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.

• 18 January 2019 - 26 January 2019
  

• 10am - 4pm

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

A collection of work by two artists exploring contemporary landscape - rural, urban & imagined. Rowan Paton & Alan Grieve employ humour, language & image to navigate their contexts.

• 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.

• 22 January 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 23 January 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 24 January 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 25 January 2019
  

• 11:30am - 1:00pm

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

This lecture performs relationships between cyberfeminism, witchcraft, and abjection, within the context of a body of work including spells, karaoke, installation, and a science fiction novella.

• 25 January 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 29 January 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

'The experience of light and darkness is central to all architectural experience. Responding to Romantic accounts of gothic gloom, scholars in the last hundred years have characterised gothic architecture as a celebration of light. But what political agendas lie behind these shifting perceptions, and can their accuracy be measured? How were natural and artificial light regulated in the gothic cathedral, and how were buildings experienced at night?

• 29 January 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 30 January 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 30 January 2019
  

• 4:30pm - 6:00pm

• The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  The University of Edinburgh
  Hope Park Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9NW

The Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars working on any aspect of eighteenth-century history, literature and culture to share their research.

• 31 January 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

Dominic Johnson is a Reader in Performance and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of four monographs including Unlimited Action: The Performance of Extremity in the 1970s (2018); and The Art of Living: An Oral History of Performance Art (2015).

• 31 January 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 1 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

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

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 5 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 6 February 2019
  

• 12pm - 3pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

At Postgrad LIVE! you’ll be able to speak to representatives from over 20 top universities, and gather the information you need to plan your steps into postgraduate study.

• 6 February 2019
  

• 7pm

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

Maisie Williams is an English actress. She made her professional acting debut as Arya Stark of Winterfell in the television series Game of Thrones. Williams has also had a recurring role in Doctor Who as Ashildr in 2015. In addition to television, she made her feature film debut in the mystery The Falling (2014).

• 6 February 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 7 February 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

This paper will explore the shared cultural interests between the Celtic Revival and Modern Spiritualism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Scotland.

• 7 February 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 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.

• 8 February 2019
  

• 11:30am - 1:00pm

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

In this talk, Marie Thompson will discuss her current work examining the resonances between sonic, sexual and social reproduction as a means of generating an expanded, feminist account of reproduction in auditory culture.

• 8 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 12 February 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

The talk discusses in what ways conceptualizations of global production networks and transnationality offer an advanced framework for architectural research allowing to take account of multi-scalar interdependencies at work in present-day urbanization.

• 12 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 13 February 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 13 February 2019
  

• 4:30pm - 6:00pm

• The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  The University of Edinburgh
  Hope Park Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9NW

The Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars working on any aspect of eighteenth-century history, literature and culture to share their research. The seminar is organised jointly by postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the College of Art.

• 14 February 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

Have Anglo-European models of arts education, art institution structuring and arts funding, whilst purporting to produce a culture of inclusion, in fact over the past 50 years further embedded inequality in our social lives?

• 14 February 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 15 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 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

• 19 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 22 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

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

Part of the Concerts at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 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.

• 25 February 2019
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

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

Hazreena’s research interests focus on Environment-Behaviour interactions and Multisensory environments. She will give a personal insight into the 12 years (and counting) she spent working on the design and use of sensory gardens.

• 26 February 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

This talk explores the complex ways in which the remediation of printed images shaped Renaissance architectural practice. It argues that commonplace acts of copying, processes of direct translation, and even seemingly mundane, monotonous activities such as the manual replication of printed treatises constitute an overlooked cultural technique, one that became integral to the dynamic practices of architectural design that developed in the sixteenth century.

• 26 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Part of the Concert at the University | Spring-Summer 2019 series

• 27 February 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 27 February 2019
  

• 4:30pm - 6:00pm

• The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  The University of Edinburgh
  Hope Park Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9NW

The Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars working on any aspect of eighteenth-century history, literature and culture to share their research. The seminar is organised jointly by postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the College of Art.

• 28 February 2019
  

• 2:00pm - 6:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 28 February 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

The close scientific collaboration in the Arctic between William Bruce and the ‘sailor prince’ Albert I of Monaco has emerged as an important facet in our understanding of the role of art in relation to exploration and oceanographic science in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has also resulted in David Munro’s appointment as a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.

• 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

• 5 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

Part of the Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series 2018/19

• 6 March 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 7 March 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 7 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

Cinta Krahe is a specialist in Chinese art, lecturing on “East Asian Decorative Arts” in the M.A Tasador de Antigüedades y Obras de Arte, Universidad Alcalá (2003-2019), and “East Asian Material Culture” at the Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid (2011-2019). Previously, she taught East Asian Art at the Escuela de Arte y Antigüedades de Madrid (1996-2003).

• 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

• 12 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

his 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.

• 13 March 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 13 March 2019
  

• 4:30pm - 6:00pm

• The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  The University of Edinburgh
  Hope Park Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9NW

The Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars working on any aspect of eighteenth-century history, literature and culture to share their research. The seminar is organised jointly by postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the College of Art.

• 14 March 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 14 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

This paper offers some thoughts (in progress) on the aesthetics of early 20th century visual abstraction in relation to jazz, especially with reference to those artists associated with Orphism.

• 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

• 20 March 2019
  

• 11am - 7pm

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

In its fifth year, BOOKMARKS artists’ book fair will again provide a stimulating platform for visitors to explore artists’ books and zines made by practitioners from across Scotland and further afield.

• 21 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

What does it mean to write a dictionary? Are dictionaries simply taxonomic repositories of meaning and compilations of knowledge, or can they involve other tasks and assume other functions? What might be the specific challenges and potentials raised by the task of writing a dictionary of the ideas of a thinker?

• 21 March 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 22 March 2019
  

• 11:30am - 1:00pm

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

Sharing images and film excerpts, this talk revolves around betrayal as a method in refusing abjectness. Alberta will present two key projects - performance workshop sorry, not sorry and her 2018/19 Margaret Tait commission between a whisper and a cry discussing how decolonial methods such as betrayal and refusal can create encounters, which encourage mutual empathy, healing and release.

• 26 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

In this paper, Dr Tom Hulme focuses particularly on civic architecture and urban space in the 1920s and 1930s, and on the celebrations that took the city as their subject. City governors, he argues, had a historically-aware mindset that understood the city in terms of its long development, celebrating urban progress from humble origins and shocking growth right up to contemporary power and prestige.

• 27 March 2019
  

• 4:30pm - 6:00pm 

• The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  The University of Edinburgh
  Hope Park Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9NW

The Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars working on any aspect of eighteenth-century history, literature and culture to share their research. The seminar is organised jointly by postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the College of Art.

• 27 March 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 28 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

The call for an Art Strike against Trump (2017), a National Artists’ Strike in Australia (2013), a Polish Day Without Art (2012), the Art Strike Biennial in Alytus (2009)… It appears that the idea of an art strike has not been abandoned to the problems presented by its historic instances, such as Lee Lozano’s ‘General Strike Piece’ (1969), the Art Workers’ Coalition Art Strike (1970) or Gustav Metgzer’s ‘Years Without Art’ (1977-80).

• 28 March 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 1 April 2019
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

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

This seminar is a discussion of the results obtained during the second part of Agnès’ PhD study, which generally explored the use of fractal characteristics of landscape photographs as predictors of landscape preference.

• 2 April 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

Part of the Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 4 April 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 4 April 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

Forget the study, the books, and the armchair. Thinking is not a lone, individual act but a social process, embedded in what I have called “the social buzz”: the constant implicit discussion – agreement, disagreement, qualification, passionate opining – of ideas by the people constituting the social environment of the thinker. Three aspects can be derived from that collective nature of thought.

• 10 April 2019
  

• 4:30pm - 6:00pm

• The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
  The University of Edinburgh
  Hope Park Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9NW

The Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate and early-career scholars working on any aspect of eighteenth-century history, literature and culture to share their research. The seminar is organised jointly by postgraduate students at the University of Edinburgh's School of History, Classics and Archaeology, and the College of Art.

• 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

• 17 May 2019
  18 May 2019
  

• Schools show at 3pm, then main shows at 6pm and 8.30pm.

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

The Performance Costume programme will stage the Performance Costume Show at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) for two nights in May.

• 23 May 2019
  

• 8pm and 10pm

• National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JF

In a fresh take on the traditional fashion show, the catwalk will be designed so that every audience member will have a front row seat. The concept aims to make the event inclusive and accessible to all, eliminating the norms of fashion hierarchy.

• 1 June 2019 - 9 June 2019
  

• - Business opening Thu 30 May, 6-8pm
  - Friends and family opening Fri 31 May, 6-8pm
  - Late night opening Wed 5 and Thu 6 Jun until 8pm

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

For nine days in summer, Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) is transformed into a public showcase of the work of our graduating students, the majority of whom are completing undergraduate degrees.

• 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?