15th November 2017, 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College (RS research seminar)
Dr Naomi Appleton, University of Edinburgh: ‘In conversation with solitary Buddhas’
[Divinity]
1st November 2017, 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College (RS research seminar)
Dr Chris Cotter, University of Edinburgh: ‘A Critical Discursive Approach to "Non-Religion" in Edinburgh's Southside’
[Divinity]
18th October 2017, 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College (RS research seminar)
Dr Reza Gholami, University of Birmingham: ‘The Quagmire of “Integration”: Class, Capital and Secularity in the UK Iranian Diaspora’
[Divinity]
4th October 2017, 3-5pm, the Martin Hall, New College
Who is worthy of a biography? Balloon debate featuring:
Naomi Appleton – The Buddha’s wife
Linden Bicket – George Mackay Brown
Helen Bond – Jesus (needs a new biography)
Jane Dawson – Annas Keith, Countess of Mar and Argyll
James Eglinton – Herman Bavinck
Hannah Holtschneider – Dorrith Sim
Brian Stanley – William Carey
[Divinity]
Dr Tanja Vahtikari (University of Tampere, Finland / IASH): Performing the Past and Modernity: the Celebrating Nordic Capitals in the Post- World War II Era
IASH Work in Progress talk
28 Mar 2018
4.30pm, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ.
Dr Beverly Bergman (University of Glasgow): Military Public Health from the Crimea to World War One.
[Edinburgh History of Medicine Group]
28 Feb 2018
4.30pm, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ.
Kristin Hussey (Curator, Royal College of Physicians of London): Secrets in the Blood: William Harvey, Royal College of Physicians of London and the Discovery of Circulation.
[Edinburgh History of Medicine Group]
14 Feb 2018
4.30pm, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ.
Dr Ciarán McCabe (University College Dublin and Maynooth University): Humane Societies and the International Exchange of Medical Knowledge in the Late-Eighteenth Century.
[Edinburgh History of Medicine Group]
24 Jan 2018
4.30pm, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ.
Janet Philp (University of Edinburgh): Burke, Now and Then.
[Edinburgh History of Medicine Group]
10 January 2018
4.00pm, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ.
Dr Lauren Summersgill (Birkbeck, University of London): Alienation and Beauty in Medical Photography.
[Edinburgh History of Medicine Group]