'Culinary Culture of the Middle East'. A free research seminar by guest speaker Jennifer Scarce (University of Dundee).
'Islamic Studies – Scientific or Confessional? A Contested University Subject'. A free research seminar by guest speaker Professor Jorgen Nielsen (University of Birmingham).
'Arabic Diglossia as Language Ideology: Implications for Teaching'. A free research seminar by our colleague Jona Fras.
'Broadening Horizons: Teaching Socio-Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East'. A free research seminar by guest speaker Dr Janet Starkey (Durham University).
‘On Love, Lacuna, and Loss: An Episode in the Post-War Restoration of Leningrad’s Palaces’
Lecture by guest speaker, Professor Irina Sandomirskaja (Södertörn University, Sweden)
Date: Thursday, 7th February 2019, 17.15
Location: The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, 19 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LN
Friday 29 March
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Charles Wilson (University of Edinburgh): “Simply the best, better than all the rest”: Islanders and their Gaelic dialects.
Friday 8 March
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Dr Margaret Mackay: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Professor Catherine (Rena) Kerrigan.
Meg Bateman, Gerda Stevenson, Christine De Luca, Valerie Gillies and Katherine Campbell celebrate the life and work of Professor Catherine Kerrigan in poetry and song on International Women's Day.
Friday 1 March
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Calum Cameron White (University of Glasgow): John Murdoch, Gaels and the left in Scotland, 1870-1890.
Friday 15 February
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Dr Michelle Foot (University of Edinburgh): The Celtic Revival and Modern Spiritualism in Scotland: fairies, witches and haunted landscapes.
Friday 8 February
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Dr Aonghas MacCoinnich (University of Glasgow): Dà dhàn “ùr” o Dhùthaich MhicAoidh, 1608, 1614. (in Gaelic)