September 2016

Professor Kathryn Tanner: Total Commitment

Event date: 
Thursday 5 May 2016
Location: 
The Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place

Kathryn Tanner is the current Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale University. Her research relates the history of Christian thought to contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural, and feminist theory.

 

The title of her lecture series is, “Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism”. There will be a drinks reception after the first and the last lecture (Monday 2 and Thursday 12 May 2016).

 

Pierre Brunel : CANCELLED

Event date: 
Thursday 5 May 2016
Location: 
1.06 Project Room, 50 George Square

Pierre Brunel : Histoire, évolution et rôle de la littérature comparėe

CANCELLED

Dagmar Alexander: Echoes of Silence: Writing into Reverberations of Trauma

Event date: 
Thursday 5 May 2016
Location: 
Room 4.1, doorway 6, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

 

 

Dagmar Alexander: Echoes of Silence: Writing into Reverberations of Trauma

When: May 5th 2016

An accidental discovery of a photographic image provides the starting point for my presentation, through which embodied knowledge is unfolded into insecure and uncertain registers of intergenerational reverberations of trauma. Fleeting evocations of silence align themselves with fragmented slivers of memory, with creative narratives that speak as much to absence as to marginalia. A ghostly presence prevails...

Keri Ataumbi and Henrietta Lidchi: Spotlight On: Native American Jewellery

Event date: 
Thursday 5 May 2016 to Friday 6 May 2016
Location: 
National Museum of Scotland

Spotlight On: Native American Jewellery

Thurs 5 May 2016
14:00 – 15:00 (doors open 13:45), free but ticketed

Auditorium, Level 1, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1 JF

Book tickets in person at the museum, call 0300 123 6789 or book online at

http://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/whats-on/spotlight-on-native-american-jewellery/

Professor Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg / IASH-SSPS Visiting Research Fellow): Contested Norms in Inter-national Encounters: The ‘Turbot War’ as a Prelude to Fairer Fisheries Governance

Event date: 
Thursday 5 May 2016 to Friday 6 May 2016
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Professor Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg / IASH-SSPS Visiting Research Fellow):

Contested Norms in Inter-national Encounters: The ‘Turbot War’ as a Prelude to Fairer Fisheries Governance

Professor Glenda Norquay (Liverpool John Moores University, IASH Fellow): Mr Bangs, Mr Baxter and Robert Louis Stevenson: literary prosthetics and transatlantic publishing in the 1890s

Event date: 
Wednesday 4 May 2016 to Thursday 5 May 2016
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Professor Glenda Norquay (Liverpool John Moores University, IASH Fellow): Mr Bangs, Mr Baxter and Robert Louis Stevenson: literary prosthetics and transatlantic publishing in the 1890s

Professor Kathryn Tanner: Chained to the Past

Event date: 
Tuesday 3 May 2016
Location: 
George Square Theatre, George Square

Kathryn Tanner is the current Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale University. Her research relates the history of Christian thought to contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural, and feminist theory.

The title of her lecture series is, “Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism”.