IMES Seminar Series: Liberty and Coloniality in the early modern Arabic comparative criticism of Rūḥī al-Khālidī
Event date:
Monday 26 September 2016
Location:
The Project Room (Room 1.06), 50 George Square.
Tango Negro is a documentary that explores the expression of tango’s Africanness and the contribution of African cultures in the creation of tango. Angolan director, Dom Pedro, reveals the depth of the footprints of African music on the tango in this movie, combining musical performances and interviews from many tango fans and historians in Latin America and Europe.
The film screening will be followed by workshop with the film's director, Dom Pedro. While this is a free event, seating is limited so please reserve your tickets early!
http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/islamic-middle-easter...
Dr Martine Veldhuizen: Truth-tellers: The mentality behind subversive speech behaviour in narratives in the first printed books (1450-1500).
1-2pm
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square EH8 9NW
click here for programme PDF: Masterclass programme Quantitative methods masterclass in humanities research: A Masterclass by professor Matthew Wilkens (Edinburgh, 19-21 September 2016) If you are a Scotland-based researcher in the humanities with a project that uses some form of quantification and are keen to enrich your insights into computational criticism, look no further: Professor Matthew Wilkens (English, University of Notre Dame) will be delivering a masterclass on quantitative methods in central Edinburgh from Mo
http://www.edinburghspeakersfestival.com/index.html
9th - 11th SEPTEMBER 2016 Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
Film-Philosophy Conference 2016 6-8 July 2016 at 50 George Square. The website for the conference and full programme is available here: http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/
Dates of Event
3rd July 2016 - 5th July 2016
Last Booking Date for this Event
15th June 2016
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