2023 news from IASH. Call for Papers: "State Surveillance Against Political Activists in Africa" CALL FOR PAPERS 26 MARCH 2024, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH AND UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND Call for Papers: "Rethinking the Ecological Imaginary: Decolonial Ecologies and Black Feminism" Location: IASH, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (2 Hope Park Square, EH8 9NW) Date: 30-31 May, 2024 Deadline: February 14, 2024 Announcing Isla Cowan as the 2024 IASH-Traverse Creative Fellow The Institute is delighted to announce that Isla Cowan has been awarded the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship for 2024. This Fellowship is a collaboration between IASH and the Traverse Theatre, Scotland’s leading New Writing theatre. Podcast: Sugar consumption and kinship in Scotland Dr Imogen Bevan, Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at University of Edinburgh and IASH affiliate 2023-24, recently showcased her research on BBC Radio 4 podcast ‘Thinking Allowed’, episode ‘Sugar’. COVID's toll on marginalised groups Current Fellow Dr Marlo De Lara has contributed an opinion piece for the Press & Journal as part of Pass the Mic, a project focused on increasing representation of women of colour in Scottish media. Reconsidering Interaction Between AI and Religion An essay by IASH Affiliate and future IASH-CTPI Duncan Forrester Fellow Dr Simeon Xu has been selected by Stanford University's One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) for inclusion in a new collection that thoughtfully considers AI at the intersection of morality, regulation, love, labour and religion. Annual Report 2022-23 The Institute presents our annual report for academic year 2022-23. Features include an update on the second year of the Institute Project on Decoloniality, reports from RACE.ED and GENDER.ED, a calendar of our events over the past year, a full list of Fellows, and much more. Calling all playwrights! Applications are now open for playwrights and theatremakers for the IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship. Words by the Boulder: Linguistic Efflorescence at Gállogieddi This Susan Manning Workshop on Tuesday 30 May 2023 was organized by IASH Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Erika De Vivo and featured contributions from Dr Guy Puzey, Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and Dr Chiara Bonacchi, Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text and Data Mining and Senior Lecturer in Heritage; HCA and Edinburgh Futures Institute. Report: ‘Love, Love, Peace, Peace’: Political and Queer Theory in the Eurovision Song Contest This workshop, held on 19–20 May 2023, brought together a large group of researchers from a variety of disciplines, countries, and career stages to explore different aspects of one of the biggest and longest-lasting musical events in the world: the Eurovision Song Contest. The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival We are delighted to announce the release of the event recording for the highly anticipated book launch of The Racial Code: Tales of Resistance and Survival by esteemed author Professor Nicola Rollock, a preeminent expert in the field of racial justice and a prominent public intellectual. Ukraine in wartime: a new literary collection A new anthology of wartime stories by Ukrainian authors is launched today at the University of Edinburgh. The collection brings together stories of people’s lives influenced by the war, authored by some of Ukraine’s most well-known contemporary writers alongside diaries by ordinary people caught up in the current conflict. In Our Time: Louis XIV, the Sun King The latest episode of BBC Radio 4's long-running In Our Time series is now available, with Melvyn Bragg discussing Louis XIV with guests including Senior Anniversary Fellow Professor Catriona Seth. More French Literary Prizes Senior Anniversary Fellow Professor Catriona Seth is one of the board members of the Prix Naissance d’une Œuvre, awarded annually for a novel in French. Brokering the Enlightenment: Scotland and the World This workshop sought to understand the role of knowledge brokers in the Scottish Enlightenment broadly conceived, focusing on people, places, institutions, texts and objects for the transmission of knowledge in local or global contexts. Conference: Race, Empire and the Edinburgh Medical School Race, Empire and the Edinburgh Medical School conference, University of Edinburgh, 18-19 April 2024Venue: Research Suite, Centre for Research Collections, 6th Floor, Main Library, University of Edinburgh, 30 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LJ. Featured Fellow: Dr Alok Oak Dr Alok Oak is a Postdoctoral Fellow at IASH for 2023-24. Previously, he was a Visiting Research Scholar at the School of History, University of St Andrews. He received his PhD from the Leiden Institute for Area Studies, University of Leiden in 2022. Learnings from a Residential Writing Retreat From Friday 27 to Sunday 29 October, a group of Fellows and Affiliates visited the Burn near Brechin for IASH's first writing retreat of the academic year. Guest Blog: Attending the Festival of Decolonial Learning Event Review: Attending the Festival of Decolonial Learning, The University of Westminster, London, 14-16 June 2023. Surfacing Diasporas On 6 September 2023, IASH presented a panel as part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's CURIOUS festival. Titled Surfacing Diasporas, the event asked, what does it mean to be part of a diaspora? How does migration shape our common experiences? Podcast: "The Art of Being Dangerous" The latest instalment of the New Books Network podcast features a look at our 2021 volume with Leuven University Press, The Art of Being Dangerous, edited by Jo Shaw and Ben Fletcher-Watson. Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts Organiser Dr Lucy Deacon writes about The University of Edinburgh’s Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia collection (MIWSA). Featured Fellow: Dr Marlo De Lara Dr Marlo De Lara is RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellow 2022-23. Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson promoted to Deputy Director of IASH Dr Ben Fletcher-Watson has been promoted to Deputy Director and Institute Manager of IASH. Decolonising Modernism(s) The 'Decolonising Modernism(s)' symposium on June 28, 2023 was meant to generate a dialogue among different approaches to decoloniality in the field of global modernist studies. Fellows at the 2023 Festivals We are thrilled to announce that a multitude of current and former friends of IASH will grace the stages of the Edinburgh Fringe and International Book Festivals in 2023. Introducing Our Interns for 2023 Meet IASH's new summer interns for 2023! Menstrual Justice from menarche to menopause Our joint event with GENDER.ED on menstrual justice since the Period Products Act on Thursday 25 May was a great success. Words by the Boulder: Linguistic Efflorescence at Gállogieddi This Susan Manning Workshop on Tuesday 30 May 2023 was organized by IASH Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Erika De Vivo and featured contributions from Dr Guy Puzey, Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and Dr Chiara Bonacchi, Chancellor's Fellow in Heritage, Text and Data Mining and Senior Lecturer in Heritage; HCA and Edinburgh Futures Institute. This article was published on Tuesday 6 August 2024
