Details of the 2012-2013 Inaugural lectures Date and venueSpeakerLecture titleFurther informationTuesday 18 September 2012, Lecture Theatre 270, Old CollegeProfessor Kenneth Reid: Chair of Scots LawSmoothing the rugged parts of the passage: Scots Law and its Edinburgh ChairLecture abstract and videoThursday 20 September 2012, Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton TowerProfessor Frederica G. Pedriali: Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian StudiesGadda Goes to War: On becoming militant in the name of the militance of literatureLecture abstract and videoFriday 9 November 2012, Lecture Theatre 175, Old CollegeProfessor Niamh Nic Shuibhne: Personal Chair of European Union LawThe Lawless Science of EU Law: Constitutional Responsibility and the Court of JusticeLecture abstract and videoTuesday 27 November 2012, Lecture Theatre 2, Appleton TowerProfessor Ronnie Cann: Personal Chair in Linguistic SemanticsDoing LanguageLecture abstract and videoTuesday 11 December 2012, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business SchoolProfessor Catharine Ward Thompson: Professor of Landscape ArchitectureYou really should get out more! Landscape quality and quality of lifeLecture abstract and videoMonday 4 March 2013, St Cecilia's Hall, Niddry StreetProfessor Mona Siddiqui: Professor of Islamic and Interreligious StudiesLove and Law in Christianity and IslamLecture abstract and videoTuesday 5 March 2013, Lecture Theatre 2, Appleton TowerProfessor Marion Schmid: Professor of French Literature and FilmFor an Impure Art: Literature and FilmLecture abstractTuesday 23 April 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business SchoolProfessor Charlotte Clarke: Professor of Health in Social SciencePhew! For a minute there I lost myself - the experience of living with dementiaLecture abstract and videoTuesday 30 April 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business SchoolProfessor Josephine Tonks Fawcett: Professor of Student Learning (Nurse Education)A career for nursing: passions, privileges, pains and purposeLecture abstract and videoTuesday 7 May 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business SchoolProfessor Ewen A. Cameron: Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and PalaeographyThe Political Histories of Modern ScotlandLecture abstract and videoTuesday 14 May 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business SchoolProfessor Matthias Schwannauer: Professor of Clinical PsychologyFrom Cradle to Grave: The Development of Relationships, Emotions and Mental HealthLecture abstractTuesday 21 May 2013, Auditorium Lecture Theatre, Business SchoolProfessor Christina Boswell: Professor of PoliticsAgainst ‘Interests’ in Political Science: Public Policy and Political MotivationLecture abstract This article was published on 2024-08-28
