EVENT 2:
Government Surveillance: Do governments have a right to monitor citizen activity?
29 November 2017 2.10 pm – 3 pm
David Hume Tower 7.01
This is a student-led CeSeR Discussion Group event
Centre for Security Research (CeSeR): http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/ceser/
Tales of a Tour Guide: Middle East politics and the creative memoir with Ronnie Chatah
29 November 4pm-6pm
Screening Room, ground floor of 50 George Square
About: Please join us in warmly welcoming a very recent graduate of the MSc in Creative Writing, Ronnie Chatah, who will be reading from his work 'Tales of a Tour Guide'. Ronnie will be introduced by Dr Ewan Stein, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh. His reading will be followed by a Q&A and then a wine reception.
Professor Gustavo San Román, from the Spanish Department at The University of St Andrews, will deliver a lecture entitled: "The Purple Land of Memory and Identity: Three Instances of Memorialization in Three Literary Texts".
Tuesday, 28 November
17:00 - 18:300, Seminar Room 5, CMB, 15a George Square
Roundtable on Dr Dejan Stjepanović’s (University of Dundee/University of Edinburgh) book ‘Multiethnic Regionalisms in Southeastern Europe: Statehood Alternatives’ with: Alexandra Remond & Gëzim Krasniqi.
[ASEN-Edinburgh]
H.E. The Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United Kingdom, Mr Joonkook Hwang: Why Does Korea Matter to the UK?
Time: Tuesday 28 November 2017, 3pm-4pm
Location: Room G.03, George Square, University of Edinburgh,
Event page: http://edin.ac/2zNe9dF
Substance Abuse: Past and Present
Date & Time: 15 February 2018, 7.30pm
Cost: Free
Link: Info and Booking Page
Thursday 30 November
5:00pm, Roundtable: Academic citizenship beyond borders: spotlight on Bangladesh, China, Turkey and Uganda
Citizens, Nations and Migration (CNaM) Network, Global Development Academy, Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History and BAK Solidarity Edinburgh
To register: https://academic_citizenship_beyond_borders.eventbrite.co.uk
Findr: Data Fair and Collaborator Speed-Dating Event
Date: Wednesday 6 December 2017
Time: 1.30-4pm
Venue: Training & Skills Room, ECCI, High School Yards, Infirmary Street
Food, Protest and Collective Action in Córdoba: Eruption, Unrest and Normalization ?
Organised by Food Researchers in Edinburgh (FRIED) in collaboration with the School of Social and Political Science. The speaker, Dr Martín Eynard, will be joining us from Argentina.
Book Launch: The Struggle Over State Power Zimbabwe
Title
Book Launch: The Struggle Over State Power Zimbabwe
Speaker(s)
Dr George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane (Centre of African Studies)
Date and Time
22nd Nov 2017 16:00 - 17:30
Location
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD