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  1. Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry

    Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry

    About climate justice: what does it mean and what lies ahead?

    Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by...

  2. Alumni Weekend 2024

    Alumni Weekend 2024

    Alumni are invited to come together from June 14-16 in St Andrews, for a weekend of meeting up with old friends, reminiscing about University days in the...

  3. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter

    Maximising dissymmetry and handling directionality in chiral materials

    We have an ongoing interest in the development of conjugated chiral organic molecules which can emit and detect circularly-polarized (CP) light within thin film...

  4. St Andrews Climate Week

    St Andrews Climate Week

    The inaugural University of St Andrews Climate Week will run from 27-30 May 2024, with a series of events designed to highlight climate-themed research and...

  5. National Taiwan University-St Andrews online research forum

    National Taiwan University-St Andrews online research forum

    The University of St Andrews has developed a partnership with the National Taiwan University (NTU). This institutional link, which was supported by the School...

  6. A Hymn to the Banished: Annalee Davis in conversation

    A Hymn to the Banished: Annalee Davis in conversation

    With Dr Jillian Sutherland and Dr Ariadne Collins

    Join the School of History in person or online for this in conversation event with the artist Annalee Davis, Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies Dr Jillian...

  7. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor M Kevin Brown

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor M Kevin Brown

    Building Bonds with Boron

    Abstract TBC

  8. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Prof. Michael Hill
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    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Prof. Michael Hill

    Title and abstract TBC

  9. Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage --- Spring Dialogues

    Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage --- Spring Dialogues

    Dialogue IV: 14 June

    The Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage [CH2] warmly invites you to four open dialogues between the University of St Andrews and the Università degli studi...

  10. Keynote: Prof. Conal McCarthy, Professor of Museum and Heritage Studies

    Keynote: Prof. Conal McCarthy, Professor of Museum and Heritage Studies

    Transnational Island Museologies, 5-7 June 2024, International Museums Conference

    Prof. Conal McCarthy is an interdisciplinary humanities scholar who explores the intersection of history, theory and practice in public culture. His...

  11. St Andrews and Empire: object handling session with the St Andrews Preservation Trust

    St Andrews and Empire: object handling session with the St Andrews Preservation Trust

    In 2023, the St Andrews Preservation Trust organised the exhibition St Andrews and Empire at its Museum, which resulted from research, begun in 2021 with...

  12. Everything is political, decolonisation is an ongoing process

    Everything is political, decolonisation is an ongoing process

    Leena Nammari

    It is the colonisers themselves and their people that need re-educating and have to start rethinking their own prejudices and assumed knowledge. The indigenous...

  13. Classical Reception and pedagogy
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    Classical Reception and pedagogy

    Object-based Teaching - Classical Reception and University Collections

    These morning and afternoon workshops are the first in a planned series on 'Classical Reception and pedagogy' that will focus on the ways the reception of...

  14. Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner

    Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner

    Beyond institutional denial: a global constitutional convention for future generations

    Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by...

  15. Perspectives on 'Recolouring the Queer'

    Perspectives on 'Recolouring the Queer'

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    Join the Kaleidoscope Alumni Network at the House of Books and Friends for this event that celebrates our individual and collective efforts to engage in...

  16. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    Targeted small molecule fluorescent probes for the detection of mobile zinc

    Zinc mis-regulation is associated with a wide range of disease states and there is an ongoing need to study the behaviour of 'mobile' or...

  17. Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    The World Commission on Dams and the making of global guidelines for the planning and construction of large dams

    Hosted by Christopher Schulz Large dams are back on the global development agenda. Researchers have counted thousands of dam projects that are currently planned...

  18. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Kirsten Zeitler

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Kirsten Zeitler

    Photoredox Catalytic Strategies for the Activation of Strong Bonds

    Over the past decade, photocatalysis has become a powerful synthetic tool, offering novel reaction pathways that were previously inaccessible by other methods....

  19. Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)

    Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)

    Charles-St Andrews strategic partnership

    This hybrid event can be accessed online, and is part of a "University of St Andrews day" at Charles University. It is intended for University...

  20. Narrative Space and Possible Worlds

    Narrative Space and Possible Worlds

    Encountering Ancient Narratives from a Cognitive Science Perspective

    This conference is the last event of an exciting collaborative research project on Narrative Space and Possible Worlds: Encountering Ancient Narratives from a...

  21. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Daniel T. Gryko

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Daniel T. Gryko

    1,4-Dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole and Dipyrrolonaphthyridinedione -- Novel Building Blocks for Optoelectronics

    Recently we have discovered and optimized the first practical synthesis of non-fused pyrrole[3,2-b]pyrroles via domino reaction of aldehydes, primary amines,...

  22. Art History Research Lecture: Prof Basile Baudez

    Art History Research Lecture: Prof Basile Baudez

    Textiles in the City: Canaletto dresses Piazza San Marco

    This talk focuses on the different ways Canaletto transformed the image of venice's Piazza San Marco by using textiles that operate as architectural...

  23. Publishing Orientalism: a transcultural industry?
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    Publishing Orientalism: a transcultural industry?

    An event with Professor Mary Roberts, University of Sydney and Senior Global Scholar

    Spaces are strictly limited, so booking is essential. This event will showcase a selection of nineteenth-century illustrated publications across various media...

  24. Digital Geographies and the City: Methodologies of Hope

    Digital Geographies and the City: Methodologies of Hope

    Public Lecture by Professor Sarah Elwood, 23/24 Senior Global Fellow

    About In many places, digitally-mediated urbanism is ubiquitous, violent and unequal, as techno capitalist development processes and the platformization of...

  25. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Larissa von Krbek

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Larissa von Krbek

    Stimuli responsiveness in molecules, cages, and dynamic libraries

    Photoswitchable molecules can reversibly interconvert between two different isomers. With new applications for photoswitches constantly emerging, the necessity...

  26. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    Chemical and Electrochemical Energy Storage Facilitated by Lithium Imide

    This event is open to final year undergraduate project students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic staff. Effective energy storage is one of...

  27. Under pressure: history painting at the threshold of national cultures

    Under pressure: history painting at the threshold of national cultures

    Art History Research Lecture: Professor Mary Roberts, Senior Global Fellow, University of Sydney

    Polish artist Stanislaw Chlebowski's career was forged in multiple worlds, in multiple studios and across multiple national narratives. Chlebowski created...

  28. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Robert Mokaya (University of Nottingham)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Robert Mokaya (University of Nottingham)

    Porous carbons as sustainable energy materials

    This event is open to academic staff, final year undergraduate project students, MSc students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The talk, titled...

  29. Art History Research Lecture: Prof Susan Laxton

    Art History Research Lecture: Prof Susan Laxton

    'Surrealist Photomontage c. 1931: Politics and Desire'

    Join us for Professor Susan Laxton's Research Seminar on 'Surrealist Photomontage c. 1931: Politics and Desire' at 4pm on the 21 February in...

  30. Alberta Whittle: The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers

    Alberta Whittle: The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers

    Alberta Whittle's film commission The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers is a multi-voiced portrayal of members of the Windrush Generation and their...

  31. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford)

    Revealing Reactions at Electrochemical and Catalytic Interfaces with Operando X-ray Spectroscopy

    The performance of materials for energy storage and conversion depends critically on reactions taking place at the interfaces between these materials and their...

  32. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko

    Death and Life of Homogeneous Carbonyl Reduction Catalysts: Navigating the Maze of Deactivation Chemistry for Sustained Performance

    Catalytic reduction of carbonyl moieties in ketones and esters is fundamental to the production of high-value fine chemicals. Although traditional precious...

  33. Art History Research Lecture: Dr Cristian Nae

    Art History Research Lecture: Dr Cristian Nae

    'The Alter-Globalist Turn: From Art History to Exhibition Histories in Central and Eastern Europe'

    Join us on the 27 September at 4pm in School 2 of St Salvator's Quad for 'The Alter-Globalist Turn: From Art History to Exhibition Histories in...

  34. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Professor Anna Slater (University of Liverpool)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Slater (University of Liverpool)

    Developing tools for supramolecular materials discovery

    Molecular materials and supramolecular systems have great potential in multiple applications, but their synthesis and scale-up is still challenging. When...

  35. Transition and the Historiographical Vagaries of Silent American Cinema

    Transition and the Historiographical Vagaries of Silent American Cinema

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Prof Charlie Keil

    When first introduced as a concept specific to early cinema in an essay for Cinema Journal in 1991, the notion of "transition" came firmly attached...

  36. Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage --- Spring Dialogues

    Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage --- Spring Dialogues

    Dialogue II: 31 May

    The Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage [CH2] warmly invites you to four open dialogues between the University of St Andrews and the Università degli studi...

  37. Special Seminar:  Dr Alex Ganin (University of Glasgow)

    Special Seminar: Dr Alex Ganin (University of Glasgow)

    Application of metallic 2D chalcogenides in energy conversion and storage applications

    Application of metallic 2D chalcogenides in energy conversion and storage applications Abstract: What if we could catalyse game-changing advances in renewable...

  38. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Alessia Portiere (ELDICO Scientific AG)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alessia Portiere (ELDICO Scientific AG)

    Electron Diffraction -- an innovative and advantageous tool for structure determination of nanocrystalline materials

    Abstract: MicroED (microcrystal electron diffraction) is emerging as a powerful technique for the structural elucidation of challenging compounds as it bypasses...

  39. International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen.

    International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen.

    International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen. Speakers: Mihails Kusnezoff (Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic...

  40. Art History Research Lecture: Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda

    Art History Research Lecture: Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda

    Intimate Strangers: Visual Arts and the Emergence of Print-Based Celebrity Culture in 19th-Century Iran

    Join us on the 15th November at 4pm in School 2 of St Salvator's Quad for Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda's Research Lecture. During the Iranian...

  41. Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage --- Spring Dialogues

    Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage --- Spring Dialogues

    Dialogue III: 7 June

    The Collaborative Hub for Cultural Heritage [CH2] warmly invites you to four open dialogues between the University of St Andrews and the Università degli studi...

  42. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar --- Candlemas 2024, week 7

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar --- Candlemas 2024, week 7

    Dr Yusen Yu (St Andrews), 'Medieval Islamic Cosmology and Its Visual Culture'

    This week's seminar is led by our own Dr Yusen Yu, in the School of Art History, on the topic 'Medieval Islamic Cosmology and Its Visual...

  43. VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminar

    VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminar

    Climate and societal impact of large volcanic eruptions - Proffesor Siwan Davies, Swansea University

    The Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) is planning a number of seminars across the UK to mark its 60th Anniversary. The School of Earth and...

  44. Special lecture to mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology

    Special lecture to mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology

    Professor Sir Peter Bruce (University of Oxford)

    Please note the change of venue for this event to Lecture Theatre 3 in The Gateway. To mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology,...

  45. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts film screening and panel -- Candlemas 2024, week 9

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts film screening and panel -- Candlemas 2024, week 9

    Film screening of Carl Theodor Dryer's 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' and panel discussion (ITIA)

    The Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA) extends a warm invitation to a special screening of Carl Theodor Dryer's 'The Passion...

  46. Art History Research Lecture: Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani

    Art History Research Lecture: Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani

    Visualising "The Inner Plantation"

    Join us on the 1st November at 4pm in School 2 of St Salvator's Quad for Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani's Research Lecture. This talk explores literary...

  47. In Conversation --- Iran: Wonders of Nature
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    In Conversation --- Iran: Wonders of Nature

    Interdisciplinary panel discussion followed by Q&A with refreshments. Bringing together experts from disciplines across the University, we're asking...

  48. Beijing Alumni Event

    Beijing Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  49. Shanghai Alumni Event

    Shanghai Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  50. St Leonard's Lecture Series

    St Leonard's Lecture Series

    Following the success so far of the St Leonard's Lecture Series 2023-2024, St Leonard's College and the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary...