School of Social and Political Science

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Gabriela Loureiro

EVENT CANCELLED  - What do we know about perpetrators of domestic abuse against older adults? Emerging findings from a rapid project

While we have made significant advances in research, policy and legislation relating to domestic abuse in recent decades, most of these efforts have focused on responding to the problem and improving the rights and services offered to victims.

Distinguished Scholar series: Reading group on Robert Vitalis’ Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security that Haunt US Energy Policy

As part of the PIR's Distinguished Scholar series, join us for a reading group session focusing on Robert Vitalis’ book- Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security that Haunt US Energy Policy

Methodological Reflections on a Mixed Method Re-Study of Dining Out

In this seminar Professor Alan Warde will discuss the methodological issues of a re-study after 20 years of dining out.

Iconocracy: The Sovereignty of a Statue and the Dominion of a Crown

This paper will draw on fieldwork on a ritual tradition in rural Guangdong to bring studies of Chinese deity cults into engagement with political philosophy and with anthropological theories of human-object assemblages.

The War Lawyers. The United States, Israel, and Juridical Warfare

The Contemporary Middle East Series, brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise on the Middle East to share their experience and work in a series of public lectures.

The series is convened by the Middle East Research Group within the Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.

Reflections on the War in Ukraine

A virtual roundtable reflecting on the war in Ukraine

Edinburgh Sociology Seminar: Laura Harris

RASSA (Rock Art Scotland and South Africa): Working with Local Communities to Record and Preserve Rock Art in South Africa

CAS Seminar - RASSA (Rock Art Scotland and South Africa): Working with Local Communities to Record and Preserve Rock Art in South Africa

European Network in Social and Political Philosophy

This is the first event organised under the aegis of a recently established European Network in Social and Political Philosophy.

This postgraduate workshop features presentations by a select group of PhD students from the following four universities Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Freie Universität in Berlin, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the University of Edinburgh.

EDCMA Lecture: What is an Ethnographic Interview? Thoughts at the Intersection of Anthropology and Psychiatry

This lecture examines an essential and yet uncertain tool of ethnographic and mental health related clinical work, the interview.

The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

The Contemporary Middle East Series, brings together scholars and practitioners with expertise on the Middle East to share their experience and work in a series of public lectures.

The series is convened by the Middle East Research Group within the Politics and International Relations at the University of Edinburgh.