IASH | The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Zubin Mistry (University of Edinburgh): Spiritual medicine and the sickness of sin: Rereading the body in early Medieval penitentials

Event date:

Tuesday 16 October 2018

Time:

17:10

Location:

Teviot Lecture Theatre. Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Tuesday 16 Oct

5.10pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre. Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Zubin Mistry (University of Edinburgh): Spiritual medicine and the sickness of sin: Rereading the body in early Medieval penitentials.

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies]

Richard Piran McClary (University of Edinburgh): A corpus of thirteenth-century brick Rum Seljuq Minarets.

Event date:

Tuesday 9 October 2018

Location:

Minto House, Elliot Room, 20–22 Chambers Street.

Tuesday 9 Oct

5.10pm, Minto House, Elliot Room, 20–22 Chambers Street.

Richard Piran McClary (University of Edinburgh): A corpus of thirteenth-century brick Rum Seljuq Minarets.

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies / Architectural History & Theory]

Foteini Spingou (University of Edinburgh): What is Later Byzantium? Towards a new periodisation of Byzantine cultural history.

Event date:

Friday 5 October 2018

Location:

LG.10, David Hume Tower.

Friday 5 Oct

5.10PM, LG.10, David Hume Tower.

Foteini Spingou (University of Edinburgh): What is Later Byzantium? Towards a new periodisation of Byzantine cultural history.

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies / Byzantine Studies]

Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh): Word embodied: Entangled icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist art.

Event date:

Thursday 4 October 2018

Location:

Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017).

Thursday 4 Oct

5.10pm, Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017).

Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh): Word embodied: Entangled icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist art.

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies / History of Art]

Youval Rotman (Tel Aviv University): Liberating the bounded self: Slavery, psychology and Byzantine literature.

Event date:

Wednesday 3 October 2018

Location:

Appleton Tower LT 3, Crichton Street.

Wednesday 3 Oct

5.10pm, Appleton Tower LT 3, Crichton Street.

Youval Rotman (Tel Aviv University): Liberating the bounded self: Slavery, psychology and Byzantine literature.

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies / Classics]

Marie-Louise Rodén (Kristianstad University): Christina – Sweden’s enigmatic "Virgin Queen".

Event date:

Tuesday 2 October 2018

Location:

Teviot Lecture Theatre. Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Tuesday 2 Oct

5.15pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre. Doorway 5, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

Marie-Louise Rodén (Kristianstad University): Christina – Sweden’s enigmatic "Virgin Queen".

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies]

Sara Parvis (University of Edinburgh): A tale of two councils: Constantinople 360 and Constantinople 381.

Event date:

Monday 1 October 2018

Location:

Althaus Reid Room, New College, Mound Place.

Monday 1 Oct

5.15pm, Althaus Reid Room, New College, Mound Place.

Sara Parvis (University of Edinburgh): A tale of two councils: Constantinople 360 and Constantinople 381.

[Medieval and Renaissance Studies / History of Christianity]

Kelsey Jackson Williams (University of Stirling) 'Thomas Innes: Scotland’s premier Enlightenment historian?'

Event date:

Friday 16 November 2018 to Saturday 17 November 2018

Time:

16:00

Location:

Room 2.36, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

Friday 16 Nov
Kelsey Jackson Williams (University of Stirling)

'Thomas Innes: Scotland’s premier Enlightenment historian?'

Room 2.36, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

[ntellectual History Research Group seminars]

Max Skjönsberg (St Andrews University) 'Adam Ferguson on the perils of popular factions and demagogues in a Roman mirror'

Event date:

Friday 2 November 2018 to Saturday 3 November 2018

Time:

16:00

Location:

Room 2.36, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

Friday 2 Nov

Max Skjönsberg (St Andrews University)

'Adam Ferguson on the perils of popular factions and demagogues in a Roman mirror'

Room 2.36, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

Dr Sugata Nandi (West Bengal State University, Kolkata / IASH Fellow): Insubordinate Enchantment: Indian Magic in Britain, C.1800-1940

Event date:

Thursday 15 November 2018 to Friday 16 November 2018

Time:

13:00

Location:

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Dr Sugata Nandi (West Bengal State University, Kolkata / IASH Fellow):

Insubordinate Enchantment: Indian Magic in Britain, C.1800-1940