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A short seminar discussing how Institutes of Advanced Study (IAS) advertise and select Fellows, and how they are welcomed into a new research community on arrival.

Speakers:

Ben Fletcher-Watson (Deputy Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, UK);
Anthea Moys (British Council 90th Anniversary Fellow at IASH, 2025)

Biographies:

Ben Fletcher-Watson (he/him) manages major projects at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, and supports the Director in strategic activities. Between 2004-11, he worked in the cultural sector at a range of arts organisations around the UK. In 2015, he completed a PhD in Drama at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and the University of St Andrews, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at IASH in 2016, before taking up his post in the Institute in May 2017. Ben has published widely on topics such as theatre for the very young, digital literacy, and mobile technologies for people with autism. His own research has always been rooted in interdisciplinarity, so he particularly enjoys the opportunity to engage with the work of IASH Fellows, alumnae/i and the wider Edinburgh community.

Anthea Moys (she/her) is a South African/UK-based artist and practice researcher whose work explores the intersections of play, power, and decoloniality. With a cross-disciplinary practice spanning two decades, her approach blends arts, play-oriented studies, performance, co-production, and peer-to-peer learning. As a practitioner, her work invites people to reimagine the "rules of the game鈥� and binaries like winning/losing and entertain new, often unwinnable, games that encourage complexity through play. After 15 years as an artist and wanting to sharpen her practice, she completed a practice research PhD at Northumbria University in 2022, developing a reflexive decolonial methodology for play and performance studies. In 2025, Moys undertook a year-long fellowship at IASH, where she built a team between two countries (the UK and South Africa) investigating unwinnable games through arts practice for decolonial play.