Transhumance and sætr in Viking Age Norway
Event date:
Friday 27 January 2017
Time:
12:30
Location:
Project Room 50 George Square
Summary Anthropologist and journalist Luyendijk, who's dedicated his recent work to understanding what really goes on in the city, discusses its complex and opaque mechanisms with Adoboli, one of the few bankers in Britain convicted of fraud.
His account of how the process unfolded, and how responsibility was apportioned, reveals how much ground there is still to cover to hold global financial systems accountable.
5.30pm, University of Edinburgh Business School .
Barbara Cassani: On leadership.
[Business School]
The woman behind British Airway's budget airline success, Go Airlines, and founding chairman of London's successful bid for the 2012 Olympics reflects on leadership.
Professor Dorothy Miell, Chair of IASH’s Advisory Board has recently completed an appointments process to select a new Director from the summer of 2017, to succeed Professor Jo Shaw. It is with great pleasure that we announce that the new Director will be Professor Steve Yearley, Professor of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in the School of Social and Political Science.
User-centric Regulation for the Domestic Internet of Things by Lachlan Urquhart of the University of Nottingham
The talk will take place on Friday 2 December 2016 at 2pm in the Neil MacCormick Room (9.01) of David Hume Tower.
6 December 2016
5pm, G.04 (Screening room), 50 George Square.
Léandre Lucas (University of Nice): Confronting identities and food in Goncharov’s works: the kacha (porridge) versus the pineapple.
[Russian Research Seminar]
Léandre Lucas is completing his PhD on Ivan Goncharov’s works at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne) where he received his MA degree in Russian and English studies. He is currently working at the University of Nice as Assistant Professor of Russian.
1pm, [Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope park Square.
Dr Gavin Melles (Swinburne University, Melbourne): Sustainability and Development in Uk MSc level programs: case study of faculty views, student perspectives and curriculum approaches to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
[Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Work-in-Progress Seminar]
Digital Scholarship Training Workshop - A Digitisation Masterclass: The Scottish Session Papers
Date: Tuesday November 29 2016
Time: 09.30-12.30
Presenters: Tom Armitage and Guy McGarva (EDINA)
Place: CRC Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Main library
Bring: Your own laptop
Booking: https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=book&scheduleID=22629
4pm, Chrystal MacMillan Building, Meeting room 5.
Dr Gil Viry (University of Edinburgh): Residential mobility trajectories and their links to personal networks: a life course approach.
[SNAS - Social Network Analysis in Scotland Research Group]
4pm, Chrystal MacMillan Building, Meeting room 5.
Dr Mark Maccann (University of Glasgow): Health behaviours, anti-social behaviours and adolescent peer networks.
[SNAS - Social Network Analysis in Scotland Research Group]