David Coady (University of Tasmania)
'Personal Responsibility and Climate Change'
Wednesday November 9th, 4-6pm, 2.05 (Geography Building) (MSc Environment, Culture and Society lecture)
THE LAST STORYTELLER (2002) Written and Directed by Desmond Bell (52 min)
Synopsis : An imaginative look at the tradition of folk lore collection in Ireland in which film maker, IASH Fellow Des Bell draws upon the magic of silent cinema to retell some of the uncanny tales collected by Sean O Eochaidh for the Irish Folk Lore Commission.
There will be a panel discussion after the screening.
Dr Luc Turgeon (University of Ottawa, IASH-SSPS Fellow): A Tale of Two Liberalisms? Attitudes toward Religious Minority Symbols in Quebec and the Rest of Canada
[Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Work in Progress talk]
PG Student Seminar
Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/research_students/seminar
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‘Building up a great research institute’: James Cossar Ewart and the birth of animal genetics in Edinburgh, 1890-1919
Clare Button (University of Edinburgh)
Postgraduate Diasporic Trajectories seminar
Justine Seran (University of Edinburgh), “Home Reimagined: the Indigenous Australian Diaspora”
Alice Kelly (University of Edinburgh): “The Problem of Longitude’: Unplottable Subjects and the Erosion of European Diaspora in Joseph Conrad’s Malay Fiction”
Sarah Stewart (University of Edinburgh): “Shelter at the Border: Writing Back from the State of Exception”
Diasporic Trajectories 2016: Seminar four
Prof. Neil Lazarus (University of Warwick), “Stone upon Stone: Land, Labour and Consciousness in World-Literary Perspective”
Dr Corinne Bigot (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), “Culinary dislocation: ethnic food memoirs and tales”
Diasporic Trajectories 2016: Seminar three
Prof. Michael Syrotinski (University of Glasgow), “Achille Mbembe and the Untranslatable, from Globalization to Mondialisation.”
Works-in-Progress Workshop
Our third works-in-progress workshop is scheduled for 21st October, 2016. Participants TBA.
[Asian Religions Network]
International workshop: ‘Poetic strategies in the time of political repression’
Date: Monday, 24th of October, 18:00-19:30
Venue: The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, 14 Buccleuch Place, EH8 9LN
MONDAY 17 OCTOBER
4.10 pm, Althaus-Reid Room, New College, Mound Place Professor Michelle Brock (Washington and Lee University, Virginia): Plague, Covenants, and Confession: The Strange Case of Ayr, 1647-8
[History of Christianity Research Seminar]