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Yes, He Tried: Obama’s Legacy

Event date:

Tuesday 12 July 2016 to Wednesday 13 July 2016

Yes, He Tried: Obama’s Legacy

Tue 12 Jul, 6-7pm, FREE Hawthornden Lecture theatre, Scottish National Gallery, the Mound.

Images of presidential power, such as Gillian Laub’s striking double portrait of the Obamas on show as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize exhibition, have been a key feature of Barak Obama’s presidencies. Gary Younge, The Guardian’s Editor-at-Large, will be reflecting on what Obama's legacy might be.

Dr Maria Alonso Alonso: Tales of Insurgency and Resistance: Latin American Arts Strike Back Against Femicide

Event date:

Wednesday 13 July 2016 to Thursday 14 July 2016

Location:

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Dr Maria Alonso Alonso (University of Vigo, IASH Fellow): Tales of Insurgency and Resistance: Latin American Arts Strike Back Against Femicide

Exploring the Undermind

Event date:

Friday 15 July 2016 to Saturday 16 July 2016

Location:

Room G.07/a, Informatics Forum

Exploring the Undermind

Click here for programme pdf - undermind

Rob Rupert (Colorado), Morning Talk: “Individuals as Group Minds, Groups of Minds as Individuals: What Can a Model-based Theory of Natural Kinds Tell Us about Group Cognition?”

Steven Fesmire: John Dewey on the Good, Duty, and Virtue as Conflicting Variables in Moral Action

Event date:

Wednesday 20 July 2016 to Thursday 21 July 2016

Location:

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Steven Fesmire: John Dewey on the Good, Duty, and Virtue as Conflicting Variables in Moral Action

Dr Alex Campbell (IASH Fellow): Note-taking and the sermon in early modern Scotland

Event date:

Wednesday 11 May 2016 to Thursday 12 May 2016

Location:

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Dr Alex Campbell (IASH Fellow): Note-taking and the sermon in early modern Scotland

Maria Fusco (Chancellor’s Fellow): Excavating Site: How to Write a Repertoire for a Mountain

Event date:

Wednesday 11 May 2016

Location:

ECA Evolution House

22nd March 2016
17:20
Evolution House (Boardroom, 5th floor), 78 West Port, Edinburgh

This talk by Maria Fusco is the seventh in our series of ECA Chancellor's Fellows' Talks 2015/16.

Leadership Foundation for Women Lawyers

Event date:

Wednesday 11 May 2016 to Thursday 12 May 2016

Location:

1.06 Project Room, 50 George Square

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/other_areas_of_interest/events/event?id=197084

The Project Room, 1.6, 50 George Square

Above. Degrees of Elevation

Event date:

Thursday 12 May 2016

Location:

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Above. Degrees of Elevation

One-day workshop – 12 May 2016

Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Channel 4 News: World Without Borders: How Warfare and Whatsapp are changing reporting

Event date:

Thursday 12 May 2016 to Friday 13 May 2016

Location:

George Square Lecture Theatre, EH8 9LK

Dear All

You are cordially invited to the Wreford Watson Lecture on:

DATE: Thursday 12 May 2016

TIME: 16:30

PLACE: George Square Lecture Theatre, George Square, EH8 9LH

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WREFORD WATSON LECTURE 2016

Shami Chakrabarti: Human Rights and Dangerous Women

Event date:

Thursday 12 May 2016

Location:

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

'Human Rights and Dangerous Women'

We are delighted to announce Shami Chakrabarti (Human Rights Campaigner and author of 'On Liberty') will be presenting 'Human Rights and Dangerous Women'

Ruth Adler Lecture in Human Rights
Held in Association with the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities' Dangerous Women Project (dangerouswomenproject.org) and the Global Justice Academy (www.globaljusticeacademy.ed.ac.uk)