The School of Economics is delighted to welcome Professor Yingyi Qian to give a public lecture on “The Rise of China's Universities in Comparative Perspective.”
On Thursday 4th and Friday 5th April, a contingent of IASH Postdoctoral Fellows attended the ECHIC Conference in Athens, Greece. ECHIC (the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres) is a university-based initiative to organise European Research Institutes, Humanities Faculties and Centres for the Humanities. The conference addressed the interface between humanities and the arts within Europe in a globalised world, focusing on the creative industries as a paradigmatic topos of such confluences.
IMHSD Workshop Series: The Diverse Musical Brain
Inspired by a recent seminar on “Decolonising Music Education” in the Reid School of Music, we are hosting a series of five workshops that aim to highlight the diversity of global music and music neuroscientists.
TUESDAY 23 APRIL
5:15 pm, Elliot Room, Minto House
Dr Marion Harney, “The visualisation of Strawberry Hill: A collusion of history and imagination”
[Prokalò Seminar Series]
9.00-17.30, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 6th Floor Staff Room/Common Room, 15a George Square. Workshop title: Decolonising Feminist Knowledge: Reflections on Research and Curriculum. Tickets are free and can be registered for here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonising-feminist-knowledge-reflections-on-research-and-curriculum-tickets-60276833632
Apr. 23, 4pm (50 George Square -Room 3.03): María Ángeles Pérez López, Intersecciones y retos de la poesía en 2019 (Intersections and challenges of poetry in 2019) [in Spanish]
Islamophobia and Normative Sociology
Tuesday 7th May, 1pm-3pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre
We are delighted to be welcoming Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol) to Edinburgh to mark the launch of his new book "Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism". For more information and free tickets follow this link: https://tinyurl.com/tariqmodood
How democratization and authoritarianism have become problematic to explain Arab politics
Wednesday 1st May, 6:30pm-8pm, 50 George Square (Project Room)
Professor George van Driem (University of Bern): Tea by any other name... and some highlights of tea history.
Isabel Dalhousie Fellow, May 2019