Joe Wade (University of Edinburgh)

Making Old Norse New: Nynorsk Saga Translations as a Tool for Corpus Planning and Norwegian Nation Building from 1850 to 1945

Wednesday, 13 November 2019, 4.00-6.00pm

G.06, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh

Abstract:

Join us for this exciting lecture by Richard Seymour about his latest book, "The Twittering Machine: How the Social Industry Commodified Our Lives":

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-richard-seymour-the-twittering-machine-tickets-79896018141

You are kindly invited to our upcoming event in the PIR’s Contemporary Middle East Series: For the Love of Humanity. The World Tribunal on Iraq, a book launch with the author Ayça Çubukçu (Associate Professor of Human Rights at LSE) on Thursday 5th of December 2019 at 6pm in the 6th Floor Staff Room, CMB. The event is organised in collaboration with Social Anthropology and with the support of the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law.  

. The Material and Visual Culture Seminar will be held in Room G.01 50 George Square on 13 November (instead of the usual Evolution House location). Still 5-7pm.  Dexter Govan, ‘Orange aesthetics: material and visual culture in Belfast Orangeism during the third Home Rule crisis, 1910-1914’ and Carlo Scappechi, ‘Tapestries as status-makers in Early Modern Europe and Renaissance Italy’. 

China's Media in the Emerging World Order

Tuesday 19^th November 2019, New Club, Edinburgh, 6pm to 7.30pm

5.15pm, in room G.13, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place

Mary McAuliffe (UCD)

 ‘“'I had a mouthful of steel”: Cumann na mBan, militancy and gendered violence, 1919-1921’

[Modern Irish History seminar]

https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/research-seminars/modern-irish-seminars

Tuesday 5 Nov    
5.15pm, in room G.13, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place

Patrick Mannion (Edinburgh)

‘“Britain’s Flag is our Talisman”: Nationalism, memory, and the Ancient Order of Hibernians in the United States and Canada, 1908-1918’

[Modern Irish History seminar]

5:15pm,  G.01, 50 George Square

Rachel Douglas (University of Glasgow) and Christian Hogsbjerg (University of Brighton): C. L. R. James and The Black Jacobins.

[Edinburgh Centre for Global History]