Event Name: Second Annual Conference on Chinese Language Teaching in Scotland
Date: Friday 24 June
Time: 9:30am to 5.00
Location: 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh Book via eventbrite:
Dr Nimah Mazaheri (Tufts University, Massachusetts; IASH Fellow): The Specialization Curse: The Effect of Economic Specialization on Public Goods
Professor Adriana Craciun: Arctic Enlightenments
IASH Work in Progress talk
CRFR Emotions Seminars 2016
The performance of care: emotion work, selfhood and acting.
Amanda Stuart-Fisher, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Emotional care work in the ambulance service.
Emma Rowland, King's College London
Wednesday 25th May 2016
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Reflecting on emotions and resilience in midwifery.
Billie Hunter, Cardiff University
Wednesday 22nd June 2016
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Title: Duncan Campbell: Big data and Broken Law – Suspicionless Surveillance in a World of Ubiquitous Data - 4th Annual CRISP Lecture
Date: 21 June 2016 5.45 p.m.
Organiser: Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP)
Venue: Teviot Lecture Theatre, Door 5, Old Medical Quad, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
Mediating Children’s Reading
How should children read, and what, and why? The benefits of reading, for the individual child and for society, have at various points in history been bound up with the dangers that reading has been seen to potentially pose.
Film Screening and Discussion
Date: Monday 20 June 5:15pm-8:30pm
Location: Screening Room (G04), 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JY.
Film: Red Snow (110 minutes)
Detailed schedule:
5.15pm-7.00pm: Film Screening-Red Snow (Chinese dialogue with English subtitles)
7.00pm-7.30pm: Break (Drinks and sandwiches served)
7.30pm-8.30pm: Discussion (Chaired by Professor Paul Pickowicz)
Roundtable on the law of the marine environment: This event will provide an opportunity for researchers at Edinburgh Law School and Lancaster Law School to present, and exchange ideas on, key challenges in the international law on the protection of the marine environment.
Sophia Kopela, (Law School, Lancaster University)and Saskia Vermeylen, (Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University): Earth jurisprudence and wild law: establishing a ‘natural contract’ between earth and humanity.
Programme
9.00—9.30 Registration, Coffee
9.30—11.00 Panel 1: Urban Citizenship and its Aesthetics
Igor Stiks (Edinburgh College of Art): Spaces of Emancipation: Activist Aesthetics and Urban Citizenship
Jo Shaw (Edinburgh School of Law / IASH): Multi-level Citizenship: the Return of Cities?
Tahl Kaminer (ECA): Aesthetics, Politics, City
Chair: Stacey Hunter (The New Metropolitan)
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee