Friday 18th November
4pm, F21, 7 George Square
Professor Lawrence Barsalou (University of Glasgow): What Does Semantic Tiling of the Cortex Tell Us About Semantics?
[Psychology Seminar Series]
Wed 7 December 2016
5.30pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School.
Professor Vincent Brown (Harvard University): The Coromantee War: Charting the course of an Atlantic slave revolt.
[School of History Classics and Archaeology]
Free, register here
Tuesday 29th November.
5pm, F21, 7 George Square.
Professor Rudi Westendorp: Success in old age
[Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE) St Andrews Day Seminar]
6pm, Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh Napier University, Craiglockhart Campus, Glenlockhart Road, Edinburgh.
Professor Steve Fuller (Social Epistemology, Warwick): What, if anything, makes knowledge an improvement over information. Free, registration required.
[ASIST (Association for Information Science and Technology) Annual Lecture]
ASIST Annual Lecture 2016 – 6pm Wednesday November – Edinburgh Napier University Craiglockhart campus
7pm, 50 George SquareProject Room 1.06
Chocolate of Peace – The persistence of Colombians in the search for peace.
[UoE Colombian Students - with the support of the Global Justice Academy]
2pm, 50 George Square Project Room 1.06
Chocolate of Peace - Using documentary film in social science research.
Film screening and discussion with one of the directors. Free, booking required.
[UoE Colombian Students - with the support of the Global Justice Academy]
4.30pm, Room G.01, 50 George Square
Dr Colette Lawson (St Andrews): Representations of Hitler in contemporary media.
[German]
5.30pm, Playfair Library, Old College.
Rt Hon the Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury: The UK and Europe: Interjurisdictional Influences
2016 Annual Mitchell Lecture
The Europa Institute
Book here
4.15pm, Neil MacCormick Room.
Ian O’Donnell (UCD): Surviving Solitary Confinement.
[Centre for Law and Society]
4pm, LT1, 7 Bristo Square.
Consumers as Watchdogs or Collaborators in Global Supply Chain Abuse
[LLM in Human Rights Enhanced Human Rights Dialogues series]