Events

Our research, outreach and engagements events

Event listing

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Apr 15 2025 -

Your Robot Friend

Come along and unleash your creativity at this Edinburgh Science Festival art collage workshop!

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Feb 27 2025 -

The Love Hub - Edinburgh

CBSS are working in partnership with our community partners The Love Tank to run a series of events that engage with key issues and ideas in HIV, sexual and reproductive justice, disability justice and social justice.

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Feb 26 2025 -

Between Biomedicine, Self and Society (Centre-only)

The Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society (CBSS) will be holding a series of Reflective Events, taking place on 26 - 29 February 2025 to reflect upon and celebrate the work and achievements of the centre.

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Feb 04 2025 -

Emotions and Mental Health in an Age of Apps and AI

Do machines feel? And how do they make *you* feel? Join our discussion and creative writing event, with Jacinthe Flore and Angie Spoto, chaired by Martyn Pickersgill.

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Dec 02 2024 -

International Symposium 'Caring Machines'

This in-person-only event will feature speakers from Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Robotics, who will come together to discuss novel methodologies that promote responsible research and innovation for AI and robotic technologies in the health and care sectors.

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Nov 29 2024 -

DoxyPEP in the UK: hopes and concerns for implementation

To mark World AIDS Day, the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society at the University of Edinburgh will hold an expert roundtable about the emergence of the STI prevention tool doxycycline prophylaxis (DoxyPEP) in UK sexual healthcare.

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Nov 16 2024 -

Wishes, Desires, Demands!

16 Nov: This zine-making workshop will creatively reflect on future of women’s health in Scotland.

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Nov 15 2024 -

Maiden | Mother | Whore performance and exhibition

Catch the final performance of this stage of Theiya Art's work, which explore the complex relationships that women navigate.

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Nov 12 2024 -

Gutscapes: Meditative Encounters with Microbial Messmates

12 Nov: In this event, you are invited into a meditative encounter with the wild landscapes inside our gut.

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Nov 09 2024 -

Maiden| Mother| Whore Interactive exhibition & Panel discussions

9 Nov: An interdisciplinary mixed-media work on the complex relationships that women navigate.

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