Professor Frank Stahnisch (University of Calgary): talk rescheduled to 20.02.2019

Event date: 
Wednesday 17 October 2018 to Thursday 18 October 2018
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Frank Stahnisch (University of Calgary / IASH): Great Minds in Despair: Exploring the History of the Forced Migration of German-speaking Neuroscientists to North America, 1933-1963.

now scheduled for 20 February 2019

[IASH Work-in-Progress talk]

Abstract:

The Best of Centuries or the Worst of Centuries?

The Best of Centuries or the Worst of Centuries?

We are delighted to present the expanded version of Professor Lord Stern's recent Fulbright Legacy Lecture, entitled The best of centuries or the worst of centuries? Leadership, governance and cohesion in an interdependent world. The lecture was given at the University of Edinburgh on Wednesday 6th June 2018, and was chaired by the Principal, Professor Peter Mathieson.

Alecia Marie Magnifico (University of New Hampshire, USA): Addressing Methodological Challenges: A New Approach to Tracing Participation Patterns in Online Writing

Event date: 
Wednesday 4 July 2018 to Thursday 5 July 2018
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Paterson’s Land rm 1.26

Addressing Methodological Challenges: A New Approach to Tracing Participation Patterns in Online Writing

Alecia Marie Magnifico (University of New Hampshire, USA)
Jen Scott Curwood (University of Sydney, Australia)
Jayne C. Lammers (University of Rochester, USA)

Wednesday 4th July, Paterson’s Land rm 1.26, 12-2pm

 

Professor Axel Honneth (Frankfurt/Columbia): Honour in Classical Greece

Event date: 
Thursday 28 June 2018
Time: 
17:10
Location: 
Playfair Hall, Royal College of Surgeons, Nicolson St

Honour in Classical Greece (ERC AdvG 741084, 2018–22)

Public Lecture Series

Lecture 2: 28 June 2018
5:10–7:30pm
Speaker: Professor Axel Honneth (Frankfurt/Columbia)
Venue: Playfair Hall, Royal College of Surgeons, Nicolson St, Edinburgh EH8 9DW

The project is delighted to welcome as its second public lecturer Axel Honneth, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia and Frankfurt Universities and Director of the latter’s renowned Institut für Sozialforschung.

 

Film Education Journal launch - a post by Jamie Chambers

Film is a distinct medium with a distinct history and, as such, requires a distinct pedagogy. 

The Film Education Journal is the world’s only publication committed to exploring how teachers and other educators work with film, and to involving other participants – policymakers, academics, researchers, cultural agencies and film-makers themselves – in that conversation.