April 2019

Claudia Stern: '"By reason or force": Space, nationhood and class under the shadow of cultural trauma in Chile, 1970-1990'

Event date: 
Tuesday 28 May 2019 to Wednesday 29 May 2019
Location: 
Room G.15, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

rescheduled from 30 April.

5pm, Room G.15, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

Claudia Stern (CSMCH-IASH Fellow 2018-9, Freie Universität, Berlin)       

'"By reason or force": Space, nationhood and class under the shadow of cultural trauma in Chile, 1970-1990'

[Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History]

Harry Weeks - Thing of the Month

Event date: 
Tuesday 30 April 2019 to Wednesday 1 May 2019
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Wee Red Bar Edinburgh College of Art Lauriston Place

The Center of Research Collection invites you to come along on: Tuesday, 30th of April 5pm Wee Red Bar Edinburgh College of Art Lauriston Place

Speaker: Harry Weeks

Thing of the Month

Come along and look at the beautiful scultpures by Lara Hirst, ‘Pro Tanto Quid Retribamus’ & ‘One Pound Coin’ both from 2017 and discuss the value of art and the art market! Enjoy some drinks afterwards in the Wee Red Bar and celebrate the last event this semester! All welcome!!!

Kimberlé Crenshaw: 30 Years of Theorizing Justice: Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory and Contemporary Challenges

Event date: 
Tuesday 21 May 2019 to Wednesday 22 May 2019
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre, George Square Theatre

Kimberlé Crenshaw (Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School and co-founder of the African American Policy Forum): 30 Years of Theorizing Justice: Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory and Contemporary Challenges

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pir-distinguished-scholar-series-annual-lecture-2019-professor-kimberle-crenshaw-tickets-60814864898

 

 

Her Excellency, Mrs Ruchi Ghanashyam, Indian High Commissioner: India-Scotland Relationship and its Way forward

Event date: 
Wednesday 1 May 2019
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation High School Yards Training & Skills Room Edinburgh EH1 1LZ

Her Excellency, Mrs Ruchi Ghanashyam, Indian High Commissioner: India-Scotland Relationship and its Way forward

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/india-scotland-relationship-and-its-way-forward-tickets-60706049428?utm_term=eventurl_text

 

 

Bundles of habits

April 25, 2019
Tree branches

Reflect on what is habitual! Who could or would wish to begin such reflection? How should one suspect some mystery in what one has always seen, done, or felt? […] Heavy bodies fall, movement is communicated; the stars revolve over our heads, and what subject for wonder, what subject for inquiry could there be in such familiar things!

Pierre Maine de Biran, Introduction to Sur l’influence de l'habitude sur la faculté de penser (1802)

Tariq Modood (University of Bristol): Islamophobia and normative sociology.

Event date: 
Tuesday 7 May 2019 to Wednesday 8 May 2019
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Teviot Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

7 May

1:00-3:00pm. Teviot Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

Tariq Modood (University of Bristol): Islamophobia and normative sociology. Lecture and panel discussion (with Nasar Meer, Khadijah Elshayyal, Giulia Liberatore and Michael Rosie).

To register: edin.ac/2Jmcy4T

Citizens, Nations and Migration (CNaM) Network and The Alwaleed Centre

Transgender Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Predicaments and Possibilities

Event date: 
Tuesday 7 May 2019 to Wednesday 8 May 2019
Time: 
14:00
Location: 
15/a George Square, Violet Laidlaw room, 6th floor. 

Security at the Margins project (ESRC/NRF) and the Centre of African Studies kindly invites you to the workshop:

Transgender Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Predicaments and Possibilities

with Dr B Camminga (Wits University, Johannesburg) and Suma Abdelsamie (LGBTQI+ refugees group in Greece).

Tuesday 7 May from 2 to 5.00 pm

School of Social and Political Sciences, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15/a George Square, Violet Laidlaw room, 6th floor. 

Professor John McGreevy (Notre Dame) ‘Jacques Maritain, the democratic crisis and the promise and perils of a global Catholic history’.

Event date: 
Wednesday 1 May 2019
Time: 
17:15
Location: 
room 2.03, 50 George Square

Edinburgh Centre for Global History

 

Wednesday 1 May                         

 

Professor John McGreevy (Notre Dame)

 

‘Jacques Maritain, the democratic crisis and the promise and perils of a global Catholic history’.

 

17.15-19.00, room 2.03, 50 George Square