December 2016

Introduction: Professor Steve Yearley

Steven Yearley

Steve Yearley has been at the University of Edinburgh for nearly 12 years. He was appointed in the Sociology subject area as the Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, then was seconded to run the ESRC Genomics Policy & Research Forum which was located within the College, and since 2013 has been a member of the STIS (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies) subject area.

Interfaith Relations. Keynote Speaker: Professor Mona Siddiqui OBE. CANCELLED

Event date: 
Wednesday 18 January 2017 to Thursday 19 January 2017
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
New College

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Dr Joshua Ralston:Bearing True Witness: Challenging Mutual Misunderstandings in Christian-Muslim Encounters

Dr Leah Robinson: The Use of Peace-building Skills in Interfaith Practices

Dr George Wilkes: Interfaith Peacebuilding, Social responsibility

Booking and details

The event will start at 12 pm with lunch, and conclude around 5pm with a wine reception.

Dr Sumathy Sivamohan (University of Peradeniya): Untelling the truth: troubled narratives of war in Sri Lanka

Event date: 
Thursday 26 January 2017 to Friday 27 January 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Dr Sumathy Sivamohan (University of Peradeniya) is an academic, filmmaker, poet, translator, actress and activist. Originally from Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, she is now Professor of English at the University of Peradeniya.

SEMINAR TOPIC:   Untelling the truth: troubled narratives of war in Sri Lanka

Dr Sumathy Sivamohan

Nominated Fellow January 2017

Home Institution - University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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Biography: Dr Sivamohan is an academic, filmmaker, poet, translator, actress and activist. Originally from Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, she is now Professor of English at the University of Peradeniya.

Naomi Stewart on Dora Maar and the Photographic Conditions of Surrealism

Event date: 
Wednesday 14 December 2016
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
G.02, 19 George Square

Last LLC Work in Progress Seminar of 2016 - Naomi Stewart on Dora Maar and the Photographic Conditions of Surrealism

 

We're pleased to announce details of the last LLC Work in Progress Seminar of the year. It will take place on Wednesday 14th December 2016

We will be welcoming guest speaker Naomi Stewart, a History of Art PhD student at the ECA. 

Naomi will be presenting her paper 'A Surreal Mascot? Testing the Photographic Conditions of Surrealism in Dora Maar’s "Portrait d’Ubu".'

Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne): ‘Edward Long’s vision of Jamaica, the lessons of St Domingue, and the virtues of a planned society in the History of Jamaica’

Event date: 
Wednesday 14 December 2016 to Thursday 15 December 2016
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Seminar room 4, Chrystal MacMillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh, EH8 9LD

5pm, Seminar Room 4, Chrystal MacMillan Building.
Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne): Edward Long’s vision of Jamaica, the lessons of St Domingue, and the virtues of a planned society in the History of Jamaica.
[The Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies]

Professor Brian Rappert (Exeter University): Absences and the Display of Secreted Pasts: Representing South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Programme

Event date: 
Thursday 15 December 2016 to Friday 16 December 2016
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Chrystal Macmillan Building, 6th Floor Staff Room

 

Professor Brian Rappert (Exeter University): Absences and the Display of Secreted Pasts: Representing South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Programme

15 December, 4pm

Chrystal Macmillan Building, 6th Floor Staff Room