February 2018

RESISTANCE

Event date:

Friday 9 March 2018

Time:

09:45 - 17:00

Location:

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR

RESISTANCE: an all-day symposium hosted by Scottish PEN Women Writer’s Committee and the Institute for the Advanced Studies in Humanities

Featuring Jackie Kay, Sim Bajwa, Caroline Bowditch, Beth Banjeree-Richards, Afshan D’souza-Lodhi and Alice Tarbuck

Erden Göktepe: 'The representation of the "New man" in the New Cinema of Turkey

Event date:

Wednesday 14 February 2018

Time:

17:30

Location:

G.06 in 50 George Square

Wednesday 14th February at 17.30 in room G.06 in 50 George Square

[LLC WiP seminar.]

Erden Göktepe: 'The representation of the "New man" in the New Cinema of Turkey

Professor Roger Mason: 'Inventing the Scots V: Scotland and Britain, 1300-1700'

Event date:

Saturday 10 March 2018 to Sunday 11 March 2018

Time:

14:00

Location:

Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

Saturday 10 March in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh. Professor Roger Mason will speak on 'Inventing the Scots V: Scotland and Britain, 1300-1700'.

Further details, and registration, are available at

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scottish-history-society-presidential-lecture-and-annual-general-meeting-2018-tickets-42190118781

[Scottish History Society]

Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir (University of Iceland): In the Wake of Suffrage. Icelandic Women as Cultural and Political Agents, 1915-2015.

Event date:

Wednesday 21 February 2018 to Thursday 22 February 2018

Time:

13:00

Location:

Seminar room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building

_{2018 is the centenary of the gaining of votes for (some) women in the UK. But how does this experience compare to other parts of Europe?}

_{Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir (University of Iceland) will be visiting the School of History, Classics and Archaeology on 21 February to discuss the Icelandic perspective. All welcome!}

_{In the Wake of Suffrage. Icelandic Women as Cultural and Political Agents, 1915-2015}_.

_{Wednesday 21 February, 13.00-14.30}