Peter Geschiere:
3.10 - 4.50pm
"The Occult and Its Dilemmas:
Do we have to sacrifice academic clarity to grasp the power of the murky?"
[Social Anthropology]
Introducing Occult Anthropology
Speaker - Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam)
28th Apr 2017 10:00 - 17:00
Screening Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh
[Social Anthropology]
When: 5.30pm, Wednesday 26th April 2017
Where: Screening Room (G.04), 50 George Square
Paper: Bakhtin’s Carnivalesque and the Cult Audience of Rocky Horror
Presenter: John Lynskey
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We're pleased to announce details of the final LLC Work in Progress seminar of the year. It will be taking place next week on Wednesday 26th April 2017.
Thursday 27th April, 5:15pm
Professor Paul Dukes (University of Aberdeen): 'Scottish Enlightenment, old and new,
and the Problem of the Anthropocene'
Teviot Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, doorway 5
[Scottish History - History and Environment]
Ecology, Economy, and Cultures of Resistance: Oikoi of the North American World. A Two-Day Symposium
Ecology and economy are inextricable. From the ‘oeconomy of nature’ theorized by Thomas Burnet, and later Carl Linnaeus, to the recent turn in the social sciences that reconsiders the Anthropocene as the Capitalocene, the interwoven global history of these two fields of thought makes their conceptual separation impracticable.
University of Edinburgh Medical School, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
April 21, 2017
Evidence-Based Medicine Module
1300-1340 An Introduction to Clinical Trials Alasdair Hay
1340-1400 The Good, the bad & the Ugly A group exercise to explore the mind-set of the big Pharmaceutical companies Mark Dunn
Evolution of medical ethics – impact on quality and safety
Dr. Steve Bolsin
Tuesday April 25th 7pm
Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Doorway 3. Old Medical School
EH8 9AG
Edinburgh University Medical Ethics and Humanities Society are delighted to welcome Dr. Steve Bolsin who will be speaking on the topic of 'Evolution of medical ethics – impact on quality and safety'
Steve Bolsin is an internationally recognised clinician, researcher and expert on patient safety.
Unaccompanied Minors: Law, Policy and Practice
Workshop 1 on Wednesday 17th May, Edinburgh Napier University
Speaker: Professor Ravi Kohli, Professor of Child Welfare
This is the first in a series of 3 workshops to be run by Edinburgh Napier University, supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The workshops are free of charge
And open to all with an interest in unaccompanied minors and are designed to be interactive. A buffet lunch will be provided.
III Latin America Symposium - Power, Politics and Religion in Brazil: Ruptures, Continuities and Crisis
Thursday 27th April – Friday 28th April, The University of Edinburgh
A two-day workshop with leading anthropologists of Brazil, including paper presentations and discussion of Brazil’s current political context and the intersection
of politics with religious movements. Discussions of power and modes of governance are particularly pertinent at this time for Brazil.
Re-thinking ‘the Commons’: Examining Dilemmas, Exploring Solutions (supported by the Global Justice Academy).
Thursday 27th April, The University of Edinburgh.
Speakers: Dr Jamie Cross (Social Anthropology); Dr. Tahl Kaminer (Edinburgh College of Art) and Dr Marisa Wilson (Geosciences)
Free, open forum event to give scholars from across the University an opportunity to question, discuss and debate issues such as how do we balance collective ownership