Inaugural Lectures 2012-2013
Details of the 2012-2013 Inaugural lectures
| Date and venue | Speaker | Lecture title | Further information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 18 September 2012, Lecture Theatre 270, Old College | Professor Kenneth Reid: Chair of Scots Law | Smoothing the rugged parts of the passage: Scots Law and its Edinburgh Chair | Lecture abstract and video |
| Thursday 20 September 2012, Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower | Professor Frederica G. Pedriali: Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies | Gadda Goes to War: On becoming militant in the name of the militance of literature | Lecture abstract and video |
| Friday 9 November 2012, Lecture Theatre 175, Old College | Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne: Personal Chair of European Union Law | The Lawless Science of EU Law: Constitutional Responsibility and the Court of Justice | Lecture abstract and video |
| Tuesday 27 November 2012, Lecture Theatre 2, Appleton Tower | Professor Ronnie Cann: Personal Chair in Linguistic Semantics | Doing Language | Lecture abstract and video |
| Tuesday 11 December 2012, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business School | Professor Catharine Ward Thompson: Professor of Landscape Architecture | You really should get out more! Landscape quality and quality of life | Lecture abstract and video |
| Monday 4 March 2013, St Cecilia's Hall, Niddry Street | Professor Mona Siddiqui: Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies | Love and Law in Christianity and Islam | Lecture abstract and video |
| Tuesday 5 March 2013, Lecture Theatre 2, Appleton Tower | Professor Marion Schmid: Professor of French Literature and Film | For an Impure Art: Literature and Film | Lecture abstract |
| Tuesday 23 April 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business School | Professor Charlotte Clarke: Professor of Health in Social Science | Phew! For a minute there I lost myself - the experience of living with dementia | Lecture abstract and video |
| Tuesday 30 April 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business School | Professor Josephine Tonks Fawcett: Professor of Student Learning (Nurse Education) | A career for nursing: passions, privileges, pains and purpose | Lecture abstract and video |
| Tuesday 7 May 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business School | Professor Ewen A. Cameron: Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography | The Political Histories of Modern Scotland | Lecture abstract and video |
| Tuesday 14 May 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business School | Professor Matthias Schwannauer: Professor of Clinical Psychology | From Cradle to Grave: The Development of Relationships, Emotions and Mental Health | Lecture abstract |
| Tuesday 21 May 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business School | Professor Christina Boswell: Professor of Politics | Against ‘Interests’ in Political Science: Public Policy and Political Motivation | Lecture abstract |