Professor Sotaro Kita, Gesture: its relationship to thinking and speaking
12.30-2pm, Thursday 9th May, St Leonard's Land, room 2.14, Moray House School of Education, Holyrood Road, EH88AQ
Abstract
A Diane Torr Memorial Event organised by SEXES
Sophie Sexon will give a drag performance followed by a talk entitled 'Being Boris Gay: Queer Theory, Medieval Materials and Dressing as a Man for my PhD'. This will be held at the Wee Red Bar (Edinburgh College of Art), 6pm, Thursday 9 May.
IASH warmly welcomes proposals from Fellows past and present to participate in our 50th Anniversary Symposium at the Playfair Library, Old College, on Thursday 23rd April 2020:
Humanities of the Future: perspectives from the past and present
Speaker: Dr Benedetta Cappellini, University of Edinburgh
Date and time: Thursday 16th of May, 15.30 -17.00
Venue: Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square, EH8 9LD.
Title: Unpacking the lunchbox: biopedagogies, mothering and social class
Abstract:
Thursday 9 May, 1830
Project Room, 50 George Square
Dr Fiona Edmonds (University of Lancaster)
'Gaelic around the Solway Firth in the medieval period'
(O'Donnell Lecture, Celtic & Scottish Studies)
rescheduled from 30 April.
5pm, Room G.15, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Claudia Stern (CSMCH-IASH Fellow 2018-9, Freie Universität, Berlin)
'"By reason or force": Space, nationhood and class under the shadow of cultural trauma in Chile, 1970-1990'
The Center of Research Collection invites you to come along on: Tuesday, 30th of April 5pm Wee Red Bar Edinburgh College of Art Lauriston Place
Speaker: Harry Weeks
Thing of the Month
Come along and look at the beautiful scultpures by Lara Hirst, ‘Pro Tanto Quid Retribamus’ & ‘One Pound Coin’ both from 2017 and discuss the value of art and the art market! Enjoy some drinks afterwards in the Wee Red Bar and celebrate the last event this semester! All welcome!!!
Kimberlé Crenshaw (Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School and co-founder of the African American Policy Forum): 30 Years of Theorizing Justice: Intersectionality, Critical Race Theory and Contemporary Challenges
Her Excellency, Mrs Ruchi Ghanashyam, Indian High Commissioner: India-Scotland Relationship and its Way forward
Event: ‘Decolonising Feminist Knowledge: Reflections on Research and Curriculum’
Workshop at the University of Edinburgh
Wednesday, 22nd May 2019, 9 am – 5.30 pm followed by Reception