Date and time: Thursday 14 April, 5.30pm-7pm
Roger Bacon: Making Sense with Nonsense: Psychoanalysing the Talking Cure...
When: April 14th 2016*
RSE Susan Manning Workshop.
Programme:
14.00 Registration
14.15 Welcome
Panel 1: Literary and Musical Traditions
14.30 Ralph McLean: ‘Literary Symbols: Language and style in the 1707 Union debates’
14.55 Vivien Williams: 'From bagpipe to fiddle, flute, piano, and poetry: piobaireachd experiments'
15.20 Discussion
Panel 2: Nostalgia and Progress
Professor Douglas Cairns 'Language, literature and history in the study of emotion practice' More information: http://www.worldaswefeelit.hss.ed.ac.uk/
LLC Work in Progress Seminar
Wednesday 13 April 2016
17:30-18:30
Room 2.39, 50 George Square
Our final LLC Work in Progress Seminar of the semester will take place this Wednesday the 13th, when IMES PhD candidate Aurangzeb Haneef will present his paper "Sufyān al-Thawrī and the Early Qur'anic Exegesis: A Historical and Textual Study".
Since it's the end of the semester, the presentation and discussion will be followed by an informal reception including wine, non-alcoholic beverages (including our customary tea), and nibbles!
Date and time: Wednesday 13 April, 5.30pm-7pm
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
Dr Emma Spary (University of Cambridge): Knowing and Selling Exotic Drugs in Paris c.1700
Dr Ben Nichols (IASH Fellow): Work in Progress talk. Quality Control: Literary Aesthetics and Lesbian & Gay Liberation
Date and time: Tuesday 12 April, 5.30pm-7pm
Seminar Title: First Results from The New Horizons Encounter at Pluto
Speaker: Ivan Linscott
Location: JCMB, Lecture Theatre A
Time: Tuesday, 12th April 2016, 5.15pm