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22nd April 2026 4pm, 2.39, 50 George Square Hongxia Xu (Renmin University of China, Beijing) will present a paper entitled: Care, Life Course, and Leisure Practice: A Comparative Study of Dorothy Wordsworth and Gu Taiqing Abstract: This lecture brings together the writings of Dorothy Wordsworth and Gu Taiqing to explore how “leisure” is shaped by care […]
Over the coming weeks and months, there will be edge switch upgrades occurring on each floor of the Forum and the Bayes Centre. Scope: Wired connections in offices will be affected. WiFi, phones and doors will not be affected. This is being done to ensure the security, reliability, and modernity of our network. On each […]
Exhibition Viewing—The dead don’t go until we do 📍Gallery: Talbot Rice Gallery Link:The dead don’t go until we do Visit the exhibition “The dead don’t go until we do”. Focusing on the theme that “the departed have not truly left us,” the exhibition uses the artworks of four artists to reawaken memories, community, and intergenerational […]
About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]
All the summer programmes are fee-paying and outside of our exchange contracts, and we won’t be able to provide any support for your application preparation nor finance (you must pay for the participation fee, accommodation, travel costs etc by yourself). 1. Doshisha We are pleased to announce that the Center for Global Education and Japanese Studies […]
This is my second circle of the Moss today. When I walked with Clyde this morning, I noticed that the contractors were back on site. The fence across the central path had been reinstalled – this time with a lower, sturdier structure. This version would be easy to climb over, for anyone who was determined. […]