New Directions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art (NDENCA) is a digital seminar series aimed at championing new scholarly voices working across visual and material cultures in this period. It aims to take a global perspective, and in particular welcomes contributions by scholars from minority groups.
A new journal focusing on the environmental humanities launches today, produced by the Cappadocia University Environmental Humanities Center in Turkey.
Dr María López Belloso: Protecting human rights in Western Sahara
IASH Work in Progress talk.
Please click HERE to go to the online talk.
Dr Felix Waldmann, 2016 Hume Fellow at IASH, has written a fascinating piece in The Scotsman exploring David Hume's connections with slavery and his views on race. Felix highlights his discovery of "an unknown letter of March 1766 by Hume, in which he encouraged his patron Lord Hertford to purchase a slave plantation in Grenada. This is the only surviving evidence of Hume’s involvement in the slave trade".
Dr Carrie Figdor: Dehumanization, Anthropomorphism, and Other Mindreading Speech Acts.
IASH is delighted to present the international roundtable event, A Future in Question: Higher Education and the Public Good, on Thursday 2 July 2020 at 5pm GMT.
2020 Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki has written a piece for the London Review of Books on the #RhodesMustFall campaign at Oxford, COVID-19 and academic casualisation. While at IASH, her research project explores rhetorical invention in seventeenth‐century English travel writing.
IASH is delighted to present the international roundtable event, A Future in Question: Higher Education and the Public Good, in association with the US-UK Fulbright Commission, the Fulbright Association and the Lois Roth Endowment.