A new paper in the Historical Journal by 2016 Hume Fellow Dr Felix Waldmann and his colleague Dr J.C. Walmsley outlines their discovery of a previously unknown manuscript by John Locke. Entitled Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others, the manuscript is dated 1667 and has lain undisturbed in the archives of St John’s College, Annapolis for many years.
General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries (1635-1699), Chief Advisor to Tsar Peter the Great, and His Diary - Lecture by Dr Dmitry Fedosov (Russian Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Edinburgh)
Date & time: Wednesday, 11 September 2019, 17:15
Location: the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, the University of Edinburgh, 19 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LN
The event is open - no prior registration is required.
Professor Barbara Grosz (School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University): From Ethical Challenges of Intelligent Systems to Embedding Ethics in Computer Science Education
[Informatics]
To attend this lecture, please register by Monday 9th September 2019 (tickets are free, but space is limited) via: https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics/news-events/lectures/grosz-ethical-challenges-intelligent-systems
Event: Language in Context Seminar
Date: 4 October, 2019
Time: 15:10-16:30
Venue: TBA
Speaker: Lauren Hall-Lew and Graeme Trousdale (University of Edinburgh)
Title of talk: Breksit or Bregzit : When political ideology drives language ideology
Dr Michelle Brock: Covenant and Community: Religious Life in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Relationships between women and their children following domestic abuse: Reasons to be hopeful
Fiona Buchanan PhD, Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia and author of Mothering Babies in Domestic Violence 2018, Routledge.
Today we are proud to announce the launch of our crowdfunding campaign for our brand new book Dangerous Women. This is the next stage in the legacy of the Dangerous Women Project (2016-2017) in which we asked 365 women ‘what it means to be a dangerous woman’.
I feel deeply honoured to receive this year’s Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellowship at IASH. It seems to be a scarcely believable accolade to someone who still feels a novice at trying to understand European history and culture. I was originally trained in the natural sciences, specializing in chemistry (in China). I then became interested in the history of Western science, and soon realized that I had to come to Europe to study these matters.
Justin Meggitt (University of Cambridge), Starting from a different
place: radical dissent and the reception of Islam among early Quakers and Unitarians
This seminar is co-sponsored by Religious Studies and Christian-Muslim Studies.