19^th October 2016

‘The Contract of Employment, and the Paradoxes of Precarity’ - Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law

Professor Mark Freedland QC FBA will be speaking on ‘The Contract of Employment, and the Paradoxes of Precarity’. The seminar will be followed by a short drinks reception. 

This seminar is free but registration through EVENTBRITE is necessary to attend.  

Venue: The Playfair Library, Old College, South Bridge, EH8 9YL

Times: 5.30pm to 7.00pm

Dr. Merete Wiberg, Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education

Danish School of Education

Aarhus University Denmark

Talk Title: “The normative striving in learning”

Date and Time: Thursday, October 20th, 16:30-18:00

Where:

University of Edinburgh

Moray House School of Education,

Room: Paterson’s Land, Room 1.21

Krittika Bhattacharjee (PhD student, University of Edinburgh) – ‘Stories of a “Special” Place: Visitorship to the Island of Iona’

Religious Studies

Wednesdays, 4-5.30pm, in Althaus-Reid Room (formerly 1.07), New College.

Prof Yoav Peled (Tel Aviv University) and Horit Herman Peled (Artist, Tel Aviv) – ‘The Religionization of Israeli Society’

Religious Studies

Wednesdays, 4-5.30pm, in Althaus-Reid Room (formerly 1.07), New College.

Dr Malathi de Alwis (International Center for Ethnic Studies, Colombo) ‘Trance/Trans Gendered Incorporations among Pattini-Kannaki Devotees in Sri Lanka.  ********  Please note: This is a Thursday. The seminar takes place at 4pm in the 6^th floor Staff Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square and is jointly organized with the Centre for South Asian Studies.

Dr Wendy Dossett (University of Chester) - ’Twelve-step Addiction Recovery: Troubling the Redemptive Metanarrative’.

Religious Studies

Wednesdays, 4-5.30pm, in Althaus-Reid Room (formerly 1.07), New College.

Dr Carool Kersten (King’s College London)  ‘Is there an Indonesian Islam?’  Part of the series Asian Religions: Boundaries, Connections, Identities hosted by the Asian Religions Network  5:30pm MARTIN HALL

Panel Discussion: ‘What makes us whole? – A multi-faith and belief panel organized by the University Chaplaincy MARTIN HALL

Religious Studies

Wednesdays, 4-5.30pm

Prof Robert Baum (University of Dartmouth) – “Prophetic Critiques of Agricultural Underdevelopment: Alinesitoue in Vichy France Senegal”

Religious Studies

Wednesdays, 4-5.30pm, in Althaus-Reid Room (formerly 1.07), New College.

Safe Spaces: An IASH Pop-Up Forum

17:15 – 19:00, Thursday 27th October 2016.

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities 
2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh

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