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".
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.
Honorary Fellow Professor Samuel Cohn has written a fascinating piece for The Conversation about face masks and their use during the influenza pandemic of 1918-20:
Doctoral research by 2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Catherine Crompton was featured in several national newspapers this week. Her recent paper in Computers in Human Behaviour, co-authored with Dr Sarah E.
Research by 2019 European Fellow Dr Liam Thornton has hit the headlines in recent days. Dr Thornton is assistant professor in the School of Law, University College Dublin, and a human rights law academic who has been examining legal aspects of the system of direct provision in Ireland for over a decade.
Research by Dr Désha Osborne, the 2019 Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow in 18th- Century Scottish Studies, has been featured in The Scotsman.
A new paper in the Historical Journal by 2016 Hume Fellow Dr Felix Waldmann and his colleague Dr J.C. Walmsley outlines their discovery of a previously unknown manuscript by John Locke. Entitled Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others, the manuscript is dated 1667 and has lain undisturbed in the archives of St John’s College, Annapolis for many years.
2018-19 Community Fellow Ahsan Ridha Hassan gave an interview to The List recently, about his experience of coming to IASH to work on his latest novel. He's currently visiting Edinburgh through the Lord Provost's International Residency, where he beat off stiff competition to clinch a month-long residency in the world's first UNESCO City of Literature.
In Africa Week, we are delighted at the news that IASH alumnus Dr Richard Sezibera (Invited Fellow 1997; 1999) has been appointed Foreign Minister of Rwanda by President Paul Kagame, replacing Louise Mushikiwabo.
Frances Poet will be the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow for 2018.
We caught up with Frances ahead of her fellowship here and asked about what drew her to the fellowship with IASH and the Traverse Theatre. We also wanted to find out a little bit about the play she will be working on during her fellowship. Here are Frances' thoughts: