Spy Stories Now: Interview with Jeremy Duns and Aly Monroe

Date and time: Monday 16th of April, 5.30pm

Venue: Project room, 50 George Square

In a celebration of Spy Week’s 5^th Birthday, two of our favourite espionage authors from previous years return to talk about spies in contemporary fiction, television and film.   Join us to discuss recent trends in fictional spying and celebrate our birthday with a glass of wine afterwards.

Mind Network meeting

Friday 20 April

University of Edinburgh, Room 3.10/11 Dugald Stewart Building

Speakers:

Tuesday 3 Apr    Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)    
‘New China, new Asia: UNRRA, development and the reconstruction of postwar China, 1943-49’

Commentator: Konrad Lawson (St Andrews)

Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG

Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History seminars

Professor Melinda A. Zeder’s  lecture titled, ‘Pathways to Animal Domestication: A Continuing Journey’ is to be given on Thursday 5 April 2018, 5.30-6.30pm, in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.

For further information on the lecture and venue details please visit:

Join us on Wednesday 4th April at 17.30 in room G.05 in 50 George Square for the last LLC WiP seminar of the academic session and an end of year party!

Ian Anderson will be presenting a paper entitled, 'Class Dismissed: Rancière Meets The Plebs'. An abstract and a bio can be found below. 

After the talk and Q&A, there'll be drinks, snacks and other refreshments to toast another academic year of successful PG research seminars! 

We hope to see you there!

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Abstract:

Event: "Tales of Two Cities: The Leipzig-Damascus Coffee House"; screening of multi-media concert by Toronto-based Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and The Trio Arabica.

Date: Tuesday 3 April

Time: 17:00 - 20:00

Venue: Adam House Theatre, 3 Chambers Street (basement) 

Auspices: LLC, ESALA, ECA

Roundtable: Citizenship, Race, and (Post-)Colonialism

31st May 2018 15:00 

Project Room, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh

[Critical Theory Network University of Edinburgh]

The Limits of Democratic Politics: Hannah Arendt and Jacques Rancière on Redressing Domination and Superfluity

Andrew Schaap (Exeter University) 

18th May 2018 15:00 

Room 3.15, 18 Buccleuch Place

[Politics and International Relations]

11th April 2018, 11-1, Senate Room, New College

Roundtable discussion: Performativity and Asian Religious Texts

What does it mean for a text to have a performative aspect? How do we know if a text is meant to be performed, or to perform? How do we account for the performative nature of texts when we study them? This roundtable, featuring Professor Natalie Gummer (Beloit College, Wisconsin) and colleagues from across the University of Edinburgh, will explore such questions using examples from research into Asian religious texts.

Ian McFarland, Regius Professor of Divinity, will be delivering the Croall Lectures in Christian theology at the University of Edinburgh on four consecutive evenings from 30 April-3 May 2018. The lecture series, entitled, 'Vere Deus, Vere Homo: Reflections on the Incarnation', are based on his forthcoming book on the same topic.

30 April: One and the same

1 May: Perfect in Divinity

2 May: Perfect in Humanity

3 May: Christus Victor