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  1. Knox Lecture 2024 --- Professor Elizabeth Anderson

    Knox Lecture 2024 --- Professor Elizabeth Anderson

    Categorical inequality and the economy of esteem

    The Knox Lecture is an annual public lecture in the area of philosophy. This year's speaker is Professor Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan), who will be speaking on the topic of 'Categorical inequality and the economy of Esteem'. Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of 'categorical inequality'. In this...

  2. University Staff Golf Competitions

    University Staff Golf Competitions

    Free

    Organisers of the annual staff golf competitions are looking for participants for 2024. Anyone interested in playing in this year's knock-out competitions should contact Renald Schaub on [email protected] for the four-ball better-ball competition or Graham Miller on [email protected] for the Singles (Boase Quaich) competition by Monday 1 April. Please provide a name, club and...

  3. Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive

    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...

  4. The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies

    The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies

    The St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA) and the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) would like to invite postgraduate researchers and early career academics based in the UK and working in the field of classical reception studies to this workshop at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. There is no...

  5. Impacting global health through implementation science and digital health innovations
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    Impacting global health through implementation science and digital health innovations

    A Lecture by Professor Xiaolin Wei

    This May, the School of Medicine will welcome medically trained public health specialist Professor Xiaolin Wei, who will deliver this seminar on the application of implementation science and digital health innovations to global health issues. Implementation science employs rigorous methods to promote the systematic incorporation of research findings into routine practice, and hence, to...