Inês Silva (University of Edinburgh) 'Blameless shield, faulty soldier? Extended cognition in Archilochus’ fr. 5W'

[Classics Postgraduate Seminars]

PLEASE CHECK DATE. IT MIGHT BE THURS 15TH

Dr André Krebber (University of Kassel, Germany / IASH Fellow):

»Owlet Moths, … [with] Hair like Hungarian Bears«: Recovering Animal Particularity and Environmental Uncertainty

RESISTANCE: an all-day symposium hosted by Scottish PEN Women Writer’s Committee and the Institute for the Advanced Studies in Humanities

Featuring Jackie Kay, Sim Bajwa, Caroline Bowditch, Beth Banjeree-Richards, Afshan D’souza-Lodhi and Alice Tarbuck

Wednesday 14th February at 17.30 in room G.06 in 50 George Square 

[LLC WiP seminar.]

Erden Göktepe: 'The representation of the "New man" in the New Cinema of Turkey

Saturday 10 March in the Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh. Professor Roger Mason will speak on 'Inventing the Scots V: Scotland and Britain, 1300-1700'.

Further details, and registration, are available at

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-scottish-history-society-presidential-lecture-and-annual-general-meeting-2018-tickets-42190118781

[Scottish History Society]

_{2018 is the centenary of the gaining of votes for (some) women in the UK. But how does this experience compare to other parts of Europe?}

_{Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir and Ragnheiður Kristjánsdóttir (University of Iceland) will be visiting the School of History, Classics and Archaeology on 21 February to discuss the Icelandic perspective. All welcome!}

_{In the Wake of Suffrage. Icelandic Women as Cultural and Political Agents, 1915-2015.}

_{Wednesday 21 February, 13.00-14.30}

Robert Sharples (Edinburgh): Is it time for a ‘mobile turn’ in EAL?

[Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)]

Chris Langley (Newman University Birmingham / IASH Fellow): Begging for an audience: Acts of kindness in early modern Scotland

[IASH work in progress talk]

11:10am, 1 George Square, (Neuroscience), G.8 Gaddum LT.

Propaganda, social media and “Fake News” in contemporary politics

With Robin Hill, Clare Llewellyn, Rachael Craufurd Smith.              

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/propaganda-social-media-and-fake-news-in-contemporary-politics-tickets-42277385799

[EFI - Part of the Controversies in the Data Society seminar series]

Prof Laura Cram, Dr Robin Hill, Clare Llewellyn, Dr Rachael Craufurd Smith: Propaganda, social media and “Fake News” in contemporary politics

Part of the Controversies in the Data Society seminar series [EFI]