Kate Simpson chairs Outriders Africa: Following in their Footsteps, featuring Booker Prize-longlisted writer and film-maker Tsitsi Dangarembga and rising star of Scottish poetry (and contributor to IASH's Dangerous Women Project) Nadine Aisha Jassat.
On Monday 24 August at 10am BST, long-time friend of IASH and emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh Alexander McCall Smith is joined in his garden by Scottish politician (and new appointee to the House of Lords) Ruth Davidson MSP, for a socially-distanced "chat about life, the universe and pretty much everything – including How To Raise An Elephant, the latest in his No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, and The Talented Mr Varg, the second in a captivating new series featuring the world’s kindest detective." The event is free to watch online:
On Wednesday 19 August at 8:30pm BST, 2011 IASH-Traverse Creative Fellow Jo Clifford will be participating in Shaping a Better Future with Val McDermid and Jo Sharp. "At last year’s Book Festival, bestselling author Val McDermid and professor of geography Jo Sharp were inspired by the festival theme, 'We Need New Stories'. So inspired, in fact, that they turned to a loveable rogues gallery of Scottish cultural folk to submit a piece of writing about their dreams for a better future.
Maggie O’Farrell: Giving New Life to Shakespeare’s Son on Saturday 15 August at 7pm BST, in which renowned author Maggie O'Farrell will discuss her brilliant new novel Hamnet. "In a short but scorchingly emotional book, O’Farrell brings us into the 16th century world of Shakespeare’s family living in Stratford. It is the time of the bubonic plague and with one of the family members falling into a fever, the novel charts the emotional journey of Shakespeare’s wife Agnes as trauma approaches.
ClubFest 2020 by the Scottish Arts Club presents
Debussy at Six-Thirty. Alisdair Morton-Teng (cello), Freya Hall (violin) and William Gray (piano).
Saor bho Shaorsa – Free from Freedom. Music and poetry created by composers Margaret McAllister, Aonghas MacNeacail, Florence Price, Edward McGuire and John McLeod. Performed by distinguished musicians Nicholas Ashton (piano), Gary West (piper), Mary Ann Kennedy (vocalist), Taylor Wilson (mezzo-soprano), Shinobu Miki (clarinet), Hector Scott (violin) and Mark Bailey (cello).
20th August @ 18:30 (Duration 96 mins):
Song over Scotland. David Purdie & Robyn Stapleton.
Three Tom Fleming Songs. Music by Tom Cunningham. With Liam Bonthrone (tenor) and John Walker (piano).
Seasonal Songs. Calum Robertson (clarinet), Sally Carr (soprano) and Juliette Philogène (piano).
To watch this event online for free please register with the EventBrite link HERE
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is delivering events online as a response to COVID-19, and as usual, a number of our Fellows, alumni/ae and friends will be participating.
Dr Alasdair Macfarlane: Rhodomontade News and a Scotch Meridian: Contemporary Counter-Narrative to the Darien Scheme
Please click HERE to go to the talk