April 2017

Deadline approaching to apply for Postdoctoral Fellowships and Bursaries

The deadline to apply for our Postdoctoral Fellowships and Bursaries is coming up on 30 April 2017. Are you ready to apply? You can find the application form here.

Applications are invited for postdoctoral bursaries from candidates in any area of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

IASH provides an enviable location in one of the world’s most intellectually inspiring cities, together with a dynamic network of international connections.

Professor Ludo Visschers (Personal Chair in Economics) Will deliver his Inaugural Lecture “Unemployment, Switching Occupations, and the Business Cycle”

Event date: 
Tuesday 9 May 2017 to Wednesday 10 May 2017
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Project Room 1.06  50 George Square

Professor Ludo Visschers (Personal Chair in Economics) Will deliver his Inaugural Lecture “Unemployment, Switching Occupations, and the Business Cycle” Tuesday 9th May 2017, 5.00pm Project Room 1.06  50 George Square

Abstract:
“Recessions and booms give rise to distinctly different patterns of career changing among unemployed workers. Are downturns the times that unemployed workers, by necessity, more often start new careers; or do they change careers more often in expansions, by opportunity? Some theories indicate one answer, other theories the opposite answer.

Book Launch: Security in a Small Nation: Scotland, Democracy, Politics

Event date: 
Monday 8 May 2017 to Tuesday 9 May 2017
Location: 
Dugald Stewart Building, Room 1.20

Book Launch: Security in a Small Nation: Scotland, Democracy, Politics

8 May 2017, 4pm

Dugald Stewart Building, Room 1.20

 

Editor and CeSeR co-director Andrew Neal as well as authors Juliet Kaarbo, Sandy Hardie and Charles Raab will speak about their contributions.

The book was published by OpenBook Publishers and can be downloaded open access: http://edin.ac/2mwirwl

 

Conference: International Security After Brexit and Trump

Event date: 
Thursday 22 June 2017
Location: 
Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square, EH8 9JU

Conference: International Security After Brexit and Trump

22 June 2017  9.30 pm – 7:30 pm

Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square, EH8 9JU

 

The Centre for Security Research at the University of Edinburgh will host a conference on the international security implications of the UK exiting the EU and the Trump presidency in the US.  Held one year after the Brexit referendum, the conference invites scholarship reflecting on these developments from multiple perspectives and across a diverse range of topics.

 

Nuclear Nature: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theorising the Anthropocene after Quantum Physics

Event date: 
Monday 29 May 2017
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Nuclear Nature:

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theorising the Anthropocene after Quantum Physics

A workshop at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

University of Edinburgh

In collaboration with the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network

29th May 2017

Full details and registration at https://nuclearnature.eventbrite.com

 Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy Meeting, April 10-11, 2017

Event date: 
Monday 10 April 2017 to Tuesday 11 April 2017

 Northern Association for Ancient Philosophy Meeting, April 10-11, 2017

 

Programme:

 

Monday April 10

 

1 pm Coffee 

1.20-1.30 Welcome from the President (Dr Patricia Clarke) 

1.30-3.00 pm Professor William Charlton (University of Edinburgh)

‘Ancient and modern treatments of some syncategorematic terms.’

3.05-3.45 pm Ni YU (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh)

Yumiao Bao: he Temporalities of Translation in the May-Fourth Discursive Spheres—On Wu Mi’s Discussions about Imitation, Translation, and Literary Creation

Event date: 
Wednesday 12 April 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Screening Room (G.04), 50 George Square

When: 5.30pm, Wednesday 12th April 2017

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

 

Paper: The Temporalities of Translation in the May-Fourth Discursive Spheres—On Wu Mi’s Discussions about Imitation, Translation, and Literary Creation

Presenter: Yumiao Bao

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Wednesday 12th April 2017

Peter Arnott

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Peter Arnott was born in Glasgow in 1962. He began his career at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in May 1985 with White Rose. That same month his play The Boxer Benny Lynch opened in Glasgow Arts Centre.