I’ll be talking about women’s social & urban reform activism in Edinburgh’s late Victorian/Edwardian Old Town for the Vic Soc soon: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/event/autumn... @thecockburn.bsky.social @womenshistscot.bsky.social @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social

Autumn Online Lecture Series 2026 4: Women and the Re-making of Edinburgh’s Old Town in the late Victorian Era - The Victorian Society

This talk explores the way that women of all classes sought to re-make the urban environment in Edinburgh’s Old Town.

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New free eBook! The Institute proudly presents a short collection of essays marking the tenth anniversary of the Dangerous Women Project. "Lioness, Captive, Visionary" is available as a free eBook here (PDF, 51 pages): www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/lioness...

One week left to apply to be our 2027 playwright-in-residence! The IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship is a £12,000 commission with a private office in Edinburgh for 10 months, plus dramaturgical support from @traversetheatre.bsky.social Find out more: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iashtraverse...

If you're thinking of applying for this £12,000 commission with @traversetheatre.bsky.social & IASH, you can sign up for our free webinar this Friday at 1pm: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/963ef6... Please register even if you can't attend, as we'll share the recording afterwards with everyone.

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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities@iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Calling all playwrights! The IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship for 2027 is open now for applications. * £12,000 commission * Private office at IASH for 10 months * Dramaturgical support from the Traverse * Closing date: Fri 2 Oct, 17:00 UK time www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iashtraverse...

Emerging from a colloquium as part of our 55th anniversary celebrations, this new special issue of Ecclesial Futures offers cutting-edge interdisciplinary research into grassroots and indigenous digital expressions of witness: ecclesialfutures.org/issue/view/2...

"After the storm: Rebuilding cultural identity and local knowledge" Wed 9 Sept, 6pm-7:30pm at the Royal Society of Edinburgh & online We'll explore how culture, storytelling and collective memory can help shape national identity. Free tickets available from RSE Curious: rse.org.uk/event/after-...

After the storm: Rebuilding cultural identity and local knowledge

How can communities rebuild and preserve identity after disaster?

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Our autumn newsletter is out now, featuring an introduction to the new cohort of IASH Fellows, an invitation to become our next playwright-in-residence, some exciting upcoming events with @royalsoced.bsky.social and @ntsonline.bsky.social and much more! mailings.ed.ac.uk/2MQP-23ZL6-4...

Want to be our playwright-in-residence? The 2027 IASH / @traversetheatre.bsky.social Creative Fellowship is open now for applications! * £12,000 commission * Private office at IASH for 10 months * Dramaturgical support * Closing date: Fri 2 Oct, 17:00 UK time www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/apply-n...

📍Scottish Storytelling Centre 📅 23 October 🎫 Tickets are free, book now 👉 sisf.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:67...

National Theatre of Scotland at 20: Culture, Democracy, and the Stateless Nation

(Fri 23 Oct: 10am) As the National Theatre of Scotland and the Scottish Storytelling Centre both mark their twentieth anniversaries, this special event bring

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Announcing the lineup for NTS at 20: Culture, Democracy, and the Stateless Nation! Join Nicola Sturgeon, playwright Hannah Lavery, Steve Byrne of TRACS and Dr Stefanie Lehner of @qubelfast for this free event as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival

Farewell to Jayni Makwana, our superb Communications & Events summer intern! She worked brilliantly across a range of projects, from blogs and social media campaigns, to editing a new book of essays to mark 10 years of the Dangerous Women Project. Well done and very best wishes for the future!

Calling all playwrights! The IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship for 2027 is open now for applications. * £12,000 commission * Private office at IASH for 10 months * Dramaturgical support from the Traverse * Closing date: Fri 2 Oct, 17:00 UK time www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iashtraverse...

TONIGHT: 🎵🎶OSP Summer Concert: Ensemble Mater Matris Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, 19:30-21:00 New reconstructions from the Dunkeld Music Book, an anonymous manuscript from sixteenth-century Scotland, by recent Fellow Dr Paul Newton-Jackson. www.osp.org.uk/event/25-aug...

The foundations of this special issue were laid a long time ago following a workshop Sam and I were able to organise during my postdoctoral fellowship back in 2019 at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social who made it all possible - check out their fellowship schemes!

Sarah Arens@saraharens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Over the moon that the special issue of Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social I co-edited with Sam Goodman on "Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism" is finally out in the world. Endless gratitude to @fcondrau.bsky.social. All article links below: academic.oup.com/shm/issue

My article 'Synagoga as Mother in Ekbert of Schönau's Stimulus amoris' is out now in JMRC 52.2, on a striking and influential medieval text that has gone understudied. Cn medieval antisemitism intersecting with misogynistic ideas of fertility/infertility and birth (abstract in picture) 1/

“The Three Robins: R. Burns, R. Fergusson & R. Louis Stevenson” 9 Sept, Alloway. Free, ticketed. A talk by Prof David Purdie, MD, Medical Professor Emeritus & Honorary Fellow of the @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, where his field is #C18th literary history www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/highlight-...

Highlight Talk - Prof. David Purdie, MD on The Three Robins

Free Highlight Talk in the Robertson Room at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway.

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As 2025-26 draws to a close, here's IASH's year in data: 67 Fellows from 18 different countries £391,900 in stipends 51 Work-in-Progress Seminars 3,407 attendees across 99 public events A heartfelt thank you to all our partners at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social and beyond for helping ideas grow!

The Institute is proud to be sponsoring Val and Jo's event for @edbookfest.bsky.social on Monday 17 August at 3pm: www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/the-f... Join us to learn more about the Darien Project and Scotland’s colonial ambitions...

The Front List: Val McDermid and Jo Sharp | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

‘We’ve always been wary of working together’: Val McDermid and Jo Sharp on writing a novel as a couple

"After the storm: Rebuilding cultural identity and local knowledge" - a special panel for @royalsoced.bsky.social's CURIOUS Festival How can communities rebuild and preserve identity after disaster? Wednesday 9 September, 18:00-19:30 at the RSE on George Street & online. rse.org.uk/event/after-...

After the storm: Rebuilding cultural identity and local knowledge

How can communities rebuild and preserve identity after disaster?

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Delighted to receive an Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship for my upcoming visit to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and Scottish rare books collections! @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social

Australian Academy of the Humanities@humanitiesau.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The AAH is thrilled to announce the 8 recipients of the 2026 Humanities Travelling Fellowships. The Fellowships will enable the humanities researchers to undertake critical projects which will generate new insights, and forge global connections. 👉 bit.ly/4wktbB0 @natcutter.bsky.social

Come to Where I Am 11 Aug, Edinburgh. £15 / pay what you can From @painesplough.bsky.social & @playwrightsstudio.bsky.social 3 Scottish playwrights – Uma Nada-Rajah, Hannah Lavery, & Linda McLean – present monologues about the places & people that shape them bookings.shedinburgh.com/event/9854:1...

Paines Plough: Come to Where I Am

Tuesday 11 August: 5.00pm Welcome to Edinburgh. Welcome to Scotland.Come and take a seat in the shed.We’ll tell you a bit about where we’re from, and the places

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www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.... Eco-Anarchism and Posthumanism in Contemporary Utopian Fiction written by Javier Alvarez (University of Zaragoza) and edited by me in The Literary Encyclopedia has been published. @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social

Eco-Anarchism and Posthumanism in Contemporary Utopian Fiction

Utopia After the Crisis of Progress The first decades of the 21st...

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Happy to have received these chonky bois in the post. Congratulations to @downham.bsky.social and the editorial team for seeing this work to publication. Thanks to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and @makingawarrior.bsky.social for supporting the exploration and development of the ideas in my chapter.

How do you get from PhD thesis to monograph? We talk to graduate Dr Suzanne Black whose book Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction has just been published by LSU Press https://llc.ed.ac.uk/news/from-thesis-to-monograph-suzanne-r-black

From thesis to monograph | Literatures, Languages & Cultures | Literatures Languages and Culture

Graduate Suzanne R Black talks to us about developing her PhD into a new book.

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Introducing the IASH Fellows for 2026-27: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/introdu...

Following the announcement earlier this week that Jack MacGregor's new play will feature at TravFest26, we caught up with them to hear about how the intricacies of fencing are informing their writing process. Have a read: https://www.traverse.co.uk/news/check-in-with-2026-iash-fellow-jack-macgregor

Check-in with 2026 IASH Fellow, Jack MacGregor

Following the recent announcement of TravFest26 featuring a first look reading of Jack MacGregor's new play Foil, we checked in with them on their IASH fellowship thus far and how the intricacies of fencing are informing their writing process.

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Call for participants: 'National Theatre of Scotland at 20: Culture, Democracy, and the Stateless Nation', organised by our member Paula Śledzińska @iashedinburgh.bsky.social. Scottish Storytelling Centre @scotstorycentre.bsky.social, 23 October 2026. Application form: tinyurl.com/yc6s7cvs

National Theatre of Scotland@ntsonline.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Callout for participants 📢 National Theatre of Scotland at 20: Culture, Democracy, and the Stateless Nation is a day of conversations on how the arts shape Scotland’s society and democratic life, hosted at @scotstorycentre.bsky.social on 23 Oct

A rare bit of good news - Cressida Hayes has been awarded the APA's Edinburgh fellowship to visit @iashedinburgh.bsky.social next year:

2026 APA Prizes: Spring Edition - American Philosophical Association

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Applications are currently open for participants to contribute to the event, find out more 👉 www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/latest/nts-a...

NTS AT TWENTY: CULTURE, DEMOCRACY, AND THE STATELESS NATION  | National Theatre of Scotland

As we mark our twentieth anniversary, participants from across academia, the arts, cultural organisations, and public life are invited to take part in NTS

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Bringing together researchers, theatre-makers, writers, cultural practitioners, policymakers, activists, and community organisations, the event will explore how culture and storytelling contribute to public life at a time when democratic values come under pressure worldwide.