Adam Roberts in Conversation with John Plotz
Event date:
Monday 8 April 2019
Location:
50 George Square
Speculative Secrecy: Adam Roberts in Conversation with John Plotz @ 50 George Square
Apr 8 @ 5:45 pm – 7:15 pm
Speculative Secrecy: Adam Roberts in Conversation with John Plotz @ 50 George Square
Apr 8 @ 5:45 pm – 7:15 pm
Susan Manning Memorial Lecture: Professor Adam Piette @ 50 George Square
Apr 5 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
The Revolutionary Double Agent and Cold War Citizenship
This year’s Susan Manning Memorial Lecture will be an exploration of “The Revolutionary Double Agent” by Professor Adam Piette (University of Sheffield).
Spies Like Us: Student Showcase @ 50 George Square
Apr 5 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Students from the University of Edinburgh’s Fiction and Espionage course join graduate and postdoctoral students to showcase their work on spying, secrecy and literature. From Game Theory to Queer Theory—find out what our students are investigating!
We are delighted to hear that Dr Sugata Nandi of West Bengal State University (Visiting Research Fellow 2018) has been awarded a prestigious Visiting Research Fellowship at Senate House Library, University of London, to carry forward his project on the history of globalization of Indian magic from 1790 to 1950.
Dr Jonathan Wyatt: 'A story walks into a bar: Connecting stand-up comedy and autoethnography’
Professor Jane Desmond: "When the Patient is a Dog: Prospects for a More-than-Human Medical Humanities"
Janet Coats: The woman who founded Scotland’s longest running book prizes: a free seminar by Lucinda Byatt (University of Edinburgh)
Adapting social intervention models for local use: Connecting People in the UK, Sierra Leone and Nepal.
This seminar will be presented by Professor Martin Webber (University of York) and will take place on Monday 1st April (3pm – 5pm) in Lister Learning and Teaching Centre, Room 4.3, 5 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU.
Adapting social intervention models for local use: Connecting People in the UK, Sierra Leone and Nepal.
This seminar will be presented by Professor Martin Webber (University of York) and will take place on Monday 1st April (3pm – 5pm) in Lister Learning and Teaching Centre, Room 4.3, 5 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU.
Professor David Purdie (IASH Honorary Fellow): Hume, Einstein and Relativity
[IASH Work in Progress talk]