March 2017

Gifford Lecture Series. Professor Jeffrey Stout (Princeton): Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King

Event date: 
Monday 1 May 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS

Gifford Lecture Series. Professor Jeffrey Stout (Princeton): Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King

Lecture 1 - Religion since Cicero    

Monday 1 May 2017, 5.30 - 6.30pm    Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS

Details of full series and booking information

 

 

Dr Anna McSweeney (SOAS & Warburg Institute, UCL): Object Biographies: a carved and painted ceiling from the Alhambra Palace.

Event date: 
Thursday 23 March 2017
Time: 
17:15
Location: 
Hunter Lecture Theatre, The Hunter Building, ECA

History of Art Research Seminar is on Thursday, 23 March (5.15 pm in the Hunter Lecture Theatre, The Hunter Building, ECA). 

 

Dr Anna McSweeney (SOAS & Warburg Institute, UCL) will be speaking on Object Biographies: a carved and painted ceiling from the Alhambra Palace.

 

Abstract: 

Featured Fellow: Dr Samantha Walton

dr sam walton

Dr Samantha Walton was Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellow at IASH from June to August 2016, with the project ‘Ecology and Mind in the work of Nan Shepherd.’ She is Senior Lecturer in English Literature: Writing and Environment at Bath Spa University and is currently an AHRC ECR Leadership Fellow on the project Cultures of Nature and Wellbeing: Connecting Health and the Environment through Literature.

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CAS Annual Conference - Law and Social Order in Africa: Three theoretical round tables on the concepts that lie at the heart of our theme

Event date: 
Monday 3 April 2017
Location: 
Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square

CAS Annual Conference - Law and Social Order in Africa

Title

CAS Annual Conference - Law and Social Order in Africa : Three theoretical round tables on the concepts that lie at the heart of our theme

Date and Time

3rd Apr 2017 09:00 - 4th Apr 2017 17:00

Location

Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square

Dr. Rijk van Dijk, University of Leiden Exploring Event-ethics in Weddings in Botswana; an ethnography of elasticity?

Event date: 
Wednesday 22 March 2017 to Thursday 23 March 2017
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Ground floor, CMB, 15a George Square

Centre of African Studies Seminar Series 2017
Wednesday 22nd March 2017 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Ground floor, CMB, 15a George Square
Dr. Rijk van Dijk, University of Leiden Exploring Event-ethics in Weddings in Botswana; an ethnography of elasticity?