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Category: The Edge

The moai statues of Easter Island. Under threat from climate change. Photograph: Jane Downes.
Conference Research The Edge

Video: The Edge – conference recordings now available

The first of the recordings covering December’s two-day The Edge conference are now available.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, January 12, 2022 (8:48am)Wednesday, January 12, 2022 (8:53am)
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Orphir shore, Orkney. (Sigurd Towrie)
Conference The Edge

Join us for December’s ‘The Edge’ conference

A two-day online conference in December will mark the the culmination of almost two years of seminars, blogs and other activities exploring the theme “The Edge”.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, November 29, 2021 (1:22pm)Wednesday, January 12, 2022 (8:50am)
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Research The Edge

Take your photographs to The Edge in exciting new competition

A photography competition to accompany the 2020 University of the Highlands and Islands Humanities and Arts Research Cluster (HARC) theme, The Edge, is now open to all UHI students and staff.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, November 4, 2020 (4:37pm)Wednesday, March 10, 2021 (7:48pm)
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Archaeology Orkney

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University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, Orkney College UHI, East Road, Kirkwall. KW15 1LX
(01856) 569000
sigurd.towrie@uhi.ac.uk
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