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  1. Past Perspectives: How can premodern environmental research be made useful in the climate emergency?

    Past Perspectives: How can premodern environmental research be made useful in the climate emergency?

    Impact Workshop, Monday May 27, 2024 Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh

    The human species has forever been adapting to dynamic environmental conditions. The premodern world provides a laboratory of various experiments in...

  2. 'The Drum': film screening plus panel discussion

    'The Drum': film screening plus panel discussion

    On 5 March, Dundee Contemporary Arts will be screening the 1938 film 'The Drum' from a rare vintage 16mm print, as part of the events programme for...

  3. Knowledge, Culture, and Spirituality in the Islamic Civilization

    Knowledge, Culture, and Spirituality in the Islamic Civilization

    Dr Khairudin Aljunied

    The St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology is pleased to welcome Dr Khairudin Aljunied from National University of Singapore to speak on the topic of...

  4. 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...

  5. Systematic and Historical Theology seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 9

    Systematic and Historical Theology seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 9

    Prof. John Behr (Aberdeen), 'From Bible to Scripture'

    This week's seminar is given by Professor John Behr of Aberdeen on the topic 'From Bible to Scripture'. In Candlemas 2024, the Theology...

  6. 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...

  7. Hebrew Bible/Ancient Judaism research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 2

    Hebrew Bible/Ancient Judaism research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 2

    Prof. James Davila (St Andrews), 'More Old Testament Pseudeprigrapha, Volume 2: A Preview'

    Most seminars take place in person on Thursdays in College Hall, St Mary's College unless otherwise indicated. For online seminars, please e-mail wt21 for...

  8. 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'...

  9. Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy -- Lecture 1: Halfway Up a Mountain

    This is the first of a series of six Gifford Lectures by Prof. Carlisle. They are open to all. The Principal will chair this opening lecture. Transcendence for...

  10. Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Hosted by Gair Dunlop. Whether it's enormous offshore wind developments or the slow drawdown of nuclear facilities, community agency in relation to...

  11. Systematic and Historical Theology seminar --- Candlemas 2024, week 8

    Systematic and Historical Theology seminar --- Candlemas 2024, week 8

    Prof. Simon Oliver (Durham)

    This week's seminar is given by Professor Simon Oliver of Durham. In Candlemas 2024, the Theology seminar typically follows the weekly pattern below: 11...

  12. Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 7

    Hebrew Bible and Ancient Judaism research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 7

    Dr Michael Lyons (St Andrews), 'The Anatomy of Commentary: Reflection on Ezekiel'

    This week's seminar is with our own Dr Michael Lyons on the topic 'The Anatomy of Commentary: Reflections on Ezekiel'. Most seminars take...

  13. '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.

  14. The Grapes of Desire: Fascist Agricultural Projects in Libya

    The Grapes of Desire: Fascist Agricultural Projects in Libya

    CIMS Seminar in the Environmental Humanities by Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College)

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Insititute (CIMS) invites everyone to join this seminar by Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College) on 'The...

  15. Systematic and Historical Theology seminar --- Michaelmas 2024, week 4

    Systematic and Historical Theology seminar --- Michaelmas 2024, week 4

    Prof. Chris Insole (Durham), 'When It's Over: Eschatology and Psychology'

    This week's seminar is given by Professor Chris Insole of Durham on the topic 'When It's Over: Eschatology and Psychology'. In Candlemas...

  16. (a)void Exhibition Opening Event

    (a)void Exhibition Opening Event

    Please join us for the opening night launch event of Transept's 2024 exhibition '(a)void'! Come mingle, enjoy refreshments, view the art, and...

  17. Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy -- Lecture 6: Transcendence for Beginners

    This is sixth of a series of six Gifford Lectures by Prof. Carlisle. They are open to all. Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy Biography is...

  18. Systematic and Historical Theology seminar -- Michaelmas 2023, week 11

    Systematic and Historical Theology seminar -- Michaelmas 2023, week 11

    Fell/Fox, Chidley - Radical ecclesiology

    This seminar will cover works by Margaret Fell/Fox and Katherine Chidley. In Martinmas 2023, the Theology seminar is reading important texts of Protestant...

  19. ITIA Workshop with Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin (Notre Dame)
    Limited access

    ITIA Workshop with Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin (Notre Dame)

    'The Carmelite Subject: 'Fiction' and the Metaphysics of Contemplation.'

    On Friday, 17th of November, the Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA, School of Divinity) is hosting a workshop with visiting systematic...

  20. 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...

  21. official Launch of the Sacred Landscape Project Website

    official Launch of the Sacred Landscape Project Website

    The Sacred Landscape research project (https://sacredlandscapes.org/) is based in St Mary's College at the University of St Andrews. Our team is seeking...

  22. Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Dr Nadine Chan

    Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Dr Nadine Chan

    Film Studies Speaker Series

    Dr Nadine Chan (University of Toronto) will present her research in a talk entitled: 'Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Ambient Governmentality and...

  23. 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...

  24. 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...

  25. Prosthetic Performances: Technologies of the Black Mutative Body

    Prosthetic Performances: Technologies of the Black Mutative Body

    CIMS seminar with Global Fellow Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA)

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Institute (CIMS) welcomes everyone to join the research seminar by Global Fellow Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA) on...

  26. Teach-in: Gaza and justice

    Teach-in: Gaza and justice

    As we pass 100 days of Israel's military campaign in Gaza with a spread of conflict in the region, this Teach-In provides a forum for discussing questions...

  27. Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century: Dr Fernanda Miño

    Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century: Dr Fernanda Miño

    Book launch and screening of Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (Sebastian Cordero, 1999)

    Associate Lecturer in Film Studies, Dr Fernanda Miño, will be introducing her upcoming book Ecuadorian Cinema for the 21st Century. The first major English...

  28. Inaugural Interfaith Lecture: Recognise the human race as one

    Inaugural Interfaith Lecture: Recognise the human race as one

    Interfaith Week 2023: St Andrews

    The final event in the Interfaith Week series, an Inaugural Interfaith Lecture given by Jas Singh. With guest speaker, Jas Singh is a Sikh from Leeds, and a...

  29. 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...

  30. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 8

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 8

    Dr Eric Stoddart (St Andrews), 'The Rainbow Gaze: Tracing a Queer Theology of Surveillance'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This seminar is given by our...

  31. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 6

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 6

    Anupama Ranawana (St Andrews), 'Three texts to restore and return: centring refusal in indigenous thinking'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This seminar is given by our...

  32. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 4

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 4

    Aaron Pelot (St Andrews), 'Inculturation, Anglicanism and Japan: Putting down Japanese liturgical roots'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This seminar is given by our...

  33. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar --- Spring 2024, week 9

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar --- Spring 2024, week 9

    Keith Wiedersheim (St Andrews), 'Ongoing Reflections on Anti-Natalism and Ecological Theology'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This seminar is given by our...

  34. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar --- Spring 2024, week 7

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar --- Spring 2024, week 7

    Dr Stefania Knecht-Turkanik (St Andrews), 'How to Build Peace: 20th and 21st Century Ukrainian Greek Catholic Peacebuilders in the Polish-Ukrainian Conflict'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This seminar is given by our...

  35. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar --- Spring 2024, week 5

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar --- Spring 2024, week 5

    Shruti Dixit (St Andrews), 'The Intentionality of Śruti'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This seminar is given by our...

  36. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar --- Candlemas 2024, week 8

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar --- Candlemas 2024, week 8

    Dr Bill Hyland (St Andrews), 'Mariological Imagery in the Sermons of Nicholas of Cusa'

    This week's seminar is led by our own Dr Bill Hyland on the topic 'Mariological Imagery in the Sermons of Nicholas of Cusa'. ITIA research...

  37. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 8

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 8

    Dr Saiyyidah Zaidi (Independent Scholar), 'This is the sound of my soul: Exploring belonging and inclusion in British Political Theology'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. Meetings are principally...

  38. Interfaith in the Academy moderated by Dr Eric Stoddart

    Interfaith in the Academy moderated by Dr Eric Stoddart

    Interfaith Week 2023: St Andrews

    Come and join us for an Academic Panel Discussion on Interfaith Dialogue as we dive deeper into the nitty-gritty of Interfaith. Our fantastic panel will be...

  39. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 2

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 2

    Patricia Palazzo Tsai (Methodist Uni.), 'Going Beyond Closed Doors: Visibilising Universal Responsibility and Buddhist Arguments in Human Rights Discourses'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This seminar is given by...

  40. 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...

  41. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 1

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 1

    Prof. Mario Aguilar (St Andrews), 'From Saladin to Francis of Assisi: Knight Templars and Arabs in Interfaith Dialogue'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. The introductory seminar this...

  42. Fond of Little Tunes: Homosexuality and Music in Hollywood Cinema

    Fond of Little Tunes: Homosexuality and Music in Hollywood Cinema

    Talk by Professor Richard Dyer and Scottish book launch for The Richard Dyer Reader

    Writer Richard Dyer will be in St Andrews on 15 November for the Scottish launch of The Richard Dyer Reader, a book recently published by BFI/Bloomsbury and...

  43. Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Workshop organised by the German Screen Studies Network (GSSN)

    This GSSN workshop focuses on the "politics" of film exhibition in the Cold War, i.e., the influence of institutional actors from politics, culture...

  44. Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art Film Screening: Everyone I Know Is Sick

    Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art Film Screening: Everyone I Know Is Sick

    Film screening and panel discussion presenting newly commissioned videos that generate connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.

    St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art and the Centre for Screen Cultures is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone...

  45. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 9

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 9

    Melody Bellefeuille-Frost (St Andrews), 'Images of Christ in 16th and 17th-Century Japan'

    This week's seminar is led by our own Melody Bellefeuille-Frost on the topic 'Images of Christ in 16th and 17th-Century Japan'. ITIA research...

  46. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 9

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 9

    Professor Ian Bradley (St Andrews), 'There is a happy land, far, far away: Victorian Hymns about Heaven'

    Seminar led by St Andrews' own Prof. Ian Bradley. ITIA research seminars meet each Friday during the academic year in St Mary's College Hall as a...

  47. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 9

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 9

    Anupama Ranawana (St Andrews), '"Reading" and "writing" Asia: A framework for intertextuality and textual interpretation from sites of struggle'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This week, our very own PhD...

  48. Screening Politics: Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Screening Politics: Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    This workshop focuses on the "politics" of film exhibition in the Cold War, i.e., the influence of institutional actors from politics, culture and...

  49. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Dr Sarah Leith (St Andrews), 'Rocks and Realities: Mountain Literature in Modern Scotland'

    Seminar led by St Andrews' own Dr Sarah Leith. ITIA research seminars meet each Friday during the academic year in St Mary's College Hall as a space...

  50. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 4

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 4

    Prof. Alison Milbank (Nottingham), 'All things that be, praise him: Natural Agency and Liturgical Participation in the Poetry of Henry Vaughan'

    This week's seminar is led by Professor Alison Milbank, of Nottingham, on the topic 'All things that be, praise him: Natural Agency and Liturgical...