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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.

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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.

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Introducing our 2026 IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow | IASH
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November 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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...
Introducing our 2026 IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow | IASH
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November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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...
Auntie Empire  - Manipulate Arts
Auntie has gathered us all to relive and celebrate our glorious shared past, but unfortunately she also has some tragic, terrible, and most pressing news. And
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November 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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.
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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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...
Sikhs flock to see rare outing of ancient holy book in Edinburgh
The Guru Granth Sahib is so fragile it was taken to Edinburgh Gurdwara in a special convoy by curators for just a few hours.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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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

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Essays on Decoloniality: Volume 2 | IASH
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September 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Excited to get stuck in to this collection edited by @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social 👋 and Jo Shaw. Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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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.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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.
Jane Whyte (1857-1944) and Janet Chance (1886-1953): ‘a notable Churchwoman’ and her abortion activist daughter
This article explores the lives of Jane Whyte (1857-1944) and Janet Chance (1886-1953), a mother and daughter who represent two generations of women's activism in Scotland and England from the late...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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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...
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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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)
October 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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.
Catharine Trotter Cockburn’s and Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot’s contributions to Scottish philosophy
The aims of this paper are twofold. First, we draw attention to the contributions that Catharine Trotter Cockburn and her niece Anne Hepburn Arbuthnot made to Scottish Enlightenment philosophy and ...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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.
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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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
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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.
📣 Announcing #NTS2026 📣
20 Years of Game-Changing Theatre

For two decades, @ntsonline.bsky.social has ripped up the rulebook. Our 2026 season celebrates bold ideas, new voices, and unforgettable stories. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Ready to find out more? 👇
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📸 Kirsty Anderson
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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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.
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I’m taking part in this intriguing event on Saturday. Please come along. divinity.ed.ac.uk/new-college-...
Religion and Scottish Drama | New College Festival, 7-8 November 2025 | School of Divinity
Greg Walker and Randall Stevenson join Linda McLean and Donald Smith at New College Festival
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November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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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
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Giveaway! 🎉

We're offering four copies of our new book, Women Who Dared, which spotlights powerful and defiant women who made their mark.

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October 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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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
Book launch: "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820" (Yale UP)

Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks

Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.

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Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: Book Launch and Discussion
Join authors Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett to celebrate "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820".
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October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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📢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/...
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October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM