January 2017

Paul Leworthy: Making space for memory in Die Blechtrommel by Günter Grass

Event date: 
Wednesday 25 January 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Appleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 2

When: 5.30pm, Wednesday 25th January 2017 


Where: G.02, 19 George Square Appleton Tower, Lecture Theatre 2

(note change of venue)

Paper: Making space for memory in Die Blechtrommel by Günter Grass

Presenter: Paul Leworthy 

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We're pleased to announce details of next week’s LLC Work in Progress Seminar (Wednesday 25th January 2017).

 

Maurizio Bellacosa (Professor of Criminal Law, European Criminal Law and Environmental Criminal Law at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome): The Criminal Law Protection of the Financial Interests of the EU: a Post-Brexit Scenario

Event date: 
Tuesday 31 January 2017 to Wednesday 1 February 2017
Time: 
15:00
Location: 
Room 01M.473 Teaching Room 13 - Doorway 3 Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh University Edinburgh, EH8 9AG.

Tuesday, 31st January 

3-5 pm, Room 01M.473 Teaching Room 13 - Doorway 3 Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh University Edinburgh, EH8 9AG.
Maurizio Bellacosa (Professor of Criminal Law, European Criminal Law and Environmental Criminal Law at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome): The Criminal Law Protection of the Financial Interests of the EU: a Post-Brexit Scenario.
[Italian Cultural Institute, University of Edinburgh and LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome]

 

Professor Melinda Gann Hall (Michigan State University / IASH Fellow): Decision Making in Scotland’s High Court of Justiciary.

Event date: 
Wednesday 28 June 2017 to Thursday 29 June 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

1pm, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Professor Melinda Gann Hall (Michigan State University / IASH Fellow): Decision Making in Scotland’s High Court of Justiciary.

[IASH Work in Progress talk]

Professor Steve Fuller (University of Warwick): "Living in a Post-Truth World: The Problematic Status of Expertise in Advanced Democracies"

Event date: 
Thursday 26 January 2017 to Friday 27 January 2017
Time: 
11:00
Location: 
Common Room 6th floor CMB

Professor Steve Fuller (University of Warwick): Living in a Post-Truth World: The Problematic Status of Expertise in Advanced Democracies.

11:00-12:00, Thursday 26th January (Please note that, on this occasion, the seminar is on a Thursday rather than the usual Wednesday).

Common Room 6th floor CMB

 

To be followed by lunch and an informal discussion with postgrads, undergraduates, and staff.

 

Charlotte Bassett (University of Edinburgh): Lady Margaret Hamilton: Patroness of Hopetoun; Amy Boyington (University of Cambridge): Elite wives and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain.

Event date: 
Wednesday 26 April 2017
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

 

Wednesday 26th April

4.30pm, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Charlotte Bassett (University of Edinburgh): Lady Margaret Hamilton: Patroness of Hopetoun; Amy Boyington (University of Cambridge): Elite wives and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain.

[18th Century Research Seminars]

Hannah Lund (University of Edinburgh): Enthroned: The Sitter’s Chair of Sir Joshua Reynolds 1760-1879; Suchitra Choudhury (University of Glasgow): Fashion and Textiles: A Postcolonial Reading of Sir Walter Scott.

Event date: 
Wednesday 12 April 2017
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Wednesday 12th April

4.30pm, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Hannah Lund (University of Edinburgh): Enthroned: The Sitter’s Chair of Sir Joshua Reynolds 1760-1879; Suchitra Choudhury (University of Glasgow): Fashion and Textiles: A Postcolonial Reading of Sir Walter Scott.

[18th Century Research Seminars]

Catherine Ellis (Durham University): How to understand the sex worker at the table: gastrocritical approaches to eighteenth-century French prostitution; Jessica Hamel-Akré (University of Montreal): “Oh, when shall I be holy?”: Reading and Writing Women’s

Event date: 
Wednesday 22 March 2017
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Wednesday 22nd March

4.30pm, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Catherine Ellis (Durham University): How to understand the sex worker at the table: gastrocritical approaches to eighteenth-century French prostitution; Jessica Hamel-Akré (University of Montreal): “Oh, when shall I be holy?”: Reading and Writing Women’s Eighteenth-Century Self-Starvation.

 [18th Century Research Seminars]

William Swain (University of Edinburgh): Adam Ferguson, Freidrich von Gentz, and the decline of the Martial Spirit; John Stone (Universitat de Barcelona): The Cultural Work of the Royal Scots College (Valladolid), 1770-1808: Cosmopolitanism, Diaspora, the

Event date: 
Wednesday 15 March 2017
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Wednesday 15th March

4.30pm, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

William Swain (University of Edinburgh): Adam Ferguson, Freidrich von Gentz, and the decline of the Martial Spirit; John Stone (Universitat de Barcelona): The Cultural Work of the Royal Scots College (Valladolid), 1770-1808: Cosmopolitanism, Diaspora, the ‘National Feeling’ and Library Formation.

 [18th Century Research Seminars]

Elizabeth Ford (University of Glasgow): '“I can think of nothing but that flute”: General John Reid (1721-1807); Alice Little (University of Oxford): Categorising ‘national music’ in eighteenth-century Oxford.

Event date: 
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Wednesday 1st March

4.30pm, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Elizabeth Ford (University of Glasgow): '“I can think of nothing but that flute”: General John Reid (1721-1807); Alice Little (University of Oxford): Categorising ‘national music’ in eighteenth-century Oxford.

 [18th Century Research Seminars]