Centre for Research in Digital Education

FRIDAY, 18th NOVEMBER, 2016

12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Walking Workshop  -  leaving from the entrance to St John’s Land, Moray House School of Education

James Lamb (Edinburgh University):  Wondering about the city:  Making Meaning in Edinburgh’s Old Town

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12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Room G1, 55 George Square, University of Edinburgh

Dylan Yamada-Rice (Dubit):  Designing Play:  Young children's play and communication practices in relation to designers’ intentions for their toy

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Centre for Research in Digital Education

FRIDAY, 14TH OCTOBER, 2016

12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Room 1.26, Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education

David Williamson Shaffer (University of Wisconsin):  Quantitative Ethnography

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Is Islam Exceptional? A Symposium on Shadi Hamid's Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World With Dr Shadi Hamid (Brookings Institute), Dr Joshua Ralston, Prof Mona Siddiqui and Dr Thomas Pierret Thursday 17th November, 5.30 - 7 pm,

Elizabeth Templeton Room, New College

Mound Place

Edinburgh

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When East meets West: cultural contacts around the Mediterranean Prof Jaakko Hameen-Anttila,  (Inaugural Lecture as Iraq Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies) Wednesday 16th November, 5 - 6.30 pm, 50 George Square, G.03.

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Organiser - School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh

Charisma and Anti-Charisma in al-Andalus Prof Maribel Fierro (Spanish National Research Council, Madrid) Friday 4th November 5.30 - 7 pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Building (Old Medical School).

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Dr Carool Kersten (KCL) – “Is there an Indonesian Islam?”

Dr Carool Kersten from King’s College London will present the 2016 “Asian Religions: Boundaries, Connections, Identities” public lecture.

Dr David Warren: Cleansing the Nation from the "Dogs of Hell": Contextualising Islamic scholars' support for the Egyptian coup and its bloody aftermath

The lecture will take place on Wednesday 12th October form 1-2pm in Seminar Room 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building.

Professor Andrea Gamberini (University of Milan, IASH Fellow): Work in Progress Seminar.

Population and urban space in a late medieval Italian city: the case of Reggio Emilia

Symposium: Havana-Dakar 1966: Capitals of an artistic and political revolution

Fri 28 October 2016  | 12:00 – 18:00

Practice Suite, 15 George Square | Chrystal Macmillan Building | University of Edinburgh

Event is free but ticketed: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-havana-dakar-1966-capitals-of-an-artistic-and-political-revolution-tickets-28187055241