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Future Events [click on link below for details] "From
Missionising to Militourism: Anglo-American imperialism and the Pacific
Imaginary": "Darwin and Lincoln on Race and Society": 13 November 2009 Symposia related to the "Dialogues of Enlightenment" research theme Workshops: "Translations, Adaptations and Modalities" Workshops: "New Perspectives for the Humanities in the Twenty-first Century" IASH Work-in-Progress Seminars STAR Postgraduate Seminar in American Studies Renaissance and Early Modern Group - fortnightly meetings on Thursdays at 1 p.m. Further information from Dr. Stephen Bowd (email: Stephen.Bowd@ed.ac.uk) Recent Events Conference: Dialogues of Enlightenment: 11-13 June 2009 (Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes) Conference: "Romantic Translation, 1780-1830": Tuesday, 12 May 2009 Practical Translation Workshop: "Alice in Real Life": Thursday 7 May 2009 Symposium: "Reading the Photographic Image: Thursday, 19 March 2009 Symposia: "Dialogues with Darwin: Darwin and Edinburgh": Spring 2009 Lecture by Professor Marilyn Strathern on "The Value of 'Useless Knowledge'": 6 February 2009 AND CHAT (Conversations in Humanities, Arts and Technologies) with Professor Marilyn Strathern: 6 February 2009 Seminar: "Kant in Königsberg: Imperial Cosmopolitanism": 9 March 2009 One-Day Conference: "Ultima Thule: Exploring Northern Scotland and Scandinavia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries": 30 January 2009 Round Table Discussion on "The Crisis in the Humanities": Friday 21 November, 2008 Stevenson Textual Workshop: 11 July 2008 Workshop: "Everything in Moderation: Individuals, institutions and intellectuals in flux": 27 June 2008 A
series of Workshops on "Embodied Values and the Environment"
A series of one-day Workshops on "Transnational Histories of the Book", organised by the Centre for the History of the Book:
Roundtable: "Scott, Scotland, and Romantic Studies": Wednesday, 23 April 2008 Transatlantic Ideas of the American Founding: One-day Conference, Thursday 27 March 2008 Practice-based Research Working Group: Workshop, 28 February 2008 Workshop: "Biography, national narratives and history": 13 December 2007 Roundtable: "Idealism and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature": 12 December 2007 Early Modern Collections Seminar: Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama Collections in Edinburgh: 24 November 2007 Discussion on "Trauma - Representation - Memory": 15 November 2007 Edinburgh Renaissance/Early Modern research group: Inaugural meeting 26 October 2007 Conference: "Belonging in the New Europe: A Scottish Perspective" - 13-14 September 2007 The Tanner Lectures on Human Values: "The Inner Life of Empires": 5-6 March 2007 "Is History Fiction?" Seminar: 8 November 2006 Seminar on "Lyotard, Art and Music": 10 July 2006 Workshop on the Philosophy of the Enlightenment: 25 May 2006 Symposium on "Life writing and life representation in the long 18th Century (1670-1830)": 10 May 2006 One-day Symposium: "Acts of Union: Scottish and Irish thought and culture, 1707-1801": 29 March 2006 Joint British Academy/IASH Colloquium on "A Wealth of Ideas: The Value of the Humanities in Modern Society": 15 March 2006 One-day conference "Aesthetics, Culture and Society", 14 March 2006 IASH Open Day, 27 September 2005 "Material Cultures" Workshops, 20 & 21 July 2005: Peter Burke, Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton and John Barnard Leverhulme Project: Science of Man in Scotland History of the Book in Scotland Seminar: Friday, 27 May 2005 "Medicine and Poetry in Edinburgh: Early-Enlightenment Connections" Colloquium: Saturday,7 May 2005 'Testimonies of Violence: Narratives and Memory in Conflict' Colloquium: Monday, 25 April 2005 'Biography and the Enlightenment' Colloquium: Saturday 27 November 2004 Music and Literature Study Day: 20 November 2004 Meeting
South African Writers: 11 - 12 October 2004 Conference: Visual Knowledges (September 2003) Conference: The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive (March 2002) Stevenson Textual Workshop: Friday, 11 July 2008 Sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Organized by the Centre for Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century This event inaugurates the
new Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. Programme
Anyone interested in attending the Workshop should email ruthmmcadams@gmail.com Roundtable: "Scott, Scotland, and Romantic Studies" Wednesday,
23 April 2008
Practice-based Research Working Group Workshop: Thursday,
28 February 2008 Programme: Session 1: Teaching/Assessment
Session 2: Assessment/Research
Coffee/Tea Session 3: Research/Funding ---- Further information from Nick Higgins nick.higgins@ed.ac.uk Roundtable: "Idealism and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature" Wednesday, 12 December
2007 This roundtable, organised by Dr. Timothy Baker and Dr. Tom Toremans (Postdoctoral Fellows of IASH), will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore reactions to German Idealism and Protestant theology in the works of Carlyle, Scott, Hogg, MacDonald, Stevenson and others. The specific aim of the meeting is to establish possible relations and/or tensions between idealist and religious strands in nineteenth-century Scottish literature. Short talks will be delivered by Prof Ian Campbell (Department of English Literature), Dr Penny Fielding (Department of English Literature) and Dr Alison Jack (School of Divinity), after which all participants are invited to contribute to the discussion. The roundtable will be chaired by Dr Tom Toremans. Starting questions include, but are not limited to, the following:
In order to facilitate discussion,
the number of participants will be limited to 20. If you would like to
attend, please Early
Modern Collections Seminar: 11.00 (National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge) arrival and welcome (James Loxley and Helen Vincent) 11.25-12:30 Helen Vincent (NLS) "Shakespeare and early modern drama collections in the NLS": talk and display of items. 12.45-1.30 (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2 Hope Park Square) Lunch 1.30 Prof. Willy Maley (University of Glasgow): '"Stands Scotland Where it Did?' Shakespeare North of the Border" 2.15 Prof. Andrew Murphy (University of St Andrews) tbc 3.00-3.15. Tea 3.15-4.00 Sheila Noble (QMU): "Shakespeare and early modern drama collections in University of Edinburgh Library": illustrated talk Trauma - Representation - Memory A discussion meeting
at 3 p.m. on Thursday 15 November at IASH (2 Hope Park Square) Organisers: Mary Cosgrove (LLC - German), Peter Davies (LLC - German), Hannah Holtschneider (Divinity - Jewish Studies) and Kamran Rastegar (LLC - Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies) The aim of the meeting is to identify colleagues with an interest in the theme 'trauma - representation - memory' with a view to establishing academic collaboration in a 'research cluster'. We would like to attract as diverse a group of scholars as possible. The only criterion for joining the meeting would be that research is carried out in an area that connects two of the descriptors in the title. This should, we hope, ensure that everyone attending has some common interest. At the meeting we are planning to give a brief introduction to the themes we are currently working on, inviting everyone else to do the same. Then we would like to use the rest of the time to think constructively where collaboration can take us in the next academic year. If you would like to attend please email iash@ed.ac.uk The Edinburgh Renaissance/Early Modern research group The inaugural meeting of
the Edinburgh Renaissance/Early Modern research group was held at IASH
(2 Hope Park Square) at 1pm on Friday 26th October. Further details can
be found at http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/Postgraduate/RtoE/earlymodern.htm
Monday
5 and Tuesday 6 March 2007 at 5.15 p.m. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values "The Inner
Life of Empires" Professor Emma
Rothschild Abstract: Seminar:
"Is History Fiction?" Abstract: Ann Curthoys will outline the main argument of Is History Fiction?, namely that history has a double character, being both a rigorous investigation of the past and a form of story-telling, of literature. This tension within history, as a discipline practised in the west, can be traced to its foundations in ancient Greece, and then in modern historiographical debate since Ranke. This paper will focus on the particular form these debates have taken in recent years, particularly around the questions posed by Holocaust denialism, and the implications for debates over truth in history of historians' increasing role in the courtroom. John Docker (Adjunct
Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National
University): Abstract: In this talk, John Docker raises the question, how much are history wars related to profound questions of honour, of nations and civilizations? Such a question bears on history wars across the world, from antiquity to the present. In antiquity, the acknowledged founders of Western historical writing, Herodotus and Thucydides, were accused of being too harsh on classical Athenian society, as if writing as hostile outsiders, as if culpably internationalist and cosmopolitan. The passion and intensity of contemporary history wars, as in the US over the cancelled Enola Gay exhibition at the Smithsonian, or the controversies over the Rape of Nanjing, or Israel's founding moment in 1948, or the extent of killing on Australia's colonial frontiers, may also be traced to similar concerns over the honour of nations. John will also discuss the history war that has centred on postmodernism. It has been claimed that postmodern thinkers like Foucault and Derrida had no notion of historical truth, that in their writings anything goes, that any interpretation is as good as any other. Foucault is accused of seeing truth as merely an effect of power. Derrida is held to argue that there is nothing outside the text, the world in effect is only a text. In arguments about the Holocaust, it has been charged by critics that Foucault and Derrida's supposed view that anything goes led to a situation whereby Holocaust denialists like David Irving could thrive, sure in the knowledge that postmodernism has removed the intellectual grounds for opposing them, however much postmodernists themselves would personally abhor Holocaust denialism. John will strongly dispute this characterisation of Foucault and Derrida and postmodernism. Workshop
Series: Institutions and Oppositions of Enlightenment These workshops related to the Institute's Research Theme on "Institutions and Oppositions of Enlightenment" which sought to address the institution of modernity during the Enlightenment through the study of rule-governed practices. The formation of new orthodoxies across Europe and America (for example, in relation to universities, legal structures, and religious establishments), and the forces that opposed or challenged them, were a major focus of attention, as well as such issues as
For full details of the Workshops and other events related to this research theme click here STAR Postgraduate Seminar in American Studies Participation is welcomed in this seminar for students of North American literature, history and culture and all those with interests in Transatlanticism. The seminar is not period-specific, and serves as the core teaching seminar for University of Edinburgh postgraduates working in this area. In addition, we welcome participation from students across Scotland, visiting scholars and students with American interests, and members of staff. Seminar Programme:
Autumn 2009 29 October 13 November 19 November 3 December 11 December
Associated Event: Full details at http://www.star.ac.uk/atlantic-exchange/anglo-american-pacific-encounters.aspx
Further information about
the STAR project can be found on the project website: http://www.star.ac.uk
Leverhulme Project: The Science of Man in Scotland At the beginning of his famous Treatise of Human Nature the philosopher David Hume declared, boldly, that "'[t]is evident that all the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and that however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another." This "Science of Man", as Hume described it (women were comprehended in his term), involved the study of human life in all its various aspects. Built on the empirical methods of inquiry that underpinned the Enlightenment, it was expected to provide the key to understanding central questions of human existence, from personal identity to the foundations of morality and of civil society, to the long-term patterns underlying the historical evolution of human culture, manners, and government. Not only Hume, but many other Scottish theorists - Adam Smith, John Millar, Thomas Reid, and Dugald Stewart, to name only a few - committed themselves to formulating an overarching science which became one of the central and distinctive intellectual concerns of the Scottish Enlightenment in the second half of the eighteenth century. The belief that
questions about morality, society, and history could be addressed by an
empirical analysis of human nature was not self-evident, whatever Hume
might claim. The aim of our research project on the "Science of Man" has
been to reconstruct the grounds on which these writers argued that this
science was so important, and to investigate what it actually involved,
in terms of the methods and paradigms that they developed, and which contributed
to establish a new range of disciplines in the human sciences, from psychology
and sociology to anthropology. To this end, we assembled a "primary group"
of experts from around the world: philosophers, historians, literary scholars,
linguists, social scientists and historians of science, whose common point
of interest was the Scottish Enlightenment.
Dr. Thomas Ahnert Email: Thomas.Ahnert@ed.ac.uk Saturday,
27 November 2004 Programme:
A programme of events to celebrate 10 Years of Freedom in South Africa The University of Edinburgh, 11-12 October 2004 featuring seven of South Africa's most important writers
who gave readings and talked with leading Scottish authors about their work.
PROGRAMME MONDAY, 11 OCTOBER THE BLACKWELL LECTURE 2004
(sponsored by Blackwell's book shops) H.E. Dr. Lindiwe Mabuza, High Commissioner of the Republic of South Africa, will introduce the lecture. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception and readings by Wally Serote and Gcina Mhlope
TUESDAY, 12 OCTOBER 4.30 p.m. - 5.30 p.m., Raeburn
Room, Old College, South Bridge
ADDITIONAL EVENT: TUESDAY, 12 OCTOBER
Saturday, 20 November 2004: 10.30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Institute
for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Study Day convened by Beate Perrey and Peter Dayan A second Study Day devoted to current trends at the music/literature interface as part of the project "New Languages for Criticism: Cross-currents and Resistances" at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/projects/newlangs.html) At the first Music and Literature Study Day in Cambridge, on 7 May 2004, the discussion centred on the question of what happens when one evaluates music by attributing to it the kinds of meaning normally formulated in words, say in literature or poetry. This second Study Day aims to bring into focus the converse question: what happens when literature is evaluated by attributing to it the kinds of meaning normally associated with music, rather than words? This, of course, invites us to consider what those kinds of meaning might be. PROGRAMME: 10.30 - 11 a.m.: Coffee 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Beate Perrey (Liverpool and the ENS, Paris): Moments musicaux in Adorno's writing Janina Klassen (University of Music, Freiburg): Music as the "Language of the Heart" David Evans (St. Andrews): What might "music" mean? A perspective from the French 19th century Mary Breatnach (Edinburgh): The key to the sanctuary: Berlioz and musical criticism 1 - 2 p.m.: Lunch 2 - 3.30 p.m.: Jean Khalfa (Cambridge): Meaning and Autoreferentiality in Music Mikhail Karikis: The Acoustics of a Myth Angela Leighton (Hull): The conditions of music in Pater 3.30 p.m. - 4. p.m.: Tea 4 - 5 p.m.: Emma Sutton (St. Andrews): Woolf's musical prose Gillian Beer (Cambridge):
George Eliot's musical allusions and Spencer's ideas on the meaning
and origins of music |