Dr Samantha Walton was Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellow at IASH from June to August 2016, with the project ‘Ecology and Mind in the work of Nan Shepherd.’ She is Senior Lecturer in English Literature: Writing and Environment at Bath Spa University and is currently an AHRC ECR Leadership Fellow on the project Cultures of Nature and Wellbeing: Connecting Health and the Environment through Literature.
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CAS Annual Conference - Law and Social Order in Africa
Title
CAS Annual Conference - Law and Social Order in Africa : Three theoretical round tables on the concepts that lie at the heart of our theme
Date and Time
3rd Apr 2017 09:00 - 4th Apr 2017 17:00
Location
Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square
Speaker: Dr Michelle Hay (University of the Witwatersrand): Does South Africa's Land Restitution Programme encourage xenophobic attitudes?16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes)S1 7 George Square
CAS Seminar Series
Centre of African Studies Seminar Series 2017
Wednesday 22nd March 2017 16:00 - 17:30
Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Ground floor, CMB, 15a George Square
Dr. Rijk van Dijk, University of Leiden Exploring Event-ethics in Weddings in Botswana; an ethnography of elasticity?
Thursday 27th April 2017 – 17.30 to 19.30 – The Project Room, 50 George Square
W. A. Wilson Memorial Lecture 2017: “Enforcing Promises”
Prof. Sarah Worthington QC FBA, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
Monday 10th April 2017 – 18.00 to 19.30 - G.03, Lecture Theatre, 50 George Square
‘With One Bound We Shall Be Free?’ – European Law After Brexit
Judge Ian Forrester QC, Judge at the General Court of the European Union
Chair: Rt Hon Prof Sir David Edward, former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities
Bio: Judge Ian Forrester QC
Tuesday 4th April 2017 – 12.30 to 15.00 – 2.14 Appleton Tower
The Innovative Initiative Fund (IIF) Presents: “Unrecognized in the Shadows: The Plight of the Stateless”
The panel will provide a framework on the complicated issue of statelessness and raise awareness of the implications that statelessness has on the enjoyment of human rights. The event aims to stimulate the debate among academics, professionals and students and to enable them to share their views on statelessness.
Tuesday 28th March 2017 – 18.00 – 19.30 – Playfair Library, Old College
The Iron Law of Financial Regulation
Professor Roberta Romano, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Discussant: Professor Emilios Avgouleas, Chair in International Banking Law and Finance, Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh
12:30, Althaus-Reid Room, New College
Friedrich Bokern (Director, Relief & Reconciliation for Syria): Building Inclusive Futures for Syrians: A Perspective from Lebanon.
[Relwar/CTPI]
PG Student Seminar Series
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/research_students/seminar
Thursday 23rd March 2017, 2pm - 3.30pm
Seminar Room 1.06, Old Surgeons' Hall
(http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/about/how_to_find_us)