Author and critic Dame Rebecca West was born on this day in 1892. At the age of ten, she lived with her mother and sisters at 2 Hope Park Square for a short time (Glendinning 1987; Palusci 1992) before moving to Buccleuch Place to attend George Watson’s Ladies College (Lownie 2005). This tenement is now IASH’s main entrance.
Sir Michael Marmot (UCL): Health, Status, and Inequality
Honour in Classical Greece Public Lecture Series
Lecture 1: 12 January 2018
5:10–7:30pm
Speaker: Sir Michael Marmot (UCL)
Venue: Playfair Library Hall, Old College, University of Edinburgh
Steve Walsh (Newcastle): Dialogic Reflection
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Samaneh Zandian (Edinburgh): Children’s perceptions of intercultural encounters: Exploration into an Iranian Context
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Yongcan Liu (Cambridge): Unlocking the potential of bilingual children in schools and communities for an open world
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Rob Sharples (Edinburgh): Is it time for a ‘mobile turn’ in EAL?
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
John Culpeper (Lancaster): Impoliteness: A survey
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Do Coyle (Edinburgh): Why language teachers need to care: making sense of a pluriliteracies approach to deeper learning from a transdisciplinary and translinguistic perspective
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
The ex-Director of IASH, Professor Jo Shaw, has recently blogged about her one-year EURIAS fellowship at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland, and about the role of institutes of advanced study in the twenty-first century:
Overseas scholars wishing to visit IASH and the University of Edinburgh for up to 6 months are encouraged to apply for a British Academy Visiting Fellowship. Fellowships are open to academics at any career stage across the humanities and social sciences. Stipends of up to £12,000 are available, as well as travel grants and research expenses. The deadline for submission is Wednesday 31st January.
To apply, please visit the British Academy website.