Samantha Walker (University of Edinburgh): Parysatis : The Agency of the King's Mother in the Achaemenid Court.

Benjamin White (University of Glasgow): Refugees, war, and state-making in the Middle East: the Ba‘quba refugee camp, 1919–21

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar SERIES — SPRING 2016: Civil Wars in the Arab World

Jessica Patterson (University of Manchester): The East India Company and Asian Despotism: Alexander Dow’s Civil Religion of India; Dr Sundar Henny (University of Cambridge): (In)dependent Thinking: Isaak Iselin and the Scots

Dr Géraldine Vaughan (University of Rouen): Ultra-Protestant Societies and British Imperial Identities, c.1880-1910

Prof Bing Liu (Tsinghua University): The local knowledge, public understanding of science and STS studies in China

http://www.stis.ed.ac.uk/events/stis_seminars

Andelka Phillips, DPhil candidate from University of Oxford, will present on the following topic:

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee! A FLE^5SH approach to new and emerging technologies … beyond “Responsible Research and Innovation”

Details and registration:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/latin-american-cultural-colloquium-tickets-20866881404

Dr Claire Warden (Lincoln): ‘Performing the "soul of Russia": incarnations of the Moscow Art Theatre in London’

Professor Will Kymlicka (Queen's University, Canada) will be giving the Centre of Canadian Studies 40th Anniversary Lecture. Will Kymlicka is the most celebrated theorist of multiculturalism whose influence reaches far beyond the shores of his native Canada. If you are interested in attending, could you register via this link.

Dr Ulrike Hogg (National Library of Scotland):