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Comedy Sneak Peeks 2024
MZA present - Friday £11.50 & Saturday £13.50
Don't miss the hilarious all-star MZA Edinburgh Fringe previews back at the Byre -- featuring some of the UK's best headlining comedians -- off notes and off adrenaline! We are absolutely delighted to welcome comedy stars Joe McTernan, Connor Burns and Kai Humphries, plus perhaps other guests this year, for a gauranteed fun night...
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Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner
Beyond institutional denial: a global constitutional convention for future generations
Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Gardiner of the University of Washington. Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a governance...
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Sunday Worship
Come join us for the University Service in St Salvator's Chapel with St Salvator's Chapel Choir. Gowns are welcome but definitely not required. An optional, short service of holy communion will follow. This service will take place in person and will be available to watch via livestream. See the 'Livestreamed services' section on our...
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Sunday Worship
Come join us for the University Service in St Salvator's Chapel with St Salvator's Chapel Choir. Gowns are welcome but definitely not required. An optional, short service of holy communion will follow. This service will take place in person and will be available to watch via livestream. See the 'Livestreamed services' section on our...
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Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes
Pay What You Can £18.00 / £16.00 / £14.00
Jokes, rants, politics, play and the occasional sing song. If you don't know what he does ask your parents. In his time he has won awards (current total is now officially 'fkloads'), forced a politician to resign, changed laws on tax and protest, become Guinness Book of Records world record holder for number of...
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Evidence Based Early Diagnosis (EBED) Conference
Exploring new diagnostics -- big promise, big challenge
Are you an innovator, researcher, clinician, policy-maker, or regulator who is interested in early diagnosis? You might be a patient, a member of the public, or a shareholder in a company making exciting technology in this area. If so, join the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis to explore what success looks like for the...
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The Normandy Campaign --- 80 years on
Commemorative talk
This public presentation to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy will feature a talk from Lt Col Andy Middlemiss BEM DL Ex KOSB. Fourth generation soldier, Andy, was an officer in the King's Own Scottish Borderers for 33 years, serving all over the world. He has led several tours...
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Public Lecture by Professor Anne Knowles, (University of Maine), 2023/24 Global Fellow
Mapping Genocide - What numbers and location can, and cannot, tell us about the Holocaust
In this lecture, Professor Knowles, a leading practitioner of historical GIS, will contrast counting and mapping data about 1,142 Holocaust ghettos to the brutal specifics of genocide in Eastern Galicia and Lithuania, and to what one family experienced during eight mass atrocities in their hometown. She will argue that many scales, methods, and sources...
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Past Perspectives: How can premodern environmental research be made useful in the climate emergency?
Impact Workshop, Monday May 27, 2024 Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
The human species has forever been adapting to dynamic environmental conditions. The premodern world provides a laboratory of various experiments in human-environment interactions: a rich history of successes and failures, acute and chronic pressures, false-starts and path dependencies, resilience and vulnerabilities---all operating on a global scale over the longue durée. How should we collate,...
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Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive
An exploratory workshop
With more than 15,000 original texts, the Persepolis Fortification Archive is one of the largest surviving governmental archives from the ancient world. The surviving texts date from the 13th to the 28th regnal years of Darius I (509 to 493 BCE), with the majority falling between regnal years 21 and 24. The archive records...
