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 17^th 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 27^th April – Friday 28^th 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 27^th 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

Indigenous Community Engagement at a College on Treaty Six Land, Saskatoon

Wednesday, 19^th April, The University of Edinburgh.

Speaker: Christopher Hrynkow, PhD (Chair of the Working Group for Indigenous Engagement at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan)

This presentation is the first in a series of Community Engagement events organised by the Community Education Research Group, based in Moray House School

Cecilea Mun (University of Nevada): The Problem of Intentionality and Bridging Interdisciplinary Divides

Philosophy, Psychology, and Informatics Reading Group