Thursday 28 Nov
5.30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place.
Diane Bolger (Edinburgh): Figurine makers of prehistoric Cyprus: Final results of the 2001-2011 excavations at Souskiou Laona.
Thursday 21 Nov
5.30pm, G.16, doorway 4, Medical School
Andrew Bevan (UCL): From Pandora’s pithos to Egil’s stockfish. A quick but comparative archaeology of European and Mediterranean food storage practices.
Thursday 14 Nov
5.30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place.
Jonny Geber (Edinburgh): Harvested bodies: Anatomisation of adolescent suicides in nineteenth-century Scania, Sweden.
Thursday 31 Oct
5.30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place.
Oliver Harris (Leicester): Assembling past worlds: Neolithic Britain and the challenge of contemporary theory.
Thursday 17 Oct
5.30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place.
Astrid Nyland (Stavanger): Lithic raw material procurement practices and quarries from the Mesolithic and Neolithic/Bronze Age.
Thursday 26 Sept
5.30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing, Teviot Place.
Manuel Fernandez-Götz (Edinburgh) and Hrvoje Potrebica (Zagreb): Archaeology of a First Millennium BC crossroads in the Balkans: Excavations at the Kaptol hillfort and its environment.
The Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law presents:
Constitutionalising the Party
9th October 2019 | 13.00 - 15.00 (refreshments provided at 15.00)
Neil MacCormick Room, Old College
Political parties have featured in constitutional practice and theory largely in the context of party bans by militant
democracies. Drawing from the value of democracy itself, this paper argues that democratic constitutions should
seek to achieve two design objectives in relation to political parties: separating the state and the ruling party (the
The Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law and the Centre for South Asian Studies present:
The End of Asymmetry? Kashmir and India after the Abrogation
of Article 370: Perspectives from Law, Politics, and History
9th October 2019 | 16.00 - 18:00
Neil MacCormick Room, Old College
Chair: Dr Elisenda Casanas Adam (Edinburgh)
Speakers: Dr Harshan Kumarasingham (Edinburgh)
Professor Tarun Khaitan (Melbourne and Oxford)
Dr Wilfried Swenden (Edinburgh)
This event is free and open to all. No registration necessary.
In the Same Vein: The Hepatitis B Vaccine and America’s Dirty Blood
Lochlann Jain, Stanford University / King’ College London
Monday, 30 September, 15:00 – 17:00
Venue: Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th Floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Monday, 7 October at 1-2pm, in the Senate Room (New College). Professor Archie Lee (Shandong University), an alumnus from New College, will be speaking at this joint seminar on:
The Darkness Plague and the Creation of Light: Reading Psalm 105: 28 and Gen 1: 1-2 in Chinese Perspectives