A conversation with the Legal Advisers to the Permanent Five

7^th June 2019

10.30 - 12.00

Adam Lecture Theatre (1.264)

Edinburgh Law School

Old College

A distinguished panel, made of up the Legal Advisers to the Foreign Ministries of the China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, will answer questions on topics of contemporary concern and interest in international law. This is an open event, but for planning purposes prospective attendees are asked to register.

How to know the world? What the untold story of the 1926 Floating University world cruise says about how universities came to have authority over knowledge in the 20th century.

Dr Tamson Pietsch, Director of the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney'

Tuesday May 28th, 12-1.30pm, 50 George Square Room G.06

Abstract

Where did Scotland’s Viking-Age Scandinavian settlers come from? Suggestions from the study of place-names

By Dr Peder Gammeltoft

[Northern Scholars]

The Easter Sunday Bombings in Sri Lanka

Causes and Consequences

A Roundtable

Harini Amarasuriya (Open University Sri Lanka/IASH)

Farzana Haniffa (Colombo/Cambridge)

Alan Keenan (International Crisis Group – by Skype)

Farah Mihlar (Exeter)

Jonathan Spencer (Edinburgh)

Workshop 4: Dr Olupemi Oludare, Department of Creative Arts (Music), University of Lagos, Nigeria

Date/Time: Tuesday 18 June 2019, 16.30 – 18.30.

Location: Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh

Type: Lecture/practical workshop

DETAILS

Workshop 3: Ugandan Amadinda and Percussion, with Andy Cooke

Date/Time: Thursday 6 June 2019, 16.30 – 18.30.

Location: Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh

Type: Practical workshop

DETAILS

20 Jun 2019 6.00pm – 9.00pm

Lecture Theatre, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ

SEMINAR: Visions of an Inclusive Outer Space: Systems and Architectures

More details will be available soon.
THE EVENT IS FREE, BUT BOOKING A TICKET IS COMPULSORY.
Tickets will be released 1 month prior to the event.

19 Jul 2019 6.00pm – 9.00pm

Bayes Centre Seminar Room (G.03), 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT

SEMINAR: Re(En)Visioning Space Exploration: From the Moon Landing to Further Afield

More details will be available soon.
THE EVENT IS FREE, BUT BOOKING A TICKET IS COMPULSORY.
Tickets will be released 1 month prior to the event.

‘Envisioning Space Exploration: Scotland in Space and the Literary Imagination’ on 23^rd May 2019 at 6 pm in the 1.06 Project Room (50 George Square).

More details and tickets are available in the attached pdf and from here:

http://bit.ly/SDOS-1-Seminar-2019

This three-part seminar series (23^rd May, 20^th June, 19^th July) is part of the Space Enlightenment Festival: https://sdos.ac.uk/

Workshop

Histories of Solidarity, Youth and Transnationalism in the 20th Century

[CSMCH]

27 May 2019

University of Edinburgh

2.19 Geography (Old Infirmary)

12:00-12:15 Welcome

12:15-13:15 Panel 1: Youth, Generation and Activism in the Cold War         

Nikolaos Papadogiannis (Bangor University): Internationalism, Holocaust Memories and Organised Youth Mobility from West Germany to Israel during the Cold War