Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University): Between Proposing and Opposing a European Electricity System: Towards a New Understanding of Large Technical System-Building
Dr Meredith Warren (University of Sheffield): The Cup of God’s Wrath:Libation Imagery in the Book of Revelation and Early Christian Meal Practice
Event: Local energy systems in the UK – Taking stock and looking forward.
22 September 2016. 09:30-17:30. Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation.
The University of Edinburgh and ClimateXChange are hosting this interdisciplinary event to bring together researchers, policymakers and practitioners to take stock of the current state of practice and knowledge of local energy systems in the UK, and look forward to the key challenges and opportunities for the future.
This meeting will be in the Althaus-Reid Room, followed by the Rainy Hall
Dmitriy Myelnikov (University of Edinburgh): Dolly and the state: making and selling biotechnology at the Roslin institute, 1980–1997
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Quantitative methods masterclass in humanities research: A Masterclass by professor Matthew Wilkens (Edinburgh, 19-21 September 2016)
Prof Vered Noam, Tel Aviv University, “Josephus and the Rabbis, or: Why Did the Heavenly Voice Speak Aramaic?”
Alicia Kozameh (Argentina) Reading & Dialogue: A Meeting with the Writer Alicia Kozameh is the author of seven novels, a collection of short stories, a book of poetry, and is the editor of two anthologies. She was a political prisoner from 1975 to 1978, during the last military dictatorship in Argentina. While she writes and travels to lecture and do readings invited by universities in the United States, Europe and South America, Alicia also teaches creative writing in the English Department of Chapman University.
http://www.edinburghspeakersfestival.com/index.html
9th – 11th SEPTEMBER 2016 Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
Professor Gladys Tang (Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong): Individuation and quantification functions of sign language classifiers