Slavery and Forced Labour in Ancient China and the Ancient Mediterranean
Roman mosaic depicting slavery (copyright: Pascal Radigue)
Professor Walter Scheidel, Stanford University
6.00pm, Monday 3rd June 2013
Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical School
This event is free but ticketed, please book online. If you experience any problems booking please email scotdiaspora@ed.ac.uk.
The second in a new public lecture series, World Slavery from Antiquity to the Present, hosted by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, with special support from the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies and the Classics Subject Area.
The Uses and Abuses of Heritage: Past and Place-Making in Scotland
Friday 21st June 2013
Lecture Theatre 2, Business School, 29 Buccleuch Place
This event is free but ticketed, please book online. If you experience any problems booking please email scotdiaspora@ed.ac.uk.
Heritage and the ‘sense’ of a place are very closely tied. As David Lowenthal wrote, ‘the locus of memory lies more readily in place than in time’. Place is important for making sense of history and the past: we use places to tell stories. At the same time, our understandings of the past influence how we think about and use places in the present. ‘Place’ is thus a useful concept that allows us to explore a number of concerns related to heritage, including memory, identity and belonging, exclusion, experience, and movement. It incorporates both tangible heritage (physical buildings and spaces) and intangible heritage (such as memories and experiences).
Heritage is also related to place in practical ways: the historic environment contributes substantially to Scotland’s economy. In 2009, for example, the Historic Environment Advisory Council estimated that the historic environment contributes £2.3 billion to Scotland’s national GVA. Heritage influences planning and development, and contributes to the ‘value’ that we ascribe to certain spaces.
This one-day workshop will focus on the relationship between heritage and place in Scotland. It will explore how we use heritage in constructing place, and how place is used to engage with Scotland’s past. How has the concept of heritage been defined by different interests and to what effect? Who participates in place-making? What are the problems and challenges that we face in our uses and definitions of heritage?
The Uses and Abuses of Heritage: Past and Place-Making in Scotland
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This event is free but ticketed, please book online. If you experience any problems booking please email scotdiaspora@ed.ac.uk.
This workshop is part of a collaborative project between the School of History, Classcis and Archaeology and the Business School, supported by the CHSS Challenge Investment Fund
uate Workshop
The Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop takes place usually every two weeks on Tuesdays at 12pm. All meetings will meet in Room 2.27 in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place.
The interdisciplinary Diaspora Studies Workshop launched by the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies in 2009 is open to all MSc and PhD students working in the field of diaspora and migration.
At each meeting the participants will discuss a short paper. Subjects for discussion will include issues of migration, identity, and the movement of peoples, cultures and ideas across time and space.
The workshop aims to create an interdisciplinary network of diaspora researchers. It offers an engaging forum where research students can receive constructive criticism, present their work in progress, discuss draft conference or seminar papers, tackle methodological issues and seek assistance with specific problems.
The Workshop organisers are Oisin Plumb, o.plumb@ed.ac.uk and Iain Watson, I.G.Watson@sms.ed.ac.uk.
Autumn 2013 programme to follow
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