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Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence
Contributors to Unstated: Writers On Scottish Independence talk about the impending referendum in 2014.
CCA, Glasgow
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0141 352 4900
- 19:00 – 20:30
Analysing Media Reporting of Public Health Issues and Policies
Gain some insight into a topic that affects everyone, with Dr Shona Hilton of the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit.
University of Glasgow
Wed 5 Jun
An Archive of Feelings
Ann Cvetkovich discusses queer archives and the importance of recording traumatic cultural experience.
Tramway, Glasgow
Sun 26 May
Free / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 11:00
Badges of Honour: Talks and Events
A chance to explore the GWL's collection of badges and learn more about the history of badges in political and social movements from the experts.
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0141 276 9300
Today the GWL team heads to Glasgow Museums Resource Centre to uncover the stories held there, including the one behind the oldest known badge belonging to a Glaswegian.
- 14:00 – 16:00
Glasgow Women's Library
Fri 7 Jun
Free / 0141 248 9969
Todays' event is entitled 'GWL Badges'.
- 14:00 – 16:00
People's Palace & Winter Gardens, Glasgow
Wed 12 Jun
Free / 0141 276 0788
Today's event is entitled 'People’s Palace'.
- 14:00 – 16:00
BBC Radio Scotland: Brian Taylor's Big Debate
Air your views on the week's goings-on as BBC Scotland's Political Editor brings his debate to town. To book a seat or contribute a question, email brian@bbc.co.uk. Booking is essential.
Castlebay Community Hall, Isle of Barra
Fri 28 Jun
Free / 0141 422 7776
- 11:00 – 13:00
Dundee Contemporary Arts
Fri 14 Jun
Free / 0141 422 7776
- 11:00 – 13:00
Big Ideas
Big Ideas presents big questions, then lets an expert have a stab at answering it before turning it to the audience for discussion. Brief, informal and relaxed, the pub-based event is open to anyone and everyone.
The Wheatsheaf, London W1T
Tue 28 May
Free / 07760 488119
Tonight, the question is 'What Is Gender?' Stella Sandford (Reader in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University and member of the Radical Philosophy editorial collective) addresses the 'gender/sex' divide, looking at whether or not there is a meaningful difference between 'masculine and feminine' and 'male and female'.
- 20:00 – 22:00
Tue 25 Jun
Free / 07760 488119
Tonight, the question is 'What sort of things are numbers?' Oxford lecturer Alexander Paseau tackles the abstract concept, determining whether numbers are subjective products of mental processes or if they in fact belong to a 'separate realm of ideal existence', as Plato believed.
- 20:00 – 22:00
Cultural Forum 2013: Global Citizenship
Ahead of June's G8 summit, this series of events brings together international figures from politics, business, academia and the arts to debate migration, resources and culture. Curated by Zamyn in partnership with Accenture, Africa Progress Panel, Barclays, Penguin Books, SOAS, University of London and Tate.
Tate Modern, London SE1
Wed 29 May
Free / 020 7887 8888
- 19:00 – 21:00
Thu 30 May
Free / 020 7887 8888
- 19:00 – 21:00
Fri 31 May
Free / 020 7887 8888
- 19:00 – 21:00
The Gifford Lecture
An annual lecture that looks at the study of Natural Theology in broad terms, with the goal to advance modern theological thought.
McEwan Hall, Edinburgh
Wed 29 May
Free
This year's lecture is 'The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity', about the decline of violence in what are often perceived be highly violent times. Given by Prof Steven Pinker of Harvard University, who studies cognition and language.
Langside Talks
A series of talks at Langside Library covering a variety of topics.
Langside Library, Glasgow
Thu 30 May
Free / 0141 276 0777
Today: 'The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society' by Stuart Robertson, who is the director of the society.
- 13:00 – 14:00
Prostitution Debate
A debate on the sex trade with Rhoda Grant (Labour MSP and proposer of bill to criminalise buying sex) and Richard Lucas (of SOLAS) sparring with Laura Lee (Sex Workers' campaigner) and Douglas Fox (of the International Union of Sex Workers). Followed by a Q&A.
MacDonald Holyrood Hotel, Edinburgh
Mon 3 Jun
Free / 0870 194 2106
- 19:30
Public Feelings
Ann Cvetkovich looks at the possibilities of a queer community politics and how aspects of queer life and intimacy are depathologised to create new modes of creative survival.
Tramway, Glasgow
Sun 26 May
Free / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 14:30
Talk of the Steamie
The People's Palace host this series of talks that given more insight into life in Glasgow.
People's Palace & Winter Gardens, Glasgow
Sat 8 Jun
Free / 0141 276 0788
Today: Drawing Out the Story of Red Road, or What Is a Dialectogram Anyway? – Illustrator Mitch Miller talks about the creation of detailed pen and ink drawings of the Red Road community, which he completed with the help of its residents over a three year period.
- 14:00 – 15:00
We have something to say about … Pt 2
Vogue’ology examines the roots of the House & Ballroom Scene and discusses its response to intersecting race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions with womanist theologian Eboni Marshall Turman.
Tramway, Glasgow
Sun 26 May
Free / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 16:30
What Is a Battalion?
Learn how to tell your battalions from your bridges and your companies from your corps at this illustrated talk centring on WWI.
Central Library, Edinburgh
Wed 12 Jun
Free / 0131 242 8100
