The medium of interaction in informal written texts: A researcher's perspective
Event date:
Friday 2 April 2021
Time:
15:10
Event: Language in Context Seminar
Organisers: Language in Context
Event: Language in Context Seminar
Organisers: Language in Context
The African Dilemmas: Entangled Histories, Partnerships, and Issues of Development
A seminar from the Centre for South Asian Studies
Figures of Surplus: Waste, Informality, and Caste in Urban Pakistan
Speaker: Waqas Butt, University of Toronto Scarborough
Date: 25 March 2021
An IASH Work-in-Progress Seminar given by Dr Yimon Lo.
Abstract:
The Leverhulme Research Project on Gurus, anti-gurus, and media in North India, and the Religious Studies Seminar series welcome you to a international panel on Global Gurus on Wednesday 24th March, 16:10-17:30 GMT.
We will be joined by three of the world's leading experts on Gurus:
An IASH Work-in-Progress Seminar given by Dr Elizabeth Darling.
Heroines of the Canongate: discoveries and questions
Join our conversation on the material culture of death and commemoration during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We’ve brought together a panel of researchers from Edinburgh and Glasgow to explore subjects from Mary Queen of Scots to Robert Adam, and mediums including sculpture, relics, and portrait miniatures. Together the panel will cover a range of themes on how deceased people were remembered in the past.
Dr Natalie Goodison, the 2019-20 Junior Anniversary Fellow, has helped uncover the fascinating story of birthing girdles in the Middle Ages.
Join us at this live Q&A with GP Gavin Francis, who will explore the experiences of treating patients during the coronavirus pandemic, in both urban and rural communities.