5pm, 50 George Square, G.01.
Louise Milne: Metamorphosis, Myth, Dream-cultures and Desire: The Case of the Water-woman.
[Traditional Cosmology Society]
Fri Dec 6, 2019
5.30pm
Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5
Professor David Tandy: 'Slavery, honour and ideology in Homer'
Professor David Tandy (Leeds) explores the dynamics of slavery and honour in Homer, and how the realities of production in early Greece interlocked with ideas about honour and social interaction.
[Department of Classics Slavery and Honour in Ancient Greece project]
5.30pm, Informatics Forum.
Sue Fletcher-Watson and Christine Carlin, (Salvesen Mindroom Centre): Learning Difficulties - whose voice matters?
Research by 2019 European Fellow Dr Liam Thornton has hit the headlines in recent days. Dr Thornton is assistant professor in the School of Law, University College Dublin, and a human rights law academic who has been examining legal aspects of the system of direct provision in Ireland for over a decade.
Friday, 22nd of November, 12:00 – 13:00, Conference room (Business School(, E&I Research Seminar (for those PhD students interested in innovation, new technology, & competition in ecosystems):
Prof. Marina Candi on Exaptation in a digital innovation ecosystem: The disruptive impacts of 3D printing
Dr Joanna Fox (Anglia Ruskin University): The neoliberal university: mental ill-health in social work education.
Free registration https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-neoliberal-university-mental-ill-health-in-social-work-education-tickets-71253672653
[Social Work]
Cristina Valdés (University of Oviedo): Translating Multimedia/Modal Advertising
[Translation Studies]
Abstract
Firstly, in this seminar I will introduce the main topic of advertising and promotional translation, focusing on the translation of audiovisual and promotional web material and drawing some attention on why advertising material is translated, with regard to marketing and communication issues or cultural ones.
Madeleine Campbell (University of Edinburgh): Translating across Sensory and Linguistic Borders: Intersemiotic Journeys between Media
[Translation Studies]
Abstract
Dr Giulia Taddeo: Dancing at the Edinburgh Festival. Dance, culture and national identities in the Europe of the Fifties