Events

• 27 October 2018 - 26 January 2019
  

• Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm
  Sat, 12pm-5pm

• Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Maja Bajevic, Georgia Horgan, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Teresa Margolles, Olivia Plender, Suzanne Treister, Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment

• 27 October 2018 - 26 January 2019
  

• Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm
  Sat, 12pm-5pm

• Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Bewitching audiences from Venice, to Singapore, to Dublin, Tremble Tremble now arrives in Edinburgh, performed daily in Talbot Rice Gallery’s magnificent Georgian Gallery.

• 27 October 2018 - 24 November 2018
  

• Open Tuesdays – Saturdays 10am – 4pm

• The Fire Station
  76-78 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DE

This unique exhibition honours a remarkable group of people who sat intelligence tests as children and have been followed up as adults since 1999 to transform our understanding of ageing.

• 18 November 2018
  

• 3pm

• Church of the Sacred Heart
  28 Lauriston Street
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DJ

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 18 November 2018 - 2 December 2018
  

• Evolution House
  Tent Gallery
  78 West Port
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2LE

Our carbon-based economy is responsible for a catastrophic rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide level, causing dramatic climate change, ocean acidification and mass extinction. This exhibition turns a Carbon Stock into a Carbon Debt. Are we doomed, what is wrong with our global economy? 

• 19 November 2018
  

• 6:00pm - 8:00pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

"Chalo Hamara Des" (Come to My Country) - A journey in search of the country invoked in Kabir's poetry, this film interweaves the stories of two people from two very different countries, Indian folk singer Prahlad Tipanya and North American scholar Linda Hess.

• 19 November 2018
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Jennifer Noall is completing her PhD with the School of Geosciences. She has been working with OPENspace as part of a Forestry Commission Scotland project for Woods in and Around Towns.

• 19 November 2018
  

• 7:30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building, West Court
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

A historical overview of digital sound synthesis techniques will be followed by a presentation of some modern developments in simulation-based audio rendering, creative applications, and links to large-scale parallel computing. Sound examples and musical excerpts will be played through an 8-channel sound system.

• 20 November 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

• Minto House, Elliot Room
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

This paper mobilises notions of display, performativeness and spectatorship to question the role of 1980s Britain popular cultural industry, in shaping new conceptions of time and space.

• 20 November 2018
  

• 4pm GMT

• Online

Join Programme Director, Dr Kirsten Lloyd, for an insight into our exciting MSc by Research in Collections and Curating Practices, followed by an opportunity to ask questions.

• 20 November 2018
  

• 6:00pm - 7:30pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Part of the ECA India Season

• 20 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 21 November 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

• Adam House, Adam House Lecture Theatre
  3 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1HT

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 21 November 2018
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Room B22
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

• 21 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 21 November 2018
  

• 6pm - 8pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

The talk presents an overview of the PIX initiative that began a decade ago, with an open call for participation from South Asian practitioners. This quarterly and exhibitionary practice sought to expand new vistas of iconology in the emergent field of visual culture around photography and aesthetics.

• 21 November 2018
  

• 6:00pm - 7:30pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Part of the ECA India Season.

• 22 November 2018
  

• 6:00pm - 7:30pm

• Alison House, Atrium
  Nicolson Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

Part of the ECA India Season

• 22 November 2018
  

• 5:15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Part of the History of At Research Seminar Series 2018

• 22 November 2018
  

• 12.30pm - 2pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Histories of image production, reception and even exhibition are diversifying across the globe, and with the infinite expansion of digital media, representations are evolving too. Given this premise, which images or cultural traces do we acknowledge as legitimate testimonies of our time, and have they become more inclusive?

• 22 November 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

• Alison House, Lecture Room A
  12 Nicolson Street
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

The panel discusses different approaches to teaching music history in higher education, examples of best practice. We'll also brainstorm some ideas about what music history teaching should be achieving for students in the twenty-first century.

• 22 November 2018
  

• 4:00pm

• Evolution House, Design Informatics Studio (T-Room, Level 2)
  78 West Port
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2LE

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018

• 23 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Greyfriars Kirk
  1 Greyfriars
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2QQ

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 23 November 2018
  

• 11am

• Edinburgh College of Art, Main Building, West Court
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

You are warmly invited to a series of presentations from the 5 inaugural Talbot Rice Residents.

• 23 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Saint Cecilia's Hall
  50 Niddry Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1LG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 24 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral
  Palmerston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH12 5AW

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 25 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 26 November 2018
  

• 6:00pm - 8:00pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

"Kabira Khada Bazaar Mein" (In the Market Stands Kabir) - 600 years after his time, Kabir is found in both sacred and secular spaces. This film interweaves his deification by the Kabir Panth sect with his secular appropriation by the social activist group Eklavya.

• 27 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 27 November 2018
  

• 5:15pm

• Minto House, Crit Room 2
  20-22 Chambers St
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

Part of the Prokalò ESALA Postgraduate Seminar Series 2018.

• 28 November 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

• Adam House, Adam House Lecture Theatre
  3 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1HT

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 29 November 2018
  

• 6:30pm - 8:00pm

• National Gallery of Scotland, Hawthornden Lecture Theatre
  The Mound
  Edinburgh
  EH2 2EL

Part of the ECA India Season

• 29 November 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

• Alison House, Lecture Room A
  12 Nicolson Street
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018.

• 29 November 2018
  

• 4:00pm

• Evolution House, Design Informatics Studio (T-Room, Level 2)
  78 West Port
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2LE

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018

• 29 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 29 November 2018
  

• 5:15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

This paper asks why Legros has remained in obscurity despite his centrality to the art-worlds of both London and Paris in the later nineteenth century, his commitment to radical politics, and the sheer quality of his painting.

• 30 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 30 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 27 October 2018 - 26 January 2019
  

• Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm
  Sat, 12pm-5pm

• Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Maja Bajevic, Georgia Horgan, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Teresa Margolles, Olivia Plender, Suzanne Treister, Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment

• 27 October 2018 - 26 January 2019
  

• Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm
  Sat, 12pm-5pm

• Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Bewitching audiences from Venice, to Singapore, to Dublin, Tremble Tremble now arrives in Edinburgh, performed daily in Talbot Rice Gallery’s magnificent Georgian Gallery.

• 18 November 2018 - 2 December 2018
  

• Evolution House
  Tent Gallery
  78 West Port
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2LE

Our carbon-based economy is responsible for a catastrophic rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide level, causing dramatic climate change, ocean acidification and mass extinction. This exhibition turns a Carbon Stock into a Carbon Debt. Are we doomed, what is wrong with our global economy? 

• 1 December 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 3 December 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Usher Hall
  Lothian Road
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2EA

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 3 December 2018
  

• 8pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 3 December 2018
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Dr Penny Travlou, Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Theory in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) and a Research Fellow in OPENspace. Penny’s research is interdisciplinary, focusing on theories of space and place, the politics of public space, digital culture, distributed networks, 'the Commons' and ethnography.

• 4 December 2018
  

• 5.15pm-6.30pm

• Minto House, Elliot Room
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

This talk will explore the resonance of the picturesque within the 19th century design of the hill, and consider how this, alongside the broader cultural and political resonance of Calton Hill's monumental urban landscape provides insight into notions of Scottish identity and its relationship with the British state throughout the last 200 years

• 5 December 2018
  

• 7pm

• Cinema Space, Room 0.25
  Hunter Building
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Ernesto Alemany’s La Gunguna (2015) tells the story of a tiny pistol with a dark history. 

• 5 December 2018
  

• 9.30am - 1pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

• 5 December 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

• Adam House, Adam House Lecture Theatre
  3 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1HT

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 6 December 2018
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Evolution House
  The University of Edinburgh
  78 West Port
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2LE

During this session, you will gain an understanding of funder, and university requirements and be introduced to the ways in which the school and university can support you to achieve good Research Data Management that will benefit you as well as the wider world.

• 7 December 2018
  

• 10am - 12.30pm

• Hunter Building
  Workshop N1
  Lauriston Place
  EH3 9DF

In this workshop we will experiment with frottage, using different surfaces and materials to produce collaborative automatic narratives and dreamscapes.

• 7 December 2018
  

• 1.15pm

• Scottish National Portrait Gallery
  1 Queen Street
  Edinburgh
  EH2 1JD

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 9 December 2018
  

• 6pm

• St Giles Cathedral
  High Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1RE
  

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 9 December 2018
  

• 6pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 14 December 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Saint Cecilia's Hall
  50 Niddry Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1LG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Autumn-Winter 2018 series

• 27 October 2018 - 26 January 2019
  

• Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm
  Sat, 12pm-5pm

• Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Maja Bajevic, Georgia Horgan, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Teresa Margolles, Olivia Plender, Suzanne Treister, Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment

• 27 October 2018 - 26 January 2019
  

• Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm
  Sat, 12pm-5pm

• Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Bewitching audiences from Venice, to Singapore, to Dublin, Tremble Tremble now arrives in Edinburgh, performed daily in Talbot Rice Gallery’s magnificent Georgian Gallery.

• 16 January 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 16 January 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

This session will focus on how the University's press office can help you tell your story to the world. Run by the University's joint head of news, Edd McCracken, this presentation will give you an overview of what journalists are looking for from academics, offer tips for broadcast interviews, and demystify what can seem like an intimidating media landscape.

• 21 January 2019
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Ziwen’s PhD project focuses on “walkability/walking, transient space and the smaller Chinese cities”. In the light of his interests of understanding how cities and place are experienced and re-used by the public, he teaches students to re-think the existing static spatial terms into a series of urban transition, power relation, itinerant everyday activity, and moveable apparatus etc.

• 22 January 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 2:30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

This RSF session explores research-led teaching as a pedagogical practice in ECA. We will examine the various forms research-led teaching might take, its benefits and challenges, and its impact on those in the job market.

• 23 January 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 30 January 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 6 February 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 7 February 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Alison House
  University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

In this session, we will give you an overview of network grant opportunities, and explore in detail AHRC and Royal Society of Edinburgh grants.

• 13 February 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 18 February 2019
  

• 5.15pm - 6.15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Part of the Dada & Surrealism Public Talks Series 2018/19

• 25 February 2019
  

• 2:00PM - 3:30PM

• Alison House, Lecture Room A
  12 Nicolson Street
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

This session will include strategies for coping with rejection, being resilient when dealing with reviewers and funders, and considering what other avenues might be open to rejected grants.

• 27 February 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 5 March 2019
  

• 11am – 12.30pm

• Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), The Boardroom
  75 Belford Rd,
  Edinburgh, EH4 3DR

Part of the Dada & Surrealism Public Talks Series 2018/19

• 6 March 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 11 March 2019
  

• 5.15pm - 6.15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Part of the Dada & Surrealism Public Talks Series 2018/19

• 13 March 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 18 March 2019
  

• 12:30pm - 2pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

The talk will conclude with a discussion on how promoting greater interaction with the natural environment can be effective for reducing health inequalities.

• 19 March 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Alison House, Lecture Room A
  12 Nicolson Street
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

This session will focus on the experiences and perspectives of individuals who work across organisational boundaries in pursuit of shared research goals.

• 20 March 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 27 March 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 15 April 2019
  

• 5.15pm - 6.15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Part of the Dada & Surrealism Public Talks Series 2018/19

• 25 April 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

In this session, Kamini Vellodi will be in conversation with Michael Schwab, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Artistic Research, to explore these and other questions.

• 29 April 2019
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Dr Jung-Hwa Kim will review recent master-plan projects of botanical gardens in the UK such as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, and the National Botanic Garden of Wales.

• 1 May 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

This session will consider how research can be communicated beyond the academy. We'll hear about putting on public workshops and talks, and how to make public engagement a two-way process rather than a simple presentation of findings.

• 6 May 2019
  

• 5.15pm - 6.15pm

• Hunter Building, Hunter Lecture Theatre (017)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Part of the Dada & Surrealism Public Talks Series 2018/19

• 5 June 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

We’ll look at the landscape and some examples of leadership, and hear from someone with large grant success on what it takes to join the big grant club.

• 29 October 2019
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Board Room (L05)
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Natalie’s research interests focus on healthy buildings and how the built environment impacts people’s health (physical, psychological and social). Nature has been shown to help work-related stress. But how can nature be efficiently incorporated inside and will it have the same positive impact?