Wednesday 15th June, 9.30am-5pm
Project Room, 50 George Square
One-day conference on 'Literature and the BBC, 1922-1955'
CeSeR Roundtable: The Future of Interdisciplinary Security Studies: Health, Environment, Literature, Cyber
Date: 15 June, 5.30pm
Venue: St Giles Room, Radisson Blu Hotel, Niddry Street entry
Speakers:
Till Bachmann (Reader in Personalised Medicine in Infectious Diseases)
Penny Fielding (Grierson Chair of English, co-organiser Edinburgh spy-week)
Andy Kerr (Executive Director, Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation)
Kami Vaniea (Lecturer in Cyber Security and Piracy)
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Science Studies Unit (SSU), one of the predecessors of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Subject Group here in Edinburgh. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (STIS) Subject Group is happy to invite you to the Practising the Reflexivity Tenet Workshop, which is part of the SSU 50th Anniversary event series.
Professor Frank Baumgartner (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, IASH Fellow): title tbc
The future of the unions: the power of citizens and the UK-EU referendum
Moray House School of Education, U. of Edinburgh
Friday, June 17, 2016 (9:00-17:30)
Register now: http://www.etouches.com/166854
Programme
9.00—9.30 Registration, Coffee
9.30—11.00 Panel 1: Urban Citizenship and its Aesthetics
Igor Stiks (Edinburgh College of Art): Spaces of Emancipation: Activist Aesthetics and Urban Citizenship
Jo Shaw (Edinburgh School of Law / IASH): Multi-level Citizenship: the Return of Cities?
Tahl Kaminer (ECA): Aesthetics, Politics, City
Chair: Stacey Hunter (The New Metropolitan)
11.00 – 11.15 Coffee
Sophia Kopela, (Law School, Lancaster University)and Saskia Vermeylen, (Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University): Earth jurisprudence and wild law: establishing a ‘natural contract’ between earth and humanity.
Roundtable on the law of the marine environment: This event will provide an opportunity for researchers at Edinburgh Law School and Lancaster Law School to present, and exchange ideas on, key challenges in the international law on the protection of the marine environment.
Film Screening and Discussion
Date: Monday 20 June 5:15pm-8:30pm
Location: Screening Room (G04), 50 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JY.
Film: Red Snow (110 minutes)
Detailed schedule:
5.15pm-7.00pm: Film Screening-Red Snow (Chinese dialogue with English subtitles)
7.00pm-7.30pm: Break (Drinks and sandwiches served)
7.30pm-8.30pm: Discussion (Chaired by Professor Paul Pickowicz)