The Hebdomadar’s room is a boardroom-style room based in St Salvator’s Quadrangle. Hebdomadar’s room has a traditional feel with wood panel walls and can sit up to 16 people.
Title: ‘Diverse pathways to satisfying informative intentions’ Guest speaker: Dr Christophe Heintz (Central European University, Vienna, Austria and Visiting Scholar at the GRCDI, University of St Andrews) Abstract: This presentation examines the diverse strategies for satisfying informative intentions, arguing that ostensive communication represents just one approach within a broader spectrum of intentional behaviours. Evidence suggests…
This is particularly intended for PGRs and those seeking hands-on experience of how a collaborative book project can be undertaken. This session gives the opportunity to engage with book drafts and views of contributors (including some who may join us online). For participatory and catering reasons, please email your attendance to David at by Monday…
Speaker: Dr Neil Bramley (University of Edinburgh) Many aspects of our physical world are hidden. For example, it is hard to estimate how heavy an object is from visual observation alone. This project uses physics simulated environments to examine how children and adults actively “experiment” within the physical world to discover latent properties. To do…
This workshop is the final part of a series of events for the RSE-funded project, ‘Sounding Scotland’s Waters, 1800-1900: Literature, History, Science’, bringing together researchers from English studies, Maths and Statistics, Modern Languages, Marine Biology, Geography and History. To view the full programme, please visit the project website below. Academic staff and postgraduates working in…
Inspired by an article published in December 2019 relating how polar bears were dangerously approaching the village of Ryrkaïpii, on the edge of the Arctic banks of the Choucotka River at the north-eastern tip of Russia, the one hundred poems that form Ryrkaïpii (Flammarion, 2023) invite readers to follow both non-human and human animals in…
The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is pleased to host a catered lunch for all staff and postgraduate students from or based in the Global South. The aim of the meeting is to help form a community of researchers to support each other and potentially form new connections. We also want to gain an…
The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is pleased to host a catered lunch for all staff and postgraduate students from or based in the Global South. The aim of the meeting is to help form a community of researchers to support each other and potentially form new connections. We also want to gain an…
Mathias Thaler is Professor of Political Theory in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interest is in contemporary political theory. Thaler regularly teaches courses on democratic theory, populism, human rights, and the morality of war and violence. He currently serves as Co-Director of Research in the…
A collaboration between the Centre for Energy Ethics and the Centre for Poetic Innovation, Good Till The Close is a ‘fortune-telling’, poem-generating game with inbuilt obsolescence; a durational group performance with poetic intentions. The event has been designed in response to the themes of the CEE 2023 conference, ‘Financing the Future’, with a focus on…
Research careers event