Flexible Learning Week
Wednesday 19 February, 16.30–18.00,
(Not, as appeared in a previous mailing, Screening Room G.04 at 50 George Square.)
Alison Light and Others, Research Group in Life-Writing Event
[English Literature Seminar Series: Semester 2, 2019–20]
public meeting to be held next week, 4-6pm on Thursday 23rd January at the ECCI Conference Centre in High School Yards This event is being held to express solidarity with students and staff at partner universities in India, and to reflect on recent events in the country.
Please join us to find out what is going on, listen to interventions from students, staff and friends in India, and be part of the discussion.
An evening of Indian Classical Music
A date for your diary: 22 February 2020 for a very special concert of Indian Classical Music at the fantastic venue of Beetroot Sauvage, 33-41, Ratcliffe Terrace, Edinburgh EH9 1SX
Professor Martin Pickering is Director of Research for the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.
He works in the areas of psychology of language and communication, including language production, language comprehension, dialogue, language and imagination, joint action, and bilingualism.
Further information may be found on his webpage.
Zachary Seals and Sergio Melgar (Edinburgh): ‘Natural theology in Scotland: the place of Scottish common-sense realism in reformed theology’
Kristine Palmieri (Chicago): ‘Polaris in Ursa Minor? Friedrich August Wolf, the Halle Seminar, and the history of philology’
Alastair Learmont (Edinburgh): ‘The West Indian Interest at the time of Abolition (1783–1803): The significance of William and James Chisholme’
Regis Coursin (Montreal): ‘Against Despotism: approaching the republican Atlantic, c.1769–1791’
Alley Jordan (Edinburgh): ‘A temple to the muses: reimagining antiquity during the grand tour in Kenneth Mackenzie’s classical apartments, 1771’
Rory Lamb (Edinburgh): ‘“A most handsome method of introducing me”: James Playfair and Scottish architectural patronage in eighteenth-century London’
Anna Myers (Edinburgh): ‘“Hung up for monuments”: the material legacy of Shakespeare’s Richard III’
Robert Stearn (Birkbeck): ‘Patterns of skill: narrative and material forms of practical knowledge in early eighteenth-century adventure fiction’
Wednesday 5 February
Eileen Zhao (Edinburgh): ‘Sick Body, selfhood and the temporal experience in Dream of the Red Chamber’
Joyce Dixon (Edinburgh): ‘Azure Blue, Verdigris Green, Sulphur Yellow: The mineralogical origins of Patrick Syme Wener’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814)’
Georgia Vullinghs (Edinburgh): ‘“Oh had I been a more useful sex!” Jacobite women and acts of loyalty’
Alastair Noble (Edinburgh): ‘“A fair and just light”: the understanding and use of history in the post-Culloden Highlands’
All seminars will be held at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, Hope Park Square, EH8 9NW, from 4:30–6pm.