Monday     12/11/2018     18:00-20:00     Journeys Documentary: Had-Anhad     Hunter Building Lecture Theatre O17 

ECA INDIA SEASON

Russian Studies Research Seminar

26 November 2018, 6-9 pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.

Witchcraft and Society in Early Modern Russia: Why Witchcraft and Magical Spells Provide all the Answers to Early Modern Russian History.

JK MASON INSTITUTE

We will hold our MI Winter Lecture on Nov 5^th Screening Room G04, 50 George Square from 6-8 pm. , with a lecture from  Sridhar Venkatapuram, Senior Lecturer in Global Health & Philosophy at King’s College London, UK. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Talk Title: ‘Global Health and Equity 2.0.’

You are warmly invited to a showcase of research from the AHRC-funded History of Financial Advice project at the University of Edinburgh.

Please join us to learn about the changing ways in which ordinary people have been advised to invest their money, from the eighteenth century to the present (details below).

Time: 3.10-4.30 pm, Wednesday 5th December 2018

Place: S.1 / room 2.01, second floor, 7 George Square, University of Edinburgh

A launch event for a new research cluster of PhD, postdoctoral researchers and faculty at University of Edinburgh whose work explores issues of sex, gender, and sexuality.

Performance by Stephanie Black-Daniels.
Email sexeseca@gmail.com if you have any questions.

More details here

6.00pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Professor Penny Fielding (Edinburgh): “Evidence that Might Assist in a Further Research”: Testimony, Law and the Fate of Phillip Standsfield

[4th Angus McIntosh Lecture, Scottish Text Society]

 
The Scottish Text Society invites you to the 4^th Angus McIntosh Lecture
6.00pm, Monday 5 November, 2018, Project Room, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh:

Penny Fielding, Grierson Professor of English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Thursday 15 November

Professor Peter Millican, Hertford College, University of Oxford

‘What Hume Really Thought about Causation’

Time and Location: S37, Psychology Building, 7 George Square, 2pm-3.30pm

Dr Jeremy Dunham (University of Durham)  

‘On the Experience of Activity: William James’s Late Metaphysics and Nineteenth-Century French Philosophy’

Time and Location: S37, Psychology Building, 7 George Square, 2.10pm-4pm