IASH is delighted to be participating in this year's Being Human Festival of the Humanities, with three events featuring current and former Fellows - and all of them are free to attend!
Saturday 17 November from 1pm to 3pm, George Square
Bloodscape from IASH-SSPS Fellow Dr Stephanie Sodero
The buzz in the room felt like genderED had turned from an online directory into a live community. On 11 October, genderED celebrated its first anniversary with a showcase of gender and sexuality studies research and teaching projects from across the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and beyond.
Professor Bob Logie: 'Cognitive offloading: Why digital memory is bad for your brain”
[HCN Seminars]
Thursday 25th October, Dr Emily Thomas (Durham University), 'John Locke:
Newtonian Absolutist about Space and Time?', S37, Psychology Building, 7 George Square, 2.10pm
[Philosophy]
Monday, 22 October
17:00 - 18:00, Staff Room, 6th floor, CMB, 15a George Square
Roundtable on Dr Eirik Magnus Fuglestad’s book ‘Private Property and the Origins of Nationalism in the United States and Norway: The Making of Propertied Communities’ with Jonathan Hearn & Isabella Gabrovsky.
[ASEN-Edinburgh]
Frank Stahnisch (University of Calgary / IASH): Great Minds in Despair: Exploring the History of the Forced Migration of German-speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933-1963.
[IASH Work-in-Progress talk]
Abstract:
'With muscles intense and a smile in the eyes: Finding 18th-century affects in our bodies today' with Jed Wentz, 14.30, St Cecilia's Hall, 16 November 2018, 14.30
This lecture demonstration presents ten practical exercises developed in the 18th century by Aaron Hill in order to help actors find specific affects in performance. The exercises will be demonstrated and then put to use in a monologue from Addison's Cato. Participants will then be invited to try Hill's method for themselves.
Tom Ewing, Professor of History, Virginia Tech: “The Numbers Attacked Have Assumed Alarming Proportions” - Narrative Reporting & Data Visualization during the Russian Influenza
Full details here
5.15pm, Seminar Room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square
Lisa Baer (University of Guelph) ‘Coding gender and ambition in early modern Scotland: Approaching the sixteenth century with the digital humanities’
5.15pm, Seminar Room 5, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square
Charles Fletcher (University of Edinburgh) ‘Justice and society in the Highlands: A study of franchise courts in Strathspey, c. 1695-1748’