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Hunterian Insight Talk - Scottish Encounters with Tropical Diseases
Date: Tuesday, October 8 2013
Time: 13:00
Venue: Hunterian Museum
Speaker: Professor Mike Barrett, Professor of Biochemical Parasitology
A series of lunchtime talks given by experts from The Hunterian and the University of Glasgow.
Special Collections & Archives Hunterian Associates projects showcase event
Date: Friday, October 11 2013
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Venue: Henry Heaney room, Special Collections (level 12), University of Glasgow Library
Speaker: Hunterian Associates
The Hunterian Associates Programme provides a platform for postgraduate researchers to share knowledge and develop skills. This year five Associates from the University's College of Arts Graduate School have actively engaged with Special Collections and University Archives material.
From Rags to Witches - The Archaeology of Early Modern Magic in Scotland
Date: Tuesday, October 15 2013
Time: 18:30
Venue: McKenna Room, University Library Level 7
Speaker: Morgana McCabe
Open to members and visitors, and followed by refreshments in the Director`s meeting room.
Curiosity saved the cat, and others: feline leukaemia virus in biomedical research
Date: Friday, November 1 2013
Time: 17:30
Venue: Robertson Trust Lecture Theatre, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Garscube Campus
Speaker: Professor Os Jarrett
The Lecture will reflect on the talented staff Sir William Weipers recruited and the way they developed a paradigm for discovery and learning at the School, about how he was insistent that veterinary medicine was part of ‘whole medicine’, which placed an emphasis on comparative aspects of research on animal diseases...
Depression transformed into beauty
Date: Tuesday, November 12 2013
Time: 17:00
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building
Speaker: Dr Rosemary Hannah
Passionate, spiritual, learned and fabulously wealthy, the third Marquess of Bute created extraordinary buildings, supported the mission of the Catholic Church, and funded secular education at Glasgow and St Andrews Universities.
What goes on in an editor's head, and why?
Date: Tuesday, November 12 2013
Time: 17:15
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical Building
Speaker: John Simpson, Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary
John Simpson talks about the way historical dictionary editors think about words: what this tells us about words themselves, about the contexts and cultures in which they exist, and why it’s important to keep one eye on the past as well as one eye on the future.
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