Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education is hosting its annual Building Bridges Symposium next Thursday – 16th November.
This year in the theme of “Community.”
This event is the latest in a series of successful symposiums hosted by the college.
You can read more and book a place at this Eventbrite link – www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-bridges-symposium-2023-tickets-732853042177
On Friday 28th April, Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education will be joined by Dr Anthony Gorman – author and senior lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
He will deliver an interesting lecture entitled “The Intellectual and Political Roots of Arabic Teaching at Edinburgh”.
Follow the link to the college’s Eventbrite page to register your attendance:
The Building Bridges Symposium 2022 is the latest in a series of successful symposiums run by the Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education.
This particular event next Thursday will be focussing on the fascinating and largely unknown history of Arabic poetry fragments found in the eminent Cairo Genizah.
These fragments of ancient poetry constitute a unique source for understanding Medieval and Early-Modern Egypt from three main perspectives: Arabic studies, Jewish social and cultural studies, and anthropological studies.
The 2022 Symposium will feature a keynote speech on the Cairo Genizah, presentations with panel discussions, and an exhibition.
The event is free, although spaces are limited so please follow this link to register your attendance at www.facebook.com/events/1165069744394102
From Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education :
The fourth webinar in our series with Trinity College Dublin will take place on Thursday 27th January at 6pm.
For further details and registration, please click the following link :
https://www.almcollege.ac.uk/events/join-the-online-webinar-series-3/
Al-Maktoum College is hosting its sixth Building Bridges Symposium this Thursday (4th November), on the theme of ‘Together for Our Planet’.
Register for your free virtual place on its Eventbrite page here.
Tackling issues of climate change and environmental justice requires the worlds’ societies and individuals to come together in common pursuit.
In conjunction with Scottish Interfaith Week 2021, it is hosting a free online event featuring experts within the field of sustainability and climate change alongside highly regarded academics. With the theme of ‘Together for our Planet’ also tying with the COP26 (United Nations Climate Change Conference 2021), the Building Bridges Symposium asks how faith, ethics and science can influence change in this global environmental crisis, inspiring and empowering adherents to action.
Scottish Interfaith Week provides an opportunity for interfaith groups, faith communities, schools, organisations and local communities across the country to celebrate Scotland’s religious diversity by planning events that bring people together to promote dialogue, understanding and co-operation between Scotland’s diverse religious communities and cultures.
For more information, please email events@almcollege.ac.uk
From Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education :
Zoom into a world of exciting career opportunities and new horizons at the Al-Maktoum College Virtual Open Day on Wednesday 2nd June from 4pm to 6pm.
You’ll have the opportunity to chat with current students about what to expect in studying at Alm College.
Our admissions team and academic teaching staff will also be on hand to answer any questions throughout the event.
You can sign up here.
Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education is holding this online lecture later this week.
Dr Kiril Sharapov, Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, is speaking on the subject of ‘From Migration to Mobility to Climate Change: What does ‘Migration’ really mean?‘ as part of the Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education online Open Lecture Series.
All welcome to join on Thursday 18th February at 6pm and you can register here.
From Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education :
Looking for something interesting to do in the New Year that will be both fun and educational. Are you interested in human connections? Then come to Film Nights with connected baby, and you’ll get to see connection in action. The event takes place on Tuesday 13th January 2015 at 6.30pm at the Al-Maktoum College.
Connected Baby Film Nights Series hosts screenings of little known films that offer insights into the power of human connection. This is the first film series event in Dundee, in partnership with Help For Kids.
What better film to kick off with, for the 2015 series, than the one that started the whole journey: the connected baby? We are treated to in-depth scenes of babies playing jokes on their siblings, being scared by their image in the camera lens, sticking tongues out at their parents, and keeping track of their mum while she searches for a new nappy.
We hear from a range of leading infant psychologists, who help us to understand the significance of babies behaviour and especially to see how communicative they are, right from birth. It turns out that babies are more socially skilled than most of us have realised. The implications of that insight are astounding, for it speaks to the very core of what it means to be human.
The screening will be followed by a discussion – because insights are better when they are shared. Anyone interested in exploring the theme of human connection is welcome to join us. All proceeds going to Help For Kids. This is possible because use of the venue, Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education, has kindly been donated by its directors.
Tickets are available from Eventbrite and read more here.
This morning, I attended an estate walkabout in Logie with council officers from various departments and my ward colleague Cllr Richard McCready. This was a good opportunity to look at any repairs required around the area and also to check that issues raised from the last walkabout earlier this year have been properly resolved. And … its certainly “walkabout week” with other parts of the West End – the Blackness Residents’ Association area and the Pentland area – being tackled later this week.
This afternoon, I had the pleasure of attending the Al-Maktoum Institute’s Graduation Ceremony 2010 at the Marryat Hall. The Institute opened in Dundee the same year I was elected to the City Council (2001) and it is great to see its huge progress in the intervening years as a centre of excellence in the study of Islam.
The Institute’s Principal and Vice Chancellor, Professor Malory Nye, in his speech today outlined progress towards the Institute’s aim of achieving University College status by 2020 and looked at what a future Principal in 2060 might consider to be its academic and other achievements by the latter half of this century.
It is excellent to see the success of graduates who come from numerous countries across the world, but including the UK.
As previewed in tonight’s Evening Telegraph, this evening I attended a very productive meeting at Tayside House where we discussed necessary steps to take forward a community sports and environmental improvements hub for the West End. With the support of sports groups and Friends of Magdalen Green, this has the makings of a dynamic group to move forward infrastructure improvements at Riverside for sport in the West End and carry out work on Magdalen Green, including repairs and repainting of the bandstand.
Cllrs Fraser Macpherson and Michael Crichton 
