September 2018

‘Enlightenment Readers in the Scottish Universities

Event date: 
Friday 12 October 2018 to Saturday 13 October 2018
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Project Room (1.06) 50 George Square

‘Enlightenment Readers in the Scottish Universities’ – 12 October, 12.00-1.00

This is the first lunchtime seminar of the year, given by guest speaker Dr Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow).  This talk will demonstrate the potential for the history of reading of using historical data from one particular group of sources: the surviving eighteenth-century library borrowing registers held by the Scottish universities.  More details here.

Biologies and Ethnologies of the Book

Event date: 
Tuesday 2 October 2018 to Wednesday 3 October 2018
Time: 
14:00
Location: 
CRC Seminar Room Sixth floor, Main University Library

Biologies and Ethnologies of the Book – 2 October, 2.00-4.30

This half-day workshop brings together scholars from various disciplines, including biology, chemistry, physics, archaeology, and early American literature, to explore one of the treasures of the University’s collections: the ‘Indian Primer’.  It will be a great opportunity to explore the intersections of science and book history.  More details here.

Edinburgh in Print

Event date: 
Saturday 29 September 2018
Location: 
Writers' Museum Lady Stair's Close

Edinburgh in Print – 29 September, 10.30-11.30

This guided walk led by the Scottish Printing Archival Trust will visit some of the significant sites associated with the printing and publishing industries in Edinburgh's Old Town, highlighting some of the traces left by this industry's 500 year history.  More details here.

Friday 5 October 4:30 P.M., Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square Laura Fish (Newcastle University) ‘Reflections: Autobiography, Identity, and Memory.’ Author of Flight of Black Swans and Strange Music discusses how themes of displacement and constructs o

Event date: 
Friday 5 October 2018
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square

Friday 5 October

4:30 P.M., Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square

Laura Fish (Newcastle University) ‘Reflections: Autobiography, Identity, and Memory.’ Author of Flight of Black Swans and Strange Music discusses how themes of displacement and constructs of difference inform her work.

[English Literature]

Stephen Bowd (University of Edinburgh)              Inaugural Lecture: Renaissance mass murder.

Event date: 
Thursday 29 November 2018
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Thursday 29 Nov             

5.10pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

 

Stephen Bowd (University of Edinburgh)              Inaugural Lecture: Renaissance mass murder.

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies]

 

 

Roger Rees (University of St Andrews): Shouts and whispers to Constantine.    

Event date: 
Wednesday 28 November 2018 to Thursday 29 November 2018
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Wednesday 28 Nov        

6pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Roger Rees (University of St Andrews): Shouts and whispers to Constantine.    

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies In association with the Classical Association of Scotland]

Richard Oosterhoff (Edinburgh) ‘Failure as emblem: Innate knowledge in Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618)

Event date: 
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Location: 
Teviot Lecture Theatre. Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Tuesday 27 Nov               

5.10pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre. Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Angela Boyle (University of Edinburgh): Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: A Medieval murder mystery.

changed to: 

 

Inaugural seminar, CMRS Early Modern Network, with a lecture by Richard Oosterhoff (Edinburgh)

‘Failure as emblem: Innate knowledge in Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens (1618)’

Mariamne Briggs (University of Edinburgh): Rewriting violence in the Middle Irish Thebaid.

Event date: 
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Location: 
, Teviot Lecture Theatre. Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Tuesday 20  Nov               

 

5.10pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre. Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Mariamne Briggs (University of Edinburgh): Rewriting violence in the Middle Irish Thebaid.

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies]

Volker Menze (CEU Budapest): tbc.    

Event date: 
Friday 9 November 2018
Location: 
LG.10, David Hume Tower.

Friday 9 Nov      

5.10pm, LG.10, David Hume Tower.

Volker Menze (CEU Budapest): tbc.       

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies / Byzantine Studies]