October 2016

Professor Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia (Pennsylvania State University): ‘Goddesses of the Seas': A Comparative Study of the Virgin Mary and Mazu as Protectors of Seamen in the Early Modern World

Event date:

Monday 24 October 2016 to Tuesday 25 October 2016

Time:

17:00

MONDAY 24 OCTOBER

5.00 pm, Martin Hall, New College, Mound Place: Professor Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia (Pennsylvania State University): ‘Goddesses of the Seas': A Comparative Study of the Virgin Mary and Mazu as Protectors of Seamen in the Early Modern World [Gunning Lecture in the School of Divinity]

David Coady (University of Tasmania) 'Personal Responsibility and Climate Change'

Event date:

Wednesday 9 November 2016 to Thursday 10 November 2016

Time:

16:00

Location:

2.05, Geography Building

David Coady (University of Tasmania)

'Personal Responsibility and Climate Change'

Wednesday November 9th, 4-6pm, 2.05 (Geography Building) (MSc Environment, Culture and Society lecture)

Film screening and Panel Discussion: THE LAST STORYTELLER (2002)

Event date:

Friday 17 February 2017 to Saturday 18 February 2017

Time:

13:00

Location:

G.03, 50 George Square

THE LAST STORYTELLER (2002) Written and Directed by Desmond Bell (52 min)

Synopsis : An imaginative look at the tradition of folk lore collection in Ireland in which film maker, IASH Fellow Des Bell draws upon the magic of silent cinema to retell some of the uncanny tales collected by Sean O Eochaidh for the Irish Folk Lore Commission.

There will be a panel discussion after the screening.

Dr Luc Turgeon (University of Ottawa, IASH-SSPS Fellow): A Tale of Two Liberalisms? Attitudes toward Religious Minority Symbols in Quebec and the Rest of Canada

Event date:

Tuesday 15 November 2016 to Wednesday 16 November 2016

Time:

13:00

Location:

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Hope Park Square

Dr Luc Turgeon (University of Ottawa, IASH-SSPS Fellow): A Tale of Two Liberalisms? Attitudes toward Religious Minority Symbols in Quebec and the Rest of Canada

[Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Work in Progress talk]

Clare Button (University of Edinburgh); ‘Building up a great research institute’: James Cossar Ewart and the birth of animal genetics in Edinburgh, 1890-1919

Event date:

Thursday 20 October 2016 to Friday 21 October 2016

Time:

16:00

Location:

Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall

PG Student Seminar
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/research_students/seminar

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‘Building up a great research institute’: James Cossar Ewart and the birth of animal genetics in Edinburgh, 1890-1919

Clare Button (University of Edinburgh)

Postgraduate Diasporic Trajectories seminar

Event date:

Friday 25 November 2016 to Saturday 26 November 2016

Time:

14:00

Location:

IASH Hope Park Square

Postgraduate Diasporic Trajectories seminar

Justine Seran (University of Edinburgh), “Home Reimagined: the Indigenous Australian Diaspora”

Alice Kelly (University of Edinburgh): “The Problem of Longitude’: Unplottable Subjects and the Erosion of European Diaspora in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction”

Sarah Stewart (University of Edinburgh): “Shelter at the Border: Writing Back from the State of Exception”