October 2016

Professor Martin Willis (Cardiff University): Medical tourism in Victorian Edinburgh

Event date: 
Wednesday 7 December 2016 to Thursday 8 December 2016
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh

Professor Martin Willis (Cardiff University): Medical tourism in Victorian Edinburgh

Wednesdays at 16.00 unless otherwise stated Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh More Information https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/history-events

[History of Medicine Group]

The Rt Hon Lord Sumption, Justice of the Supreme Court: Interpreting Contracts: A Question of Taste

Event date: 
Friday 28 October 2016 to Saturday 29 October 2016
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
he Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge

28th October 2016

‘Interpreting Contracts: A Question of Taste’ The William Miller Lecture Commercial Law Annual Lecture - Presented by The Rt Hon Lord Sumption, Justice of the Supreme Court

This seminar is free but registration through EVENTBRITE is necessary to attend.   

Venue: The Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL

Times: 6.00pm to 7.30pm

Professor Mark Freedland: The Contract of Employment, and the Paradoxes of Precarity

Event date: 
Wednesday 19 October 2016
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
The Playfair Library, Old College

19th October 2016

‘The Contract of Employment, and the Paradoxes of Precarity’ - Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law

Professor Mark Freedland QC FBA will be speaking on ‘The Contract of Employment, and the Paradoxes of Precarity’. The seminar will be followed by a short drinks reception. 

This seminar is free but registration through EVENTBRITE is necessary to attend.  

Venue: The Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL

Times: 5.30pm to 7.00pm

Dr. Merete Wiberg (Danish School of Education): The normative striving in learning

Event date: 
Thursday 20 October 2016
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Paterson’s Land, Room 1.21

Dr. Merete Wiberg, Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education

Danish School of Education

Aarhus University Denmark

 

Talk Title: “The normative striving in learning”

 

Date and Time: Thursday, October 20th, 16:30-18:00

Where:

University of Edinburgh

Moray House School of Education,

Room: Paterson’s Land, Room 1.21

Dr Malathi de Alwis (International Center for Ethnic Studies, Colombo) ‘Trance/Trans Gendered Incorporations among Pattini-Kannaki Devotees in Sri Lanka

Event date: 
Thursday 17 November 2016 to Friday 18 November 2016
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
6th floor Staff Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building

Dr Malathi de Alwis (International Center for Ethnic Studies, Colombo) ‘Trance/Trans Gendered Incorporations among Pattini-Kannaki Devotees in Sri Lanka.  ********  Please note: This is a Thursday. The seminar takes place at 4pm in the 6th floor Staff Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square and is jointly organized with the Centre for South Asian Studies.

Panel Discussion: ‘What makes us whole?

Event date: 
Wednesday 26 October 2016 to Thursday 27 October 2016
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Althaus-Reid Room (formerly 1.07)

Panel Discussion: ‘What makes us whole? – A multi-faith and belief panel organized by the University Chaplaincy MARTIN HALL

 

Religious Studies

Wednesdays, 4-5.30pm