Past events

• 1 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 1 March 2019
  

• 11:30am - 1:00pm

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

Margaret Salmon (b. 1975, New York) lives and works in Glasgow. Concerned with a shifting constellation of relations, such as those between camera and subject, human and animal, or autobiography and ethnography, Margaret Salmon’s films often examine the gendered, emotive dynamics of social interactions and representational forms.

• 4 March 2019 - 9 March 2019
  

• 4th - 5th Mar, 12pm - 6pm
  6th - 8th Mar, 12pm - 3pm
  9th Mar, - 12pm -5pm

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

Solo exhibition by Chell Young

• 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

• 5 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 5 March 2019
  

• 5.15pm - 7.30pm

• Minto House, 20 Chambers St
  Edinburgh
  EH1 1JZ

Anyone wishing to find out more about the APEAS (Architects' Professional Examination Authority in Scotland) Part 3 exam and requirements is invited to attend an introductory information giving and social evening.

• 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
  

• 3pm - 5pm

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

Panel and publication launch.

• 6 March 2019
  

• 2pm and 3pm

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

A class focused on using archives for your research projects and dissertations, aimed at students preparing to do research work.

• 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).

• 7 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 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
  

• 7:15pm - 8:30pm

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

Niall Atkinson is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the sensory experience of architecture and urban space in early modern Italy through the prism of architecture and space. His recent publications have explored the relationship between sound, space, and architecture and their role in the construction of civic society.

• 8 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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

• 11 March 2019 - 15 March 2019
  

• Online

During the 11 - 15 March, we are running sessions that allow you to find out more about our on campus postgraduate programmes, from wherever you are, through an online platform.

• 12 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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
  

• 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.

• 13 March 2019
  

• 2pm and 3pm

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

What do we do differently when do visual analysis versus writing an essay? What are the similarities? What do you need to show?

• 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.

• 14 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 15 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 18 March 2019 - 22 March 2019
  

• 11am - 4pm

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

An exhibition of new works by Emelia Kerr Beale and Rachel Sved.

• 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.

• 19 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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.

• 20 March 2019
  

• 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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

Tina di Carlo is an editor at Drawing Matter. She was formerly a curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Director of Lectures, Exhibitions and co-Curricular Activities at the Princeton University School of Architecture.

• 20 March 2019
  

• 2pm and 3pm

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

What are some of the ways you can revise for your exams? In this we’ll look at best practice revision strategies.

• 21 March 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 21 March 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

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

• 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?

• 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.

• 22 March 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 22 March 2019
  

• 5pm

• 50 George Square, Screening Room G.05
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9LH

Dr Vinsova is a Czech scholar, currently on a Fellowship at the University of Bangor. She has conducted fieldwork in Colombian mythology.

• 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

• 4 February 2019
  

• 9:30am - 4.30pm

• Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
  21 Hawthornvale
  Edinburgh
  EH6 4JT

This day-long event will feature a series of presentations and readings from leading artist researchers who share concerns for how writing, sound and listening can contribute to the communicability of place and its affects.

• 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
  

• 2pm and 3pm

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

This two-part toolkit will ask you to think about genre and writing; what genre is an art history essay, project or dissertation? You’ll use one of your past pieces of writing and think about how genre can be manipulated and used.

• 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
  

• 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.

• 7 February 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music 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.

• 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
  

• 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.

• 8 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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
  

• 6.30pm

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

• 11 February 2019
  

• 12:30pm – 2:00pm

• Institute of Geography (Old Infirmary) – Rm 2.01
  University of Edinburgh
  1 Drummond St
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9XP

This presentation will provide an overview of what we know about the links between urban nature, nature connection and health and wellbeing. International case studies will then be used to highlight practical approaches to applying the evidence base and optimising the wellbeing promoting potential of urban nature.

• 12 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  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.

• 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.

• 13 February 2019
  

• 1.30pm

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

Linda O Keeffe works primarily with the medium of sound both as a physical and immaterial object. Her practice is shaped by an engagement with social, ecological and sensory concerns. In this talk on her practice O Keeffe will focus on her three most recent projects.

• 13 February 2019
  

• 6pm - 8pm

• Old College Lecture Theatre
  South Bridge
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

During Preface: An Excursion to Scientific Ghost-land methods ranging from projection of moving images to intervention in the movement of breath will draw out entanglements of geology, biology, industry, and ideology across historical and stellar temporalities.

• 13 February 2019
  

• 2pm and 3pm

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

This two-part toolkit will ask you to think about genre and writing; what genre is an art history essay, project or dissertation? You’ll use one of your past pieces of writing and think about how genre can be manipulated and used.

• 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
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 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 - 22 February 2019
  

The Festival of Creative Learning is a festival exploring creative learning and innovation at the University of Edinburgh. It is supported by the Institute for Academic Development (IAD). Both staff and students are invited to apply to run events with the Festival.

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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.

• 26 February 2019
  

• 6.45pm - 8.45pm

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

Strategy: Get Arts was held in the summer of 1970 at Edinburgh College of Art. This ground-breaking exhibition was curated by Richard Demarco and featured works by Joseph Beuys, and other canonical figures of post-1945 art such as Gerhard Richter, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke and Günter Uecker.

• 26 February 2019
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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.

• 27 February 2019
  

• 1:00pm - 2:00pm

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

Stan Allen is an architect working in New York and George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, where he was dean of the school of architecture. Responding to the complexity of the modern city in creative ways, he has developed an extensive catalogue of innovative design strategies, in particular looking at field theory, landscape architecture and ecology as models to revitalize the practices of architecture.

• 27 February 2019
  

• 2pm and 3pm

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

A refresher on how to use Chicago style.

• 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
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 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
  

• 6:00pm - 7:30pm

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

Stan Allen is an architect working in New York and George Dutton ’27 Professor of Architecture at Princeton University, where he was dean of the school of architecture. Responding to the complexity of the modern city in creative ways, he has developed an extensive catalogue of innovative design strategies, in particular looking at field theory, landscape architecture and ecology as models to revitalize the practices of architecture.

• 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.

• 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 - 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

• 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 - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 17 January 2019
  

• 4:00pm

• INSPACE
  The University of Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9YL

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

• 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.

• 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

• 23 January 2019
  

• 2pm and 3pm

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

This workshop will look at how to read texts more critically.

• 24 January 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 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 and 3pm

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

This session will involve developing presentations to be more dynamic and engaging.

• 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.

• 31 January 2019
  

• 5:15pm - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018/19.

• 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 - 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

• 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
  

• 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

• 3 December 2018
  

• 8pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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, Room 5.21
  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

• 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

• 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 - 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.

• 13 December 2018 - 18 December 2018
  

• 10:00am - 5:00pm

• The Café
  74 Lauriston Place
  Edinburgh
  EH3 9DF

Limited edition from jewellery & silversmithing designers

• 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 - 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.

• 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

• 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
  

• 2pm - 3pm

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

• 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

• 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
  

• 4:00pm

• Floor 1, Evolution House

Part of the Design Informatics Research Seminar Series 2018

• 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.

• 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
  

• 1.10pm

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

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

• 9 November 2018
  

• 7.30pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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
  

• 6.30pm - 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

• 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.

• 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
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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? 

• 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

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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.

• 21 November 2018
  

• 2pm - 3pm

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

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 7.30pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 7.30pm

• Greyfriars Kirk
  1 Greyfriars
  Edinburgh
  EH1 2QQ

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

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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 - 6:15pm

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

Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2018.

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 5 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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
  

• 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.

• 9 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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
  

• 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 - 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

• 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
  

• 1.10pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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.

• 16 October 2018
  

• 1.10pm

• Reid Concert Hall
  Bristo Square
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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
  

• 1pm - 2pm

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

Part of the ESALA Research Seminar Series 2018/19

• 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.

• 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
  

• 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
  

• 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 - 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
  

• 5:00pm

• 11 Crichton St
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9LE

Part of the Prokalò ESALA Postgraduate Seminar Series 2018.

• 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

• 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 - 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
  

• 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
  

• 1.10pm

• McEwan Hall
  Teviot Place
  Edinburgh
  EH8 9AG

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

• 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.

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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, Room 5.21
  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
  

• 5.15pm

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

Part of the Music 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

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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

• 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

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.

• 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.

• 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