Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Funding Information Event
23 May 2017, 2 - 3 pm, Project Room, 50 George Square
This 1 hour session will provide information about the variety of funding opportunities JSPS have for researchers in the UK to collaborate with researchers in Japan. They offer individual fellowships, funding for group level projects and institutional level collaborations to build international networks. 

Gender and Progress in Contemporary Critical Theory

Speaker(s) 

Amy Allen (Penn State University)

Date and Time 

22nd May 2017 15:00 - 17:00

Location 

CMB Staff Room, 6th Floor

PTRG and GENDERPOL Joint Lecture

Celebrate the life and work of Professor Anthony Goodman, and the launch of his latest book. (Published 9 May 2017)

The launch will celebrate the career of the late Professor Anthony 'Tony' Goodman and launch his last book, 'Joan, The Fair Maid of Kent, A Fourteenth-Century Princess and her World' (Boydell & Brewer, 2017).  The book is a new account of the life and turbulent times of Joan, the wife of the Black Prince and mother of Richard II.

Join us for the 2017 Denys Hay lecture on 6th June as Professor Simon Ditchfield speaks on "Here time becomes Space": Roma sancta in the making of Roman Catholicism as a world religion

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CENTRE FOR MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES

Event information:

Elizabeth Hallam: 'Anatomy Museum - the edit’.

11th May 2017. 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JU

10:00-12:00  

Sponsored by the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology and Atelier: Creative Art and the Social Sciences

Event Name: Third Annual Conference on Chinese Language Teaching in Scotland

Date: Friday 2 June

Time: 9:30am to 5.00

Location: 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh Book via eventbrite: http://edin.ac/2p9Luq8

Date: Thursday 1 June 2017

Time: 6pm-7:30pm

Location:   Project Room, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh EH8 9JU.

Speaker:  Professor Basile Zimmermann

Title:  The Concept of 'Culture' and its quotation marks

Book Launch

Somali, Muslim, British: Striving in Securitized Britain

by Dr Giulia Liberatore (Sociology & IMES/Alwaleed, Edinburgh)

Date: Wednesday 10th May 2017

Time: 17:30 - 19:00

Venue: Chrystal Macmillan Building, Seminar Room 4

Discussants:

Professor Nasar Meer (Sociology, Edinburgh)

Ayan Mahamoud MBE (Head of the Somaliland Mission, UK)

Beyond the Anthropo—Scenes, Mediums, Apparatuses and Environments

a Susan Manning IASH Workshop