Gender and Progress in Contemporary Critical Theory
Speaker(s)
Amy Allen (Penn State University)
Date and Time
22nd May 2017 15:00 - 17:00
Location
CMB Staff Room, 6th Floor
PTRG and GENDERPOL Joint Lecture
Celebrate the life and work of Professor Anthony Goodman, and the launch of his latest book. (Published 9 May 2017)
The launch will celebrate the career of the late Professor Anthony 'Tony' Goodman and launch his last book, 'Joan, The Fair Maid of Kent, A Fourteenth-Century Princess and her World' (Boydell & Brewer, 2017). The book is a new account of the life and turbulent times of Joan, the wife of the Black Prince and mother of Richard II.
Join us for the 2017 Denys Hay lecture on 6th June as Professor Simon Ditchfield speaks on "Here time becomes Space": Roma sancta in the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion
Home Institution: University of South Carolina
Project:
This project addresses the tension between the theory and practice of feminine virtue in late medieval and early modern literature. Poets including Chaucer, Fletcher, Henryson, Lodge, Lydgate, Shakespeare, and Spenser challenge the abstract feminine ideals of conduct books,
Event information:
Elizabeth Hallam: 'Anatomy Museum - the edit’.
11th May 2017. 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JU
10:00-12:00
Sponsored by the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology and Atelier: Creative Art and the Social Sciences
Event Name: Third Annual Conference on Chinese Language Teaching in Scotland
Date: Friday 2 June
Time: 9:30am to 5.00
Location: 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh Book via eventbrite: http://edin.ac/2p9Luq8
Date: Thursday 1 June 2017
Time: 6pm-7:30pm
Location: Project Room, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh EH8 9JU.
Speaker: Professor Basile Zimmermann
Title: The Concept of 'Culture' and its quotation marks
Book Launch
Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain
by Dr Giulia Liberatore (Sociology & IMES/Alwaleed, Edinburgh)
Date: Wednesday 10th May 2017
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Venue: Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 4
Discussants:
Professor Nasar Meer (Sociology, Edinburgh)
Ayan Mahamoud MBE (Head of the Somaliland Mission, UK)
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The University of Edinburgh Chaplaincy is hosting a sponsored walk in June to raise money for a new Humanitarian Assistance Fund.
We warmly invite University staff, students, and friends of the University to take part – either by walking with us, fundraising, or donating to the fund.
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The walk On Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th June 2017, |
a Susan Manning IASH Workshop