February 2019

Professor Michel Roche (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi) ’The Current Political Context in Québec since the Election'

Event date: 
Wednesday 13 February 2019 to Thursday 14 February 2019
Location: 
Board Room, St. John's Land, Holyrood Road, EH8 8AQ

13 February @ 5 pm

Professor Michel Roche (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)

’The Current Political Context in Québec since the Election'

Co-sponsored by the Centre of Canadian Studies and the Centre on Constitutional Change

Board Room, St. John's Land, Holyrood Road, EH8 8AQ

Tea/coffee will be available from 4:30 pm

Sarah Garfinkel: Hearts and Minds: Hidden impacts on emotion and cognition

Event date: 
Wednesday 13 February 2019 to Thursday 14 February 2019
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
DSB, Room 1.2

(13th February) in DSB, Room 1.20. The speaker will be Sarah Garfinkel, a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sussex who is very well known for her work on interoception (the sense of the internal body). Her talk will explore some of her research that shows that this sense of the internal body is relevant to cognition and emotion in interesting ways.

 

Sarah Garfinkel: Hearts and Minds: Hidden impacts on emotion and cognition

 

Talk abstract:

 

Mr Lewis Hetherington

Mr Lewis Hetherington       

IASH/Traverse Creative Fellow

March - December 2019        

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Lewis is a playwright and performance maker whose work is rooted in collaboration, storytelling, and creating space for the possibility of change. His works tends to informed by interrogations around Queerness and/or Ecology. 

Dr Ljubica Spaskovska

Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History (CMSCH) Fellow, March - May 2019

Home Institution: University of Exeter

Project: When the Old Communists Were Young: The Yugoslav Interwar Communist Movement in a Transnational Perspective

Dr Claudia Stern

Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History (CMSCH) Fellow, March - May 2019
Home Institution: Tel Aviv University
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Project: “By reason or force”: Unravelling nationhood, class and space under the shadow of cultural trauma 1970-1990​

Dr Howard Taylor: Ending violence against children locally and globally: An idea whose time is now

Event date: 
Friday 1 March 2019 to Saturday 2 March 2019
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
University of Edinburgh Business School

Ending violence against children locally and globally: An idea whose time is now

Friday 1 March

5.00pm – 6.15pm

University of Edinburgh Business School

Guest speaker: Dr Howard Taylor, Executive Director, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ending-violence-against-children-locally-and-globally-an-idea-whose-time-is-now-tickets-55894968355

Screams and Whispers - a queer listening group at ECA

Event date: 
Wednesday 13 February 2019
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
5.21 Evolution House

The second gathering of Screams and Whispers continues our imagining of queer aurality through deep listening of sonic material from archival and contemporary sources. Listening will last about one hour, followed by thirty minutes of discussion. The group is convened by artist and PhD researcher Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay.
Wednesday, February 13// 17:30-19:00 // 5.21 Evolution House //

All Welcome

SEXES Research Group

ECA/University of Edinburgh

74 Lauriston Place

Edinburgh EH3 9DF