April 2019

Dr Jung-Hwa Kim: Reinventing the Theatrum Botanicum: The New Display of Nature in Contemporary Botanical Gardens

Event date: 
Monday 29 April 2019
Time: 
12:30
Location: 
ECA Main Boardroom (Room L05)

Monday 29th April, 2019 – 12.30 – 2pm

Venue: ECA Main Boardroom (Room L05)

 

Dr Jung-Hwa Kim, is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh and is a Visiting Researcher at the Environmental Planning Institute of Seoul National University.

 

Seminar Title: Reinventing the Theatrum Botanicum: The New Display of Nature in Contemporary Botanical Gardens

 

Dr Carrie Figdor

American Philosophical Association Edinburgh Fellowship: March to August 2020 / Honorary Fellowship: September 2020 to January 2021

Professor Carrie Figdor is Associate Professor in Department of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa.

Project title: Minding the Other: How We Do Things With Folk Psychology

Dr Joshua Rivkin

Joshua Rivkin is the author of Chalk: The Art of Erasure of Cy Twombly, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and finalist for the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. His first collection of poems, Suitor, is forthcoming. His poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Best New Poets.

Ambedkar Memorial Lecture by Karin Kapadia*

Event date: 
Friday 24 May 2019
Location: 
Violet Ladilaw Room (6.02) Chrystal Macmillian Building

Ambedkar Memorial
Lecture by Karin Kapadia*
Friday, 24 May 2019
Time TBC, Violet Ladilaw Room
(6.02)
Chrystal Macmillian Building
*Karin Kapadia is associate at
University of Oxford

film screening; KABALI

Event date: 
Wednesday 10 April 2019
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
G.04, 50 George Square

CSAS Film Night will be screening Pa. Ranjith’s film KABALI, starring superstar Rajinikanth next week. Please see below for details:

 

Film: KABALI (Tamil with Eng subs)

Time: 5:30- 9 pm (It’s a long film but snacks on the house!)

When: Wednesday, 10th April 2019

Where: G.04, 50 George Square