2014

FELLOWS

• Kim Ae-Ran, writer
• Alba Alonso Alvarez, University of Santiago de Compostela
• Stephanie Aulsebrook, Magdalene College Cambridge
• Matthew Bampton, University of Southern Maine
• Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide
• Karen Beckwith, Case Western Reserve University
• Diana Burton, Victoria University of Wellington
• Piotr Bylica, University of Zielona Gora
• Samuel Cohn, University of Glasgow
• Alice Comi, University of Reading
• André Corrêa, Sao Paulo Law School
• James Delle, Kutztown University
• Clare Duffy, playwright
• Stephanie Dumke, Durham University
• Alison Duncan, University of Edinburgh
• Victor Ezigbo, Bethel University
• Rachelle Gilmour, University of Sydney
• Clarisse Godard Desmarest, University of Amiens
• Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University
• Brecht De Groote, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Irene Hadiprayitno, University of Leiden
• Erla Hulda Halldósdóttir, Centre for Research in the Humanities, University of Iceland
• Elizabeth Hanson, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
• Pura Nieto Hernández, Brown University, Providence
• Chisomo Kalinga, King’s College London
• Jaako Kauko, Governance and Interaction in Education Research Unit (KUPOLI), University of Helsinki
• David Konstan, New York University
• Karin Kukkonen, University of Turku
• Lila Matsumoto, University of London
• Christian Maurer, University of Fribourg
• Fionnuala O’Neill, University of Edinburgh
• Nora Pleßke, University of Passau
• David Purdie, University of Edinburgh
• Milja Radovic, University of Edinburgh
• Satyapriya Rout, University of Hyderabad
• Cassie Smith-Christmas, Lews Castle College, University of the Highlands and Islands
• Helen Stark, Newcastle University
• Katie Stevenson, University of St Andrews
• Natasha Simonova, University of Edinburgh
• James Swindler, Illinois State University
• Jeffrey Tatum, Victoria University of Wellington
• Renée Tobe, University of East London
• Paul Tonks, Yonsei University
• Wilson Wang, English Literature and Scottish Studies Center, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade
• Lena Wånggren, University of Edinburgh
• Lauren Ware, University of Edinburgh
• Rebecca Zahn, University of Stirling

EVENTS

• Professor Jo Shaw is appointed Director. She is also awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Research in a formal ceremony at Holyrood Palace.
• Professor Jolyon Mitchell is appointed Academic Director.
• Anthea Taylor retires as Secretary after 24 years at IASH.
• Dr Peta Freestone is appointed Institute Administrator.

• IASH presents Boxes of Delight: Surrealism at 90, a workshop on ‘festivals in a box’ as a way of approaching memory loss, dementia and celebrating older life, as part of Luminate: Scotland’s Creative Ageing Festival.
• IASH hosts pop-up forums as a reflection on the discussion and debate after the Scottish Independence Referendum. These include Scotland’s Independence Debate and Fear and The ‘new Unionism’: constitutional settlements, economic drivers and ‘national’ identity.
• In partnership with the British Council and Edinburgh City of Literature, the Institute hosts Korean writer Kim Ae-ran.
• IASH joins the European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme, offering one senior and one junior fellowship under the scheme.
• 2010/11 IASH-Traverse Fellow Linda McLean receives the world premiere of her play Every Five Minutes at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco.
• IASH participates in the first Being Human Festival with Visualising Voices, a day of Scottish Documentary Institute films focused on the patient experience. Our second event, Spaces, Places, Texts and Genes, chaired by IASH Advisory Board member Allan Little, is a lively discussion demonstrating how four different academic disciplines could help us understand and come to terms with what unites and divides societies.
• Speculative lunches cover Reparations for Slavery (Dr Nicola Firth), photography in research (Dr Tom Allbeson) and gender research at the University of Edinburgh (Dr Carole Jones).
• The Institute hosts several interdisciplinary events for colleagues around the College including The “Edge of Words” Project; Creativity in Contemporary Latin American Culture; Belonging in Contemporary Chile; Computers and Minds; The Renaissance and Early Modern Discussion Group and Nineteenth-Century Studies Research Seminars.
• IASH hosts a series of one-off events including: Landscapes of Hope: Towards the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society; Illness and Restitution; Translating Russian 20th-Century Poetry: Challenges, Rewards and Discoveries; The Bacchae; and At Home in Scotland: Stories of Place.
• IASH co-sponsors events including Understanding Scottish Identity (with the Centre for Theology and Public Issues) and The Celtic Revival in Scotland, 1860-1930 (with Celtic and Scottish Studies). The third annual International Women’s Day event, titled Home and Belonging: Space and Place, Women Commonwealth Writers and Scotland and co-hosted with Scottish PEN, presents a range of authors including Chiew-Siah Tei and Meaghan Delahunt.
• RSE Susan Manning Workshops include: “To Wonder is to Praise”: The Life and Writings of George Mackay Brown; Multi-sensory aesthetics and the environment; and (Dis-)owning the Sound: The Historical Development of Music Property and Authorship.