25-26 February
‘Majority Nationalism in Plurinational States’
Co-sponsored by the Centre on Constitutional Change and UQAM
Board Room, St. John's Land, Holyrood Road, EH8 8AQ
Please contact Dr Daniel Cetrà (d.cetra@ed.ac.uk) if you wish to attend
22 February @ 1pm
Professor Christopher Kirkey (SUNY Plattsburg)
‘The Trump Administration and Canada: Re-defining the ‘Special Relationshhip'
Co-sponsored by the Centre of Canadian Studies and the Transatlantic Seminar Series
Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15A George Square
[Centre of Canadian Studies ]
13 February @ 5 pm
Professor Michel Roche (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
’The Current Political Context in Québec since the Election'
Co-sponsored by the Centre of Canadian Studies and the Centre on Constitutional Change
Board Room, St. John's Land, Holyrood Road, EH8 8AQ
Tea/coffee will be available from 4:30 pm
(13th February) in DSB, Room 1.20. The speaker will be Sarah Garfinkel, a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Sussex who is very well known for her work on interoception (the sense of the internal body). Her talk will explore some of her research that shows that this sense of the internal body is relevant to cognition and emotion in interesting ways.
Sarah Garfinkel: Hearts and Minds: Hidden impacts on emotion and cognition
Talk abstract:
Ending violence against children locally and globally: An idea whose time is now
Friday 1 March
5.00pm – 6.15pm
University of Edinburgh Business School
Guest speaker: Dr Howard Taylor, Executive Director, Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children
3.10pm, S1, 7 George Square (note: not the same venue as Semester 1)
Dave Kush (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): What Norwegian Can Tell Us About Island Constraints.
[Linguistic Circle]
The second gathering of Screams and Whispers continues our imagining of queer aurality through deep listening of sonic material from archival and contemporary sources. Listening will last about one hour, followed by thirty minutes of discussion. The group is convened by artist and PhD researcher Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay.
Wednesday, February 13// 17:30-19:00 // 5.21 Evolution House //
All Welcome
SEXES Research Group
ECA/University of Edinburgh
74 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh EH3 9DF
Speaker: Dr Joy Zhang, University of Kent
Date and time: Thursday 14th of February, 15.30 -17.00
Venue: Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, George Square, EH8 9LD.
Title: Cosmopolitan risk community in a bowl: The search for ‘good food’ in China
FRIED seminar
Abstract:
Dr Chiara Bonnachi (University of Stirling), Heritage, Nationalism and Online Political Activism
February 11, 2019 5pm to 6.30 pm
Digital Scholarship Centre, Centre for Research Collections, Main Library
Booking link: https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=book&scheduleID=33662
Feb. 12, 50 George Square, G04, 5pm: Dr. Luz Horne, Cinema of/as Garbage: Eduardo Coutinho’s Politics of Image from Jogo de Cena (2007) to Boca de Lixo (1992), Introduced by Dr. Raquel Ribeiro