School of Social and Political Science

CRITIQUE Roundtable: Training Environmentally Responsible Students

In this CRITIQUE roundtable event, we invite insights from teachers and researchers from a range of subject areas who broadly share an interest in training environmentally responsible students at the University of Edinburgh (UoE).

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Ceren Budak

We will pay compensation from future profits: the nationalisation of foreign businesses in post-colonial Uganda

CAS Seminar - We will pay compensation from future profits: the nationalisation of foreign businesses in post-colonial Uganda

Intersectionality and mental health recovery in the Global South

A series of webinars on "mental health" and "recovery" co-hosted by the University of Edinburgh Global Mental Health network & Burans

Digital Worker Inquiry: Data, Solidarity, and Leverage

A two-day event from the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Data, Culture & Society's Digital Social Science research cluster and the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

PIR Book Launch: International Relations in the Middle East by Ewan Stein

The Contemporary Middle East Series, brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise on the Middle East to share their experience and work in a series of public lectures.

The series is convened by the Middle East Research Group within the Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.

Social Anthropology Seminar: The Many Faces of Peace: Rule of Law, the Justice of the Peace, and Everyday Life in Haiti

Conventionally, Haiti is seen by foreign funding agencies as a “war-torn,” or “post-conflict,” or “failed,” state that needs “help.”

Online workshop on interpretive research methods

We will be joined by two leading scholars, Prof. Dvora Yanow and Prof. Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, for an online workshop on methods and methodology.

COP26 — the view from Bangladesh, Panama and from within the UNFCCC

As the COP26 meetings get underway in Glasgow, we welcome Naveeda Khan, Perry Maddox and Magnús Örn Agnesar Sigurðsson to discuss how they are applying anthropological lenses to policy forums, legal provisions and project implementations as they pertain to climate, land and environmental damage in Bangladesh, Panama and within the UNFCCCC.

CRITIQUE Virtual Author-Meets-Critics- The Last Parents on Earth: Raising Children in a World in Crisis with Elizabeth Cripps

A Virtual Author-Meets-Critics with Liz Cripps on her forthcoming book The Last Parents on Earth: Raising Children in a World in Crisis.

African Studies, Eurocentrism & the Africa That Was

CAS Seminar - African Studies, Eurocentrism and the Africa that Was

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Gözde Güran