Please enjoy this recording of our recent webinar for applicants wishing to apply for the next round, offering insights into our programmes, as well as advice and tips: media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_7wtw... Deadline for senior/mid-career scholars: 27 February Deadline for postdoctoral scholars: 24 April

Today will be my last trip to Edinburgh this year 😞! Bye-bye, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, it has been wonderful being a visiting #Fellow, and you have been the most generous hosts!

Announcing the RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellowship 2026-2027 – a result of our continued collaboration with @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and Uni of Edinburgh. Applications close on 24 April 2026: stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie... Learn more at the pre-application workshop, 15 Dec, 1pm.

This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.

Last chance to register for this afternoon's online launch of "The BBC Legacy in Africa: Continuities and Change" (Routledge 2025), from 3pm GMT: thebbclegacyinafrica.eventbrite.co.uk

I am pleased to share that I been awarded a Research Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh's The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH).I will be a Heritage Collections Research Fellow between Jan 2026 and July 2026. @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

The Society currently invites applications for its David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People. The Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj Closing date: Friday 6 March 2026 #Skystorians

Our December newsletter is out now, with updates on 2026-27 Fellowship opportunities, the latest publications by alumnae/i, events, and more: mailings.ed.ac.uk/2MQP-22XJZ-4...

This is a great opportunity for scholars to come to the University of Edinburgh and produce work without the stress of U.S. political racism.

Applications are now open for 2026-27 Fellowships at IASH! Apply via the portal on our website: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... This round (for visits between August 2026 and July 2027) closes on 27 Feb for mid-career/senior scholars, and on 24 Apr for postdoctoral/early-career researchers.

Over 40 years, National Museums Scotland published 1000+ places to @visit-scotland.bsky.social. Shout out to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & @amphilpress.bsky.social for support building this unwieldy database. A pie chart won't cut it... too bad there's no other way to map spatio-temporal data. 😏📍🗺️📍

2 weeks left to apply for the American Philosophical Association Fellowship at IASH for 2026-27! Enjoy a private office at the Institute for up to 6 mths, along with regular seminars, lunches, writing retreats and more! You must be a member of the APA - apply here: www.apaonline.org/page/edinburgh

the call is now open for our next round of @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Heritage Collections Research Fellows! - find out more here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/heritage-col...

Both books derive from the Poetry and Multiple Sclerosis study undertaken by Georgi Gill at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social. The anthology and toolkit are both completely open access, so take a look! Anthology: doi.org/10.2218/ED.9... Toolkit: doi.org/10.2218/ED.9...

Welcome to poeMS! poeMS consists of two books: one an anthology of poetry by people living with multiple sclerosis and the other a toolkit for poetry writing by people living with neurological illness. Anthology: doi.org/10.2218/ED.9... Toolkit: doi.org/10.2218/ED.9...

Between Comparative Literature (Deepshikha) and Theology (myself), we welcome wide engagement on questions of marginality and digitality: from academics, activists & practitioners alike. Great to see some interest building already. Event page is now live! @iashedinburgh.bsky.social edin.ac/3XXnRne

Looking for a Christmas gift for arts and culture lovers? You can get 25% off our stunning collection of feminist visual art and creative writing, "The Art of Being Dangerous", with code DECEMBER25 on the publisher's website: lup.be/book/the-art...

Meet our 2026 British Council Fellows: Dr Elsie Albis and Dr Dustin Lalkulhpuia have been appointed to explore how Indigenous communities from the Philippines and India can inform global debates around the arts, environment and peacebuilding. www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/meet-ne...

Excitingly, this programme includes an IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship, inviting applications from people working on one of the following: 1) Cultures of Natural History 2) Collecting Video Game Heritage More details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #histSTM📜

So very grateful to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, Prof Carol Richardson, @kateai.bsky.social & everyone who came to talk about my new book with me yesterday evening 💖 and a wonderful flowery surprise from @starcrossed2018.bsky.social and @liederfollower.bsky.social ! 💐

Supported by the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social Susan Manning Workshop Fund, we can offer travel bursaries for up to two UK-based scholars representing minority perspectives whose abstracts are selected. We anticipate a journal special issue as well as alternative-format outputs if appropriate.

📢CfP: Digitality, Marginality & Plural Subjectivities Interdisciplinary conference on evolving & contested digital agency @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, 2–3 Feb 2026. Does digital life open space for counter-narratives, resistance, solidarity, or epistemic justice? Join us! 🗓️Abstracts due 15 Dec 2025

I would encourage you to apply: I had a wonderful 4 months @iashedinburgh.bsky.social a few years ago!

Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have. Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb... Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.

Nicely done Jack, the Trav and IASH.

A world class honour to be the playwright-in-residence with IASH and the Trav for 2026. Massive!

Meet our 2026 IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow! We're proud to announce that playwright Jack MacGregor @jmacr.bsky.social has been selected as the 2026 IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow, continuing a long-running partnership with @traversetheatre.bsky.social. www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/introdu...

Meet Auntie at Manipulate Festival in February! First developed as part of Julia Taudevin's IASH Fellowship back in 2020, "Auntie Empire" is a bloody, messy, hilarious and timely lampoon of the myths of nationhood. 8-9 Feb at @summerhallarts.bsky.social www.manipulatearts.co.uk/events/aunti...

A great article about GenAI, low-resource languages and decoloniality. Current Fellow Dr Deepshikha Behera is working on this topic: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr%C... She will be presenting her research on 27 November @hias-hamburg.bsky.social - see hias-hamburg.de/en/events/co... for more info.

even when things are getting really tough at work, it's stories like this, a culmination of over two years of relationship building and planning, that keep me going. So proud of my team for helping the Sikh community celebrate a shared heritage: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Out now! New book by “Seals, Stigma and Survival” PI Danita Burke - "Greenpeace in the Circumpolar North: Lessons Learned from the Anti-Sealing Era" with @routledgebooks.bsky.social #survivingsealingstigma @cwswarstudies.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social

excited to have a chapter in this new monograph by the University of Edinburgh's IASH (where I spent my sabbatical). I discuss my efforts to implement a moderate form of decoloniality in my Intro to IR course, and the mixed results I've run into. #academicsky www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/essays-...

Excited to get stuck in to this collection edited by @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social 👋 and Jo Shaw. Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social

V grateful to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for recognising my scholarship with this Fellowship & delighted that this article is now out online. Jane Whyte was a remarkable member of a remarkable network of Edinburgh activists, & an undoubted influence on her radical daughter Janet Chance.

New paper: Elizabeth Darling (2025). "Jane Whyte (1857-1944) and Janet Chance (1886-1953): ‘a notable Churchwoman’ and her abortion activist daughter." Women's History Review. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Elizabeth was a 2021 Senior Anniversary Fellow, working on Heroines of the Canongate.

Delighted to have started at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social this month as a postdoc fellow! My project is titled “Censoring a Nation: Blasphemy, Obscenity, and Sedition in Pakistan”: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-f...

New paper: Raad Khair Allah (2025). "Unveiling Arab Feminism through Multilingualism: Etel Adnan." Journal of World Literature, 1-20. brill.com/view/journal... Raad is a current Postdoctoral Fellow, working on contemporary Arab diasporas and nationhood in Arab cultural and digital feminism.

Contributed a little piece on antinuclear activist Dagmar Wilson to this edited collection about “dangerous women” through history. Great to see it in the wild! Women Who Dared is out now with University of Edinburgh Press: lnkd.in/eUnbfX8t In all good book shops (and some rubbish ones as well)

New paper: Ruth Boeker & Evie Filea (2025). "Catharine Trotter Cockburn's and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot's contributions to Scottish Philosophy." Intellectual History Review 35(4): 707-33. doi.org/10.1080/1749... Ruth was American Philosophical Association Fellow in 2022, working on this project.

A brilliant Saturday night at Aye Write in Glasgow, celebrating our “Women Who Dared”! Thanks to speakers Jo Shaw, Chisomo Kalinga and Ioulia Kolovou, the whole festival team and everyone who came.

Webinar: IASH Fellowship applicants for 2026-27, on Monday 15 December at 13:00 GMT. Find out about our programmes, and ask any questions you may have. Register free: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0fdfeb... Please sign up even if you can't attend, as a recording will be circulated afterwards.

Event reminder! Arab Women and the Question of the Nation with Raad Khair Allah and Sara Ababneh explores how Arab women reshape nationhood and political struggle. With @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Alwaleed Centre 13 Nov, 1-2.30pm Visit: edin.ac/4okoT8u

A brilliant line-up to mark 20 years of NTS, including new work by two IASH alums, David Harrower and Frances Poet! 🎭 Also linking to #NTS2026, Visiting Research Fellow Dr Paula Sledzinska (Robert Gordon University) joins us from May-July next year to examine NTS in times of national crisis.

Attended a book launch @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for this beauty last night ... karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/2025/11/05/d...

Passionate about the Patriarchy this evening at @edinburghup.bsky.social for the launch of Women Who Dared today: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w... I wrote the foreword.

I’m taking part in this intriguing event on Saturday. Please come along. divinity.ed.ac.uk/new-college-...

Tusind tak Erik, Sara og #InnovationSouthGreenland! It was great working in partnership with you speaking with local hunters in Kalaallit Nunaat for the "Seals, Stigma and Survival" project @nichecanada.bsky.social @cwswarstudies.bsky.social @sduarctic.bsky.social @arcticcouncil.bsky.social

Giveaway! 🎉 We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark. Want to win a copy? Here's how to enter:  1. Like this post ❤️ 2. Repost 🔄 🕔 Entries close 5pm GMT on 31 Oct 🔗 Browse Women Who Dared:

Edinburgh folks — there’s still time to register for this Wednesday’s book launch of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750–1820 and the accompanying symposium at IASH (for more info see below). Warm welcome! #skystorians

📢ICYMI📢 Arab Women and the Question of the Nation - Roundtable with Dr Raad Khair Allah and Dr Sara Ababneh. With @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, The Alwaleed Centre, and LLC's Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. 13 Nov, 1pm-2.30pm, CMB. Register here: www.gender.ed.ac.uk/events/2025/...