April 2018

Dr V.J. Varghese

Dr V.J. Varghese (Department of History, University of Hyderabad)

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Project: Taming Wilderness as Modernity: Migration, Agrarian Expansion and the Re‐making of Syrian Christians in Kerala, 1850 ‐ 1970

September - November 2018

Richard Bourke: Political and Religious Ideas during the Irish Revolution

Event date: 
Friday 18 May 2018 to Saturday 19 May 2018
Time: 
19:00
Location: 
St Giles Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh

Richard Bourke, Professor in the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary, University of London, will deliver this free public lecture on the role of political and religious ideas during the Irish Revolution (1913-1923). Professor Bourke has written extensively on Irish and intellectual history, ranging from the eighteenth-century philosopher Edmund Burke to the Irish Troubles. Soon to take up the prestigious Chair of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge, he is currently working on a history of democracy.

1st Annual Symposium of the Connecting Memories Research Initiative

Event date: 
Friday 1 June 2018
Location: 
50 George Square, Edinburgh.

We are delighted to announce the 1st Annual Symposium of the Connecting Memories Research Initiative and invite you to participate in this one-day event exploring interdisciplinary perspectives relating to memory. Please find a detailed CfP attached. Details are also available on our website here.

Nick J Fox: The posthuman condition? A materialist odyssey from obesity to sexualities to ecology.

Event date: 
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Time: 
15:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

IASH and the School of Social and Political Science are pleased to invite to a guest lecture by Prof. N.J. Fox (Sheffield) on 16th May 2018 in the IASH Coffee room. Coffee available from 3pm for 3.30pm start.

The posthuman condition? A materialist odyssey from obesity to sexualities to ecology.

Nick J Fox

Rupa Viswanath: What Defines a Permanent Minority? Comparative Reflections on Ambedkar’s "Evidence Before the Southborough Committee"

Event date: 
Thursday 26 April 2018 to Friday 27 April 2018
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Medical School, Teviot Place

Ambedkar Lecture : What Defines a Permanent Minority? Comparative Reflections on Ambedkar’s "Evidence Before the Southborough Committee"

Speaker:          Rupa Viswanath (Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen)

Date:               Thursday 26th April 2018

Venue:            Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Medical School, Teviot Place

Time:              1600 - 1730

 

Professor Dame Athene Donald: Labels are dangerous.

Event date: 
Friday 18 May 2018 to Saturday 19 May 2018
Location: 
Business School Auditorium

EFI  Futures Lecture Series
 

LABELS ARE DANGEROUS

Professor Dame Athene Donald
University of Cambridge |  Department of Physics
Master of Churchill College

We like to divide the world into two whenever possible: male versus female, arts versus science. Such binary divisions are very unhelpful and may hold progress back in academic research as much as in society.

As a physicist, should I only work with other physicists? (No.) 

Should I only work with other scientists? 
(No, at least not necessarily.) 

Dr Amy Chandler Book Launch: Self-Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies

Event date: 
Wednesday 30 May 2018 to Thursday 31 May 2018
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Project Room, 50 George Square

Dr Amy Chandler Book Launch    

Wednesday 30th May 2018, 4pm-6pm, Project Room, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh

Join us for a showcase (very delayed launch) event for Dr Amy Chandler’s book, Self-Injury, Medicine and Society: Authentic Bodies, winner of the 2017 Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.

This event will feature presentations and open discussion on the themes of the book: self-injury, bodies, emotions, medicine, and the role of sociology in contributing to how we understand and talk about self-injury.