January 2017

Grant Collie (Massey University, New Zealand): Emigrant Scottish Miners in the NZ Tunnelling Company: 1915-1919.

Event date: 
Tuesday 4 April 2017 to Wednesday 5 April 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16, William Robertson Wing

4 April:  
1pm, G16, William Robertson Wing, School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School).
Grant Collie (Massey University, New Zealand): Emigrant Scottish Miners in the NZ Tunnelling Company: 1915-1919.
Grant Collie tells the story  of 62 Scottish members of the New Zealand Tunnelling Company who emigrated to New Zealand in  1880-1914.  Previously many had worked as miners in the Central Belt of Scotland. But who were they?  And what were the reasons for their emigration?
[Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop]
 

Catriona Ellis  (University of Edinburgh): Toys and the Movement of Peoples: What The Museum of Childhood’s Collections Tell Us About Material Culture and Childhood.

Event date: 
Tuesday 14 March 2017 to Wednesday 15 March 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16, William Robertson Wing

14 March: 
1pm, G16, William Robertson Wing, School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School).
Catriona Ellis  (University of Edinburgh): Toys and the Movement of Peoples: What The Museum of Childhood’s Collections Tell Us About Material Culture and Childhood.
What do toys tell us about the movement of peoples? Toys reflect the interests of adults in collecting, rather than children in playing.  Toys are used to represent an ‘exotic’ life.
[Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop]
 

Maria Alonso  (Universidade de Vigo, Spain): Crisis, Migration and Precariousness: The New Galician Diaspora as a Case Study.

Event date: 
Tuesday 28 February 2017 to Wednesday 1 March 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16, William Robertson Wing

28 February:  
1pm, G16, William Robertson Wing, School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School).
Maria Alonso  (Universidade de Vigo, Spain): Crisis, Migration and Precariousness: The New Galician Diaspora as a Case Study.
This paper explores how the economic crisis that has devastated Spain in the last ten years has affected a whole generation of highly qualified young professionals who are now earning their living abroad, specifically in Scotland and the rest of the UK.
[Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop]
 

Maria Athanassiou ( University of Newcastle): Diasporic Elements and Soft Power in the Modern Greek Poetry set to Music.

Event date: 
Tuesday 7 February 2017 to Wednesday 8 February 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16, William Robertson Wing

7 February : 
1pm, G16, William Robertson Wing, School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School).
Maria Athanassiou ( University of Newcastle): Diasporic Elements and Soft Power in the Modern Greek Poetry set to Music.
Modern Greek poetry set to music through the spectrum of cultural diplomacy.  The paper assesses diasporic perspectives on cross- and intercultural grounds with reference to poetry, its translation and interpretation in other languages.
[Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop]
 

Jennifer McCoy  (Federation University, Australia): Emigration: Scotland to Australia 1840 – 1870. Was the Effort Really Worthwhile?

Event date: 
Thursday 12 January 2017 to Friday 13 January 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16, William Robertson Wing

12 January:  

1pm, G16, William Robertson Wing, School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School).

Jennifer McCoy  (Federation University, Australia): Emigration: Scotland to Australia 1840 – 1870. Was the Effort Really Worthwhile?

Jennifer McCoy considers the contribution of  working class Scottish immigrants  to the development of far eastern high country Victoria in the mid-to-late 19th Century :  a social history of regional development based on family micro history.

[Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop]

Mr Hoon Song (University of Edinburgh) ‘Theological Approaches of South Korean Liberal Churches Towards the Unification of Korea: Can Minjung and Minjok Discourses of Liberal Churches Promote Unification of Korea in the 21st Century?’

Event date: 
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Time: 
16:10
Location: 
Althaus-Reid Room.

28 Mar 
4:10pm to 5:30pm, Althaus-Reid Room.
Mr Hoon Song (University of Edinburgh)
‘Theological Approaches of South Korean Liberal Churches Towards the Unification of
Korea: Can Minjung and Minjok Discourses of Liberal Churches Promote Unification of
Korea in the 21st Century?’
[Centre for the Study of World Christianity]
www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk
@CSWCEdinburgh

 

Dr Julie Taylor (SIL International) ‘Social Change within the Ethiopian Evangelical Worship Scene: What Place for Local Theologies in the Mezmur-Zefen Debate?’

Event date: 
Tuesday 21 March 2017
Time: 
16:10
Location: 
Althaus-Reid Room.

21 Mar 
4:10pm to 5:30pm, Althaus-Reid Room.
Dr Julie Taylor (SIL International)
‘Social Change within the Ethiopian Evangelical Worship Scene: What Place for Local
Theologies in the Mezmur-Zefen Debate?’
[Centre for the Study of World Christianity]
www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk
@CSWCEdinburgh