2017 Latin American Cultural Colloquium,

Event date: 
Monday 13 March 2017
Location: 
Project Room (AM) Screening Room (PM), 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH.

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

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 continuity

Event date: 
Wednesday 15 March 2017 to Thursday 16 March 2017
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Hugh Robson Building Lecture Theatre

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

Dr Karen Lauterbach # University of CopenhagenBecoming Small ‘Big Men’: Charismatic Pastorship in Ghana

Event date: 
Wednesday 8 March 2017 to Thursday 9 March 2017
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Ground floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square

Speaker: Dr Karen Lauterbach, University of CopenhagenBecoming Small ‘Big Men’: Charismatic Pastorship in Ghana

16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes)Seminar Rooms 1 & 2, Ground floor, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square

CAS Seminar Series

Professor Leemon McHenry (California State University, IASH Fellow): The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine

Event date: 
Wednesday 17 May 2017 to Thursday 18 May 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Professor Leemon McHenry (Philosophy, California State University, Northridge / IASH Fellow): The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine

Abstract

We live in an age alleged devoted to evidence-based medicine.  Evidence-based medicine however depends on reliable data and if the data are largely manipulated by the manufacturers of pharmaceuticals, then the data are not reliable. Evidence-based medicine is an illusion.

Jakob Hohwy: From inference to consciousness

Event date: 
Friday 10 March 2017
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
G06, 50 George Square 

 

 Talk: Friday March 10, 16:30 - 18:00 Talk:

Jakob Hohwy: From inference to consciousness

G06, 50 George Square 

Predictive Processing - Prospects and Challenges

Event date: 
Thursday 9 March 2017 to Friday 10 March 2017
Time: 
10:00
Location: 
Hugh Robson Building - George Square 

Workshop: Thursday March 9, 10AM - 2PM

Hugh Robson Building - George Square 

 H.R.B Lecture Theatre (room G.04)

10-11.45 First Session:

Jakob Hohwy and Andy Clark

Predictive Processing - Prospects and Challenges

 1145-1215 Coffee Break

 1215-2.00 Second Session:

1215-1.00 Sam Wilkinson: Auditory verbal hallucinations viewed from a predictive processing perspective

1.00-2.00 Open Discussion, seeded with graduate student questions

 

“Should the university serve or stand above the market?”

Event date: 
Friday 3 March 2017 to Saturday 4 March 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building

“Should the university serve or stand above the market?”

 

                Friday the 3rd of March, 1:00-2:30pm
                Seminar Rooms 1 and 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building

 

Professor Michèle Lamont (Harvard University): Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel

Event date: 
Monday 13 March 2017 to Tuesday 14 March 2017
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre Doorway 4, Old Medical School

the 2016/2017 Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture hosted by Edinburgh Sociology:

 

Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel

Professor Michèle Lamont

Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University

 

4:00pm, Monday 13 March

G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre

Doorway 4, Old Medical School