January 2018

Devin Grier ( University of Edinburgh): Assessing the Resourcefulness of Scottish Immigrants during California's Gold Rush: San Francisco and Sacramento, 1850-1860.

Event date: 
Wednesday 28 February 2018 to Thursday 1 March 2018
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School)

Devin Grier ( University of Edinburgh): Assessing the Resourcefulness of Scottish Immigrants during California's Gold Rush: San Francisco and Sacramento, 1850-1860.

Devin takes on the notion of the 'Canny Scot' in Gold Rush California. A diasporic people often observed as rational and sceptic, a significant Scottish population in mid nineteenth-century California suggests otherwise. Using data extracted from federal and state census counts, Devin breaks down and analyses the Scottish presence that resided in California during its Gold Rush.

Gintare Venzlauskaite, (University of Glasgow): From Post-War West to Post-soviet east: Manifestations of Displacement, Collective Memory, and Lithuanian Diasporic Experience Revisited

Event date: 
Wednesday 7 February 2018 to Thursday 8 February 2018
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
G16 in the William Robertson Wing of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4 of the Old Medical School)

Gintare Venzlauskaite, (University of Glasgow): From Post-War West to Post-soviet east: Manifestations of Displacement, Collective Memory, and Lithuanian Diasporic Experience Revisited

Jessica Syers: 'The Neopicaresque in Context: Reading Genre in the Real World'

Event date: 
Wednesday 17 January 2018
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Room G.05, 50 George Square

'The Neopicaresque in Context: Reading Genre in the Real World'

Wednesday 17th January 2018, 17:30 – Room G.05, 50 George Square

We're pleased to be able to announce the details of the next LLC Work-in-Progress seminar. This week, Jessica Syers, a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature, will be presenting a paper exploring the picaresque genre's relation to theory and historical context. Please join us for what promises to be another fascinating talk and discussion; as ever, there will be tea/coffee and biscuits.

Valentina Marcheselli (University of Edinburgh) and Natalia Nino (University of Edinburgh): PhD Showcase: Charting malnutrition: The politics of weight and height measurement during early childhood AND Life as we-don’t-know-it and the social construction

Event date: 
Monday 19 March 2018
Time: 
15:30
Location: 
6th Floor Staff Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building.

Valentina Marcheselli (University of Edinburgh) and Natalia Nino (University of Edinburgh): PhD Showcase: Charting malnutrition: The politics of weight and height measurement during early childhood AND Life as we-don’t-know-it and the social construction of unknowns.

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