October 2016

Asha Sarangi (JNU (New Delhi): Language Rights in an Imagined Nation State: Reflection from the Constituent Assembly Debates in Modern India.

Event date: 
Thursday 13 October 2016
Time: 
16:30

13th Oct Please note different time of 4.30pm instead of 4pm

4pm, 6th Floor, Staff Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square.

Asha Sarangi (JNU (New Delhi): Language Rights in an Imagined Nation State: Reflection from the Constituent Assembly Debates in Modern India.

[Centre for South Asian Studies]

Would you sequence your own genome? 

Event date: 
Saturday 15 October 2016 to Sunday 16 October 2016
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
National Museum of Scotland

CCACE is taking part in a Science Saturday event at the National Museum of Scotland on Saturday 15th October. The event is based on the question "Would you sequence your own genome?". Details are below. CCACE Group Leader, David Porteous, will be leading the debate and CCACE will have a stall in the marketplace.

“Would you sequence your own genome?"  

Academic Freedom Under Attack

Event date: 
Thursday 27 October 2016
Time: 
09:30
Location: 
Summerhall

1)    Academic Freedom Under Attack. 27 October 2016, from 9.30am, Summerhall

Workshop on Dignity

Event date: 
Thursday 6 October 2016 to Friday 7 October 2016
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Project Room, 50 George Square
  1. Workshop on Dignity. 6 October 2016, 1pm-5pm, Project Room, 50 George Square

This workshop is free to attend, open to all, no registration necessary.

The workshop is composed by three presentations dealing primarily with underexplored theoretical debates about human dignity. Papers also relate theoretical discussions with practical matters such as the constraints dignity poses to the use of violence by states and other public actors, and the place of human dignity in legal discourse and case law.

Film Screening: Hidden in Silence

Event date: 
Monday 17 October 2016 to Tuesday 18 October 2016
Time: 
14:00
Location: 
Debating Hall, Teviot Row House

You are invited for the screening of a documentary, ‘Hidden in Silence’, based on Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Scottish Ethnic Minorities. The film is made by film maker, Nauman Qureshi, and researcher, Javita Narang, with a small grant received from Roshni/Big Lottery Scottish Ethnic Minority Fund. The screenings are sponsored by the Innovation Initiative Grant, University of Edinburgh. 

Judith Enriquez-Gibson (Liverpool John Moore’s University):  Rhythms of Academic Mobility

Event date: 
Friday 24 March 2017 to Saturday 25 March 2017
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Room 1.26, Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education

FRIDAY, 24TH MARCH, 2017

 

12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Room 1.26, Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education

Judith Enriquez-Gibson (Liverpool John Moore’s University):  Rhythms of Academic Mobility

[Centre for Research in Digital Education]

Karen Gregory (University of Edinburgh):  The Labour of Digital Scholarship

Event date: 
Thursday 23 February 2017 to Friday 24 February 2017
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Project Room 1.06, 50 George square, University of Edinburgh

THURSDAY, 23RD  FEBRUARY, 2017

 

12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Project Room 1.06, 50 George square, University of Edinburgh

Karen Gregory (University of Edinburgh):  The Labour of Digital Scholarship

[Organised in partnership with College of Arts, Humanities and  Social Sciences digital scholarship programme and the Centre for Research in Digital Education]

Louis Major (University of Cambridge):  Digitalised Dialogues Across The Curriculum (DIDIAC):  Enhancing classroom dialogue by using Talkwall to ‘think together’

Event date: 
Friday 27 January 2017 to Saturday 28 January 2017
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Room 1.26, Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education

 

FRIDAY, 27TH JANUARY, 2017

 

12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Room 1.26, Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education

Louis Major (University of Cambridge):  Digitalised Dialogues Across The Curriculum (DIDIAC):  Enhancing classroom dialogue by using Talkwall to ‘think together’

[Centre for Research in Digital Education]