June 2018

Professor Axel Honneth (Frankfurt/Columbia): Honour in Classical Greece

Event date: 
Thursday 28 June 2018
Time: 
17:10
Location: 
Playfair Hall, Royal College of Surgeons, Nicolson St

Honour in Classical Greece (ERC AdvG 741084, 2018–22)

Public Lecture Series

Lecture 2: 28 June 2018
5:10–7:30pm
Speaker: Professor Axel Honneth (Frankfurt/Columbia)
Venue: Playfair Hall, Royal College of Surgeons, Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9DW

The project is delighted to welcome as its second public lecturer Axel Honneth, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia and Frankfurt Universities and Director of the latter’s renowned Institut für Sozialforschung.

 

Film Education Journal launch - a post by Jamie Chambers

June 13, 2018

Film is a distinct medium with a distinct history and, as such, requires a distinct pedagogy. 

The Film Education Journal is the world’s only publication committed to exploring how teachers and other educators work with film, and to involving other participants – policymakers, academics, researchers, cultural agencies and film-makers themselves – in that conversation.

Scottish International Film Education Conference 2018 

Event date: 
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre (G.07), William Robertson Wing

Scottish International Film Education Conference 2018 

 

WEDNESDAY 20 JUNE 2018

Meadows Lecture Theatre (G.07), William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9AG

9:30 - 17:30

FREE

 

Film is a distinct medium with a distinct history and, as such, requires a distinct pedagogy. 

 

Dr Hossein Habibi

Dr Hossein Habibi

Postdoctoral Fellow September 2018 to June 2019

Project: The Central Zagros during Late Antiquity: Socio‐economic Transition

The Central Zagros during Late Antiquity: Socio-economic Transition

SUMMARY

Hossein is an archaeologist of the Late Antique period. His research interests range from the archaeological landscapes of Sasanian territories to political culture and ceramics of this period.

Dr Giovanni Gellera (Université de Lausanne / IASH Fellow): The Idea philosophiae moralis (1679) by James Dundas: A new voice from seventeenth-century Scotland

Event date: 
Wednesday 15 August 2018 to Thursday 16 August 2018
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Dr Giovanni Gellera (Université de Lausanne / IASH Fellow): James Dundas, Idea philosophiae moralis (1679). On religious tolerance and the origins of the Scottish Enlightenment

[IASH Work in Progress talk]