February 2019

Professor Rose Luckin, UCL Knowledge Lab, ’Education and AI: What should be done now to ensure learners and teachers benefit’

Event date: 
Friday 22 February 2019 to Saturday 23 February 2019
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
G21, Moray House School of Education

Professor Rose Luckin, UCL Knowledge Lab, ’Education and AI: What should be done now to ensure learners and teachers benefit’

Friday 22nd Feb, 12-1.30pm, Paterson’s Land rm G21, Moray House School of Education, Holyrood Road, EH88AQ

Prof Clare Pettitt, King’s College, London, ‘News, Ballads, Broadsides and Shows: Scott Unbound’

Event date: 
Friday 8 March 2019 to Saturday 9 March 2019
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Project Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh 

8 March, 12pm, Project Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh 

 

Prof Clare Pettitt, King’s College, London,

 

‘News, Ballads, Broadsides and Shows: Scott Unbound’

 

Clare Pettitt’s paper focuses on the much quoted, highly mobile literary works of Walter Scott to ask how Scott's entanglement with newspaper, periodical and spectacular show culture created new forms of historical knowledge and modelled new media possibilities.

Screening: Kathapurushan (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, 1995)

Event date: 
Friday 15 February 2019
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
G.04, 50 George Square

Kathapurushan (Translation: The Man of the Story) (1995) is an Indian Malayalam language period drama film directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It stars Vishwanathan, Mini Nair, Aranmula Ponnamma, Narendra Prasad and Urmila Unni. It won the Golden Lotus Award for Best Film at the National Film Awards in 1996. Kathapurushan is a journey exploring the recent history of the state of Kerala in India.

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International Workshop on Urban Multilingualism in Contemporary Moscow and Dushanbe

Event date: 
Thursday 28 February 2019
Time: 
17:10
Location: 
The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, 19 Buccleuch Place

International Workshop on Urban Multilingualism in Contemporary Moscow and Dushanbe

Comprising four presentations by Julia Mazurova (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences), Polina Kliuchnikova (University of Durham), Denis Zubalov (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) and Marina Raskladkina (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences) about the social, political and cultural manifestations of multilingualism in Moscow and Dushanbe. Free and open to all.
 

Date: Thursday, 28th February 2019, 17.10-19.00