The Susan Manning Memorial Lecture: Professor Yoon Sun Lee

Event date: 
Friday 22 March 2024
Time: 
17:00 - 18:30
Location: 
50 George Square Lecture Theatre (G.03)

In this year's Susan Manning Memorial Lecture, Professor Yoon Sun Lee explores how Romantic authors Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth wrote about work in the age of empire. 

Race, Labor, and Gratitude: Austen, Edgeworth, and the West Indies

How is work defined in the genre of the novel, and how are different forms of labor related to each other? Can forms of racial thinking emerge as a result of the capitalist abstraction of labor?

Eyewitness Palestine: Education and Health in Times of Genocide

Event date: 
Thursday 7 March 2024
Time: 
18:00 - 20:00
Location: 
G.07/G.07A, Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

The accelerated Israeli assault on Palestinian life and land has reached unprecedented levels of destruction, with Palestine’s health and education sectors being deliberate targets in Gaza and wider Palestine. As we witness the systematic displacement and annihilation of Palestinians fighting to exist and remain on their land, what is the responsibility of scholars and academic institutions to act under times of genocide?