Wednesday, 1 March 2017, 5.15pm, Room 3.03, 50 George Square.
Susanna Niskanen (University of Dundee): Kalevala and the Old English Elegies: Revisions in the Nineteenth Century.
[Centre for Nordic Research seminar series]
Monday, 27 February 2017, 6.15pm, Room G.04, 50 George Square.
In Conversation with Vigdis Hjorth: Scottish launch of A House in Norway and Reception.
[Centre for Nordic Research seminar series]
Philosophy of Peace: Thinking through Laozi’s Daodejing
Dr Ellen Zhang, Hong Kong Baptist University
This talk is organised by the School of Divinity’s Project on Religion and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace with the support of the Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh. It will take place in Martin Hall, New College, University of Edinburgh, EH1 2LU from 4pm-5.30pm on Tuesday 28 February 17. No booking is required.
As part of an ongoing effort to enhance diversity in the Wikipedia community, we are organising a Wikipedia Editathon at the the University of Edinburgh Festival of Creative Learning. Women across the University who work on themes related to Gender, Global Health and Justice (or a combination of any of those themes), are warmly invited to join us on Tuesday 21 February from 10.30-16.30 (lunch provided).
All day, Monday 20 February
Design for well-being: modelling villages for 21st century.
Scotland and France after 1815
A workshop on literature and history
24 March 2.00-5.00 IASH seminar room, Hope Park Square
Keynote: Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney)
‘Rethinking the international history of the early 19th century, after the Cultural Turn’
Bob Irvine (Edinburgh)'Scott and the Law in 1815'
Olivia Ferguson (Edinburgh) ‘King of the Bean: Saturnalia in Graphic Satires on the Congress of Vienna’
Gordon Pentland (Edinburgh) ‘Conspiracy and
Politics in Great Britain, 1815-1820’
To mark the 50th anniversary of Tanzania's Arusha Declaration in February 1967, the Centre of African Studies and the Global and Transnational History Research Group at the University of Edinburgh are hosting a one-day workshop on the theme ‘The Arusha Declaration @50’ on Friday 24 February 2017.
Patricia White, UCL Institute of Education
Honorary Senior Research Associate
Title: "Ethical Complexities of Classroom and Professional Life: the case of gossip"
Date and Time: Thursday, March 2, 16:30 - 18:00
Where:
University of Edinburgh
Moray House School of Education,
Room: Paterson's Land - 1.21
MESH (Mapping Edinburgh’s Social History): What we’ve done and how we contribute to the future of the past and to contemporary urban agendas
Date and Time: 1 March, 2017, 1.00-1.30
Meadows Lecture Theatre: Teviot Place (Old Medical School) doorway 4.
5 Apr, 5pm
Godfrey Thomson Hall
Andrea Young, Strasbourg Challenging the monolingual habitus in the French preschool through the legitimisation of home languages as essential cognitive tools
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group