October 2016

Tom Flint (Edinburgh Napier University):  Appropriation, Affordance and Minecraft:  What the methods people use to navigate Minecraft tell us about approaches to technology use

Event date: 
Thursday 24 November 2016 to Friday 25 November 2016
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
1.26, Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education

THURSDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER, 2016

 

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

Tom Flint (Edinburgh Napier University):  Appropriation, Affordance and Minecraft:  What the methods people use to navigate Minecraft tell us about approaches to technology use

[Centre for Research in Digital Education]

James Lamb (Edinburgh University):  Wondering about the city:  Making Meaning in Edinburgh’s Old Town

Event date: 
Friday 18 November 2016 to Saturday 19 November 2016
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Walking Workshop  -  leaving from the entrance to St John’s Land, Moray House School of Education

Centre for Research in Digital Education

 

FRIDAY, 18th NOVEMBER, 2016

 

12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Walking Workshop  -  leaving from the entrance to St John’s Land, Moray House School of Education

James Lamb (Edinburgh University):  Wondering about the city:  Making Meaning in Edinburgh’s Old Town

[Centre for Research in Digital Education]

Dylan Yamada-Rice (Sheffield University):  Designing Play:  Young children’s play and communication practices in relation to designers’ intentions for their toy

Event date: 
Thursday 27 October 2016 to Friday 28 October 2016
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Room G1, 55 George Square

12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Room G1, 55 George Square, University of Edinburgh

Dylan Yamada-Rice (Dubit):  Designing Play:  Young children's play and communication practices in relation to designers’ intentions for their toy

[Centre for Research in Digital Education]

David Williamson Shaffer (University of Wisconsin):  Quantitative Ethnography

Event date: 
Friday 14 October 2016 to Saturday 15 October 2016
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
1.26, Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education

Centre for Research in Digital Education

 

 

 

FRIDAY, 14TH OCTOBER, 2016

 

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

David Williamson Shaffer (University of Wisconsin):  Quantitative Ethnography

[Centre for Research in Digital Education]

Is Islam Exceptional? A Symposium on Shadi Hamid's Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World

Event date: 
Thursday 17 November 2016
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Elizabeth Templeton Room, New College

Is Islam Exceptional? A Symposium on Shadi Hamid's Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World With Dr Shadi Hamid (Brookings Institute), Dr Joshua Ralston, Prof Mona Siddiqui and Dr Thomas Pierret Thursday 17th November, 5.30 - 7 pm,

Elizabeth Templeton Room, New College

Mound Place

Edinburgh

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Prof Jaakko Hameen-Anttila: When East meets West: cultural contacts around the Mediterranean

Event date: 
Wednesday 16 November 2016 to Thursday 17 November 2016
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
50 George Square, G.03

When East meets West: cultural contacts around the Mediterranean Prof Jaakko Hameen-Anttila,  (Inaugural Lecture as Iraq Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies) Wednesday 16th November, 5 - 6.30 pm, 50 George Square, G.03.

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Organiser - School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh

 

Dr Carool Kersten (KCL) – “Is there an Indonesian Islam?”

Event date: 
Wednesday 2 November 2016
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Martin Hall, New College

Dr Carool Kersten (KCL) – “Is there an Indonesian Islam?”

Dr Carool Kersten from King’s College London will present the 2016 “Asian Religions: Boundaries, Connections, Identities” public lecture.

Dr David Warren: Cleansing the Nation from the "Dogs of Hell": Contextualising Islamic scholars' support for the Egyptian coup and its bloody aftermath

Event date: 
Wednesday 12 October 2016 to Thursday 13 October 2016
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building

Dr David Warren: Cleansing the Nation from the "Dogs of Hell": Contextualising Islamic scholars' support for the Egyptian coup and its bloody aftermath

 

The lecture will take place on Wednesday 12th October form 1-2pm in Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building.