September 2016

Dr Papia Sengupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University, IASH Fellow): Violence and Ethnic Conflict in Northeast India: Need for Effective Multilevel Federal Governance-A study of Bodoland

Event date: 
Wednesday 30 November 2016 to Thursday 1 December 2016
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Event date: 

November 30, 2016

Time: 

13:00

Location: 

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

 

Dr Papia Sengupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University, IASH Fellow): Violence and Ethnic Conflict in Northeast India: Need for Effective Multilevel Federal Governance-A study of Bodoland

Dr Sarah Daw (exeter, Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellow, IASH): Ecology, Physics and Philosophy: Nature in Twentieth Century American Literature and Science Writing

Event date: 
Wednesday 14 June 2017 to Thursday 15 June 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Dr Sarah Daw (Exeter, Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellow, IASH): Ecology, Physics and Philosophy: Nature in Twentieth Century American Literature and Science Writing

Dr Avishek Ray: Literarizing Tourism: On the Aestheticsizing Gaze.

Event date: 
Thursday 24 November 2016 to Friday 25 November 2016
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Dr Avishek Ray (National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India, Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow, IASH): Literarizing Tourism: On the Aestheticsizing Gaze.

Professor Fernando Wilson; Rediscovering the Antarctic epic feat of Shackleton and Pardo

Event date: 
Monday 3 October 2016 to Tuesday 4 October 2016
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Lecture Theatre 3 Appleton Tower 

Rediscovering the Antarctic epic feat of Shackleton and Pardo by Chilean Professor Fernando Wilson (PhD)

Monday 3rd October 4-­‐7pm Lecture Theatre 3 Appleton Tower

On the centenary of the rescue of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s crew an expert on Chilean Navy history will explore in depth the successful operation led by Captain Luis Pardo

Organised by the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies, University of Edinburgh and the Embassy of Chile in the United Kingdom

Drinks Reception will follow the event

Archaeology Department Fieldwork Roundup A summary of the excavations conducted by the Archaeology Department in summer 2016

Event date: 
Thursday 10 November 2016 to Friday 11 November 2016
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Archaeology Seminars 2016-17

Thursdays, at 6 pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Sessions will be followed by an informal gathering in a local pub.

 

For questions/info please contact this year’s organisers, Catherine Shupe, Graeme Erskine, Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz  and Dr Guillaume Robin

 

Gabriela Ingle (University of Edinburgh) Foreigners in Rome: evidence for Constantine I’s military troops from the Rheine region, and their local funerary customs in the city of Rome

Event date: 
Thursday 3 November 2016 to Friday 4 November 2016
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Archaeology Seminars 2016-17

Thursdays, at 6 pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Sessions will be followed by an informal gathering in a local pub.

 

For questions/info please contact this year’s organisers, Catherine Shupe, Graeme Erskine, Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz  and Dr Guillaume Robin

 

Sarah Roe (University of Cambridge) The Courtyard: towards an understanding of its role in the spatial organisation of Sicilian domestic architecture

Event date: 
Thursday 27 October 2016 to Friday 28 October 2016
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Archaeology Seminars 2016-17

Thursdays, at 6 pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Sessions will be followed by an informal gathering in a local pub.

 

For questions/info please contact this year’s organisers, Catherine Shupe, Graeme Erskine, Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz  and Dr Guillaume Robin

 

Jamie Barnes (University of Glasgow) Hammerhead Crosses of the Viking Age

Event date: 
Thursday 20 October 2016 to Friday 21 October 2016
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeolog

Archaeology Seminars 2016-17

Thursdays, at 6 pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, School of History, Classics and Archaeology.
Sessions will be followed by an informal gathering in a local pub.

 

For questions/info please contact this year’s organisers, Catherine Shupe, Graeme Erskine, Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz  and Dr Guillaume Robin