Thursday 22 March 5:30pm: James Renton (Edge Hill University), ‘Fanaticism and the Balfour Declaration: From Luther to the Great War’

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Network and the Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society

VENUE: Martin Hall, New College, Mound Place, EH1 2LX

14 December, 6pm – 7.30, Blackwells Bookshop

Book launch for Sarah Cockram and Andrew Wells, Interspecies Interactions: Animals and Humans Between the Middle Ages and Modernity

Speakers:

Professor Erica Fudge, University of Strathclyde, Director of the British Animal Studies Network

Professor Stephen Bowd, University of Edinburgh

Dr Andrew Wells, University of Göttingen

Dr Sarah Cockram, University of Edinburgh

11am, Common Room, sixth floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building

Electronic Music Performance and Seminar Paper: "On Vocal Assemblages: From Edison to Miku”

Dr Nick Prior (University of Edinburgh)

[Sociology]

First Millennia Studies Group

Tue, 5 December, 6pm – 8pm

MONDAY 4 DECEMBER

10am, Room 1.06 (Project Room), 50 George Square
100 Years of Finnish Independence: Mistä? Missä? Mihin? A Showcase of Finnish-Scottish Relations, Readings and Research
Full details: https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/delc/scandinavian-studies/research-seminar-series/100-years-of-finnish-independence
[Scandinavian Studies / Centre for Nordic Research]

17.10 – 18.30 - 28^th November 2017 -

Professor Thomas McGinn (Vanderbilt University): The XII Tables and the History of Patria Potestas.

https://as.vanderbilt.edu/history/bio/thomas-mcginn-history

Public Lecture co-sponsored by School of Law and Subject Area of Classics in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology

This Lecture will be followed by a reception, on the Appleton Tower Concourse

Thursday 30th November 2017, 2pm - 3.30pm

Chisholm House Boardroom, High School Yards EH1 1LZ

*Please note this is a change from our usual location*

Opening the black box of indicators: An STS approach to the construction of environmental knowledge

J. Antonio Ballesteros Figueroa (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh STIS)

11^th April 2018, 4-5.30pm, The Martin Hall, New College

Professor Natalie Gummer (Beloit College, Wisconsin)

‘Reading Rituals: Sacrificial Hermeneutics and the Study of Mahayana Buddhist Sutras’

Khyentse Buddhist Studies Lecture, generously supported by the Khyentse Foundation                 

4^th April 2018, 4-5.30pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College

Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster University)

‘The phenomenology of dispassion across Hindu and Buddhist traditions’

Asian Religions: Boundaries, Connections, Identities annual lecture