The General Council Half-Yearly Meeting and Lunch : 14 February 2026Info Location Contact More Info Event Information
DescriptionTickets at £34 include a pre-lunch wine reception and a buffet lunch in the Playfair Library Hall at 12.30pm on Saturday 14 February 2026. This follows the Half-Yearly Meeting of the General Council at 10.30am in the Edinburgh Futures Institute. All members will have a chance to hear the Principal, Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, who will attend and present the Annual Report.
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ContactPlease contact the Assistant to the Secretary of the General Council for further information: click to email or call 0131 650 2152. More InformationWe are delighted to welcome Professor Marion Thain, Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, to give the after-lunch talk. Marion Thain comes to Edinburgh Futures Institute from her role as Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London, where she was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities for 6 years. While at King’s she founded and led the Digital Futures Institute, which grew out of her Centre for Attention Studies. She began her career as a Junior Research Fellow at Cambridge University, and worked in English departments at Russell Group universities before moving to New York University as a professor of Arts and Literature (in English and the school of the interdisciplinary global liberal arts) and Director of Digital Humanities. She returned to the UK in 2018. Marion is interested particularly in the relationship between culture and technology (considering ‘technology’ in the broadest sense), and in formations of disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. Details can be found at Website Link | |||||||||||||||
