MESH (Mapping Edinburgh’s Social History): What we’ve done and how we contribute to the future of the past and to contemporary urban agendas

Event date: 
Wednesday 1 March 2017 to Thursday 2 March 2017
Time: 
13:00
Location: 
Meadows Lecture Theatre: Teviot Place

MESH (Mapping Edinburgh’s Social History): What we’ve done and how we contribute to the future of the past and to contemporary urban agendas

Date and Time: 1 March, 2017, 1.00-1.30

Meadows Lecture Theatre: Teviot Place (Old Medical School) doorway 4.

Andrea Young, Strasbourg    Challenging the monolingual habitus in the French preschool through the legitimisation of home languages as essential cognitive tools

Event date: 
Wednesday 5 April 2017 to Thursday 6 April 2017
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Godfrey Thomson Hall    

5 Apr, 5pm
Godfrey Thomson Hall    

Andrea Young, Strasbourg    Challenging the monolingual habitus in the French preschool through the legitimisation of home languages as essential cognitive tools

Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group

 

Bernie O'Rourke, Heriot Watt 'New speakers' project

Event date: 
Wednesday 8 March 2017 to Thursday 9 March 2017
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
Godfrey Thomson Hall    

8 Mar, 5pm
Godfrey Thomson Hall    
Bernie O'Rourke, Heriot Watt
'New speakers' project

Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group

Professor Florences Myles: The younger the better? A comparison of 5, 7 and 11 year olds learning French in the classroom in the UK

Event date: 
Wednesday 22 February 2017 to Thursday 23 February 2017
Time: 
17:00
Location: 
 LG34 Patersons Land, Moray House

Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group spring seminar series. On 22nd February 5pm, in the LG34 Patersons Land, Moray House, The University of Edinburgh, Professor Florences Myles will be presenting The younger the better? A comparison of 5, 7 and 11 year olds learning French in the classroom in the UK

 

Dr Carol Richardson (University of Edinburgh): Art and Gynecology at St. Peter’s in Rome

Event date: 
Thursday 16 February 2017
Time: 
17:15
Location: 
Hunter Lecture Theatre, The Hunter Building, ECA

Thursday, 16 February (5.15 pm in the Hunter Lecture Theatre, The Hunter Building, ECA). 

Dr Carol Richardson (University of Edinburgh): Art and Gynecology at St. Peter’s in Rome.

All are welcome, and there will be a drinks reception in the John Higgitt Gallery after the talk.  

For the full seminar programme of this semester and more information on the speakers, please see the ECA website:  

Roundtable on ‘Military Chaplaincy and Religious Diversity

Event date: 
Wednesday 22 February 2017 to Thursday 23 February 2017
Time: 
14:00
Location: 
The Martin Hall, New College

Roundtable on ‘Military Chaplaincy and Religious Diversity’, The Martin Hall, New College, 22 February, 2-4pm, followed by refreshments. All welcome.

Speakers will include Dr Torkel Brekke (PRIO, Oslo); Imam Asim Hafiz (Muslim Chaplain to the UK Forces); Professor Jonathan Spencer (Edinburgh); Dr George Wilkes (Edinburgh); and Dr Gorazd Andrejc (Cambridge).

The Susan Manning Lecture 2017

Event date: 
Friday 24 March 2017
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Lecture Theatre G.03, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures 50 George Square

Caryl Phillips, Professor of English, Yale University

“A Sense of Home"

Caryl Phillips is a novelist, critic and academic. He is the author of eight novels, including Crossing the River (1993), winner of the James Tait Black Prize, and Dancing in the Dark (2005), winner of the 2006 Pen/Beyond the Margins Prize. His most recent novel is The Lost Child (2015). He has also written a number of non-fiction works, including A New World Order (2001) and Color Me English (2011).

Roundtable on 'Building understanding across religious and cultural differences: The legacies of Martin Buber

Event date: 
Tuesday 21 February 2017 to Wednesday 22 February 2017
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Senate Room, New College

 

Roundtable on 'Building understanding across religious and cultural differences: The legacies of Martin Buber’, Senate Room, New College, 4-5.30pm, 21 February.

All welcome. Questions about the event should be addressed to Dr George R. Wilkes, Director of the Project on Religion and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace, at george.wilkes@ed.ac.uk.

 

Speakers will include:

•   George Pattison (Glasgow): Buber’s translator, Ronald Gregor Smith