Wednesday 14 Feb
5.10pm, Venue tbc
Hans van Wees (UCL): Thermopylae: Herodotus versus the legend.
[Classics]
Wednesday 7 Feb
6pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing.
Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge): What kind of democracy is this? Ancient Greek versus modern conceptions.
[Classics, in association with the Classical Association of Scotland]
Wednesday 31 Jan
5.10pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing.
Maria Mili (University of Glasgow): On the new Croesus dedication.
[Classics]
Wednesday 24 Jan
5.10pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing.
Martin Goodman (University of Oxford): Kings, governors and rebellion in Roman Judaea: the role of Agrippa II in Jerusalem.
[Classics]
Wednesday 17 Jan
5.10pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing.
Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck, UCL): The social dynamics of dedication in the Delian inventories.
[Classics]
Thursday 18th January 2018, 2pm - 3.30pm
Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall
Rodrigo Liscovsky (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh STIS); Collaborate or Perish: A Multi-Level Social Network Analysis of Scientific Internationalisation in Latin America Using a Combination of Methods in STS;
Sophie Stone (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh STIS): Towards an empirical account of the relationship between synthetic biology entities and concepts of the human
Adjitya Sardar (University of Warwick): The Authoritarian Handbook: Reflections on Indian Politics since 2014
Date: Friday 19th January 2018
Venue: G16, William Robertson Wing (Doorway 4, Teviot Place)
Time: 1700 - 1900
This is a co-badged event between Centre for Modern and Contemporary History and the Centre for South Asian Studies (discussant Wilfried Swenden)
Abstract
Dr Andrea Liebschner (Ural Federal State University, Ekaterinburg): Food for thought? The lexis of gastronomy in Russia
Thursday 18th January, 13.00-14.00h
Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, 19 Buccleuch Place
all info: http://edin.ac/2CPrMaQ
Thursday 18 January, 5:15pm, room G.13, doorway 4, Old Medical School
Professor Rab Houston (University of St Andrews): ‘A National Legal Culture? How “Lawyered” were the Historic Nations of Britain and Ireland?’ [Scottish History]
Tarsh Bates (Symbiotica, University of Western Australia): The Unsettling Eros of Contact Zones: Queering evolution in the /CandidaHomo/ ecology.
15 January, 15:30-17:00 -- Old Surgeon's Hall Rm 1.06