September 2016

Special Round Table: Benedict Taylor, Katie Overy, & Noel O’Regan, 'Presenting Your Work as a Postgraduate Student 2: A Guide to Conferences'

Event date: 
Thursday 13 October 2016
Time: 
17:15
Location: 
Alison House on Nicolson Square

13 October  Special Round Table: Benedict Taylor, Katie Overy, & Noel O’Regan, 'Presenting Your Work as a Postgraduate Student 2: A Guide to Conferences'

Music Research Seminar Series

Seminars take place on Thursdays at 5.15pm in the atrium of Alison House on Nicolson Square. All are welcome.

Dr William Zachs, Honorary Fellow, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh: The Bibliomaniac’s Progress - Reflections on Scholarly Collecting

Event date: 
Friday 11 November 2016 to Saturday 12 November 2016
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
50 George Square Project Room

Friday 11th November 2016, 1-2pm, 50 George Square Project Room

Dr William Zachs, Honorary Fellow, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh

'The Bibliomaniac’s Progress - Reflections on Scholarly Collecting'.

Louise Gardiner, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Research Collections, University of  Edinburgh ‘Royal Correspondence in late 14th Century England : Exploring the ‘Royal Letter Book (Edinburgh University Library MS 183)’

Event date: 
Friday 14 October 2016 to Saturday 15 October 2016
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
50 George Square Project Room

Centre for the History of the Book http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/chb

Edinburgh Book History Seminar Series Autumn 2016

 

Friday 14th October 2016, 1-2pm, 50 George Square Project Room

 

Louise Gardiner, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Research Collections, University of  Edinburgh

 

‘Royal Correspondence in late 14th Century England : Exploring the ‘Royal Letter Book (Edinburgh University Library MS 183)’

 

One day event - Academic freedom: "national security" threats in Turkey, India and the UK

Event date: 
Thursday 27 October 2016
Location: 
TechCube 0 Summerhall 1 Summerhall Place Edinburgh

Academic freedom: "national security" threats in Turkey, India and the UK

Speakers include: Prof. Nandini Sundar (Delhi School of Economics), Dr. Papia Sengupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Dr. Cetin Gürer (formerly at Nişantaşı University, currently Bremen University), Dr. Tuna Kuyucu (Boğaziçi University), Dr. Martin Mills (University of Aberdeen), Dr. Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh), Ulrike Flader (DEMOS Research Centre for Peace, Democracy and Alternative Politics, Turkey)

Featured Fellow: Dr Michael Wood

September 29, 2016

Dr Michael Wood was the Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellow from September 2015 to June 2016. He is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, with a project entitled: ‘Embracing “a new mode of culture”: Walter Scott and the German Dramatists’. He teaches German language and literature, translation, and theatre and performance studies.

Dr Benjamin Pickford (University of Nottingham, IASH Postdoctoral Fellow): Capital in American Poetics: Late Nineteenth-Century Literary Theory as Economic Thinking 

Event date: 
Wednesday 25 January 2017 to Thursday 26 January 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square, EH8 9NW

Dr Benjamin Pickford (University of Nottingham, IASH Postdoctoral Fellow): Capital in American Poetics: Late Nineteenth-Century Literary Theory as Economic Thinking