April 2017

Dr. Steve Bolsin: Evolution of medical ethics – impact on quality and safety

Event date: 
Tuesday 25 April 2017 to Wednesday 26 April 2017
Time: 
19:00
Location: 
Anatomy Lecture Theatre Doorway 3. Old Medical School EH8 9AG

Evolution of medical ethics – impact on quality and safety

Dr. Steve Bolsin

 

Tuesday April 25th 7pm

Anatomy Lecture Theatre

Doorway 3. Old Medical School

EH8 9AG

 

Edinburgh University Medical Ethics and Humanities Society are delighted to welcome Dr. Steve Bolsin who will be speaking on the topic of 'Evolution of medical ethics – impact on quality and safety'

Steve Bolsin is an internationally recognised clinician, researcher and expert on patient safety.

Professor Ravi Kohli, Professor of Child Welfare: Unaccompanied Minors: Law, Policy and Practice

Event date: 
Wednesday 17 May 2017 to Thursday 18 May 2017
Time: 
10:00
Location: 
The Rivers Suite, Craiglockhart Campus Edinburgh Napier Business School 219 Colinton Road Edinburgh

Unaccompanied Minors: Law, Policy and Practice

Workshop 1 on Wednesday 17th May, Edinburgh Napier University

 

Speaker: Professor Ravi Kohli, Professor of Child Welfare

This is the first in a series of 3 workshops to be run by Edinburgh Napier University, supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The workshops are free of charge

And open to all with an interest in unaccompanied minors and are designed to be interactive. A buffet lunch will be provided.

 

III Latin America Symposium - Power, Politics and Religion in Brazil: Ruptures, Continuities and Crisis

Event date: 
Thursday 27 April 2017 to Friday 28 April 2017
Location: 
Practice Suite, First Floor, Chrystal MacMillan Building 15a George Square Edinburgh

III Latin America Symposium - Power, Politics and Religion in Brazil: Ruptures, Continuities and Crisis

Thursday 27th April – Friday 28th April, The University of Edinburgh

 

A two-day workshop with leading anthropologists of Brazil, including paper presentations and discussion of Brazil’s current political context and the intersection

of politics with religious movements. Discussions of power and modes of governance are particularly pertinent at this time for Brazil.

 

Dr Jamie Cross (Social Anthropology); Dr. Tahl Kaminer (Edinburgh College of Art) and Dr Marisa Wilson (Geosciences): Re-thinking ‘the Commons’: Examining Dilemmas, Exploring Solutions

Event date: 
Thursday 27 April 2017
Time: 
12:30
Location: 
Old Library Room (2.19) Geography (Old Infirmary) 1 Drummond Street Edinburgh

Re-thinking ‘the Commons’: Examining Dilemmas, Exploring Solutions (supported by the Global Justice Academy).

Thursday 27th April, The University of Edinburgh.

 

Speakers: Dr Jamie Cross (Social Anthropology); Dr. Tahl Kaminer (Edinburgh College of Art) and Dr Marisa Wilson (Geosciences)

Free, open forum event to give scholars from across the University an opportunity to question, discuss and debate issues such as how do we balance collective ownership

Christopher Hrynkow: Indigenous Community Engagement at a College on Treaty Six Land, Saskatoon

Event date: 
Wednesday 19 April 2017 to Thursday 20 April 2017
Time: 
14:00
Location: 
Paterson's Land, Room 1.19 Holyrood Road Moray House School of Education

Indigenous Community Engagement at a College on Treaty Six Land, Saskatoon

Wednesday, 19th April, The University of Edinburgh.

 

Speaker: Christopher Hrynkow, PhD (Chair of the Working Group for Indigenous Engagement at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan)

This presentation is the first in a series of Community Engagement events organised by the Community Education Research Group, based in Moray House School

Dr Susanna Wegandt (Dalhousie University) "Trauma as Conceptualism and Pseudo-Sincerity in the Cinema and Theatre of Ivan Vyrypaev".

Event date: 
Tuesday 2 May 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
50 George Square,  Project Room 1.06.

Theatre Studies Research Seminar

Tuesday 2 May 2017; 17:30-19:30 pm; 50 George Square,  Project Room 1.06.

Dr Susanna Wegandt (Dalhousie University)

"Trauma as Conceptualism and Pseudo-Sincerity in the Cinema and Theatre of Ivan Vyrypaev".

All welcome! Enquieries: alexandra.smith@ed.ac.uk