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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor M Kevin Brown

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor M Kevin Brown

    Building Bonds with Boron

    Abstract TBC

  5. Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture -- Speaker: Professor Ursula Coope (Oxford)

    Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture -- Speaker: Professor Ursula Coope (Oxford)

    'Contingency and the Present'

    For further information please contact [email protected]

  6. Mackenzie Institute event
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    Mackenzie Institute event

    Brain Health Seminar

    An in-person event at the School of Medicine by the Mackenzie institute for Early Diagnosis "The Brain Economy" presented by Dr Harris Eyre...

  7. 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...

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

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Prof. Michael Hill

    Title and abstract TBC

  9. 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...

  10. School of Classics Seminar -- Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)
    Cancelled

    School of Classics Seminar -- Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)

    Female addressees and letter writers in Latin letters and letter collections: first thoughts on a neglected corpus of women's writing

    -As agreed please add the following link to the bottom of the Event Description: For further information please contact [email protected] Also please...

  11. 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...

  12. The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies

    The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies

    The St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA) and the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) would like to invite postgraduate researchers...

  13. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Jonathan R Nitschke

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Jonathan R Nitschke

    Molecules in Metal Boxes

    Simple organic subcomponents can come together around metal-ion templates to produce intricate hollow capsules, which can bind guest molecules selectively. This...

  14. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Xenia Beyrich-Graf

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Xenia Beyrich-Graf

    Innovation drives Transformation: The Role of R&D in BASF's Sustainability Transformation

    Around 111,500 employees contribute to the BASF Group's success worldwide. Our business is divided into the Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions,...

  15. Logos Institute research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 8

    Logos Institute research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 8

    Professor Greg Restall (St Andrews)

    The weekly research seminar of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology takes places on Fridays from 3.30 to 5pm in the Senior Common Room of St...

  16. Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Panayiotis Christoforou (Oxford)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Panayiotis Christoforou (Oxford)

    For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.

  17. Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Larisa Ficulle (St Andrews)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Larisa Ficulle (St Andrews)

    Leaves of rue, Bayberries and Myrrh: Theory and Practice of Abortion in Byzantium

    TRIGGER WARNING For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.

  18. 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...

  19. People and animals in Roman Britain --- Umberto Albarella (Sheffield)

    People and animals in Roman Britain --- Umberto Albarella (Sheffield)

    School of Classics Seminar

    TRIGGER WARNING Will include discussion of animal slaughter and butchery. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...

  20. Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Giacomo Savani (Visiting Scholar)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Giacomo Savani (Visiting Scholar)

    For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.

  21. Centre for Late Antique Studies Annual Lecture -- Neil McLynn (Oxford)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Annual Lecture -- Neil McLynn (Oxford)

    Lost at Leuchars: Gregory Nazianzen at Sasima

    For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our seminar mailing list. E-mail...

  22. Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire Annual Lecture

    Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire Annual Lecture

    Strange Stew: the Emperor Vitellius and his "Shield of Minerva" - Rhiannon Ash (Oxford)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  23. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alison Hill

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alison Hill

    Unique data sets for robust and authentic online open book assessments

    Online assessments where there is a clear 'correct' answer are susceptible to students working together, sharing (or even selling) answers. The...

  24. New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    Workshop organised by Christian Djurslev

    Programme 1.00-1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10-2.10: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style' in...

  25. Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive

    Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive

    An exploratory workshop

    With more than 15,000 original texts, the Persepolis Fortification Archive is one of the largest surviving governmental archives from the ancient world. The...

  26. 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....

  27. 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,...

  28. 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...

  29. Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

    Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

    Inexplicable men of genius and what to do about them: a study in predicaments and alarms in the historiography of early Christian women

    Blossom Stefaniw is Professor of Intellectual History at MF University College in Oslo where she teaches in the Religious Studies department. Her research...

  30. New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    Programme 1pm to 1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10pm to 2.10pm: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style'...

  31. 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...

  32. How Did Ancient Rome Shape India's Decolonization? -- Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews)

    How Did Ancient Rome Shape India's Decolonization? -- Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews)

    For further information please emai [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our seminar mailing list. Email...

  33. 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...

  34. 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...

  35. Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Further information and registration details can be found via the link below. Please contact [email protected] if you have additional...

  36. 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...

  37. 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...

  38. 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...

  39. Museum of Dreamworlds: Silent Antiquity Films in the British National Film Archive

    Museum of Dreamworlds: Silent Antiquity Films in the British National Film Archive

    School of Classics Seminar - Maria Wyke (UCL)

    TRIGGER WARNING May contain a reference to (or a moving image of) violence, possibly sexual. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please...

  40. Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama --- Lyndsay Coo (Bristol)

    Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama --- Lyndsay Coo (Bristol)

    The sisterhood of the Danaids

    TRIGGER WARNING Will include mention of suicide, rape and sexual violence. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join...

  41. St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity Annual Lecture -- Alena Sarkissian (Prague)
    Cancelled

    St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity Annual Lecture -- Alena Sarkissian (Prague)

    Launching the Cold War on Stage 1945--1956

    This is a School of Classics Online Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to...

  42. 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...

  43. Knox Lecture 2024 --- Professor Elizabeth Anderson

    Knox Lecture 2024 --- Professor Elizabeth Anderson

    Categorical inequality and the economy of esteem

    The Knox Lecture is an annual public lecture in the area of philosophy. This year's speaker is Professor Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan), who will be...

  44. The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War

    The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War

    Kristina Milnor - Columbia

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  45. Violence and Social Bonds in Late Antique Egypt: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, and Adjudicators

    Violence and Social Bonds in Late Antique Egypt: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, and Adjudicators

    Anna Kelley - St Andrews

    TRIGGER WARNING Will include discussions of both domestic and sexual violence, abduction marriage and rape. This is a School of Classics Event. For further...

  46. 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,...

  47. 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...

  48. 'Aristotle's psychology and its reception' --- Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) and Peter Adamson (LMU)

    'Aristotle's psychology and its reception' --- Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) and Peter Adamson (LMU)

    Neither Arche Nor CEPPA (NANC) Event

    All are welcome.

  49. 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...

  50. SEES Seminar: The return to the Moon --- with robots and humans, Prof. Gordon Osinski

    SEES Seminar: The return to the Moon --- with robots and humans, Prof. Gordon Osinski

    We are pleased to be welcoming Prof. Osinski from the University of Western Ontario to our School. He has been hand-picked by NASA to train the next corps of...