Professor Mary Beard - The Ancient World and us: from fear and loathing to enlightenment and ethics

Event date: 
Monday 6 May 2019
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
The Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH

Professor Mary Beard - The Ancient World and us: from fear and loathing to enlightenment and ethics

Mary Beard is Professor of Classics at Newnham College, University of Cambridge

Events Details

Dates: 6, 7, 9, 27, 28, 30 May, 5.30-6.30pm.

 The lectures may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm.

 Venue: The Sypert Concert Room, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG

  Wilson McLeod (University of Edinburgh): Gaelic as a minority/national/regional/ethnic language in Scotland

Event date: 
Wednesday 24 April 2019
Time: 
15:10
Location: 
01M.469 Room 12 (Doorway 3), Medical School

Language in Context seminar series (https://www.ed.ac.uk/ppls/linguistics-and-english-language/research/talks-and-reading-groups/language-in-context-seminars).

 

Speaker:              Wilson McLeod (University of Edinburgh)

Title:                      Gaelic as a minority/national/regional/ethnic language in Scotland

Lucy Weir 'Bodies in crisis? Rethinking gender and self-injury in performance'

Event date: 
Wednesday 13 March 2019 to Thursday 14 March 2019
Time: 
15:00
Location: 
Room 1.9, Doorway 6, Medical School, Teviot Place

Lucy Weir 'Bodies in crisis? Rethinking gender and self-injury in performance'

13th March, 3-4.30pm

Room 1.9, Doorway 6, Medical School, Teviot Place

Health Humanities and Arts Seminar series

‘Language, Place and Identity: a dissemination workshop’

Event date: 
Monday 11 March 2019
Time: 
12:30
Location: 
G32, 7 George Square.

12.30pm, G32, 7 George Square.

‘Language, Place and Identity: a dissemination workshop’ is an event exploring children’s experiences of bilingualism in Scotland.  The panel will include Professor Antonella Sorace as well as individuals from Bòrd na Gàidhlig, Education Scotland and SCILT.