Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group
22 Mar, 5pm
Godfrey Thomson Hall
Brona Murphy, Farah Akbar, Edinburgh
Newly constructed identities and female converts to Islam
8 Mar, 5pm
Godfrey Thomson Hall
Bernie O'Rourke, Heriot Watt
'New speakers' project
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group spring seminar series. On 22nd February 5pm, in the LG34 Patersons Land, Moray House, The University of Edinburgh, Professor Florences Myles will be presenting The younger the better? A comparison of 5, 7 and 11 year olds learning French in the classroom in the UK
Thursday, 16 February (5.15 pm in the Hunter Lecture Theatre, The Hunter Building, ECA).
Dr Carol Richardson (University of Edinburgh): Art and Gynecology at St. Peter’s in Rome.
All are welcome, and there will be a drinks reception in the John Higgitt Gallery after the talk.
For the full seminar programme of this semester and more information on the speakers, please see the ECA website:
4pm on Friday 3rd March in room G2, IMES, 19 George Square
Jokha Alharthi, "The Evolution of the Love Story in Classical Arabic Literature: Creating a Model"
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Roundtable on ‘Military Chaplaincy and Religious Diversity’, The Martin Hall, New College, 22 February, 2-4pm, followed by refreshments. All welcome.
Speakers will include Dr Torkel Brekke (PRIO, Oslo); Imam Asim Hafiz (Muslim Chaplain to the UK Forces); Professor Jonathan Spencer (Edinburgh); Dr George Wilkes (Edinburgh); and Dr Gorazd Andrejc (Cambridge).
Caryl Phillips, Professor of English, Yale University
“A Sense of Home"
Caryl Phillips is a novelist, critic and academic. He is the author of eight novels, including Crossing the River (1993), winner of the James Tait Black Prize, and Dancing in the Dark (2005), winner of the 2006 Pen/Beyond the Margins Prize. His most recent novel is The Lost Child (2015). He has also written a number of non-fiction works, including A New World Order (2001) and Color Me English (2011).
Roundtable on 'Building understanding across religious and cultural differences: The legacies of Martin Buber’, Senate Room, New College, 4-5.30pm, 21 February.
All welcome. Questions about the event should be addressed to Dr George R. Wilkes, Director of the Project on Religion and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace, at george.wilkes@ed.ac.uk.
Speakers will include:
• George Pattison (Glasgow): Buber’s translator, Ronald Gregor Smith
Tuesday 4 April Ellen Crabtree (University of Newcastle) Madeleine Réberioux: how a French historian opposed colonial conflict, 1946-1969
Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict hosts seminars throughout the academic year, which are open to all.
Seminars are held from 17.00-19.00 in G.16, Old Medical School, Teviot Place Quad, Doorway 4
Tuesday 21 March Jackie Clarke (University of Glasgow) Conflict and Consensus in French Society in the 1970s: the case of Moulinex
Centre for the Study of Modern Conflict hosts seminars throughout the academic year, which are open to all.
Seminars are held from 17.00-19.00 in G.16, Old Medical School, Teviot Place Quad, Doorway 4