The Cultural and Historical Geography Research Group invite you to the following visiting speaker presentation:

Kate McLean - “Polyrhythmia of the smellwalk: mapping multi-scalar temporalities”

Monday 6th February, 3.30pm

Old Library, Institute of Geography and the Lived Environment, Drummond Street

Abstract:

Using research through design this project investigates the layers of rhythms experienced during a smellwalk through its subsequent mapping.

The Edinburgh University Europa Institute and Princess Dashkova Russian Centre are pleased to invite you to the following lecture:

‘Revisionist? Neo-imperialist? Anti-Western? Deconstructing Russia’s policies in Ukraine and Syria’

Dr Derek Averre, University of Birmingham

Thursday 9 February, 2-3pm, 50 George Square - Screening Room G.04

5:15pm, Board Room, 5th Floor, Evolution House.

Pecha Kucha: Free theme. Contact seminar organisers to present [laura.bowie@ed.ac.uk]

https://sites.eca.ed.ac.uk/prokalo/

[ESALA Prokalo PG Seminar Series]

If you have an interest in global mental health, please join us on February 27th, 2017  for a full-day launch workshop of the new Global Mental Health Research Network at the University of Edinburgh, an initiative funded by the University of Edinburgh Academic Networking Fund.

April 5th              

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]

March

22nd     

Godfrey Thomson Hall.

Brona Murphy, Farah Akbar (Edinburgh): Newly constructed identities and female converts to Islam.

[Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group]

March 8th          

Godfrey Thomson Hall.

Bernie O'Rourke (Heriot Watt): 'New speakers' project.

[Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group]

8th February

5pm, Godfrey Thomson Hall, Moray House.

Russell Stannard: Key technologies that impact on our teaching and learning.

[Edinburgh TESOL and Applied Language (ETAL) research group]

Venue: Basement Lecture Theatre, Medical School (Doorway 6, enter from Teviot Place) Time: Wednesday 1st February, 2 p.m. (The screening will be followed by a Question and Answer session with the director, Sumathy Sivamohan)