Reflect on what is habitual! Who could or would wish to begin such reflection? How should one suspect some mystery in what one has always seen, done, or felt? […] Heavy bodies fall, movement is communicated; the stars revolve over our heads, and what subject for wonder, what subject for inquiry could there be in such familiar things!
Pierre Maine de Biran, Introduction to Sur l’influence de l'habitude sur la faculté de penser (1802)
7 May
1:00-3:00pm. Teviot Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Tariq Modood (University of Bristol): Islamophobia and normative sociology. Lecture and panel discussion (with Nasar Meer, Khadijah Elshayyal, Giulia Liberatore and Michael Rosie).
To register: edin.ac/2Jmcy4T
Citizens, Nations and Migration (CNaM) Network and The Alwaleed Centre
Professor Pamela K. Gilbert (University of Florida) - Nominated Fellow 2019: Victorian Skin: Blushing and Self-Consciousness
Security at the Margins project (ESRC/NRF) and the Centre of African Studies kindly invites you to the workshop:
Transgender Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Predicaments and Possibilities
with Dr B Camminga (Wits University, Johannesburg) and Suma Abdelsamie (LGBTQI+ refugees group in Greece).
Tuesday 7 May from 2 to 5.00 pm
School of Social and Political Sciences, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15/a George Square, Violet Laidlaw room, 6th floor.
Edinburgh Centre for Global History
Wednesday 1 May
Professor John McGreevy (Notre Dame)
‘Jacques Maritain, the democratic crisis and the promise and perils of a global Catholic history’.
17.15-19.00, room 2.03, 50 George Square
David Talbot Rice Lecture 2019: Guest speaker Robert McDowell, Funder-Director of Summerhall, Edinburgh. Thursday 23 May, 7-8pm. Followed by a wine reception. Organised by the Friends of Edinburgh University Visual Arts. Contact Margaret Stewart to reserve a place - m.c.h.stewart@ed.ac.uk.
Dr Guy Stevenson - ‘Disdaining the tribe: anti-humanism in the counterculture’
Tuesday, 23 April
5.30pm, Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh.
Prof Eric Weitz (CUNY): The Soviet Union, Self-Determination, and the Creation of the Postwar Human Rights System. Details: https://asen.ac.uk/events/weitz/
[23rd Gellner Lecture, The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)]
The School of Economics is delighted to welcome Professor Yingyi Qian to give a public lecture on “The Rise of China's Universities in Comparative Perspective.”
On Thursday 4th and Friday 5th April, a contingent of IASH Postdoctoral Fellows attended the ECHIC Conference in Athens, Greece. ECHIC (the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres) is a university-based initiative to organise European Research Institutes, Humanities Faculties and Centres for the Humanities. The conference addressed the interface between humanities and the arts within Europe in a globalised world, focusing on the creative industries as a paradigmatic topos of such confluences.