Friday 31 January
12 – 2PM. Venue: Digital Scholarship Centre, CRC, 6th Floor, Main Library
Victor Pickard (University of Pennsylvania) - After the Crisis: Reimagining Journalism and Public Media
[Centre for Data, Culture & Society]
4pm, Room 1.434, Doorway 3, Medical School.
Professor Lucy McDiarmid (Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, Montclair State University, New Jersey): Recent Irish Poetry and Slightly Magical Liquids.
[English Literature - guest lecture]
3.10pm, Gaddam Lecture Theatre, 1 George Square.
Michelle Spektor (MIT visiting scholar): Privacy, Credibility, and Expertise: Opposition to National Biometric Identification Systems.
[Edinburgh Futures Institute in association with Science Technology and Innovation Studies]
24 March, 5.15pm, Elliott Room, 20 Chambers Street.
Professor Petra Brower (University of Amsterdam). The invention of a genre. James Fergusson’s Handbook of architecture (1855)
[ESALA Architectural History and Theory seminar]
10 March, 5.15pm, Elliott Room, 20 Chambers Street.
Professor Iain Jackson (University of Liverpool). Sharing Stories from Jamestown: The building of mercantile Accra.
[ESALA Architectural History and Theory seminar]
25 February, 5.15pm, Elliott Room, 20 Chambers Street.
Professor Deborah Sugg Ryan (University of Portsmouth). Feeding minds as well as bodies: The design, decoration and material culture of British Restaurants in the Second World War.
[ESALA Architectural History and Theory seminar]
11 February, 5.15pm, Elliott Room, 20 Chambers Street.
Professor Carla Yanni (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey). Living on Campus: The American College Dormitory in the Twentieth Century.
[ESALA Architectural History and Theory seminar]
28 January, 5.15pm, Elliott Room, 20 Chambers Street.
Dr Jessica Kelly (University of the Creative Arts, Farnham): ‘Cranks and Laymen’: consolidating the role of the ‘expert’ architect and the layman public in architectural criticism, 1935-1940
[ESALA Architectural History and Theory seminar]
Thurs 23 April, 5:15pm
Ana-Lucia Araujo (Howard University)
Annual Lecture in the History of Slavery
venue TBC
[Edinburgh Centre for Global History]
Wed 18 March, 5:15pm
Ceyda Karamursel (SOAS, University of London)
‘The Sack and the Bowstring: A Global History of Ottoman Slavery and Freedom’
G16, William Robertson Wing
[Edinburgh Centre for Global History]