April 2018

Dr Aneta Pavlenko (Oslo): The hosts who learned immigrants' tongues

Event date: 
Thursday 17 May 2018
Time: 
17:15
Location: 
Project Room, 50 George Square

Annual Honorary Dashkova Lecture: The hosts who learned immigrants' tongues (Dr Aneta Pavlenko, Center for Multilingualism, University of Oslo)

Followed by an informal wine reception.

All information: https://edin.ac/2HbOMTA

17 May, 17.15

Project Room, 50 George Square

[The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre]

 

"Enthusiasm": Migration and Identity in Hughesovka-Stalino-Donetsk

Event date: 
Friday 4 May 2018 to Saturday 5 May 2018
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Screening Room, 50 George Square

"Enthusiasm": Migration and Identity in Hughesovka-Stalino-Donetsk. Film, music, discussion with Dr Victoria Donovan (St Andrews), artist Stefhan Caddick and composer Simon Gore

All information: https://edin.ac/2J8tPJP

4 May, 17.00

Screening Room, 50 George Square

[The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre]

 

Legal Authorities in Early Modern Legal Reasoning

Event date: 
Friday 25 May 2018 to Saturday 26 May 2018
Location: 
Elder Room, Old College

The Centre for Legal History presents
Legal Authorities in Early Modern Legal Reasoning (16th-18th centuries)
25th & 26th of May 2018
Elder Room, Old College
09.30 to 17.30

The International Legitimacy Series: Norms as the Objects of International Legitimacy

Event date: 
Friday 20 April 2018 to Saturday 21 April 2018
Time: 
15:00
Location: 
Balcony Room, Old Moray House

The Law and Polity Project presents

 

The International Legitimacy Series: Norms as the Objects of International Legitimacy

 

Professor Antje Wiener,  University of Hamburg and University of Cambridge

 

20th April 2018

Balcony Room, Old Moray House

15.00 to 18.00

 

Sir Kenneth Scott, 1931-2018

April 13, 2018
Sir Kenneth Scott

We were saddened to hear of the death last month of Sir Kenneth Scott KCVO CMG, a Visiting Research Fellow in 1998. He was Deputy Private Secretary to the Queen between 1985 and 1996, having previously been UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia. While at IASH, Sir Kenneth worked on his book St James's Palace: A History, published in 2010 by Scala.

International Workshop: Politics in the Face of Death

Event date: 
Friday 11 May 2018
Location: 
Project Room, George Square 50.

FRIDAY 11 MAY

9am-6pm, Project Room, George Square 50.

International Workshop: Politics in the Face of Death, with Banu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz), Neve Gordon (Queen Mary, University of London), Charles Heller (Goldsmiths, University of London), Laura Major (University of Edinburgh), Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwatersrand), Claire Moon (London School of Economics) and Lorenzo Pezzani (Goldsmiths, University of London).

Full programme: https://goo.gl/WXXfVr