Covenanters Symposium

Event date: 
Wednesday 21 June 2017
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square.

Covenanters Symposium,

Please see the attached pdf for timetable

Fantasy, Fairy Tales and the (Non) Human

Event date: 
Wednesday 28 June 2017 to Thursday 29 June 2017
Time: 
14:00
Location: 
50 George Square 2.03

Fantasy, Fairy Tales and the (Non) Human
28th June 2017 2.00-5.00 50 George Square 2.03
Keynote: John Plotz (Brandeis University) ‘World Without Us: The Problem of the Nonhuman in fin-de-siècle Fantasy’
Sarah Dunnigan (University of Edinburgh) ’Transfigurations: Hogg and the Spiritualised Fairy Tale'
Rebecca Langworthy (University of Aberdeen) ‘The Tales at the Heart of the Tale: Scottish Sources in George MacDonald's Phantastes'
Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh) ‘Tolkien and Death’

Prof. Gábor Betegh, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge: Plato on Illness in the Phaedo and the Timaeus

Event date: 
Tuesday 13 June 2017 to Wednesday 14 June 2017
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Seminar Room 1.20, Dugald Stewart Building

22nd A.E. Taylor Lecture to be given at Edinburgh next week by Prof. Gábor Betegh, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. 

Plato on Illness in the Phaedo and the Timaeus

 

 

http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/professor-gabor-betegh

Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores, 'Digital Humanities and Geographical Text Analysis: Introducing Computational Approaches for History, Archaeology and Literature'

Event date: 
Monday 12 June 2017 to Tuesday 13 June 2017
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan building

'Humanities Research and GIS': Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan building

Monday 12 June, workshop 2.30-4.30pm, lecture 5-6.30pm followed by reception

Lecture: Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores, 'Digital Humanities and Geographical Text Analysis: Introducing Computational Approaches for History, Archaeology and Literature'

Workshop: ‘Workshopping Humanities with GIS Research Projects’. Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building

Session will be led by Xavi Rubio-Campillo, Anna Groundwater and Patricia Murrieta-Flores. 

Workshop: ‘Workshopping Humanities with GIS Research Projects

Event date: 
Monday 12 June 2017
Time: 
14:30
Location: 
Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan building

'Humanities Research and GIS': Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan building

Monday 12 June, workshop 2.30-4.30pm, lecture 5-6.30pm followed by reception

Lecture: Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores, 'Digital Humanities and Geographical Text Analysis: Introducing Computational Approaches for History, Archaeology and Literature'

Workshop: ‘Workshopping Humanities with GIS Research Projects’. Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building

Session will be led by Xavi Rubio-Campillo, Anna Groundwater and Patricia Murrieta-Flores. 

Creating Impact: Theatre and Universities

Event date: 
Tuesday 20 June 2017
Location: 
Chrystal MacMillan Building

Creating Impact: Theatre and Universities
Partnerships between theatres and universities offer exciting opportunities for
exploration and collaboration. At this one-day event, the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland
and the University of Edinburgh will bring playwrights, theatre practitioners and
academics together to discuss and explore different models, the opportunities and
challenges that they present, and the funding sources available.
Date: Tuesday 19 June 2017
Venue: Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15A George Square, Edinburgh,
EH8 9LD.