Letty ten Harkel (University of Oxford): Vikings in the Low Countries? The Archaeology of the Dutch Ringforts from Zeeland: Old Questions and New Scientific Results.

Event date: 
Tuesday 21 March 2017
Time: 
17:15
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School.

Tuesday, 21 March 2017, 5.15pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School.

Letty ten Harkel (University of Oxford): Vikings in the Low Countries? The Archaeology of the Dutch Ringforts from Zeeland: Old Questions and New Scientific Results.

[Centre for Nordic Research seminar series, Jointly with the CMRS seminar series]

Dr Ellen Zhang (Hong Kong Baptist University): Philosophy of Peace: Thinking through Laozi’s Daodejing

Event date: 
Tuesday 28 February 2017 to Wednesday 1 March 2017
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Martin Hall, New College

Philosophy of Peace: Thinking through Laozi’s Daodejing
Dr Ellen Zhang, Hong Kong Baptist University 

This talk is organised by the School of Divinity’s Project on Religion and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace with the support of the Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh. It will take place in Martin Hall, New College, University of Edinburgh, EH1 2LU from 4pm-5.30pm on Tuesday 28 February 17. No booking is required.

Wikipedia Editathon

Event date: 
Tuesday 21 February 2017

As part of an ongoing effort to enhance diversity in the Wikipedia community, we are organising a Wikipedia Editathon at the the University of Edinburgh Festival of Creative Learning. Women across the University who work on themes related to Gender, Global Health and Justice (or a combination of any of those themes), are warmly invited to join us on Tuesday 21 February from 10.30-16.30 (lunch provided).

 

Scotland and France after 1815; A workshop on literature and history

Event date: 
Friday 24 March 2017 to Saturday 25 March 2017
Time: 
14:00
Location: 
IASH seminar room, Hope Park Square

Scotland and France after 1815
A workshop on literature and history
24 March 2.00-5.00 IASH seminar room, Hope Park Square
Keynote: Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney)
‘Rethinking the international history of the early 19th century, after the Cultural Turn’
Bob Irvine (Edinburgh)'Scott and the Law in 1815'
Olivia Ferguson (Edinburgh) ‘King of the Bean: Saturnalia in Graphic Satires on the Congress of Vienna’
Gordon Pentland (Edinburgh) ‘Conspiracy and
Politics in Great Britain, 1815-1820’

The Arusha Declaration @50

Event date: 
Friday 24 February 2017
Location: 
50 George Square Project Room, 1.06

To mark the 50th anniversary of Tanzania's Arusha Declaration in February 1967, the Centre of African Studies and the Global and Transnational History Research Group at the University of Edinburgh are hosting a one-day workshop on the theme ‘The Arusha Declaration @50’ on Friday 24 February 2017.

Patricia White, UCL Institute of Education: Ethical Complexities of Classroom and Professional Life: the case of gossip

Event date: 
Thursday 2 March 2017
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Paterson's Land - 1.21

Patricia White, UCL Institute of Education

Honorary Senior Research Associate

 

Title: "Ethical Complexities of Classroom and Professional Life: the case of gossip"

Date and Time: Thursday, March 2, 16:30 - 18:00

Where:

University of Edinburgh

Moray House School of Education,

Room: Paterson's Land - 1.21