Professor Steve Murdoch (St Andrews) ‘Medic!’ 17thc Scottish Physicians and Field Surgeons in Scandinavia
Wednesday 2 March, 1715
Claire Nance (Lancaster University)
‘Accent aim and phonetic variation in new Gaelic speakers’
Room G.05, 50 George Square [Soillse seminar series]
Easter, 1916: From History to Myth and Memory Wednesday 2 March 2016 17.15 Fearghal McGarry, Queen’s University Belfast This lecture is free but ticketed. Register at the following link: http://easter1916.eventbrite.co.uk Lecture Theatre 183, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh Join us for a fascinating talk on the Easter Rising of 1916 with leading historian Fearghal McGarry, author of Rebels, The Rising. Ireland: Easter 1916 and The Abbey Rebels of 1916.
Jade Jørgen Sanstead / Ruairidh Tarvet, University of Edinburgh
Linguistics Seminar
Anthony Birley (Durham University – Newcastle University): Selected correspondents of Ronald Syme
1927-1939
Julie McAdam, University of Glasgow, UK - Mirrors, windows and doors: Extending the potential of picture books
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
Mr Michael Crumplin (Royal College of Surgeons of England): The Bloody Fields of Waterloo: Medical Support for Wellington’s Greatest Victory
Dr Sabrina Yu (Newcastle University): Going Back to the Hometown: A New Root-searching Movement in Contemporary Chinese Independent Cinema
venue tbc
Dr Dorothy Butchard (IASH Fellow): Contact, Control and "Absent Presence" in Transatlantic Literature
Abstract:
Gavin D’Costa: Roman Catholic–Buddhist dual belonging: imagining the impossible?