February 2020 | IASH

Haftor Medbøe and Gunnar Halle

Event date:

Friday 6 March 2020

Time:

12:30

on Friday 6^th March 12:30pm – 2:00pm the Jazz and Popular Music Study Group (ECA) will be presenting a jazz performance/Q&A session featuring guitarist Haftor Medbøe and visiting artist from Oslo, Gunnar Halle (trumpet, electronics, voice) in the Reid Concert Hall. The performance portion of the programme will feature interpretive tone poems based upon the work of Danish poet Martin N Hansen.

Free. Open to all.

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"

February 7, 2020

Dr Catherine Crompton

Doctoral research by 2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Catherine Crompton was featured in several national newspapers this week. Her recent paper in Computers in Human Behaviour, co-authored with Dr Sarah E.

Grey Micah (University of Edinburgh): Japanese to English Translation of Gender Nonconformity in Manga and Anime.

Event date:

Wednesday 12 February 2020 to Thursday 13 February 2020

Time:

16:00

4pm, G.03, Doorway 6, Medical School, Teviot.

Grey Micah (University of Edinburgh): Japanese to English Translation of Gender Nonconformity in Manga and Anime.

[Translation Studies]

Dr. Maria Laura Spaturno (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina): Drama Translation as Retranslation. The Case of Bashir Lazhar.

Event date:

Monday 10 February 2020 to Tuesday 11 February 2020

Time:

16:00

4pm, Project Room, 50 George Square 1.06.

Dr. Maria Laura Spaturno (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina): Drama Translation as Retranslation. The Case of Bashir Lazhar.

[Translation Studies]

Péter Bara (University of Szeged): Leo of Chalcedon: The network, paideia, and miracles of an Early Komnenian metropolitan.

Event date:

Monday 23 March 2020

Time:

17:15

Monday 23 Mar

5.15pm, 7.18, David Hume Tower.

Péter Bara (University of Szeged): Leo of Chalcedon: The network, paideia, and miracles of an Early Komnenian metropolitan.

Byzantine Studies seminars

Kirsty Stewart (Edinburgh): “Whiter than crystal” – Ideals and realities of beauty in Byzantium.

Event date:

Monday 16 March 2020

Time:

17:15

Monday 16 Mar

5.15pm, 7.18, David Hume Tower.

Kirsty Stewart (Edinburgh): “Whiter than crystal” – Ideals and realities of beauty in Byzantium.

Byzantine Studies seminars

Dimitrios Skrekas (Oxford): Neophytos, Bishop of Grevena: A less known author of the15th century.

Event date:

Monday 17 February 2020

Time:

17:15

Monday 17 Feb

5.15pm, 7.18, David Hume Tower.

Dimitrios Skrekas (Oxford): Neophytos, Bishop of Grevena: A less known author of the15th century.

Byzantine Studies seminars

Olivier Delouis (Paris): Preaching is a performing art (as demonstrated by Theodore the Stoudite, AD 759–826).

Event date:

Monday 27 January 2020

Time:

17:15

Monday 27 Jan

5.15pm, 7.18, David Hume Tower.

Olivier Delouis (Paris): Preaching is a performing art (as demonstrated by Theodore the Stoudite, AD 759–826).

Byzantine Studies seminars

Kyohei Sakeshima (Edinburgh): The Battle of Himera in the Bibliotheke: Diodorus Siculus and the Sicilian past in the Persian Wars.

Event date:

Thursday 9 April 2020

Time:

17:10

Thurs 9 April

5.10pm, LG.10 David Hume Tower.

Kyohei Sakeshima (Edinburgh): The Battle of Himera in the Bibliotheke: Diodorus Siculus and the Sicilian past in the Persian Wars.

Classics postgraduate seminar

Denis Maksimov (Edinburgh): Horae-Styxology: Hesiod as a political theologist and theorist.

Event date:

Thursday 2 April 2020

Time:

17:10

Thurs 2 April

5.10pm, Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building.

Denis Maksimov (Edinburgh): Horae-Styxology: Hesiod as a political theologist and theorist.

Classics postgraduate seminar