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Research Seminars
in the College of Humanities and Social Science

April - June 2012

To view events on a particular day, click on the date below

"Reading Marx's Capital" - a reading group based around David Harvey's video lectures.

http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

If you would like to participate please email programme@stills.org

College of Humanities and Social Science

"Public Involvement in the NHS: Work in Progress?"
Discussion with Sarah Sinclair (NHS Lothian); Ellen Stewart (University of Edinburgh); Andy Thompson (University of Edinburgh); and Rosemary Hill (Participation Network)

Register at http://nhsinvolvement.eventbrite.com

"Public Involvement in the NHS: Work in Progress?"
Speakers include: Ellen Stewart (University of Edinburgh); Gordon Third (Scottish Health Council); Andy Thompson (University of Edinburgh); Rosemary Hill (Participation Network)
Register at http://nhsinvolvement.eventbrite.com

Dr. Sarah Cook (University of Sunderland): "The Context of a Festival for Experiments in Curating"

Creative Writing Workshop: "Are Scientists Human?"
Speaker: Tania Hershman (ESRC Genomics Forum Bright Ideas Fellow)

The workshop is free; register online at http://arescientistshuman.eventbrite.com

"National cultural policies in France and the UK - Crossed experiences"
A French and a British scholar look back at 50 years of cultural policies in France and the United Kingdom.

Speakers: Renaud Camus (writer) and Roger Scruton (philosopher)
Chair: Alexandra Slaby (Professor of English Literature, University of Caen)

Admission free. RSVP by April 6 to contact.edimbourg-fslt@diplomatie.gouv.fr

Conference: "Lines of Continuity - Lines of Descent, Lines of Memory and Other Modes of Connection"

Organiser: Emily Lyle (e.lyle@ed.ac.uk)
Details available at http://www.tradcos.co.uk nearer the date of the conference

Conference: "Lines of Continuity - Lines of Descent, Lines of Memory and Other Modes of Connection"

Organiser: Emily Lyle (e.lyle@ed.ac.uk)
Details available at http://www.tradcos.co.uk nearer the date of the conference

Conference: "Lines of Continuity - Lines of Descent, Lines of Memory and Other Modes of Connection"

Organiser: Emily Lyle (e.lyle@ed.ac.uk)
Details available at http://www.tradcos.co.uk nearer the date of the conference

The Denys Hay Lecture
Professor Judith M. Bennett (University of Southern California): "Death and the Maiden"

This is a free but ticketed event. Book online at http://www.medren.ed.ac.uk/activities/DenysHaylecture2012.html

"Reading Marx's Capital" - a reading group based around David Harvey's video lectures.

http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

If you would like to participate please email programme@stills.org

An Evening with the Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin who will read extracts from his work. The event will be in Russian with English translation.

The event is free but admission is strictly by ticket, available from http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3298482851/rss

Conference: "Muslims and Political Participation in Britain"

Further information, full programme and registration at http://www.alwaleed.ed.ac.uk (click on the 'Conference: April 2012' link)

See also below for an associated free public event at the Scottish Parliament

"Muslims and the Political Process in Scotland"
Panel speakers include Muslim representatives from the four largest political parties in Scotland: Majid Hussain (Conservative Party); Hanzala Malik, MSP (Labour Party); Shabnum Mustapha (Liberal Democrats); Humza Yousaf, MSP (Scottish National Party)

For security reasons you must formally register for this event at:
http://edinburgh-university-81.eventbrite.co.uk/

Conference: "Muslims and Political Participation in Britain"

Further information, full programme and registration at http://www.alwaleed.ed.ac.uk (click on the 'Conference: April 2012' link)

Gifford Lectures: "Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog"
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford; and Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford)
Lecture 1: "Introduction: voices and silence in Tanakh and Christian New Testament"

Free but ticketed. Book online at http://edinburgh-university-92.eventbrite.co.uk/

Dr. Daniela Sechel (Central European University, Budapest; Mellon Fellow, IASH): "From Medizinische Polizeiwissenschaft to Staatarzneikunde: A Viennese discourse and its practical applications at the peripheries of the Habsburg Empire 1750-1830"

and Dr. Sándor Hites (Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; CRF/RSE European Visiting Fellow, IASH): "Economy as/of/in/vs. Literature: a comparative approach to 18th -19th century British and Hungarian developments"

Stephen Gorard (University of Birmingham): "Quantitative research in education: promises, pitfalls and prospects"

Places are limited. Please register with G.Kadar-Satat@sms.ed.ac.uk

Gifford Lectures: "Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog"
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford; and Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford)
Lecture 2: "The triumph of monastic silence"

Free but ticketed. Book online at http://edinburgh-university-93.eventbrite.co.uk/

Politics and International Relations 1st Year Postgraduate Conference:
"Democracy and its Discontents: Contested Polities in the 21st Century"

Featured Panels:
* Beyond the Leviathan: Non-State Actors on the World Stage
* A House Divided: People and Parties in Contested States
* Evolving Democracy: Trial & Error in Representative Government
* Security 2.0: New Approaches to Threat Perception
* Shining a Light: Understanding Public and Private Dynamics of Policy

Further information at http://democracyanditsdiscontents.wordpress.com

Register online at http://democracyanditsdiscontents.eventbrite.com

1.00 pm, IASH, 2 Hope Park Square

First meeting of the Self and Environment Experiental Group (SEE)
Topic for discussion: "Home"

Further information at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/future.events.html

To register interest, email alexandra_parvan@yahoo.it

Mr. Emil Paulis (Director of Directorate 6, Financial Markets, European Commission): "On-going and Future Reforms in the Financial Sector"

Places are limited; to reserve a place please email Jensen Katzer events@sfe.org.uk

Europa Institute

Alan Warner (novelist; Writer-in-Residence, University of Edinburgh) - Reading from his new novel, The Deadman's Pedal

Gifford Lectures: "Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog"
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford; and Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford)
Lecture 3: "Silence transformed: the Reformation and beyond"

Free but ticketed. Book online at http://edinburgh-university-94.eventbrite.co.uk/

Lecture Series: "China, Scotland and the World: Global Economy and Local Business"
Adam Dupre (Founder, China Company Research Services; ex officio Vice President 48 Group Club): "China/Scotland: the Global Context"

Further information and booking at http://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/csw

Gifford Lectures: "Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog"
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford; and Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford)
Lecture 4: "Getting behind noise in Christian history"

Free but ticketed. Book online at http://edinburgh-university-95.eventbrite.co.uk/

Public Debate: "The Referendum on Independence for Scotland: Debating the Legal Issues"
Speakers: Professor Adam Tomkins (University of Glasgow); Professor Stephen Tierney (University of Edinburgh); Professor Paul Craig (University of Oxford); Professor Neil Walker (University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Brian Taylor (BBC Scotland)

Dr. Guy Bennett-Hunter (Postdoctoral Fellow, IASH): "Certain Doubts: On the Philosophical Quest for Certainty"
and
Dr. Markku Roinila (Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki): "G.W. Leibniz on emotions and moral action"

Gifford Lectures: "Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog"
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford; and Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford)
Lecture 5: "The silences of fear and shame"

Free but ticketed. Book online at http://edinburgh-university-96.eventbrite.co.uk/

Experience and Memory in Cinema and Contemporary Art: Gesture, the Grotesque and Film Spectatorship

Professor Christa Blümlinger (Professor of Cinema and Video, Université de Vincennes Saint-Denis (Paris VIII)): "Yervant Gianikian et Angela Ricci Lucchi: Archival Gestures"

Emeritus Professor Matti Klinge (University of Helsinki): "Finland's emergence as an independent nation and its current status in the European Union"

There is no need to book to attend the lecture.

If you wish to attend the sandwich lunch before the lecture (at 1 pm), booking is essential as numbers are limited. Book for the lunch online at http://profklingelunch.eventbrite.co.uk by 25 April

Experience and Memory in Cinema and Contemporary Art: Gesture, the Grotesque and Film Spectatorship

Professor Annie van den Oever (Arts, Culture, and Media, University of Groningen): "The Grotesque in Cinema and Visual Culture"

Experience and Memory in Cinema and Contemporary Art: Gesture, the Grotesque and Film Spectatorship

Professor Raymond Bellour (film and art theorist, critic and author; Centre Universitaire Américain de Cinéma, Paris; director of research at CNRS): "The Film Spectator: A Unique Memory"

IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture
James D. Johnston (independent consultant; formerly Chief Scientist, DTS, Inc.): "Articulation in the presence of noise"

This lecture is part of the Listening Talker Workshop - see http://listening-talker.org/workshop

Professor Raymond Bellour will lead a seminar discussion on Kenji Mizoguchi's Miss Oyu (1951)

Please email Professor Martine Beugnet (m.beugnet@ed.ac.uk) if you are interested in attending

"Shakespeare in Kabul"
Stephen Landrigan (American playwright) and Qais Akbar Omar (Afghan writer and journalist) speak about their experience of staging Shakespeare in Afghanistan

Introduction by Professor Marilyn Booth

Gifford Lectures: "Silence in Christian History: the witness of Holmes' Dog"
Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch (Professor of the History of the Church, Oxford; and Fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford)
Lecture 6: "Silence in modern and future Christianities"

Free but ticketed. http://edinburgh-university-97.eventbrite.co.uk/

Edinburgh Lecture
Lord Puttnam (filmmaker; Chancellor, The Open University): "Eric Liddell: All of Life is a Race"

Online ticket booking:
http://www.usherhall.co.uk/whats-on/Lecture/Talk/2627/5351/Lord-David-Puttnam.html

CIRCLE research symposium, P{e/a}r{i/a}meter

Full details of speakers and programme at http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/peariameter.htm

Dr. Heather Moquin (Simon Fellow, IASH): "Dialogic methods within community drama"
and
Professor Paul Pickering (Research School of Humanities and the Arts, ANU; Visiting Fellow of IASH): "From Platform to Parade: Sites of Music and Politics in the Nineteenth Century British World"

Crawford Lecture 2012
Dr. Stephen Pumphrey (Lancaster University): "Galileo's lunatic fringe: his telescopic discovery that never was"

The event is free but ticketed. Online booking at http://crawfordlecture2012.eventbrite.co.uk

1.00 pm, IASH, 2 Hope Park Square

Self and Environment Experiental Group (SEE)
Topic for discussion: "Consumption"

Further information at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/future.events.html

To register interest, email alexandra_parvan@yahoo.it

Professor Jim Al Khalili (Professor of Physics and Professor of Public Engagement in Science, University of Surrey): "On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: The Forgotten Legcy of Medieval Physicists"

Further details at http://tinyurl.com/73moy45

Business Lecture Series on China
Stephen Perry (Managing Director, London Export Corporation; Chair of 48 Group Club): "Understanding China is Essential for Everyone"

Further information and booking at http://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/csw

Professor Jim Al Khalili (Professor of Physics and Professor of Public Engagement in Science, University of Surrey): "Alan Turing: Legacy of a Code Breaker"

Book online at http://www.rse.org.uk/eventorders.php?event_id=56

The Trecento Seminar: "Translating Cultures"
Speakers: Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute); Louise Bourdua (University of Warwick); Francesco Pasquale (IUAV, Università di Venezia); Anthi Andronikou (University of St. Andrews); Lorenzo Calvelli (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia); Lenia Kouneni (University of St. Andrews)

Full programme at http://www.ed.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.86497!/fileManager/TrecentoSeminar2012.pdf

10.30 am - 12 noon, Business School Conference Room

Professor Barbara Czarniawska (Hon. Fellow, European Institute of Advanced Studies, Brussels): "Nomadic work as life-story plot"

Please register online at http://www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/school-events?a=44967

A Mind Across Disciplines Event
Professor Terence Cave (Emeritus Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford): "Thinking with Literature"

This event is part of the celebrations to mark 250 years of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Fulbright Lecture
Thomas R. Pickering (former U.S. Ambassador and former Permanent Representative to the United Nations): "The US Role in the Future of the Middle East (Pillars of Hercules to the Hindu Kush)"

Online booking for this event at
http://edinburgh-university-100-rss.eventbrite.co.uk/?ebtv=C

1.00 pm, IASH, 2 Hope Park Square

Self and Environment Experiental Group (SEE)
Topic for discussion: "Narratives of the Changing Self"

Further information at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/future.events.html

To register interest, email alexandra_parvan@yahoo.it

Professor Edward Mendelson (Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, New York; Isabel Dalhousie Fellow, IASH): "Auden and 'the Flesh We Are'"

Book online at http://edinburgh-university-102-rss.eventbrite.co.uk/

Virtual Worlds Research Network conference
Keynote address: Dr. Richard Bartle (Computer Game Design, University of Essex): "Why People Play Virtual Worlds"

Full programme and registration details at http://www.vwrn.org/

Virtual Worlds Research Network conference
Guest Speaker: Dr. Matthew Chew (Hong Kong Baptist University): "A Sociological Interpretation of the Design Aspects of Chinese Game Worlds"

Full programme and registration details at http://www.vwrn.org/

Professor Fiona M. Scott Morton (Yale Management School; Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division): "Competition Law and Policy: How is Economics Useful?"

The event is free; please register at http://tinyurl.com/cgmrhj9

Virtual Worlds Research Network conference
Guest Speaker: Dr. Timothy Hutchings (Codec, St. John's College, University of Durham): "Building the Virtual Church: Christian Architecture in Second Life"

Full programme and registration details at http://www.vwrn.org/

"The Democratic Intellect after Half a Century":
a one-day colloquium on George Elder Davie’s The Democratic Intellect

Space is limited so registration is essential. Email iash@ed.ac.uk to book a place.

"AHRC collaborative cash: 'The Decorated School' and strategic insights"
Speaker: Dr. Catherine Burke (University of Cambridge; The Decorated School Research Network)
Panel discussion with Professor David Fergusson (Divinity; member of AHRC Advisory Board) and Professor Greg Walker (English Literature; member of AHRC Council)
Book via MyEd
Further information from emma.gliori@ed.ac.uk

1.00 pm, IASH, 2 Hope Park Square

Self and Environment Experiental Group (SEE)
Topic for discussion: "Body in Motion"

Further information at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/future.events.html

To register interest, email alexandra_parvan@yahoo.it

Postgraduate Workshop on Inquiry and Cognition

Programme details at http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/postgraduate-workshop-on-inquiry-and-cognition

Edinburgh Enlightenment Lecture
Professor Stefan Collini (Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, Cambridge University): "From 'Belles-Lettres' to "Eng-Lit": Criticism and its Publics"

The lecture is free but ticketed. Book online at http://edinburgh-university-84.eventbrite.co.uk/

Conference: "The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition"

Full programme at http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/the-aims-of-inquiry-and-cognition

Please email Allan Hazlett (ahazlett@staffmail.ed.ac.uk) if you would like to attend

"Bodies in Movement Seminar"
Speaker: Scott Wilson (Media and Communication, Kingston University) who will discuss his work on schizophrenia, neoliberalism and cinema

Further information at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/future.events.html

Space is limited and booking essential; to book a place email Karin Sellberg (k.j.k.sellberg@gmail.com)

Conference: "The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition"

Full programme at http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/the-aims-of-inquiry-and-cognition

Please email Allan Hazlett (ahazlett@staffmail.ed.ac.uk) if you would like to attend

Ethics Fest - an informal workshop organised by the Ethics Research Cluster.

Full details at http://www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/events/view/edinburgh-ethics-fest

MacCormick Seminar
Professor Maximillian Fuchs: "The implementation of the EU Directive on Temporary Agency Work in the UK and in Germany - a lesson about the evolution and the effectiveness of EU labour legislation"

"Conversations about Consent and Health Research" - a public discussion hosted by the Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and the Law

The event is free but space is limited. For further details and booking: http://masoninstitutefirstevent.eventbrite.com/

Legal Theory Workshop:
"Private law: Theories and methods"

Further details at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/legaltheory/springworkshops2012.aspx

Please email convenor.legaltheory@ed.ac.uk if you wish to attend

Legal Theory Workshop:
"Challenging individualism in Medical Law and Bioethics: Why the individual might no longer be the appropriate focus for ethics in the regulation of medicine and research"
Speakers: Professor Michael Parker (Professor of Bioethic and Director of the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford); Professor Heather Widdows (Professor of Global Ethics, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham); and Professor David Townend (Associate Professor of the Law of Public Health and Care, Maastricht University)

Further details at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/legaltheory/springworkshops2012.aspx

Please email convenor.legaltheory@ed.ac.uk if you wish to attend

Legal Theory Workshop:
"Objectivity between scientific and legal decision-making"

Further details at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/legaltheory/springworkshops2012.aspx

Please email convenor.legaltheory@ed.ac.uk if you wish to attend

Edward Mendelson (Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University; Isabel Dalhousie Fellow, IASH): "Persons and Categories from Homer until Now"
and
Cheryl Mendelson (Philosophy, Barnard College; novelist and non-fiction writer): "Some Comments on Morality, Science, and Two Humean Proscriptions"

Legal Theory Workshop:
"Practical Reason, Objectivity and Legal Judgement"

Further details at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/legaltheory/springworkshops2012.aspx

Please email convenor.legaltheory@ed.ac.uk if you wish to attend

"Can we talk about the arts and mental health and mental illness?"

Discussion led by Gayle Davis (Wellcome Lecture, History of Medicine, University of Edinburgh); Pat Fisher (Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh); Linda Irvine (NHS Lothian); Kirsten MacLean (CAPS, Edinburgh); Rachel Thibbotumunuwe (Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh)

Register: http://artsmentalhealth.eventbrite.com

Legal Theory Workshop:
"Is parliament still sovereign?"

Further details at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/legaltheory/springworkshops2012.aspx

Please email convenor.legaltheory@ed.ac.uk if you wish to attend

Conference: "New Perspectives on locatio conductio in Roman law"

Speakers will include: Professor Dr. Eva Jakab, Professor Jose Antonio Martinez Vela, Professor Dr. Wolfgang Ernst, Professor Roberto Fiori, Dr. Orietta Cordovana, Dr. Wolfram Buchwitz, Dr. Benedikt Forschner, and Dr. Paul du Plessis

For full details and online booking: http://tinyurl.com/legalhistoryjune

SCRIPT Conference: Law and Transformation
Day 1: Early Career Research - Mapping the Future in Law and Technology

Full conference details at http://www.scriptconference.org/
Final date for registration: 25 May

Conference: "New Perspectives on locatio conductio in Roman law"

For full details and online booking: http://tinyurl.com/legalhistoryjune

SCRIPT Conference: Law and Transformation
Day 2: Regulation & Trust
Keynote address by Baroness Onora O'Neill

Full conference details at http://www.scriptconference.org/
Final date for registration: 25 May

Conference: "New Perspectives on locatio conductio in Roman law"

For full details and online booking: http://tinyurl.com/legalhistoryjune

SCRIPT Conference: Law and Transformation
Day 3: Openness and Secrecy
Keynote address by Lord Inglewood

Full conference details at http://www.scriptconference.org/
Final date for registration: 25 May

1.30 - 6.00 pm, Martin Hall, New College

9.30 am - 4.00 pm, Martin Hall, New College

"Bodies in Movement Seminar"
Speaker: Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Women's Studies, Emory University) who will open a discussion on her current work in the field of disability studies and the humanities

Further information at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/future.events.html

Space is limited and booking essential; to book a place email Karin Sellberg (k.j.k.sellberg@gmail.com)

Business Lecture Series on China
Dr. JI, Bin (Vice President, All China Federation of Taiwan Compatriots): "China's Economic Growth and Transformation"

Further information and booking at http://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/csw

"Norway, Social Democracy and Scotland's Future"
Speaker: Øivind Bratberg (University of Oslo).
Response from Nicola McEwen (Institute of Governance, University of Edinburgh)

Please register by email to Dan Wynn danwynn@hotmail.co.uk

Business Lecture Series on China
Peter Budd (leader of Arup's airport business globally; Director, Ove Arup & Partners Ltd; Chairman, Arup Scotland) will talk about his extensive experience of working in China

Further information and booking at http://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/csw

"The Warrior Poets: A Multinational Perspective on World War Two" - exploring the poetry of the Second World War with a focus on questions of national identity and Britishness.

This event is associated with the conference "Fighting for Britain?" - see below. Please book a ticket with your conference booking

Conference: "Fighting for Britain? Negotiating identities in Britain during the Second World War"

Programme and registration details at http://www.shca.ed.ac.uk/conferences/fighting-for-britain/

Booking closes: 22 June

"Bodies in Movement Seminar"
Speaker: Stuart Elden (Geography, Durham University) who will dig into Shakespeare's Coriolanus with a geographical and material twist

Further information at http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/future.events.html

Space is limited and booking essential; to book a place email Karin Sellberg (k.j.k.sellberg@gmail.com)