November 2019

Historical novelist Elizabeth Wein in conversation with the university's Writer in Residence, Tracey S. Rosenberg

Event date: 
Thursday 21 November 2019 to Friday 22 November 2019

Thursday 21 November 2019

5-6pm, Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square.

 

Historical novelist Elizabeth Wein in conversation with the university's Writer in Residence, Tracey S. Rosenberg. This event is held in association with Book Week Scotland. A drinks reception follows the talk.

 

Free but ticketed - more information and booking can be found at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visiting-writers-series-elizabeth-wein-tickets-77132614727

 

For the Love of Humanity. The World Tribunal on Iraq by  Ayça Çubukçu - book launch

Event date: 
Thursday 5 December 2019 to Friday 6 December 2019

You are kindly invited to our upcoming event in the PIR’s Contemporary Middle East Series: For the Love of Humanity. The World Tribunal on Iraq, a book launch with the author Ayça Çubukçu (Associate Professor of Human Rights at LSE) on Thursday 5th of December 2019 at 6pm in the 6th Floor Staff Room, CMB. The event is organised in collaboration with Social Anthropology and with the support of the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law.  

 

Dexter Govan, ‘Orange aesthetics: material and visual culture in Belfast Orangeism during the third Home Rule crisis, 1910-1914’ and Carlo Scappechi, ‘Tapestries as status-makers in Early Modern Europe and Renaissance Italy’. 

Event date: 
Wednesday 13 November 2019 to Thursday 14 November 2019
Location: 
G.01 50 George Square

. The Material and Visual Culture Seminar will be held in Room G.01 50 George Square on 13 November (instead of the usual Evolution House location). Still 5-7pm.  Dexter Govan, ‘Orange aesthetics: material and visual culture in Belfast Orangeism during the third Home Rule crisis, 1910-1914’ and Carlo Scappechi, ‘Tapestries as status-makers in Early Modern Europe and Renaissance Italy’. 

China's Media in the Emerging World Order

Event date: 
Tuesday 19 November 2019 to Wednesday 20 November 2019

China's Media in the Emerging World Order

Tuesday 19th November 2019, New Club, Edinburgh, 6pm to 7.30pm

David Hume on God

Book Launch: "David Hume on God", by David Purdie and Peter Fosl

Event date: 
Wednesday 27 November 2019
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
IASH
Please join us to celebrate the release of Honorary Fellow Prof. David Purdie's new book, written with IASH alumnus Prof. Peter S. Fosl, titled David Hume on God (Luath Press 2019). David and Peter will present their work, and a drinks reception will follow. All are welcome.