March 2017

‘With One Bound We Shall Be Free?’ – European Law After Brexit

Event date: 
Monday 10 April 2017 to Tuesday 11 April 2017
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
G.03, Lecture Theatre, 50 George Square

Monday 10th April 2017 – 18.00 to 19.30 - G.03, Lecture Theatre, 50 George Square

‘With One Bound We Shall Be Free?’ – European Law After Brexit

Judge Ian Forrester QC, Judge at the General Court of the European Union

Chair:  Rt Hon Prof Sir David Edward, former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities

 

Bio: Judge Ian Forrester QC

The Innovative Initiative Fund (IIF) Presents: “Unrecognized in the Shadows: The Plight of the Stateless”

Event date: 
Tuesday 4 April 2017
Time: 
12:30
Location: 
2.14 Appleton Tower

Tuesday 4th April 2017 – 12.30 to 15.00 – 2.14 Appleton Tower

The Innovative Initiative Fund (IIF) Presents: “Unrecognized in the Shadows: The Plight of the Stateless”

 

The panel will provide a framework on the complicated issue of statelessness and raise awareness of the implications that statelessness has on the enjoyment of human rights. The event aims to stimulate the debate among academics, professionals and students and to enable them to share their views on statelessness.

 

Professor Roberta Romano, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School: The Iron Law of Financial Regulation

Event date: 
Tuesday 28 March 2017 to Wednesday 29 March 2017
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Playfair Library, Old College

Tuesday 28th March 2017 – 18.00 – 19.30 – Playfair Library, Old College

The Iron Law of Financial Regulation

Professor Roberta Romano, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Discussant: Professor Emilios Avgouleas, Chair in International Banking Law and Finance, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh

 

Dayana Ariffin (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh STIS): Racial Taxonomy in a Colonial Multi-Institutional Network: A Narrative from American Occupied Philippines from 1898 to 1946

Event date: 
Thursday 23 March 2017 to Friday 24 March 2017
Time: 
14:00
Location: 
Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall

PG Student Seminar Series
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/research_students/seminar

Thursday 23rd March 2017, 2pm - 3.30pm

Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall

(http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/about/how_to_find_us)

 

Untangling Resilience to Depression

Event date: 
Friday 7 April 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Lecture Theatre G03, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU

Friday 07 April, 17.30 - 19.00, Lecture Theatre G03, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU

Untangling Resilience to Depression

Many people talk about ‘resilience’, but what exactly is it? What factors make some people more resilient than others? Is it their brain or their environment? This event brings together mental health researchers, practitioners, and members of the public to discuss and debate this important issue, which affects every one of us.

Cultural Narratives at the U.S.-Mexico Border in a Tense Time

Event date: 
Wednesday 29 March 2017 to Thursday 30 March 2017
Time: 
10:30
Location: 
Seminar Room, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Cultural Narratives at the U.S.-Mexico Border in a Tense Time

With talk of a border wall dominating the news, a divisive moment in U.S. border politics is unfolding amidst a much longer context of cultural exchange and evolution in the border region. What can such narratives teach us about the current moment? Join two leading humanities scholars of the U.S. borderlands as they discuss their work in this context, in an event that will hopefully draw links with European scholarship on similar themes.