Dr Lucinda Byatt: Republicanism in mid-sixteenth century Italy: Florentine exiles, Brutus and (a little) Dante

Event date: 
Wednesday 21 November 2018 to Thursday 22 November 2018
Time: 
19:00
Location: 
Godfrey Thomson Hall, Thomson's Land, University of Edinburgh Holyrood Campus, EH8 8AQ

Republicanism in mid-sixteenth century Italy: Florentine exiles, Brutus and (a little) Dante

Dr Lucinda Byatt | Wednesday 21 November 2018 | 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Free

Godfrey Thomson Hall, Thomson's Land, University of Edinburgh Holyrood Campus, EH8 8AQ

A literary dialogue set in Rome in the 1540s highlights the significance of Brutus for a group of Florentines with republican sympathies

Dr Sally Crumplin: Inside a Medieval Manuscript

Event date: 
Wednesday 10 October 2018 to Thursday 11 October 2018
Time: 
19:00
Location: 
Godfrey Thomson Hall, Thomson's Land, University of Edinburgh Holyrood Campus, EH8 8AQ

Inside a Medieval Manuscript

Dr Sally Crumplin  | Wednesday 10 October 2018 | 7:00pm - 8:30pm | Free

Godfrey Thomson Hall, Thomson's Land, University of Edinburgh Holyrood Campus, EH8 8AQ

Explore what can we learn from a single medieval manuscript and give an insight into 12th-century society in Southern Scotland, Northern England and beyond.

 

Eleanor Lucy Deacon (UoE): Literary Analysis of the Iranian Ta'ziyeh Repertoire: Foregrounding the Mother in The Martyrdom of Qasem; Marjan Asi: talk title tbc.

Event date: 
Monday 5 November 2018
Time: 
17:15
Location: 
Room G.02, 19 George Square.

5.15pm, Room G.02, 19 George Square.

Eleanor Lucy Deacon (UoE): Literary Analysis of the Iranian Ta'ziyeh Repertoire: Foregrounding the Mother in The Martyrdom of Qasem; Marjan Asi: talk title tbc.

[Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar]

Joey Ayoub (UoE): Haunting & the Post-war Generation in Lebanese Cinema + Waves ’98 by Ely Dagher (15mins); Erden Goktepe (UoE): Transforming the Representation of Masculinities in the Cinema of Turkey: Revisiting the 1980 Military Coup.

Event date: 
Monday 29 October 2018
Time: 
17:15
Location: 
Room G.02, 19 George Square.

5.15pm, Room G.02, 19 George Square.

Joey Ayoub (UoE): Haunting & the Post-war Generation in Lebanese Cinema + Waves ’98 by Ely Dagher (15mins); Erden Goktepe (UoE): Transforming the Representation of Masculinities in the Cinema of Turkey: Revisiting the 1980 Military Coup.

[Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar]