Thursday 17 Oct
5.30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place.
Astrid Nyland (Stavanger): Lithic raw material procurement practices and quarries from the Mesolithic and Neolithic/Bronze Age.
Thursday 26 Sept
5.30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place.
Manuel Fernandez-Götz (Edinburgh) and Hrvoje Potrebica (Zagreb): Archaeology of a First Millennium BC crossroads in the Balkans: Excavations at the Kaptol hillfort and its environment.
The Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law presents:
Constitutionalising the Party
9th October 2019 | 13.00 - 15.00 (refreshments provided at 15.00)
Neil MacCormick Room, Old College
Political parties have featured in constitutional practice and theory largely in the context of party bans by militant
democracies. Drawing from the value of democracy itself, this paper argues that democratic constitutions should
seek to achieve two design objectives in relation to political parties: separating the state and the ruling party (the
The Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law and the Centre for South Asian Studies present:
The End of Asymmetry? Kashmir and India after the Abrogation
of Article 370: Perspectives from Law, Politics, and History
9th October 2019 | 16.00 - 18:00
Neil MacCormick Room, Old College
Chair: Dr Elisenda Casanas Adam (Edinburgh)
Speakers: Dr Harshan Kumarasingham (Edinburgh)
Professor Tarun Khaitan (Melbourne and Oxford)
Dr Wilfried Swenden (Edinburgh)
This event is free and open to all. No registration necessary.
In the Same Vein: The Hepatitis B Vaccine and America’s Dirty Blood
Lochlann Jain, Stanford University / King’ College London
Monday, 30 September, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Monday, 7 October at 1-2pm, in the Senate Room (New College). Professor Archie Lee (Shandong University), an alumnus from New College, will be speaking at this joint seminar on:
The Darkness Plague and the Creation of Light: Reading Psalm 105: 28 and Gen 1: 1-2 in Chinese Perspectives
The far right ate our lunch: in conversation with Walden Bello
Where: University of Edinburgh LT4, Appleton Tower, 11 Crighton Street, Edinburgh.
When: Wednesday 2 October, 7pm – 9pm
Twists and Turns of Land reform in Latin America: From Old to Current Debates and Beyond (FRIED Seminar)
Dr Elisa Botella Rodriguez, Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Salamanca (hosted by Marisa Wilson, funded by ERASMUS+ Mobility Grant and FRIED)
Wednesday, September 25th, 2:30-4pm
2.13 Geography Building, University of Edinburgh
Dr Umesh Kumar: Landscapes of ‘Honour’: Contextualising the Literary Response to ‘Honour Killings’ through Translation
Abstract
The issue of killing young couples for izzat or honour is a contentious and complex one, which over the years has become an endemic problem in Indian society. Whatever little study that exists around the phenomenon is undertaken within the social sciences or critical historiography.
The Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law and the Centre for South Asian Studies present:
The End of Asymmetry? Kashmir and India after the Abrogation of Article 370: Perspectives from Law, Politics, and History
9th October 2019 | 16.00 - 18:00 Neil MacCormick Room, Old College
Chair: Dr Elisenda Casanas Adam (Edinburgh) Speakers: Dr Harshan Kumarasingham (Edinburgh) Professor Tarun Khaitan (Melbourne and Oxford) Dr Wilfried Swenden (Edinburgh)
This event is free and open to all. No registration necessary.