August 2017

Former Fellow's Film Takes Flight

August 31, 2017
David Harrower playwright

An Olivier Award-winning play written at IASH has been adapted for the cinema. Una – released on 1 September – is based on David Harrower’s critically acclaimed drama Blackbird. David wrote the play at IASH while he was an Edinburgh Festival Creative Fellow in 2004-2005.

Blackbird premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2005. David has now written the screenplay for Una, which is directed by Benedict Andrews.

Ludmila Ulitskaya - author event

Event date: 
Monday 18 September 2017 to Tuesday 19 September 2017
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Project Room, 50 George Square

Ludmila Ulitskaya is coming to speak in Russian about the state of Russian literature and her own work.

 

date& time: 18th September, 18:00-20:00

venue: Project Room, 50 George Square

 

Please find all details at the following link.

http://edin.ac/2wFNH4o

 

 

Professor Lindsay Paterson: Philanthropy and Education in Scotland

Event date: 
Tuesday 31 October 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
University of Edinburgh Anatomy Lecture Theatre Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG

The third annual Enlightenment Lecture

 

Professor Lindsay Paterson: Philanthropy and Education in Scotland

 

Tuesday 31st October in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre

 

University of Edinburgh Anatomy Lecture Theatre

Teviot Place,

Edinburgh,

EH8 9AG

The lecture runs 17:30 to 18:30, followed by a prosecco reception in the Anatomy Foyer.

Rianna Walcott (Kings College, London) Conceptualising Whiteness in the Black Imagination

Event date: 
Tuesday 28 November 2017 to Wednesday 29 November 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology

https://edinburghscottishdiaspora.wordpress.com/autumn-2017-programme/

The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop takes place at 1-2 pm in G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School). 

  •  Rianna Walcott (Kings College, London)

 

Conceptualising Whiteness in the Black Imagination

 

Peter Kormylo ( University of Glasgow) The Establishment of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain and its influence on the Ukrainian Diaspora in Scotland

Event date: 
Tuesday 14 November 2017 to Wednesday 15 November 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (

https://edinburghscottishdiaspora.wordpress.com/autumn-2017-programme/

The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop takes place at 1-2 pm in G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School). 

 

  • Peter Kormylo ( University of Glasgow)

 

The Establishment of the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain and its influence on the Ukrainian Diaspora in Scotland

 

Meg Foster (University of New South Wales): Black Douglas: the Bushranger and the Man

Event date: 
Tuesday 31 October 2017 to Wednesday 1 November 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology

https://edinburghscottishdiaspora.wordpress.com/autumn-2017-programme/

The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop takes place at 1-2 pm in G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School). 

 

  • 31 October:       Meg Foster (University of New South Wales)

           

Black Douglas: the Bushranger and the Man

 

Tom Addyman (Addyman Archaeology) The Scottish Cemetery in Kolkata

Event date: 
Tuesday 17 October 2017 to Wednesday 18 October 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology

https://edinburghscottishdiaspora.wordpress.com/autumn-2017-programme/

The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop takes place at 1-2 pm in G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School). 

 

  • 17 October:      Tom Addyman (Addyman Archaeology)

 

The Scottish Cemetery in Kolkata

Marenka Thompson-odlum (University of Glasgow) Glassford's Virginia: Imagining the Scottish Diaspora in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Bay

Event date: 
Tuesday 3 October 2017 to Wednesday 4 October 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology

https://edinburghscottishdiaspora.wordpress.com/autumn-2017-programme/

The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop takes place at 1-2 pm in G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School). 

 

  • 3 October:       Marenka Thompson-odlum (University of Glasgow)

 

Glassford's Virginia: Imagining the Scottish Diaspora in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Bay