TUESDAY 4 JUNE
9.30am-5.00pm, Raeburn Room, Old College.
'Shadow Agents of War' Workshop
[Full programme at https://research.shca.ed.ac.uk/shadow-agents-of-war/. Limited places and precirculated papers, so please contact co-organiser Stephen.Bowd@ed.ac.uk]
Dr. Alexis Lothian, from University of Maryland, will give a research seminar on speculative fiction and queer possibility titled "Networked Public Sexual Fantasy and Other Old Queer Futures" on Tuesday, 4 June at 14:30 (ECA boardroom). Refreshments will be provided.
Workshop: The Ambiguity of Violence as Resistance
A conversation with the Legal Advisers to the Permanent Five
7th June 2019
10.30 - 12.00
Adam Lecture Theatre (1.264)
Edinburgh Law School
Old College
A distinguished panel, made of up the Legal Advisers to the Foreign Ministries of the China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, will answer questions on topics of contemporary concern and interest in international law. This is an open event, but for planning purposes prospective attendees are asked to register.
How to know the world? What the untold story of the 1926 Floating University world cruise says about how universities came to have authority over knowledge in the 20th century.
Dr Tamson Pietsch, Director of the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney'
Tuesday May 28th, 12-1.30pm, 50 George Square Room G.06
Abstract
Where did Scotland’s Viking-Age Scandinavian settlers come from? Suggestions from the study of place-names
By Dr Peder Gammeltoft
The Easter Sunday Bombings in Sri Lanka
Causes and Consequences
A Roundtable
Harini Amarasuriya (Open University Sri Lanka/IASH)
Farzana Haniffa (Colombo/Cambridge)
Alan Keenan (International Crisis Group – by Skype)
Farah Mihlar (Exeter)
Jonathan Spencer (Edinburgh)
Workshop 4: Dr Olupemi Oludare, Department of Creative Arts (Music), University of Lagos, Nigeria
Date/Time: Tuesday 18 June 2019, 16.30 – 18.30.
Location: Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh
Type: Lecture/practical workshop
Workshop 3: Ugandan Amadinda and Percussion, with Andy Cooke
Date/Time: Thursday 6 June 2019, 16.30 – 18.30.
Location: Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh
Type: Practical workshop