Panel Discussion on 'Abortion in Ireland: A Transformative Moment?'

Event date: 
Tuesday 22 May 2018 to Wednesday 23 May 2018
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place

Panel Discussion on 'Abortion in Ireland: A Transformative Moment?', featuring Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUI Galway), Cara Delay (College of Charleston), Laura Kelly (Strathclyde) and Jane O'Neill (Edinburgh)',

[Modern Irish History]

Zhen Zhang: From Sidewalk Xianchang to Spectral Realism: Yang Lina’s Beijing and Beyond

Event date: 
Wednesday 9 May 2018 to Thursday 10 May 2018
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Project Room, 1st floor, 50 George Square

Zhen Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Talk Title: From Sidewalk Xianchang to Spectral Realism: Yang Lina’s Beijing and Beyond

 

Time:  6pm-8pm

Date: 9 May 2018

Location:  Project Room, 1st floor, 50 George Square

University of Edinburgh,

Edinburgh

EH8 9YL

Dr Cheryl Lousley: Imagined Worlds, Democratic Forms: The Public Hearings of the World Commission on Environment and Development

Event date: 
Thursday 3 May 2018
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Room 3.54, 50 George Square

This week we have a talk from our new EH visiting fellow, Dr Cheryl Lousley, on the origins of and ideas behind 'sustainability'.

4.30pm, Thursday 3rd of May

Room 3.54, 50 George Square

Imagined Worlds, Democratic Forms: The Public Hearings of the World Commission on Environment and Development

The 4th Annual Enlightenment Lecture: Dr Margaret Watkins, 'Hume’s Sceptical Hope'

Event date: 
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Project Room | 50 George Square | Edinburgh | EH8 9LH | United Kingdom

The 4th Annual Enlightenment Lecture: Dr Margaret Watkins, 'Hume’s Sceptical Hope'

Project Room | 50 George Square | Edinburgh | EH8 9LH | United Kingdom

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM (BST)

Poetry Reading Jeanette Lynes & Jane Bonnyman

Event date: 
Friday 18 May 2018 to Saturday 19 May 2018
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Friday 18th May, 6pm – 7pm

Please join us for an informal poetry reading at IASH from Visiting Research Fellow Dr Jeanette Lynes and Edinburgh poet Jane Bonnyman, inspired by the lives and works of 19th-century writers John Clare and Fanny Stevenson. Jeanette will read from her award-winning collection Bedlam Cowslip: The John Clare Poems, and Jane will read from her latest collection, An Ember from the Fire: Poems on the Life of Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson.