Empirical Legal Research Festival
24th April 2018
16.00 – 20.00
Project Room, 50 George Square
Registration: https://elrn_festival_2018.eventbrite.co.uk
Festival Overview:
Mon 16 Apr, 4.30pm: Anja Møller Pedersen (Copenhagen) – Reconciling the Right to Privacy with Freedom of Expression in the EU legal order
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4pm, Room G.03 (Doorway 6) Old Medical School.
Louise Settle (University of Tampere): Probation and the policing of "deviant" masculinity in Britain, 1907-1960.
[Histories of Gender and Sexuality seminar]
Cybercrime Roundtable
19th April 2018
13.00 – 18.00
G.04 Paterson’s Land
Register here: https://cybercrime-roundtable.eventbrite.co.uk
Dr Miranda Anderson: Distributed Cognition and the Humanities
[IASH Work in Progress talk]
Dr Megan Ward (Oregon State University / IASH Fellow): Imperial Collections: A Scottish missionary, a Bemba chief, and the Scramble for Africa
Dr Jeanette Lynes (University of Saskatchewan / IASH Fellow): Walking A Tightrope: The Hazards and Joys of Research in Creative Writing
Writing Spy Lives: Stephen Dorril and Andrew Lownie
details here
Celebrate Edinburgh Spy Week at Blackwell's Bookshop!
Two leading historians and biographers discuss what it means to write about men and women whose profession it is to conceal their identities. How do biographers address the secret lives of spies, and the lives of those who know them? And how do spies keep their professional lives hidden from their families?
About the Speakers
Spies and Detectives: Mick Herron and Denise Mina
Time and date: Friday 20th of April, 6.00pm
Venue: St Cecilia’s Hall, Niddry Street
Spy Week 2018 ends with a thrilling encounter between a crime writer and an espionage author! Two of Britain’s most acclaimed writers in these genres discuss the differences and similarities between spy and detective fiction. Join us in the dark heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town to talk about mysteries and conspiracies.
Mark Laity, Spooked: Spy Stories and the Loss of Trust
Time and date: Wednesday 18th of April, 5.30pm
Venue: Project room, 50 George Square
In this talk Mark will discuss our anxieties about secrecy and surveillance, and the contemporary climate of suspicion that dominates and undermines public discourse.