16th June, 6.30pm
Screening Room, 50 George Square
Talk by Alexander Kan (BBC Russian Service Arts and Culture correspondent): 'The Russian Cultural Presence in London: A Snowball Effect'
16th/17th June
international workshop 'Londongrad and Londongradians: Identities, Imaginaries, and Cultural Practices of Russians in the UK'
Princess Dashkova Russian Centre
Conference information and programme: http://edin.ac/2qQoqOE
Bilingualism Matters: Keeping Families Connected with the Home Language in a New Homeland
Date & Venue: Friday 30th June, 15:30 - 17:00 in Rooms 3.10-3.11 Dugald Stewart Building, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)
Title: "Is/Ought: Hume's Guillotine, Linguistics, and Standards of Language”
When: Thursday 15 June, 4 p.m
Where: Room 3.11 Dugald Stewart Building
Lukas Wozniak, Special Education Teacher, Ernst-Adolf-Eschke School’s Centre for “Hearing and Communication"
Title: Do deaf students need deaf teachers?
PG Student Seminar Series
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/research_students/seminar
Monday, 5th June 2017, 2pm - 3pm
Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall
(http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/about/how_to_find_us)
We are delighted to announce a brand new Fellowship at IASH: the three-month CSMCH-IASH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Modern and Contemporary History is intended to encourage outstanding early-career interdisciplinary research and scholarly collaboration in the broad field of modern and contemporary history.
Ocean Time, Human Time
A public talk by Helen M. Rozwadowski
June 12, 5.30-7.00pm Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?
Where is your tribal memory? Sirs,
in that grey vault. The sea. The sea
has locked them up. The sea is History.
-Derek Walcott, “The Sea is History,” (1979)
ClimateXChange and the Energy and Society network at the University of Edinburgh would like to welcome you to a Panel discussion and Open meeting on
‘Energy and Climate Policy Making: understanding policy effectiveness, expertise and the role of evidence’ with guest speakers Jan Rosenow and Paul Cairney
The panel discussion will take place on Friday 9th June from 14.00 – 15.30 in the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI), High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ.
Virtues that Matter: Ethics and Embodiment in Hamlet.