From Thursday 4th to Saturday 6th April, the two EURIAS Junior Fellows at IASH, Dr Isabel Kusche and Dr Mariagrazia Portera, attended the EURIAS Annual Meeting for all fellows supported by the European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Programme.
On Thursday 4th and Friday 5th April, a contingent of IASH Postdoctoral Fellows attended the ECHIC Conference in Athens, Greece. ECHIC (the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres) is a university-based initiative to organise European Research Institutes, Humanities Faculties and Centres for the Humanities. The conference addressed the interface between humanities and the arts within Europe in a globalised world, focusing on the creative industries as a paradigmatic topos of such confluences.
We are delighted to hear that Dr Sugata Nandi of West Bengal State University (Visiting Research Fellow 2018) has been awarded a prestigious Visiting Research Fellowship at Senate House Library, University of London, to carry forward his project on the history of globalization of Indian magic from 1790 to 1950.
Recreating a group who left no records
by Dr Elizabeth Ford (2018-19 Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellow)
Dr. Pamela Harris Lawton is the Fulbright Scotland Visiting Professor at IASH from January to June 2019. She will divide her time between IASH and Moray House School of Education, where she will conduct her Artstories community-based art education research with education students and minority immigrant communities in Edinburgh.
Dr Stephanie Sodero, current IASH-SSPS Research Fellow, recently organised a scavenger hunt as part of the Being Human Festival of the Humanities, titled Bloodscape. This one-hour self-guided adventure let participants see Edinburgh through the lens of blood - including changing trends, global campaigns and, of course, Harry Potter. Blo
Visiting Research Fellow Prof. Jemina Napier recently organised a workshop for Deaf Studies researchers from the UK and Europe. She outlines their work below:
Click here to see a version of this blogpost in British Sign Language (BSL).
Arctic Oil, the new play by Clare Duffy, will première at the Traverse Theatre in October, directed by Gareth Nicholls. Clare wrote the script at IASH while she was the IASH-Traverse Creative Fellow in 2014-15. A rehearsed reading of the script, directed by Zinnie Harris, took place in February 2017. Tickets for the production, which runs from 6 to 20 October, are available here.
In May, IASH hosted a Susan Manning workshop bringing participants from a diverse range of disciplinary backgrounds together to explore the intersection between philosophy, science and literature by producing creative writing inspired by thought experiments. Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Christopher Kitson discusses the workshop and its context: