From Modernism to the Counterculture
August 6, 2019
Dr Guy Stevenson (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019) looks back at his recent Susan Manning Workshop on the literary significance of the Edinburgh Writers’ Conference of 1962:
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Dr Guy Stevenson (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019) looks back at his recent Susan Manning Workshop on the literary significance of the Edinburgh Writers’ Conference of 1962:
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This summer, IASH and its Fellows can be found across the sprawling range of festivals in Edinburgh, including the Book Festival and Festival Fringe. Tickets are available now for all events.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe:
On 24 May 2019, Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Cheryl Lancaster organised Approaches to Genetics for Livestock Research, a workshop supported by Susan Manning Workshop Funding from IASH, that aimed to explore the history of genetics research for farming at the University of Edinburgh. The workshop aimed to bring together scholars from the humanities and sciences to discuss how heredity, genetics, and genomics has impacted livestock breeding through the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first.
On 17 May 2019 the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities hosted an interdisciplinary workshop on ‘Heritage and Interreligious Coexistence in the City’, organised by Dr Daan Beekers. Created in the context of his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at IASH, this event brought together anthropologists, religious studies scholars, sociologists and historians to reflect on the role that time, history and heritage play in interreligious interactions in different parts of the world.
Lewis Hetherington is our current IASH-Traverse Creative Fellow. Whilst his work as both playwright and performance-maker covers a variety of themes and genres, a consistent factor involves investigating the possibility of change. Our intern Amy McMonagle met him to discuss his fellowship, creative projects and the LGBTI+ community in advance of Pride Edinburgh this Saturday.
Our 2019 CMSCH-IASH Fellows Dr Ljubica Spaskovska and Dr Claudia Stern collaborated to create a workshop on the ‘Histories of Solidarity, Youth and Transnationalism in the 20th Century’ with the Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History on 27 May. Together they arranged two panels and a film screening tackling prominent issues in transnational solidarity research.
From the Zagros Mountains to Arthur’s Seat
This blog was originally posted on the Women's History Network.
Dr Rachel Delman, Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-19, reflects on her recent symposium at IASH:
