School of Social and Political Science

Caught in a Rainbow Trap! Queer Lives and the Politics of Categories

Join writer and researcher Kevin Guyan to explore ideas from his new book Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Categories and the Dangers of Inclusion. Rainbow Trap reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.

Cultural globalization on Spotify: A Bayesian multilevel modeling approach

All Q-Step seminars are on Mondays at 1-2pm in the Violet Laidlaw Room, Chrystal Macmillan Building. They are open to all students and staff. Events are free. No booking is required.

Living in households or holding the house: Accommodating inequalities in Tanzania

Viral debt: understanding debt, austerity, and precarity of place

CSAS Seminar - The Seed and the Well: Ecologies of Risk in Rural India

Join us for The Seed and the Well: Ecologies of Risk in Rural India with Dr Tanya Matthan.

Never (Again) Alone: Discourses of Loneliness in the War in Ukraine

Lauren Rogers will talk on 'Never (Again) Alone: Discourses of Loneliness in the War in Ukraine'. This is a pre-read seminar – email rburles@ed.ac.uk if you wish to attend.

Interreligious Encounters & Creative Practice: Symposium & Exhibition

Motions of Carcerality in the UK Border Regime

Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families

Africa 2026: Prospects and Forecasts Crossroads, Transitions, and Futures

This event is in partnership with the Royal African Society, Edinburgh Global, and the Centre of African Studies.

The War Image: The ethics of showing, seeing and sharing war

What is the role of the artist, the photograph, and humanitarian communication in wars defined by the digital flux and saturation of images? Has digital participation and instant connectivity illuminated or obscured war’s human experience and costs? How are colonial technologies of vision and image-making translated into the realm of automated decision making? And after digital war is all that is left only more traumatic memory or something salvageable for remembrance, justice and accountability?

This symposium launches Prof. Andrew Hoskins’ project WARSHARE: The New War Front: Digital Participation in War (UKRI HEu ERC Advanced Grant EP/Z53335X/1

Immigration Detention in Authoritarian Times: Reflections from the United States

Join us in conversation with Setareh Ghandehari from Detention Watch Network in the United States