Joel Smith (Carnegie Mellon University): The Eye of the Needle: New Understandings of the Complex Barriers to Instructional Innovation with Technology

Event date: 
Tuesday 29 May 2018 to Wednesday 30 May 2018
Time: 
12:00
Location: 
Godfrey Thomson Hall, Moray House School of Education

The Eye of the Needle: New Understandings of the Complex Barriers to Instructional Innovation with Technology
Tuesday 29th May. Godfrey Thomson Hall, 12-2pm, Moray House School of Education

Joel Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

Women, Weapons, and War Workshop

Event date: 
Friday 1 June 2018 to Saturday 2 June 2018
Time: 
10:00
Location: 
Raeburn Room, Old College, South Bridge

Women, Weapons, and War Workshop, 10am-4pm on 1 June 2018, in Raeburn Room, Old College, South Bridge, University of Edinburgh. Contact organisers: Prof. Stephen Bowd (Stephen.Bowd@ed.ac.uk) or Dr Sarah Cockram (S.Cockram@ed.ac.uk) for programme details.

Prof. Lawrence Cohen (University of California at Berkeley): De-duplicating India

Event date: 
Friday 1 June 2018 to Saturday 2 June 2018
Time: 
15:00
Location: 
CMB 6th floor staff room

Prof. Lawrence Cohen (University of California at Berkeley) will give a seminar talk "De-duplicating India" on Friday 1 June, 3-5pm, in the CMB 6th floor staff room. The talk analyses recent efforts by the Indian government at creating biometric databases as a tool of administering welfare, debt, and surveillance. Cohen is a Professor of Anthropology and South & Southeast Asian Studies, and Co-Director of the UC Berkeley/UCSF Medical Anthropology Program. All welcome!

[CSAS]

 

Trading Zone

Event date: 
Friday 25 May 2018 to Saturday 26 May 2018
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Talbot Rice Gallery

Trading Zone

An exhibition featuring the work of 21 students from 12 different programmes across the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh opens next week and we would be delighted if you could attend the preview on Friday 25 May, 6-8pm.

 

double talk: Professor Catherine Vance Yeh / Professor Rudolf G. Wagner 

Event date: 
Wednesday 23 May 2018 to Thursday 24 May 2018
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Project Room, 1st floor, 50 George Square

Talk Title: The Global Context of a Modern Chinese Quandary: Doubting or Trusting the Records of Antiquity by Professor Rudolf G. Wagner from Heidelberg University

Time:  5pm-6:15pm

Date: 23 May 2018

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

University of Edinburgh,

Edinburgh

EH8 9YL

Abortion in Ireland: a Transformative Moment?: a Panel Discussion

Event date: 
Tuesday 22 May 2018 to Wednesday 23 May 2018
Time: 
18:00
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre Doorway 4, Old Medical School

Please join us for an important discussion on women’s reproductive rights in modern Ireland in the lead up to Ireland’s referendum on the repeal of the Eighth Amendment

Speakers:

Sarah-Anne Buckley (NUI Galway)

Cara Delay (College of Charleston, SC)

Laura Kelly (University of Strathclyde)

Jane O’Neill (University of Edinburgh)

[Modern Irish History research group]

 

Dr. Daniela Sammler: Musical Action Planning in Expert Pianists

Event date: 
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Time: 
14:30
Location: 
Alison House, Lecture Room B

Musical Action Planning in Expert Pianists

Wednesday 16th May, 2.30 pm, Alison House, Lecture Room B

Dr. Daniela Sammler

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig