Juliette Wells (Goucher College, Baltimore):

Event date: 
Wednesday 29 June 2016 to Thursday 30 June 2016
Location: 
National Library of Scotland

Only one of Jane Austen’s novels appeared in an American edition during her lifetime (1775-1817): Emma, reprinted in 1816 by the prominent Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey.  Until now, virtually nothing has been known about how this edition came to be, who read it, or why so few copies—only six—remain today.  Drawing on the Carey archives and on a study of the surviving copies, two of which she rediscovered, Juliette Wells illuminates American readers’ first encounters with Austen.

Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland. ‘Use it or Lose it: Collections and their Public in an Age of Austerity’.

Event date: 
Thursday 30 June 2016
Location: 
ECA Main Building Lecture Theatre

30 June 2016

6:30 - 7.30pm, Main Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place

The Annual David Talbot Rice Lecture, a public lecture organised by the Friends of Edinburgh University Visual Art in collaboration with Talbot Rice Gallery present
Sean Rainbird, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland. 'Use it or Lose it: Collections and their Public in an Age of Austerity’.

Sixth Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Conference

Event date: 
Sunday 3 July 2016 to Tuesday 5 July 2016
Dates of Event
3rd July 2016 – 5th July 2016
Last Booking Date for this Event
15th June 2016
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, Dugald Stewart Building, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 3-5 July 2016.
Description

Professor Miriam Solomon (Temple University): The Historical Epistemology of Evidence-Based Medicine

Event date: 
Tuesday 5 July 2016 to Wednesday 6 July 2016
Location: 
Lecture Theatre 1, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place

2016 Nature of Knowledge Lecture, University of Edinburgh

Philosophy at Edinburgh is delighted to announce that the 2016 Nature of Knowledge Lecture will be delivered by Professor Miriam Solomon (Temple University) on

The Historical Epistemology of Evidence-Based Medicine

Tuesday 5th July 2016,
Lecture Theatre 1A, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS
5.45pm -7pm

Abstract:

Katrine Lindvig (Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, IASH Fellow): ‘Othering’ interdisciplinarity in research and education

Event date: 
Wednesday 6 July 2016 to Thursday 7 July 2016
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Katrine Lindvig (Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, IASH Fellow): 'Othering’ interdisciplinarity in research and education

ABSTRACT: In academia, when we increasingly describe interdisciplinarity as something unique, outstanding and completely different from monodisciplinarity, are we then, conversely, impeding the growth and institutionalisation of the very thing we may be trying to promote?

 

Gitit Kave – Paradoxes related to word retrieval in ageing

Event date: 
Friday 8 July 2016
Location: 
Room G32, Psychology Building, 7 George Square

FRIDAY, 8/7, 12.30pm

G32, 7 George Square
Gitit Kave - Paradoxes related to word retrieval in ageing

 

Older adults often complain of difficulties in word retrieval. However, difficulties do not occur across all tasks to the same degree. The talk will discuss some paradoxical experimental results in an attempt to understand the effect of vocabulary knowledge and compensatory strategies on word retrieval in old age.