Mon 16th Mar – 12.30 – 14.00 – Teaching Room 02, Edinburgh Law School, Old College
Civil Litigants in Nineteenth-Century Sheriff Courts - Fergus Smith
[Centre for Legal History]
IASH Speculative Lunch: Game Worlds
Academic Lead; Tom Boylston, Social Anthropology (SSPS)
Event name: Brave Smart World? China’s New Silk Road and Global Digital Dreams
Date: 27 April 6:00-8:00pm
Location: Main Auditorium, Business School, University of Edinburgh (29 Buccleuch Pl, Edinburgh EH8 9JS)
Visual History Archive Workshop
USC Shoah Foundation / ProQuest
Location: University of Edinburgh, Lister Learning and Teaching Centre 1.6, 5 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU
Time: 10-12 noon
Title: The role of the Visual History Archive for multidisciplinary teaching and research
Overview:
Dr Francesco Gusella (University of Münster / IASH Fellow): A Gramscian Perspective on Colonial Baroque: Retable and Pulpit Art from Portuguese India (17th -18th centuries)
Professor Dr Mirjam de Bruijn: Memory, the Digital and Conflict in the Sahel (Africa)
The Traditional Cosmology Society presents a talk by Daniel Watson (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) on Friday 28th February, 17:00 - 19:00, 50 George Square, Room G.01.
Daniel Watson
Re-Embodiment in Early Irish Literature: The Case of Mongán Mac Fiachnai
Date and time: Friday 28th February, 4pm – 5.30pm
Title: Interlocking genealogies of social work's benevolent violences: Key moments the 1790's and 1890's
Location: Practice Suite (room 1.12) in Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD
Full description and Eventbrite link to secure a free place: https://edin.ac/38poSZK
TYPOGRAPHY AS RESISTANCE -- Colin Herd and Vaibhav Singh
5.30pm, 27 February 2020
Wilhelmina Barnes-Graham Trust (77 Brunswick St)
Can designed words devise new worlds? Colin Herd & Vaibhav Singh discuss the power of typography today and how designed words and new print technologies can disrupt, destabilise and act as agents of change. What does activism look like in poetry and print?
Followed by Q&A & drinks reception.