Fulbright Roundtable with Professor Michael Ignatieff: (Edward R. Murrow Professor, Harvard Kennedy School)

Event date: 
Tuesday 7 June 2016 to Wednesday 8 June 2016
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Students are invited to join Professor Michael Ignatieff for an informal roundtable discussion following his Edinburgh Fulbright Lecture, ‘The Crisis of Universal Values and the Return of the Sovereign’. If you are interested in participating in this event, please register at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/fulbright-roundtable-with-professor-michael-ignatieff-tickets-25373451677

Minds and brains in everyday life: Embedding and negotiating scientific concepts in popular discourses.

Event date: 
Wednesday 8 June 2016 to Friday 10 June 2016
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

This 2-day symposium aims to enable interdisciplinary discussion of how mind and brain figure in everyday understandings of ourselves, both historically and in contemporary society. The symposium addresses questions such as: How are mind and brain conceptualized, imagined and quantified in everyday life? How do (neuro)psychological discourses influence understandings of mind and brain outside of expert circles? How do these inform concepts of the self, social practices and social relationships in fields such as education, parenting, mental health and law?

Zheng He – When the Dragon Ships Came

Event date: 
Thursday 9 June 2016 to Friday 10 June 2016

 

  1. Puppet show:

Title: Zheng He - When the Dragon Ships Came

Time: Thurs 9 June

Location: Central Hall, West Tollcross, Edinburgh

Ticket: Tickets are on sale to the general public for the 7pm show which will take place on Thurs 9 June at Central Hall, West Tollcross, Edinburgh Please book via the Queens Hall Box Office:

T: 0131 668 2019 M-F 10am-5pm

CfP: Anglo-German Encounters with Drama and Poetry, 1760-1835

Event date: 
Monday 13 June 2016 to Wednesday 15 June 2016
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Anglo-German Encounters with Drama and Poetry, 1760-1835

Royal Society of Edinburgh Susan Manning Symposium

Edinburgh, 13-14 June 2016

Organisers: Prof. Sandro Jung (Ghent University/IASH); Dr Michael Wood (University of Edinburgh/IASH)