Dear colleagues,
On Monday 13 March 2017 (5.30-7pm, 50 George Square Lecture Theatre, LT G.03), the Centre for South Asian Studies is sponsoring the following event to which you are cordially invited:
[Geddes Visiting Fellows Public Lecture]
Thu 16 Mar, 6pm
Speaker + affiliation: Andrew Herscher, Stanford University/University of Michigan
Title: "The Architectural Imagination”: Creativity, Austerity, and Political Violence in Detroit
Venue: Adam House Lecture Theatre, 3 Chambers Street
WHAT: Perfect Storm Seminar Series - Inclusive Recycling in Brazil: Institutional arrangements, costs, benefits and implications for the sustainability of cities and urban lifestyles
WHO: Dr Emília Rutkowski (Associate Professor at UNICAMP) and Dr Jacqueline Rutkowski (Director of CMRR)
WHEN: 21 March, 2-4 pm
WHERE: Seminar Room 4, Crystal Macmillan Building, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD
Book Launch - Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Negotiations
Professor JP Singh (Director, Institute for International Cultural Relations)
Date and Time
15th Mar 2017 14:00 - 15:30
Location
Project Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JU
The Urban Justice Lab (Global Justice Academy) hosts
Margit Mayer on Urban Justice
Tuesday 28 March 3.45PM
Project Room (1.06), LLC, 50 George Sq.
No reservations needed.
When: 5.30pm, Wednesday 15th March 2017
Where: David Hume Tower LG.06
Paper: An Adversary for the Ages: The Historiography of the Vikings in the Late Medieval Low Countries
Presenter: Christian Cooijmans
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We're pleased to announce the details of next week’s LLC Work in Progress Seminar (Wednesday 15th March 2017).
2 May
3.30pm, Neil MacCormick Room, David Hume Tower.
Dr Manjeet RAMGOTRA (SOAS): Postcolonial Republicanism and the Revival of a Paradigm.
[Constitutional Law Discussion Group]
Professor M. D. Usher (University of Vermont / IASH Fellow): Cosmos to Commons: Systems and Sustainability in Classical Life and Thought
IASH Work in Progress talk
We are delighted to announce the 2017 Latin American Cultural Colloquium, organized by the Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies and the Latin American Society (EUSA) at University of Edinburgh.
The full programme is detailed below, and you can secure your free place at Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-nature-shaping-humans-entwined-landscapes-in-latin-america-tickets-31992713066?aff=ehomecard
Speaker: Gervais Rufyikiri # University of Antwerp, Former vice-president of Burundi
The failure of rebel movement-to-political party transformation of the CNDD-FDD in Burundi: an issue of balance between change and continuity16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes)Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre
CAS Seminar Series