The Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to invite you to a symposium to discuss contemporary opportunities and challenges for Celtic Studies in general and Celtic and Gaelic Studies departments in Scotland in particular.
Dr Erle Rikmann (University of Jyväskylä, Finland / IASH Fellow): Transnational civic activity online and offline: young Russian-speakers in Finland and Estonia
Steven Fesmire: John Dewey on the Good, Duty, and Virtue as Conflicting Variables in Moral Action
Exploring the Undermind
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Rob Rupert (Colorado), Morning Talk: “Individuals as Group Minds, Groups of Minds as Individuals: What Can a Model-based Theory of Natural Kinds Tell Us about Group Cognition?”
Dr Maria Alonso Alonso (University of Vigo, IASH Fellow): Tales of Insurgency and Resistance: Latin American Arts Strike Back Against Femicide
Yes, He Tried: Obama’s Legacy
Tue 12 Jul, 6-7pm, FREE Hawthornden Lecture theatre, Scottish National Gallery, the Mound.
Images of presidential power, such as Gillian Laub’s striking double portrait of the Obamas on show as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize exhibition, have been a key feature of Barak Obama’s presidencies. Gary Younge, The Guardian’s Editor-at-Large, will be reflecting on what Obama's legacy might be.
The Friday Night Mixer: Surreal Encounters
Fri 8 Jul, 6.30-8.30pm, £5 (£4) booking through Eventbrite via www.nationalgalleries.org. Portrait Gallery Café
FRIDAY, 8/7, 12.30pm
G32, 7 George Square
Gitit Kave - Paradoxes related to word retrieval in ageing
Older adults often complain of difficulties in word retrieval. However, difficulties do not occur across all tasks to the same degree. The talk will discuss some paradoxical experimental results in an attempt to understand the effect of vocabulary knowledge and compensatory strategies on word retrieval in old age.
Katrine Lindvig (Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, IASH Fellow): 'Othering’ interdisciplinarity in research and education
ABSTRACT: In academia, when we increasingly describe interdisciplinarity as something unique, outstanding and completely different from monodisciplinarity, are we then, conversely, impeding the growth and institutionalisation of the very thing we may be trying to promote?
Film-Philosophy Conference 2016
6-8 July 2016 at 50 George Square.
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