February 2018

Dr Philip Kay: The Effectiveness of The Early Roman Law of Contract for Bankers.  An Economic Historian’s View

Event date: 
Friday 16 March 2018
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Neil MacCormick Room, DHT

Date: 16th March

Time 5.30pm to 7pm

Location: Neil MacCormick Room, DHT

[Edinburgh Roman Law Group]

Title: The Effectiveness of The Early Roman Law of Contract for Bankers.  An Economic Historian’s View

Speaker: Dr Philip Kay is a Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford

 

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Sam Beechener: Applying co-innovation to anticipate the scaling pathway in New Zealand's agri-food sector; Rosalind Attenborough: Stories from the “open science revolution”: how scientists talk about openness

Event date: 
Friday 23 February 2018 to Saturday 24 February 2018
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall

PG Student Seminar Series
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation

Friday 23rd February 2018, 12 noon - 1.30pm

Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall

Applying co-innovation to anticipate the scaling pathway in New Zealand's agri-food sector

Sam Beechener (PhD Candidate, Land Economy, Environment & Society, SRUC)

An Evening of Feminism and Creative Resistance

Event date: 
Wednesday 21 February 2018 to Thursday 22 February 2018
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
LLC Screening Room, 50 George Square

Wednesday 21st February, 5pm-8.30pm

An Evening of Feminism and Creative Resistance

Songs of Protest by Sumangala Damodaran and Poetry by Anni Cameron and Nadine Aisha Jassat. 

LLC Screening Room, 50 George Square

Book free tickets https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-of-feminism-and-creative-resistance-tickets-43021981906 

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Series: Nation-Building and Identity

Event date: 
Thursday 31 May 2018 to Friday 1 June 2018
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
2.13 Old Infirmary (Geography)

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Series: Nation-Building and Identity
May 31 16:00-18:00
2.13 Old Infirmary (Geography)
Speakers:

  • Elly Grayson, Edinburgh: J. M. Barrie’s Margaret Ogilvy: Appropriating the Biography and Conceptions of Storytelling, “Scottishness”, Mothers and Children - Elly Grayson
  • Guy Hinton, Newcastle: Representing the wars of the 1850s and 1880s
  • Dan Haverty, Cork: ‘These Were My Means?’: Nationalist Appropriation of Irish Republicanism

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Series: Colonialism and Literature

Event date: 
Thursday 29 March 2018 to Friday 30 March 2018
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
2.14 Appleton Tower

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Series: Colonialism and Literature
March 29 16:00-18:00
2.14 Appleton Tower
Speakers:

  • Bowen Wang, Edinburgh: Mark Twain’s “China Complex”:His Literary Portrayal of the Chinese of the Nineteenth Century - Bowen Wang
  • Nicola John, St Andrews: Cleopatra and the Colonial Context: Looking Closer at Juan Luna
  • Elizabeth Chant, UCL: Cartography and the Argentine Nation: mapping the mítico sur 

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Series: Issues in Theology

Event date: 
Thursday 22 February 2018 to Friday 23 February 2018
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
2.14 Appleton Tower

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Series: Issues in Theology
February 22 16:00-18:00
2.14 Appleton Tower
Speakers:

  • Kyle Lincoln, Edinburgh: Exploring Pulpit Shaming within a Nineteenth Century Scottish Literary Context
  • David Rathel, St Andrews: Ecclesiology and Empire: Surveying Nineteenth Century Evangelical Attitudes to British Expansion in India
  • Lisa Nais, Aberdeen: Gender as Institutionalised Religion