Past events

• 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.

• 16 January 2019
  

• 2pm - 3pm

• Venue to be confirmed

• 17 January 2019
  

• 5:15pm

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

This talk is drawn from a larger research project on art and visual culture in the Ethiopian revolution, one that stresses the centrality of images in the downfall of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 and in the construction of a "popular," putatively Marxist-Leninist revolution that followed.

• 17 January 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

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

• 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
  

• 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.

• 3 December 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Usher Hall
  Lothian Road
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2EA

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

• 4 December 2018
  

• 5.15pm-6.30pm

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

CANCELLED. WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN SEMESTER 2.

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
  

• 1pm - 2pm

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

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 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
  

• 10am - 1pm

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

Presentations by new postgraduate students in MScR in Creative Practice, PhD Art and PhD Design.

• 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
  

• 1.15pm

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

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

• 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.

• 9 December 2018
  

• 6pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 11 December 2018 - 12 December 2018
  

• Opening night: 10 Dec, 6pm - 9pm
  11 Dec, 10am - 12pm
  12 Dec, 10am - 4pm

• Wee Red Bar
  ECA Main Building and Hunter Building
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Limited edition from jewellery & silversmithing designers

• 13 December 2018 - 18 December 2018
  

• 10:00am - 5:00pm

• The Café
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Limited edition from jewellery & silversmithing designers

• 13 December 2018 - 21 December 2018
  7 January 2019 - 14 January 2019
  

• 9am - 5pm

• Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation
  High School Yards
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1LZ

Art, Space and Nature Masters students have been looking at carbon and issues surrounding climate change as research towards this wide-ranging exhibition.

• 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

• 26 October 2018 - 4 November 2018
  

• Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  Private view: 25 Oct, 7pm

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

An exhibition by the Chilean art collective, Natural Signs.

• 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.

• 1 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.

• 1 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

• 2 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 2 November 2018
  

• 6:30 - 7:30 (doors open at 6:15)

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

• 5 November 2018
  

• 6:00pm - 8:00pm

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

"Koi Sunta Hai" (Someone Is Listening) - Interweaving folk music traditions of the poet Kabir with the life and music of the late classical singer Kumar Gandharva, this film searches for that elusive sound that Kabir urges us to hear.

• 6 November 2018
  

• 5.15pm-6.30pm

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

Exploring regional legacies of colonialism, post-colonialism and internationalism across the late 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is an ongoing concern of architectural historians. Scholarship in the field has examined connections between Australia and New Zealand, and Europe, America and Asia, especially through the lenses of migration and travel.

• 6 November 2018
  

• 6pm

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

A launch event for a new research cluster of PhD, postdoctoral researchers and academic staff whose work explores issues of sex, gender and sexuality.

• 6 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 7 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

• 7 November 2018
  

• 2pm - 3pm

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

• 8 November 2018
  

• 6pm

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

This year's Watson Gordon Lecture is an illustrated lecture showing how the understanding of the heart changed during the Middle Ages, from spiritual locus of the body, to source of devotion to country, and finally, to the font of love and sentimentality.

• 8 November 2018
  

• 6pm

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

This year's Watson Gordon Lecture will be delivered by Cynthia Hahn, Professor of Medieval Art at The Graduate Centre, CUNY.

• 8 November 2018
  

• 4:00pm

• Floor 1, Evolution House

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018

• 9 November 2018
  

• 9am - 6.30pm

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

New Voices 2018 will give postgraduate and doctoral researchers an opportunity to discuss the topic of art and conflict and to address persistent historical, contextual, and conceptual questions. How do artists represent conflict in their work? How can art be used as a weapon of resistance and a means of reconstruction? What is the artist’s obligation, if any, to conflict? How does art respond uniquely to different kinds of conflict?

• 9 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 9 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

• 12 November 2018
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

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

This session will cover AHRC Standard Grants. We’ll work through a successful application, explore timelines, and the peer-review process. The session will also include a group working element where we will look at specific sections of a past application.

• 12 November 2018
  

• 6:00pm - 8:00pm

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

"Had / Anhad" (Bounded / Boundless) - This film journeys through song and poem into the politics of religion, and finds a myriad answers on both sides of the hostile border between India and Pakistan.

• 13 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.

• 13 November 2018
  

• 6:00pm - 7:30pm

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

In May 2018, a group of Edinburgh University students from Fashion, Performance Costume and Product Design joined others from Business and Geography to follow the path of cotton from field to catwalk.

• 13 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 14 November 2018
  

• 9am - 6.30pm

Open Days are a great opportunity to meet staff and students, take a tour of our facilities, and attend a range of talks on study options and services such as Admissions, Student Finance and Accommodation.

• 14 November 2018
  

• 2pm - 3pm

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

• 14 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

• 15 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

• 15 November 2018
  

• 6:00pm - 8:30pm

• Alison House, Atrium
  Nicolson Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

Set in the Himalayan tribal state of Nagaland, a region rarely seen on cinema, Nana offers a never-before-seen inside-out perspective on family life and governance challenges in India’s scenic hill states of the North-East.Yet, unlike most films in this genre, this Church-funded production articulates its concerns through plausible drama with a subtly infused correctional 'religious' message that bad karma does eventually catch up.

• 15 November 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Dr. Will Lamb discusses the relationship between music and song in Scottish Gaelic culture – and argues that song rather than music is the superordinate category.

• 15 November 2018
  

• 6.30pm - 9pm

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

• 15 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

• 16 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• St John's Church
  Princes Street
  Edinburgh
  EH2 4BJ

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

• 16 November 2018
  

• 11.30 – 13.00

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

Ruth Ewan will discuss her approach to developing projects with and for a broad range of sites including archives, museums and different forms of public spaces.

• 16 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Greyfriars Kirk
  1 Greyfriars
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2QQ

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

• 16 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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?

• 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

• 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.

• 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
  

• 5:15pm

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

Part of the Prokalò ESALA Postgraduate Seminar Series 2018.

• 27 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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

• 30 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 30 November 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 26 July 2018 - 6 October 2018
  

• July and August:
  - Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  - Saturday and Sunday, 12pm - 5pm
  September and October:
  - Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  - Saturday, 12pm - 5pm

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

Lucy Skaer’s exhibition The Green Man is an exploration and reanimation of the desire to collect.

• 2 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 3 October 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

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

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 4 October 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

• 4 October 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

• 4 October 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Harald Krebs (University of Victoria) discusses and performs (with Sharon Krebs, soprano) numerous relevant song excerpts and complete songs, most of them unpublished and previously unheard.

• 5 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 5 October 2018
  

• 6.30pm (Doors open at 6.15pm)

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

Led by Mollie Claypool from The Bartlett, Unit 19.

• 8 October 2018 - 27 October 2018
  

• Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00am - 5:00pm

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

In this seminal work from Katie Paterson, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata was translated into Morse code and sent to the Moon

• 9 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 9 October 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

This lecture presents the full corpus of surviving monuments in public for the first time, based on extensive fieldwork across Turkey and Iran. The wider regional connections are examined alongside the study of individual monuments.

• 10 October 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

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

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 11 October 2018 - 14 October 2018
  

• 10am - 4pm

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

An exhibition of work by Ann-Kathrin Müller and Mark I'Anson.

• 11 October 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

With Diva Mukherji (VP Education, EUSA), Radhika Govinda (Lecturer in Sociology, University of Edinburgh), 皚桐 (Glasgow School of Art POC Society) and chaired by Diljeet Bhachu (Reid School of Music)

• 11 October 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

• 11 October 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

• 12 October 2018
  

• 4.30pm - 7pm

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

The aim of this workshop is to consider the inception, reception, and reverberations of the notion of ‘Entartung’ (Degeneration), whilst challenging and updating existing orthodoxies in the field.

• 12 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 12 October 2018
  

• 11:30am - 1:00pm 

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

Kristen Kreider is a writer and artist who works in collaboration with the architect James O’Leary to engage with sites of architectural and cultural interest. Her research stems from an interest in the poetics of thought, its materialization as form, and a concern with how artworks relate to the world.

• 13 October 2018
  

• 9am - 5pm

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

This one-day Research Forum for German Visual Culture symposium celebrates an exhibition retrospective of one of Germany’s greatest Expressionist artists, namely Emil Nolde.

• 15 October 2018
  

• 5pm - 6.30pm

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

This event is a celebration of the rich range of books published by colleagues across Edinburgh College of Art's five subject areas (Art, Design, Architecture & Landscape Architecture, History of Art, Music) during the last year.

• 16 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 16 October 2018
  

• 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

• 16 October 2018
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

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

This session will focus on Fellowships, ranging from Post-doctoral to Mid-career opportunities, covering Leverhulme and British Academy. We will talk through the application process and explore what works in successful applications.

• 17 October 2018
  

• 2pm - 4pm

• Alison House, Student Common Room
  12 Nicolson Street
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9DF

A session to provide information on some of the funds available to organise postgraduate workshops and conferences.

• 17 October 2018
  

• 12pm - 3pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

Now in its fourth year, FindAPhD LIVE! is a series of completely free-to-attend PhD study and funding fairs taking place in Edinburgh, Oxford and Leeds.

• 17 October 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

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

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 18 October 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

• 18 October 2018
  

• 5:15pm

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

Felicity Gee is lecturer in Modernism and World Cinema at the University of Exeter. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph Magic Realism: The Avant-Garde in Exile (Routledge, 2019), and has published on Surrealism and avant-garde film, Japanese film, and affect theory.

• 18 October 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Karen McAulay (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) shares how she set about exploring the Edinburgh legal deposit music, and what she found out about it.

• 19 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

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

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

• 19 October 2018
  

• 6.30pm (Doors open at 6.15pm)

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

Delivered by Christopher Pierce, Head of the AA Visiting School as well as Unit Master in AA's Intermediate 9 program.

• 23 October 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

This paper discusses the emergence of a new phrase in architectural and political culture in the early twentieth century; ‘civic centre’. ‘Civic centre’ connoted deliberately planned grouped buildings for public administration and assembly, but also expressed civic identity and ceremony in a self-consciously democratic age.

• 23 October 2018
  

• 6:00pm

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

Part of the Prokalò ESALA Postgraduate Seminar Series 2018.

• 23 October 2018 - 26 October 2018
  

• 11:00am - 1:00pm

• Matthew Gallery
  Minto House
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

Part of the Prokalò ESALA Postgraduate Seminar Series 2018.

• 23 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 24 October 2018
  

• 3pm

• The Fire Station, Seminar Room B
  76-78 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DE

Come along to the Fire Station Building to chat about this project, have a look at the Free-Use Hub and exchange ideas on what can be done to improve sustainability throughout Edinburgh College of Art over drinks and nibbles.

• 24 October 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

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

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 24 October 2018
  

• 5:00pm

• 11 Crichton St
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9LE

Part of the Prokalò ESALA Postgraduate Seminar Series 2018.

• 25 October 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

• 25 October 2018
  

• 5:15pm

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

This hour-long documentary, featuring archive photographs by George Oliver of this important event, takes the form of an interview between the artist Alexander Hamilton (an assistant during the exhibition) and Dr Christian Weikop, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary German Art. The screening of the film will be preceded by a brief introduction.

• 25 October 2018
  

• 5:00pm

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

Part of the Prokalò ESALA Postgraduate Seminar Series 2018.

• 26 October 2018
  

• 11.30 – 13.00

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

In The White Pube: Origin Story, Gabrielle and Zarina talk candidly about their young and weird careers as critics in the big old white male boring ass art world. They talk money, stress, success and why they are peddling embodied criticism and subjectivity over another way of writing.

• 26 October 2018
  

• 6:30 - 7:30 (doors open at 6:15)

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

Ben Channon is an architect at Assael Architecture, where he is the Mental Wellbeing Ambassador for the practice, and is also an accredited mindfulness practitioner with the Mindfulness Association.

• 26 October 2018 - 4 November 2018
  

• Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  Private view: 25 Oct, 7pm

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

An exhibition by the Chilean art collective, Natural Signs.

• 26 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 26 October 2018
  

• 3pm

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

Photography: where is the medium going? Aside from the obvious technical developments, though facilitated by them, there are significant shifts in who makes a photograph and why.

• 26 October 2018
  

• 9am - 5pm

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

This international symposium opens up discussion of Spanish art and culture in relation to the construction of discourses of coloniality in 20th-century Spain, especially in the Francoist period.

• 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.

• 30 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 31 October 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

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

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 26 July 2018 - 6 October 2018
  

• July and August:
  - Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  - Saturday and Sunday, 12pm - 5pm
  September and October:
  - Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  - Saturday, 12pm - 5pm

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

Lucy Skaer’s exhibition The Green Man is an exploration and reanimation of the desire to collect.

• 4 September 2018
  

• 09:00am - 12:00pm

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

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 Head of News, Edd McCracken, this practical workshop will give you an overview of what journalists are looking for from academics, offer practical interview tips, and talk about how best to write for the media.

• 14 September 2018 - 25 September 2018
  

• Open 14th, 15th, 18th, 19th and 25th Sep
  12pm - 5pm

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

Presenting work by Mara Marxt Lewis & Tyler Lewis.

• 17 September 2018 - 28 September 2018
  

• Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Andrew Grant Gallery
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement, the collaborative team of Newton and his late wife Helen Mayer Harrison (often referred to simply as “the Harrisons”) has worked for almost forty years with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners and other artists to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development.

• 19 September 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

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

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 20 September 2018
  

• 5pm - 6.30pm

• Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Room J.05
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Accompanying the exhibition "On the Deep Wealth of This Nation, Scotland", Newton Harrison will be hosting a discussion, presenting a unique opportunity to hear directly from this major international artist.

• 20 September 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

• 20 September 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 24 September 2018
  

• 12:30pm - 2:00pm

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

Dr Rebecca Crowther, recently gained her PhD from Edinburgh College of Art in the remit of ‘nature,’ wellbeing, personal transformation and group dynamics. Her work is transdisciplinary, ethnographic and based in Scotland.

• 24 September 2018
  

• 7:30pm

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

This concert involves contemporary composition, improvisation and computer music - all inspired by spiritualism in different ways. This ensemble performed (most) of these works by commission of Forfest in Kroměříž, Czech Republic in June 2018 and are invited to Edinburgh for this special occasion.

• 24 September 2018
  

• 2:00pm - 3:30pm

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

This session will focus on successfully publishing your research as a book, and will cover transforming PhD research into a publishable manuscript, writing a successful book proposal, and identifying and successfully applying to funding sources for illustrations and copyright.

• 25 September 2018
  

• 1pm - 2pm

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

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 25 September 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:30pm

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

This paper will locate some of these buildings within their wider architectural, social, and urban historical contexts, showing how culture and leisure – and the buildings in which they were accommodated – were fundamentally related to ideas of modern urbanity and modern citizenship.

• 27 September 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

• 27 September 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

• 27 September 2018
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

James Cook (University of Edinburgh) focuses on a single episode of Showtime’s historical drama The Borgias, arguing that anachronism simply fails to explain adequately the creative use of the musical past on show here.

• 28 September 2018
  

• 11.30am – 1.00pm

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

In this talk, Plessas will discuss one of his recent projects, The Noospheric Society, a project that reflects on spiritual sides of technology, merging concepts of the biosphere and cybersphere with the intention of touching on the freedom of speech, social relations and environmental energies. This talk is presented in collaboration with The Talbot Rice Gallery.

• 29 September 2018
  

• 11am - 5pm

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

A fundraising event in the Fire Station.

• 28 June 2018 - 25 August 2018
  

• 28 June - 25 July: Tue - Sat, 12pm - 5pm
  26 July - 25 August: Mon - Sun, 10am - 6pm

• Edinburgh College of Art
  Studios C6, C7, and C8
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

DEAD IMAGES explores the contentious legacy of collections of human skulls, assembled during the 19th and early 20th centuries and still held in public institutions in Europe.

• 26 July 2018 - 26 August 2018
  

• 10am - 6pm

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

What would you pay to feel?

• 26 July 2018 - 26 August 2018
  

• 10am - 6pm

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

This ambitious multi-channel sound installation by internationally renowned Indian artist, Shilpa Gupta, gives voice to poets who have been jailed through the centuries. Bringing together fragments from the work of 100 poets from around the world, the artist offers a powerful reflection on freedom of expression.

• 26 July 2018 - 26 August 2018
  

• 10am — 6pm

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

Biodiversity is the outcome of research and work developed during Siobhan Healy’s time as an Artist in Residence at ECA in collaboration with the artist & writer Alasdair Gray. 

• 26 July 2018 - 6 October 2018
  

• July and August:
  - Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  - Saturday and Sunday, 12pm - 5pm
  September and October:
  - Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  - Saturday, 12pm - 5pm

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

Lucy Skaer’s exhibition The Green Man is an exploration and reanimation of the desire to collect.

• 1 August 2018 - 2 August 2018
  

• 9.45am - 3pm

• University of Edinburgh Main Library, George Square, EH8 9LJ
  Main Building and North-East Studio Building, 74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF

We invite S5 and S6 pupils to join us for the 2018 ECA Summer School of Imagination! Come along and get to know Edinburgh College of Art, while learning about the famous Scottish Surrealist artist, Eduardo Paolozzi and making your own Surrealist art. 

• 2 August 2018 - 25 August 2018
  

• 11am - 6pm

• Design Informatics Pavilion
  Outside Assembly Rooms
  54 George Street
  EH2 2LR

This year's Design Informatics Pavilion will showcase prototypes and interactive installations by Design Informatics researchers, Masters students and partners at Tesco Bank.

• 2 August 2018 - 8 August 2018
  

• 1 - 8 August, 10am - 5pm

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

Muir is Tìr/Land and Sea is a new An Lanntair residency, loosely inspired by the George Macleod book of the same name.

• 3 August 2018
  

• 11am - 12pm (BST)

• Online

Join Programme Director, Emma Davie, for an insight into Film Directing (MA/MFA), followed by an opportunity to ask questions.

• 11 August 2018 - 19 August 2018
  

• 10am - 6pm
  Late openings: 15 & 16 Aug, 10am - 8pm

• North-East Studio Building
  Edinburgh College of Art
  74 Lauriston Place
  EH3 9DF

Edinburgh College of Art opens its doors for a showcase of work by postgraduate students.

• 23 August 2018
  

• 11am - 1pm

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

Trapped in a Human Zoo follows the incredible story of two Labrador Inuit families, who in 1880, lured by promises of adventures and wealth, embarked for Europe to become the latest attraction in the now-forgotten world of ethnographical shows (also known as “human zoos”).

• 24 August 2018
  

• 2pm - 6pm

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

How does the gig economy shape art production in Scotland? From Airbnb’d spare rooms to second shifts working for Deliveroo, in what ways are artists implicated in this precarious new economy?

• 28 June 2018 - 25 August 2018
  

• 28 June - 25 July: Tue - Sat, 12pm - 5pm
  26 July - 25 August: Mon - Sun, 10am - 6pm

• Edinburgh College of Art
  Studios C6, C7, and C8
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

DEAD IMAGES explores the contentious legacy of collections of human skulls, assembled during the 19th and early 20th centuries and still held in public institutions in Europe.

• 4 July 2018
  

• 6.30pm

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

The fifth annual Andrew Carnegie Lecture at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) will be delivered by Tacita Dean.

• 10 July 2018
  

• 3pm BST

• Online

Join Programme Director, Arno Verhoeven, for an insight into Design for Change - MA, followed by an opportunity to ask questions.

• 25 July 2018
  

• 3.30pm BST

• Online

Join Programme Director, John Brennan, for an insight into Advanced Sustainable Design - MSc, followed by an opportunity to ask questions.

• 26 July 2018 - 26 August 2018
  

• 10am - 6pm

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

What would you pay to feel?

• 26 July 2018
  

• 10.30am - 1 pm

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

Join Matt Peacock MBE and Shelly Coyne for an open workshop on arts and homelessness projects in the UK and abroad.

• 26 July 2018 - 26 August 2018
  

• 10am - 6pm

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

This ambitious multi-channel sound installation by internationally renowned Indian artist, Shilpa Gupta, gives voice to poets who have been jailed through the centuries. Bringing together fragments from the work of 100 poets from around the world, the artist offers a powerful reflection on freedom of expression.

• 26 July 2018 - 26 August 2018
  

• 10am — 6pm

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

Biodiversity is the outcome of research and work developed during Siobhan Healy’s time as an Artist in Residence at ECA in collaboration with the artist & writer Alasdair Gray. 

• 26 July 2018 - 6 October 2018
  

• July and August:
  - Monday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  - Saturday and Sunday, 12pm - 5pm
  September and October:
  - Tuesday - Friday, 10am - 5pm
  - Saturday, 12pm - 5pm

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

Lucy Skaer’s exhibition The Green Man is an exploration and reanimation of the desire to collect.

• 4 June 2018
  

• ECA Catwalk Show - 18:30
  Alumni drinks reception - 19:30 - 21:30

• The Old Truman Brewery
  11 Hanbury Street
  London
  E1 6QR

Alumni are warmly invited to attend the ECA Catwalk Show at Graduate Fashion Week at The Old Truman Brewery, London followed by an exclusive aftershow reception.

• 5 June 2018 - 7 June 2018
  

• Tue 5th: 9am - 7pm
  Wed 6th: 9am - 9pm
  Thu 7th: 9am - 5pm

• John McIntyre Conference Centre
  Pollock Halls
  18 Holyrood Park Road
  Edinburgh
  EH16 5AY

Organised in partnership with the Wellcome Trust-funded Waiting Times project, this conference will explore the ‘social life’ of time and will ask how particular constructions of time challenge or enact particular forms of relationality.

• 14 June 2018
  

• 9am - 5.30pm

• Patrick Geddes Centre
  Riddles Court
  322 Lawnmarket
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2PG

2017 marked the 250th anniversary of James Craig's design for Edinburgh New Town. University of Picardy Jules Verne and University of Edinburgh, with other partners, organised a commemorative conference in 2017. We are now bringing an updated and modified version of this to Edinburgh itself.

• 28 June 2018 - 25 August 2018
  

• 28 June - 25 July: Tue - Sat, 12pm - 5pm
  26 July - 25 August: Mon - Sun, 10am - 6pm

• Edinburgh College of Art
  Studios C6, C7, and C8
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

DEAD IMAGES explores the contentious legacy of collections of human skulls, assembled during the 19th and early 20th centuries and still held in public institutions in Europe.

• 1 May 2018
  

• 5pm - 6.30pm

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

Dada & Surrealism Research Group Seminar

• 7 May 2018
  

• 12.30pm - 2pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 OPENspace Seminar Series

• 10 May 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

CANCELLED

Dr Kerstin Stakemeier (Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nuremberg) | Part of the 2017-18 History of Art Research Seminar Series

• 11 May 2018
  

• 2pm - 3.30pm

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

Part of the 2017/2018 Research Successes Forum series.

• 16 May 2018
  

• 5pm - 7pm

• Medical School, Teviot Lecture Theatre (Doorway 5)
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

The [Digital Practices] Symposium will be discussing different approaches towards advanced digital tools related to architecture and design practices.

• 21 May 2018
  

• 12.30pm - 2pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 OPENspace Seminar Series

• 23 May 2018
  

• 5pm-7pm

• 50 George Square, Screening Room G.04
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9LH

These free screenings are open to students and staff of University of Edinburgh only.

• 23 May 2018
  

• 4pm BST

• 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.

• 31 May 2018
  

• Alumni reception - 17:00 - 18:00
  Industry preview - 18:00 - 20:00

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

Alumni are invited to attend an exclusive alumni reception prior to the industry preview of the 2018 Degree Show.

• 30 March 2018 - 27 April 2018
  

• Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm

• CodeBase
  38 Castle Terrace
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DZ

Collections and Curating Practice class of 2018 present Two-Way Patch, an installation of the University’s recently acquired video work, The Common Sense, by Melanie Giligan.

• 3 April 2018
  

• 5.15pm

• Minto House, Room 4.18
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

Part of the 2017-18 Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series.

• 5 April 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2017/18.

• 5 April 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Dr Gabriele Schor (Sammlung Verbund, Vienna) | Part of the 2017-18 History of Art Research Seminar Series

• 5 April 2018
  

• 4pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 Design Informatics Seminar series.

• 9 April 2018 - 13 April 2018
  

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

The RAFT Research group are hosting the next ArcInTex workshop and conference at Edinburgh College of Art. There will be 3 days of workshops, followed by 2 days of talks.

• 9 April 2018
  

• 5.30pm

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

A talk by architect Peter Wilson.

• 10 April 2018
  

• 9am - 4.45pm

• Evolution House, Board Room (5.21)
  78 West Port
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2LE

‘Architectural Lineaments’ is the first international symposium to focus on Peter Wilson’s work and we are delighted to welcome an array of eminent speakers to Edinburgh to discuss it.

• 23 April 2018 - 25 April 2018
  

• Mon 23 Apr | 6.30pm - 9.30pm
  Tue 24 Apr | 9am - Late
  Wed 25 Apr | 2pm - 3.56pm

• - Edinburgh College of Art
  - Wee Red Bar
  - Grassmarket Community Project
  - Princes Street
  - National Museums Scotland
  - Remakery, Leith Walk

1138. Festival - Fashion Revolution is a unique festival of events - lasting exactly 1138 minutes in total - in celebration of Fashion Revolution Week, an annual opportunity to campaign for systematic change in the fashion industry.

• 23 April 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

This is a state of the art account of the shifting paradigm informing actions to preserve, enhance, increase, restore and revitalise the cultural heritage of Spain.

• 24 April 2018
  

• 2pm - 3.30pm

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

Part of the 2017/2018 Research Successes Forum series.

• 24 April 2018 - 25 April 2018
  

• 9.30am - 5pm

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

Workshops, a symposium, and an exhibition of extraordinary art and visionary environments.

• 25 April 2018
  

• 1pm - 3pm

• Albertina's (next to ECAfé)
  ECA Hunter Building
  74 Lauriston Place
  EH3 9DF

A chance for ECA students to exchange your unwanted art materials, books, textiles, and tools.

• 25 April 2018
  

• 5pm - 7pm

• Medical School, G.07 Meadows Lecture Theatre (Doorway 4)
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

The [Digital Practices] Symposium will be discussing different approaches towards advanced digital tools related to architecture and design practices.

• 30 April 2018
  

• 12.30pm - 2pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 OPENspace Seminar Series

• 1 March 2018
  

• 4pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 Design Informatics Seminar series.

• 1 March 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of York) | Part of the 2017-18 History of Art Research Seminar Series

• 1 March 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2017/18.

• 6 March 2018
  

• 5.15pm

• Minto House, Room 4.18
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

CANCELLED: TO BE RESCHEDULED
Part of the 2017-18 Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series.

• 8 March 2018
  

• 5.30pm - 7pm

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

Part of the 2018-19 Architectural Conservation Masterclass series.

• 9 March 2018
  

• 11.30am

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

Part of the 2017-18 School of Art Friday Lecture series

• 14 March 2018
  

• 5pm - 7.30pm

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

The [Digital Practices] Symposium will be discussing different approaches towards advanced digital tools related to architecture and design practices.

• 15 March 2018
  

• 5.30pm - 7pm

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

Part of the 2018-19 Architectural Conservation Masterclass series.

• 15 March 2018
  

• 4pm - 5pm

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

The Artists' Collecting Society (ACS) talks provide a practical guide that covers the Artist's Resale Right, copyright and licencing.

• 15 March 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2017/18.

• 20 March 2018
  

• 5.15pm

• Minto House, Room 4.18
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

Part of the 2017-18 Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series.

• 21 March 2018
  

• 11am - 7pm

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

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

• 22 March 2018
  

• 4pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 Design Informatics Seminar series.

• 22 March 2018
  

• 5.30pm - 7pm

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

Part of the 2018-19 Architectural Conservation Masterclass series.

• 22 March 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Professor Charles Esche (Van Abbemuseum) | Part of the 2017-18 History of Art Research Seminar Series

• 23 March 2018
  

• 10am - 12pm (10-minute sessions available for booking)

• Wee Red Bar
  ECA Main Building and Hunter Building
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

After the success of previous sessions we are pleased to be hosting ECA’s very own Therapets once more.

• 26 March 2018
  

• 12.30pm - 2pm

• Institute of Geography, Room 2.13
  Drummond Street
  EH8 9XP

Part of the 2017/18 OPENspace Seminar Series

• 27 March 2018
  

• 2pm - 3.30pm

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

Part of the 2017/2018 Research Successes Forum series.

• 29 March 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Dr Jill Burke (University of Edinburgh) | Part of the 2017-18 History of Art Research Seminar Series

• 29 March 2018
  

• 4pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 Design Informatics Seminar series.

• 29 March 2018
  

• 5.30pm - 7pm

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

Part of the 2018-19 Architectural Conservation Masterclass series.

• 30 March 2018 - 27 April 2018
  

• Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm

• CodeBase
  38 Castle Terrace
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DZ

Collections and Curating Practice class of 2018 present Two-Way Patch, an installation of the University’s recently acquired video work, The Common Sense, by Melanie Giligan.

• 29 January 2018 - 2 February 2018
  

• Matthew Gallery
  Minto House
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

This pop-up exhibition shows the student work of different courses which are part of ESALA’s Digital Pathway

• 1 February 2018
  

• 4pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 Design Informatics Seminar series.

• 1 February 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Dr Christine Riding (Royal Museums Greenwich) | Part of the 2017-18 History of Art Research Seminar Series

• 1 February 2018
  

• 5.30pm - 7pm

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

Part of the 2018-19 Architectural Conservation Masterclass series.

• 1 February 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2017/18.

• 2 February 2018
  

• 11.30am

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

Part of the 2017-18 School of Art Friday Lecture series

• 2 February 2018 - 9 February 2018
  

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

The Diversity Network is a collaboration between Edinburgh College of Art and All Walks Beyond the Catwalk, an initiative challenging the fashion industry’s dependence on unachievable and unhealthy body ideals.

• 5 February 2018
  

• 5pm - 6.30pm

• 50 George Square, Screening Room G.04
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9LH

Two surrealist films by Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, introduced by Karolina Koczynska.

• 5 February 2018 - 9 February 2018
  

• Mon: 8am - 6.30pm, Tue: 12pm - 1pm, Wed: 12.30pm - 5pm, Thu: 12pm - 6pm, Fri: 10am - 4pm

• Various venues, including:
  Main Building
  Evolution House
  Hunter Building
  Minto House
  North East Studio Building
  Fire Station
  

ECA Wellbeing Week is set to include a Wellbeing Fair in the Fire Station, and sessions and activities including the Big White Wall, Dream Whispering, Careers Workshops, and Thera-pets.

• 5 February 2018
  

• 6.30pm - 8pm

• University of Edinburgh Business School
  29 Buccleuch Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9JS

This is the second of two panel discussions that looks at artists as entrepreneurs. The panel is made up of graduates from Edinburgh College of Art who have created their own ventures, as well as academics and practitioners in the creative space.

• 7 February 2018
  

• 4pm - 6pm

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

Interested in Art and History? Want to help make a mural in Princes Street Gardens? S2-S5 pupils can join us to get some practical experience of making public art while learning about how it has been used in the past!

• 7 February 2018
  

• 1pm - 3pm

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

This short workshop will allow participants to take a breather. It is about the importance of finding time for yourself, to tune in to where you’re at, how you’re feeling and to re-connect with your positive intentions.

• 8 February 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Dr Lucy Weir (University of Edinburgh) | Part of the 2017-18 History of Art Research Seminar Series

• 8 February 2018
  

• 5.30pm - 7pm

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

Part of the 2018-19 Architectural Conservation Masterclass series.

• 8 February 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2017/18.

• 8 February 2018
  

• 4pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 Design Informatics Seminar series.

• 9 February 2018
  

• 11.30am

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

Part of the 2017-18 School of Art Friday Lecture series. Co-hosted by Collective with The Global Contemporary Research Group.

• 10 February 2018
  

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

Part of the 2017/18 Prokalò ESALA Postgraduate Seminar Series.

• 12 February 2018
  

• 1pm - 5pm

• 50 George Square, Project Room 1.06
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9LH

Are you an Early Career Researcher? Perhaps you are looking to submit your first AHRC research proposal in the near future? Would you like some assistance in navigating the AHRC’s funding opportunities? If you answered yes to any of the above, we have just the workshop for you. Places are booking fast so book now to avoid disappointment.

• 13 February 2018
  

• 5.15pm

• Minto House, Room 4.18
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

Part of the 2017-18 Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series.

• 15 February 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2017/18.

• 15 February 2018
  

• 4pm

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

Part of the 2017/18 Design Informatics Seminar series.

• 15 February 2018
  

• 5.15pm

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

Professor Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway) | Part of the 2017-18 History of Art Research Seminar Series

• 15 February 2018
  

• 5.30pm - 7pm

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

Part of the 2018-19 Architectural Conservation Masterclass series.

• 20 February 2018
  

• 11am - 1pm
  2pm - 4pm

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

Construct, and perform on paper instruments. Dr Kotoka Suzuki is Asst. Prof. of Music, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, University of Arizona.

• 21 February 2018
  

• 11am - 1pm

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

Led by Dr Kotoka Suzuki, Asst. Prof. of Music, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, University of Arizona.

• 21 February 2018
  

• 2pm - 4pm

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

Led by Pete Stollery, Professor of Electroacoustic Music and Composition at the University of Aberdeen.

• 22 February 2018
  

• 2pm - 4pm

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

Jiří Lukeš is a Czech composer and accordionist.

• 22 February 2018
  

• 11am - 1pm

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

Led by Dr Patrick Valiquet, BA Post-doctoral Fellow at the Reid School of Music.

• 23 February 2018
  

• 11.30am

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

Part of the 2017-18 School of Art Friday Lecture series

• 23 February 2018
  

• 2pm - 4.30pm

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

This event is part of the programme of the Edinburgh Dada & Surrealism Research Group, and is led by Professor Peter Dayan.

• 27 February 2018
  

• 5.15pm - 7.30pm

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

Anyone wishing to find out more about the APEAS Part 3 exam and requirements is invited to attend an introductory information giving and social evening.

• 16 January 2018
  

• 5.15pm

• Minto House, Room 4.18
  20-22 Chambers Street
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

Part of the 2017-18 Architectural History and Theory Seminar Series.

• 18 January 2018
  

• 5.30pm - 7pm

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

Part of the 2018-19 Architectural Conservation Masterclass series.