2nd Special STIS online seminar: Johannes Mattes, In the Media Laboratory of Earth – Concepts of Knowledge and Space in Historical Cave Maps (1500-1800)
The latest volume in IASH's Occasional Papers series has been published today. Humanities of the Future: Perspectives from the Past and Present marks IASH's fiftieth-year anniversary at the University of Edinburgh. The book looks back and forward by half a century to understand how the conception and practice of humanities research is developing. IASH was founded in 1970 to encourage interdisciplinary research across the arts, humanities and social sciences, and to establish partnerships with other institutes and scholars around the world.
Hatice Yıldız, 'Sleeping at the Factory Gates: Gender, Industrialisation, and Time Regulation in Bombay Cotton Mills, 1870-1890'.
4pm (GMT), Wednesday 2 December.
Dr B Camminga is an African Fellow at IASH from October 2020 to January 2021. They are based at the African Centre for Migration & Society, University of the Witwatersrand.
Stellar Quines Theatre Company and the Citizens Theatre have released a new film of the acclaimed play Fibres, by former IASH-Traverse Creative Fellow Frances Poet. The play toured Scotland in 2019.
Jack is proud of his work at the Clyde shipyards. His wife, Beanie, who is nursing him through asbestosis, thinks he’s a fool. But the real test of his marriage comes when they discover that the dusty overalls Jack brought home to be washed by Beanie, poisoned her too.
The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) is a joint initiative of ten Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities.
Inaugural CDCS Annual Lecture (2020) – ‘Hello World: or, how we learned to stop worrying, and love the computer’
Speaker: Professor Aimée Morrison, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
More info and booking link: https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/cdcs-annual-lecture-2020
Platforms, Competition and the Consumer: Protecting Choice and Enhancing Rivalry
Speaker: Arianna Andreangeli, Edinburgh Law School
More info and booking link: https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/platforms-competition-and-consumer-protecting-choice-and-enhancing-rivalry