Hosted Conversation  Why aren’t we planting more trees?

Event date: 
Wednesday 6 November 2019 to Thursday 7 November 2019

WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER

6-8pm, Adam House Lecture Theatre (Basement), 3 Chambers St

Hosted Conversation  Why aren’t we planting more trees?

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Dr Milena Kremakova (Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany): The Lord of Commutative Rings: unravelling the narrative structure of mathematics talks.

Event date: 
Friday 1 November 2019

3.30pm, Old Sugeons’ Hall Seminar Room.

Dr Milena Kremakova (Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany): The Lord of Commutative Rings: unravelling the narrative structure of mathematics talks.

[ISSTI occasional Seminar series, sponsored by the “Social Machines of Mathematics” research project in Informatics]

Encounters with Nature and Animals in 20th-century Literature: round-table and discussion

Event date: 
Wednesday 13 November 2019
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Encounters with Nature and Animals in 20th-century Literature: round-table and discussion

Organised by Ana Calvete, visiting researcher at Edinburgh University, with the support of Cultural Encounters and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

Wednesday 13th November, 14.30-15.45
IASH - The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
The University of Edinburgh
2 Hope Park Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9NW

Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs,  University of St Andrews: Implications of declining household sizes and expectations of home comfort for domestic energy demand

Event date: 
Wednesday 6 November 2019 to Thursday 7 November 2019

Implications of declining household sizes and expectations of home comfort for domestic energy demand

Katherine Ellsworth-Krebs,  University of St Andrews

 

Wednesday 6th November, 16:00 – 17:30

 

Venue: “The Pod” (room G.02), Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI).

 

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Humour Me! A Symposium on Humour, what it is and how it works

Event date: 
Friday 8 November 2019
Time: 
09:00 - 17:00
Location: 
IASH

Humour Me! A Research Symposium on Humour

University of Edinburgh, Friday 8 November 2019

Humour Me! Is a symposium bringing together established and emerging scholars researching humour.

The entire day of Friday 8th November 2019 will be dedicated to this collaborative forum on humour. It will include paper panels, individual talks and workshop sessions, and it will culminate in an evening performance.