Professor David Purdie: David Daiches - a life.
Rev’d Dr Stewart Gillan, (St Michael’s Parish Church, Linlithgow): Translating Missionaries: John Ross, Han’gŭl and the Vocation of First Translations
Professor Niels Gaul (Edinburgh): The Byzantium that could have been? Learning and the Transmission of Classical Texts around the Year 800
Scottish Hellenic Society of Edinburgh
Katie Dow (University of Cambridge): Looking into the Test-Tube: The Birth of IVF on British Television
"How Intolerant is Islamic Law?" on Friday 30th September at 6:15pm. The lecture will be taking place in Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George Square. This is a free event but registration is essential. You can book your seat via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-intolerant-is-islamic-law-dr-jonathan-a-c-brown-tickets-27385236981?aff=es2 We recommend that you book your seat as soon as possible as we anticipate a high demand for this event.
Prof Timothy Lim (University of Edinburgh): An Indicative Definition of the Canon
Edinburgh University, Department of European Languages and Cultures Centre de recherches francophone belges FILM SCREENING ‘Our city’ (2014) A portrait of the city of Brussels and its inhabitants (in French, with subtitles in English) Free screening, followed by a discussion with film director Maria Tarantino Thursday 29 September 2016 at 6 p.m. Screening room G.04, 50 George Square ALL WELCOME
29 Sep 2016 16:10 – 17:00
Speaker: Pavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh)
Title: "The northwest European phonological area: new approaches to an old problem
Mathias Korsgaard (Aarhus University): Reflexive Style and Scandinavian Self-Questioning in the Cinema of Ruben Östlund
Prof. Francis X. Clooney (Harvard Divinity School): Why Comparative Theology Works Interreligiously: The Example of Hindu-Christian Learning
Matrin Hall, New College