March 2017

Book Launch - Professor JP Singh: Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Negotiations

Event date: 
Wednesday 15 March 2017 to Thursday 16 March 2017
Time: 
14:00
Location: 
Project Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU

Book Launch - Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Negotiations
Professor JP Singh (Director, Institute for International Cultural Relations)

Date and Time
15th Mar 2017 14:00 - 15:30

Location
Project Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU

Margit Mayer on Urban Justice

Event date: 
Tuesday 28 March 2017
Time: 
15:45
Location: 
Project Room (1.06), LLC, 50 George Sq.

The Urban Justice Lab (Global Justice Academy) hosts

Margit Mayer on Urban Justice

Tuesday 28 March 3.45PM

Project Room (1.06), LLC, 50 George Sq.

No reservations needed.

 

Christian Cooijmans: An Adversary for the Ages: The Historiography of the Vikings in the Late Medieval Low Countries

Event date: 
Wednesday 15 March 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
David Hume Tower LG.06

 

When: 5.30pm, Wednesday 15th March 2017 


Where: David Hume Tower LG.06

 

Paper: An Adversary for the Ages: The Historiography of the Vikings in the Late Medieval Low Countries 

Presenter: Christian Cooijmans

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We're pleased to announce the details of next week’s LLC Work in Progress Seminar (Wednesday 15th March 2017).

2017 Latin American Cultural Colloquium,

Event date: 
Monday 13 March 2017
Location: 
Project Room (AM) Screening Room (PM), 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH.

We are delighted to announce the 2017 Latin American Cultural Colloquium, organized by the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies and the Latin American Society (EUSA) at University of Edinburgh.
The full programme is detailed below, and you can secure your free place at Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-nature-shaping-humans-entwined-landscapes-in-latin-america-tickets-31992713066?aff=ehomecard

Gervais Rufyikiri # University of Antwerp, Former vice-president of Burundi The failure of rebel movement-to-political party transformation of the CNDD-FDD in Burundi: an issue of balance between change and continuity

Event date: 
Wednesday 15 March 2017 to Thursday 16 March 2017
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

Speaker: Gervais Rufyikiri # University of Antwerp, Former vice-president of Burundi

The failure of rebel movement-to-political party transformation of the CNDD-FDD in Burundi: an issue of balance between change and continuity16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes)Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

CAS Seminar Series

Dr Karen Lauterbach # University of CopenhagenBecoming Small ‘Big Men’: Charismatic Pastorship in Ghana

Event date: 
Wednesday 8 March 2017 to Thursday 9 March 2017
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Ground floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square

Speaker: Dr Karen Lauterbach, University of CopenhagenBecoming Small ‘Big Men’: Charismatic Pastorship in Ghana

16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes)Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Ground floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square

CAS Seminar Series

Professor Leemon McHenry (California State University, IASH Fellow): The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine

Event date: 
Wednesday 17 May 2017 to Thursday 18 May 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Professor Leemon McHenry (Philosophy, California State University, Northridge / IASH Fellow): The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine

Abstract

We live in an age alleged devoted to evidence-based medicine.  Evidence-based medicine however depends on reliable data and if the data are largely manipulated by the manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, then the data are not reliable. Evidence-based medicine is an illusion.