Lisa Lindsay (University of North Carolina); ‘Gender and Enslavement in Atlantic Africa’

Event date: 
Wednesday 1 November 2017 to Thursday 2 November 2017
Location: 
Chrystal Macmillan Building Seminar Rooms 1 and 2.

Wednesday 1 November                            

4pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building Seminar Rooms 1 and 2.

Lisa Lindsay (University of North Carolina); ‘Gender and Enslavement in Atlantic Africa’

[Global and Transnational History Research Group work-in-progress seminar, co-sponsored with the Centre of African Studies, History of Gender and Sexuality Research Group, and Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies.]

Harshan Kumarasingham (University of Edinburgh): 'An Indian Ausgleich?: The Austro-Hungarian Analogy and the Decolonization of India'

Event date: 
Thursday 19 October 2017 to Friday 20 October 2017
Location: 
2.36, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School.

Thursday 19 October     

1pm, 2.36, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School.

Harshan Kumarasingham (University of Edinburgh): 'An Indian Ausgleich?: The Austro-Hungarian Analogy and the Decolonization of India'

[Global and Transnational History Research Group work-in-progress seminar]

 

Vassilis Galanos (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh STIS): Towards Human-Machine Symbiosis: Empirical Investigations of Artificial Intelligence and Cyborg Futures

Event date: 
Thursday 19 October 2017 to Friday 20 October 2017
Location: 
Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall

PG Student Seminar Series
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation

Thursday 19th October 2017, 2pm - 3.30pm

Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall

(http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/about/how_to_find_us)

 

Towards Human-Machine Symbiosis: Empirical Investigations of Artificial Intelligence and Cyborg Futures

Vassilis Galanos (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh STIS)

Residential School Gothic: Genre and Public Memory in 21st Century Canada

Event date: 
Friday 9 March 2018
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Project Room (1.06), 50 George Square

I will present from my research on genres of public discourse in 21st century Canada, focusing on the genre I call “residential school gothic.” The context for the emergence of this genre is the historical conjuncture of a ‘truth and reconciliation’ process with a broadly neoliberal political culture. The very belated and selective public recognition of Canada’s settler-colonial foundations has coincided with a normative anti-statism and corollary thematization of the powers of self-reliant individuals, families, and communities.

Prof Sir Tom Devine

The Scottish Impact on 19th Century Canada: an Interpretation

Event date: 
Friday 3 November 2017 to Saturday 4 November 2017
Time: 
15:00
Location: 
Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL

A Canada 150 Lecture, marking 150 years of Canadian Confederation. This is a co-badged event between Centre of Canadian Studies and the Scottish History Society.

A drinks reception will be held after the Lecture from 16.30 - 18.30.

Tony Penikett

Indigenous Chiefs, Regional Legislators and Nation States: Who Rules the Arctic in the 21st Century?

Event date: 
Friday 20 October 2017 to Saturday 21 October 2017
Time: 
15:00
Location: 
Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square

Tony Penikett has spent 25 years in public life, including two years in the House of Commons as chief of staff to federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent; five terms in the Yukon Legislative Assembly; and two terms as the Premier of Yukon Territory. His government negotiated settlements of Yukon First Nation land claims and passed pioneering legislation in the areas of education, health, and language. It also organised Yukon 2000, a unique bottom-up economic-planning process.