Edinburgh lectures & talks
TED goes to Ed for the first time with TEDGlobal.
How can staff and students make the necessary changes to achieve a low carbon world? Inspired by student…
Starting in the morning, students from schools and universities across Scotland will compete to win the St…
Rebus author Ian Rankin will be joined by another of the city’s crime writers, Lin Anderson, in a discussion…
Racing champion Sir Jackie Stewart, 71, is the keynote speaker at Dyslexia Awareness Week,starting today.
Former World Champion racing driver Sir Jackie Stewart today gets a week-long programme of events to mark
A special series of lectures and talks exploring different aspects of medieval life, jointly organised by the…
Alastair has visited the Falkland Islands on three occasions, studying the spiders that live there.
This Edinburgh lecture is part of the three-day Rethinking the City Event which aims to emulate the issue-…
Rick Mather founded Rick Mather Architects in 1973 will envision how architecture can combine with culture…
Cities occupy an uncertain and sometimes unloved space in much of the Scottish literary canon.
Historian James Robertson looks at how Edinburgh earned its reputation as "City of Enlightenment" and "Athens…
Every political system makes use of design and architecture to establish its values, and its beliefs.
Andrew Dixon is CEO of Creative Scotland, the new national leader for the arts, screen and creative…
Last in the Edinburgh Lectures "Talking Cities" programme (2010-2011).
The Great Recession has been a wakeup call.
British Cities are often described as lacking the crucial powers required to achieve self-determination and…
Considering that the financial success or failure of any show at Edinburgh's Festival Fringe can depend…
The Main Hall of the Scottish Parliament and various Committee Rooms are given over to five days of public…
BBC Director General Mark Thompson will give this year’s MacTaggart Lecture at the MediaGuardian…