From Syria to Scotland
Tuesday 20th August, 17:30-19:00, St John's Church, Princes Street (part of the Edinburgh Just Festival)
Peter Mandaville: The Search for Contextualized Islam in Europe & North America
Thursday 26th September 2019, 18:00-20:00, Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George Square
As part of its Globalized Muslim World Lecture Series, the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh invites you to a special lecture by one of the world's most respected political scientists working in the field of contemporary Islam, Professor Peter Mandaville (George Mason University).
> Event: Language in Context Seminar
> Time: 15:10-16:30
> Venue: Dugald Stewart Building, Room 1.17
> Speaker: Frans Gregersen (University of Copenhagen)
> Title of talk: The role of the situation in providing comparable data for studies of language change and variation
Dr Guy Stevenson (Postdoctoral Fellow 2019) looks back at his recent Susan Manning Workshop on the literary significance of the Edinburgh Writers’ Conference of 1962:
Outline
Internationally acclaimed writer John Philip Newell works with some of the most talented young artists of Scotland to tell the story of an enchanted Hebridean world that was lost but is being found again in a new sense of the earth as sacred. The composer and singer Mischa Macpherson weaves her spell of ancient and new sound around the equally compelling performance of the beautiful dancer Kirsten Newell under the artistic direction of Shane Shambhu, achieving what has never been attempted before, a memory of the forgotten influence India has on the Celtic soul.
Peter Mandaville: The Search for Contextualized Islam in Europe & North America
Thursday 26th September 2019, 18:00-20:00, Lecture Theatre G.03, 50 George Square
As part of its Globalized Muslim World Lecture Series, the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh invites you to a special lecture by one of the world's most respected political scientists working in the field of contemporary Islam, Professor Peter Mandaville (George Mason University).
From Syria to Scotland
Tuesday 20th August, 17:30-19:00, St John's Church, Princes Street (part of the Edinburgh Just Festival)
3:30pm, 12th August, Royal Society of Edinburgh
Miranda Anderson (University of Stirling/ University of Edinburgh): Where is Your Mind?
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/where-is-your-mind-tickets-65537844457
1:30pm, 8th August, The New Town Theatre, 96 George Street.
Miranda Anderson (University of Stirling/ University of Edinburgh): Has you Phone Replaced Your Brain?
[Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas]
What we want after “the break” will be different from what we think we want before the break and both are necessarily different from the desire that issues from being in the break.
Jack Halberstam, The Wild Beyond: with and for the Undercommons (2013)