Digital Scholarship Training
Data for Humanists: Finding and Acquiring Data from Online Sources
Date: Tuesday 10 January 2017
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Place: uCreate Studio, 1.12 Main Library
Bring: Your own laptop
JAN25201713.30-18.00
Celebrating research on Scots and Scottish English at the University of Edinburgh
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Steve Yearley has been at the University of Edinburgh for nearly 12 years. He was appointed in the Sociology subject area as the Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, then was seconded to run the ESRC Genomics Policy & Research Forum which was located within the College, and since 2013 has been a member of the STIS (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies) subject area.
Anthropology, Philosophy and the State of Nature: Book Launch of Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy by Prof Karl Widerquist.
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Dr Joshua Ralston:Bearing True Witness: Challenging Mutual Misunderstandings in Christian-Muslim Encounters
Dr Leah Robinson: The Use of Peace-building Skills in Interfaith Practices
Dr George Wilkes: Interfaith Peacebuilding, Social responsibility
The event will start at 12 pm with lunch, and conclude around 5pm with a wine reception.
Dr Sumathy Sivamohan (University of Peradeniya) is an academic, filmmaker, poet, translator, actress and activist. Originally from Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, she is now Professor of English at the University of Peradeniya.
SEMINAR TOPIC: Untelling the truth: troubled narratives of war in Sri Lanka
14th Annual Research Student Symposium:
Research as Open Work
[AHRA and Prokalo].
Call for papers attached.
Last LLC Work in Progress Seminar of 2016 - Naomi Stewart on Dora Maar and the Photographic Conditions of Surrealism
We're pleased to announce details of the last LLC Work in Progress Seminar of the year. It will take place on Wednesday 14th December 2016.
We will be welcoming guest speaker Naomi Stewart, a History of Art PhD student at the ECA.
Naomi will be presenting her paper 'A Surreal Mascot? Testing the Photographic Conditions of Surrealism in Dora Maar’s "Portrait d’Ubu".'
5pm, Seminar Room 4, Chrystal MacMillan Building.
Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Melbourne): Edward Long’s vision of Jamaica, the lessons of St Domingue, and the virtues of a planned society in the History of Jamaica.
[The Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies]
Professor Brian Rappert (Exeter University): Absences and the Display of Secreted Pasts: Representing South Africa’s Chemical and Biological Weapons Programme
15 December, 4pm
Chrystal Macmillan Building, 6th Floor Staff Room