Peter Salter, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University: Walmer Yard: Housing

Event date: 
Wednesday 5 April 2017 to Thursday 6 April 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Elliot Room, Minto House, 20 Chambers St

[ESALA Research Seminar Series]

Wed 5 April, 1pm

Speaker + Affiliation: Peter Salter, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University

Title: Walmer Yard: Housing

Venue: Elliot Room, Minto House, 20 Chambers St

Lothian Birth Cohort Project

Event date: 
Tuesday 11 April 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Auditorium , National Museum of Scotland

Scotland is home to the longest study of human cognition in the world. Known as the Lothian Birth Cohort, it continues to analyse the average intelligence of schoolchildren born in 1921 and 1936. Join the researchers in this interactive event in association with the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh to discover how childhood mental capacity affects health and cognitive function in later life.

Presented by National Museum Scotland

tickets:

Concession £6.50
Standard ticket £8.50
£8.50/ £6.50

Conference on Cultural Destruction and Deterioration

Event date: 
Friday 7 April 2017
Location: 
Staff Room: 6th Floor.  Chrystal Macmillan Building

Conference on Cultural Destruction and Deterioration

[Institute for International Cultural Relations]

Date and Time

7th Apr 2017 14:00 - 18:30

Location

Staff Room: 6th Floor.  Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh

Programme

2-3 PM: 

Dr Priscilla Scott, University of Edinburgh ‘Suas leis a’ Ghàidhlig!’: The influence of innovative and forward-looking women in the development of the Mòd in the early years of the twentieth century.

Event date: 
Monday 8 May 2017
Time: 
19:30
Location: 
Project Room, First Floor, 50 George Square

by Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh .

 

The Lecture takes place on Monday, 8 May, at 7.30pm in the Project Room, First Floor, 50 George Square. Refreshments will be served.

Dr Priscilla Scott, University of Edinburgh

‘Suas leis a’ Ghàidhlig!’: The influence of innovative and forward-looking women in the development of the Mòd in the early years of the twentieth century.

Cognitive science and literary criticism: reflections on first principles

Event date: 
Friday 5 May 2017
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh EH8 9NW

Cognitive science and literary criticism: reflections on first principles

An IASH/Susan Manning Workshop, with additional support from the Institute of Classical Studies.
Organiser: Michael Carroll (IASH)

 Andrea Young, Université de Strasbourg, will be presenting Challenging the monolingual habitus in the French preschool through the legitimisation of home languages as essential cognitive tools

Event date: 
Wednesday 5 April 2017 to Thursday 6 April 2017
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
 Godfrey Thomson Hall, Moray House

 Andrea Young, Université de Strasbourg, will be presenting Challenging the monolingual habitus in the French preschool through the legitimisation of home languages as essential cognitive tools.

Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group spring seminar series

 

Bernard Faure: "The Death of the Buddha as Seen from Japan"

Event date: 
Wednesday 5 April 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Martin Hall, New College.

5.30pm-7.00pm, Martin Hall, New College.

Bernard Faure: "The Death of the Buddha as Seen from Japan" (2017 Khyentse Lecture in Buddhist Studies)

[Asian Religions Network]

Roundtable on "Not Reading Religious Texts: Object, Performance, Vision"

Event date: 
Wednesday 5 April 2017 to Thursday 6 April 2017
Time: 
11:00
Location: 
Evolution House Boardroom, Edinburgh College of Art.

11.00am-1.00pm, Evolution House Boardroom, Edinburgh College of Art.

Roundtable on "Not Reading Religious Texts: Object, Performance, Vision"

[History of Art, Asian Religions Network]