April 2017

The sixth Fulbright Annual Lecture at the University of Edinburgh.

Professor Louise Richardson, Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford: Universities in an Age of Populism. 

For full details and to book, click on this link:  https://2017fulbrightlecture.eventbrite.co.uk

About the lecturer:

Professor Louise Richardson became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford on 1 January 2016.

Peter Geschiere:

3.10 - 4.50pm

"The Occult and Its Dilemmas:

Do we have to sacrifice academic clarity to grasp the power of the murky?"

[Social Anthropology]

When: 5.30pm, Wednesday 26th April 2017 


Where: Screening Room (G.04), 50 George Square

Paper: Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque and the Cult Audience of Rocky Horror 

Presenter: John Lynskey

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We're pleased to announce details of the final LLC Work in Progress seminar of the year. It will be taking place next week on Wednesday 26th April 2017. 

Ecology, Economy, and Cultures of Resistance: Oikoi of the North American World. A Two-Day Symposium

Ecology and economy are inextricable. From the ‘oeconomy of nature’ theorized by Thomas Burnet, and later Carl Linnaeus, to the recent turn in the social sciences that reconsiders the Anthropocene as the Capitalocene, the interwoven global history of these two fields of thought makes their conceptual separation impracticable.