THURSDAY 26 APRIL
12.30-14.30, 3.11, Chrystal Macmillan Building
Discussion on Claude Shannon's paper Presentation of a Maze-Solving Machine - bookings via email to Vassilis.Galanos@ed.ac.uk
[Cybernetics Today Reading Group]
The Centre for Legal History presents
Legal Authorities in Early Modern Legal Reasoning (16th-18th centuries)
25th & 26th of May 2018
Elder Room, Old College
09.30 to 17.30
The Law and Polity Project presents
The International Legitimacy Series: Norms as the Objects of International Legitimacy
Professor Antje Wiener, University of Hamburg and University of Cambridge
20th April 2018
Balcony Room, Old Moray House
15.00 to 18.00
Making Sense of Malabar: The Major, the Menon, and the Meanings of Plants
We were saddened to hear of the death last month of Sir Kenneth Scott KCVO CMG, a Visiting Research Fellow in 1998. He was Deputy Private Secretary to the Queen between 1985 and 1996, having previously been UK Ambassador to Yugoslavia. While at IASH, Sir Kenneth worked on his book St James's Palace: A History, published in 2010 by Scala.
FRIDAY 11 MAY
9am-6pm, Project Room, George Square 50.
International Workshop: Politics in the Face of Death, with Banu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz), Neve Gordon (Queen Mary, University of London), Charles Heller (Goldsmiths, University of London), Laura Major (University of Edinburgh), Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwatersrand), Claire Moon (London School of Economics) and Lorenzo Pezzani (Goldsmiths, University of London).
Full programme: https://goo.gl/WXXfVr
Professor Elaine Howard Ecklund - Science and Religion in Global Public Life
details and booking - click here
[Gifford Lecture]
https://justspeculating.eventbrite.com
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-12.30 Opening discussion
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.45 First session
14.45-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.15 Second session
16.15-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.00 Closing discussion
17.00-18.00 Wine reception