Author and critic Dame Rebecca West was born on this day in 1892. At the age of ten, she lived with her mother and sisters at 2 Hope Park Square for a short time (Glendinning 1987; Palusci 1992) before moving to Buccleuch Place to attend George Watson’s Ladies College (Lownie 2005). This tenement is now IASH’s main entrance.
Congratulations to Christopher Mole on his new publication The Unexplained Intellect. Complexity, Time, and the Metaphysics of Embodied Thought
Dr. Endre Szécsényi awarded prestigious title of Full Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Endre Szécsényi, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation fellow at IASH in 2008 and visiting fellow in 2001, has been awarded the title of Full Professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest. This prestigious appointment was made by the President of Hungary, and is effective from June 2015.
Why is it important to Remember Srebrenica: some personal reflections
by Adam Boys, University of Edinburgh alumnus
In 1994 and early 1995, I was working for a small British charity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We, like the United Nations and many other agencies, had been trying for months to make our way through Eastern Bosnia to get food and medicine to the isolated enclave of Srebrenica. We all knew that many thousands of people had fled to the town from surrounding municipalities as a consequence of a brutal policy of “ethnic cleansing”.
Professor Samuel Cohn, currently in residence as a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH, has been elected this week as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Professor Cohn is one of just 56 Fellows elected this year across the RSE's multidisciplinary purview spanning the arts, business, science and technology sectors.
December 2nd is the United Nation’s International Day for the Abolition of Slavery. Last month, IASH held a Speculative Lunch with the aim of bringing together colleagues from across the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to discuss reparations for slavery.
Recent IASH Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Catriona McAra, reflects on organising and delivering a public-facing Luminate Festival event at the Institute last month.
Last month, IASH hosted a Speculative Lunch on photography in research. The academic lead for the project is Dr Ella Chmielewska, Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Visual Studies. The event was chaired by Dr Tom Allbeson, a research associate attached to the project. He took a few moments to reflect on why they decided a Speculative Lunch would be helpful, how the event unfolded and the potential outcomes.
IASH Director Professor Jo Shaw reflects on the Institute's most recent pop-up forum on constitutional reform in Scotland and the United Kingdom.