16 Jan
4.10pm, Althaus-Reid Room.
Dr Eric Morier-Genoud (Queen’s University Belfast): Finite Humanitarianism? Missionary H-P Junod and the ICRC in Kenya, 1957–59.
Author and critic Dame Rebecca West was born on this day in 1892. At the age of ten, she lived with her mother and sisters at 2 Hope Park Square for a short time (Glendinning 1987; Palusci 1992) before moving to Buccleuch Place to attend George Watson’s Ladies College (Lownie 2005). This tenement is now IASH’s main entrance.
Sir Michael Marmot (UCL): Health, Status, and Inequality
Honour in Classical Greece Public Lecture Series
Lecture 1: 12 January 2018
5:10–7:30pm
Speaker: Sir Michael Marmot (UCL)
Venue: Playfair Library Hall, Old College, University of Edinburgh
Steve Walsh (Newcastle): Dialogic Reflection
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Samaneh Zandian (Edinburgh): Children’s perceptions of intercultural encounters: Exploration into an Iranian Context
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Yongcan Liu (Cambridge): Unlocking the potential of bilingual children in schools and communities for an open world
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Rob Sharples (Edinburgh): Is it time for a ‘mobile turn’ in EAL?
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
John Culpeper (Lancaster): Impoliteness: A survey
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
Do Coyle (Edinburgh): Why language teachers need to care: making sense of a pluriliteracies approach to deeper learning from a transdisciplinary and translinguistic perspective
Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL)
Wednesdays 5-6.30pm January to March 2018
Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh
The ex-Director of IASH, Professor Jo Shaw, has recently blogged about her one-year EURIAS fellowship at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in Finland, and about the role of institutes of advanced study in the twenty-first century: