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  1. "Hostages of Empire: Colonial Prisoners of War and Vichy France"

    "Hostages of Empire: Colonial Prisoners of War and Vichy France"

    ISWS Seminar Series via MS Teams

    Hostages of Empire, Colonial Prisoners of War in Vichy France, won the 2022 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize awarded by the French Colonial History Society in...

  2. Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits

    Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits

    CSTPV Seminar: book and discussion

    From Ukraine to Afghanistan and beyond, occupations and exit dilemmas permeate contemporary geopolitics. However, the existing literature on territorial...

  3. Solidaritee -- Speakers Event

    Solidaritee -- Speakers Event

    The role of language in seeking asylum

    RASA, NGN and Solidaritee are hosting a panel event with Dr Natasha Saunders, Dina Nayeri, Dr David Herd and Dr Uri Horesh on the role of language in seeking...

  4. 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...

  5. Knowledge Exchange funding: Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

    Knowledge Exchange funding: Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

    Come and join us at St Andrews University on Wednesday 21st February to hear about funding opportunities available to help kick-start and establish Knowledge...

  6. Chasing World War I Ghosts: Re-learning IR through the Togoland Campaign

    Chasing World War I Ghosts: Re-learning IR through the Togoland Campaign

    St Andrews Distinguished Teacher Lecture

    : Dr. Yolande Bouka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and...

  7. Defining Refugees: International Norms, National Interests, and the Politics of Refugee Status

    Defining Refugees: International Norms, National Interests, and the Politics of Refugee Status

    Guest Speaker - Dr. Deenesh Sohoni

    Deenesh Sohoni is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Studies program at William & Mary. His research examines...

  8. The use and misuse of the 'local turn'  -- Distinguished Scholar Lecture

    The use and misuse of the 'local turn' -- Distinguished Scholar Lecture

    Oliver P Richmond

    In this talk I try to develop a reassessment of the critical project for peace and conflict research. Firstly, I outline the main challenges and critiques...

  9. Minister for Independence Jamie Hepburn 'in conversation with' Josh Traynor

    Minister for Independence Jamie Hepburn 'in conversation with' Josh Traynor

    The Scottish Government Minister for Independence, Jamie Hepburn MSP, will attend a discussion at the University on Wednesday 22 November moderated by Josh...

  10. The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series: Sir Andrew Motion FRSL

    The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series: Sir Andrew Motion FRSL

    Poetry and the Subject

    Development invites you to hear from Sir Andrew Motion FRSL as part of The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series for his talk titled "Poetry and the...

  11. Hong Kong, Activism and International Advocacy: Journey of a Political Activist in Quest for Freedom

    Hong Kong, Activism and International Advocacy: Journey of a Political Activist in Quest for Freedom

    Time & Date: 5 pm, October 25, 2023 Venue: School VI at United College Quadrangle, University of St Andrews Speaker: Nathan Law (Former member of...

  12. Building a just Scotland: an evening with human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar

    Building a just Scotland: an evening with human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar

    In conversation with IR student Josh Traynor

    Acclaimed human rights lawyer and campaigner Aamer Anwar is visiting the University of St Andrews to share his life-long journey championing human rights and...

  13. The Syrian Conflict and the European Union -- Assessing Actorness and Policy (in)coherence

    The Syrian Conflict and the European Union -- Assessing Actorness and Policy (in)coherence

    CSS Teams Event

    Title: The Syrian Conflict and the European Union -- Assessing Actorness and Policy (in)coherence Over the past decade the EU has had to respond to two...

  14. Maré from the Inside: Race, Gender and Utopia in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas

    Maré from the Inside: Race, Gender and Utopia in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas

    Photographs, films, and texts...

    Maré from the Inside: Race, Gender and Utopia in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas Maré from the Inside is an interactive multi-media exhibit developed by...

  15. Discussion with Australia's former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison

    Discussion with Australia's former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison

    Join a discussion with Australia's former Prime Minister and current Member of Parliament for the New South Wales seat of Cook, Scott Morrison, hosted by...

  16. 'God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America' -- CSTPV Seminar

    'God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America' -- CSTPV Seminar

    CSTPV Seminar

    Shocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in...

  17. Seeing gender in Russia's war in Ukraine: a feminist security studies approach

    Seeing gender in Russia's war in Ukraine: a feminist security studies approach

    Jenny Mathers, University of Aberystwyth

    Gender rarely makes it into the headlines about Russia's war in Ukraine but it is nevertheless a constant factor and plays a central role in shaping the...

  18. From Soldiers to Rebels? The Catholic Ex-Servicemen's Association in 1970s Northern Ireland

    From Soldiers to Rebels? The Catholic Ex-Servicemen's Association in 1970s Northern Ireland

    Wednesday research seminars series

    Part of the School of International Relations Wednesday Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023. Convenors for Week five are Drs Jeffrey Stevenson Murer and Adam...

  19. 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...

  20. Teach-In Gaza in Context

    Teach-In Gaza in Context

    Speakers Jasmine Gani, Jeffrey Murer, Anupama Ranawana and Rahul Rao will discuss historical roots, western alliances and ideology, global solidarities, old and...

  21. Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    How can thinking like an animator inform anthropological research?

    The workshop is open to all students of Anthropology (UG, PGT AND PGR) (15 seats). Department of Social anthropology brings to you a one of its kind hands-on...

  22. Perceptions of Illegitimate Violence in Intercultural Wars in German East Africa (circa 1884 to 1914)

    Perceptions of Illegitimate Violence in Intercultural Wars in German East Africa (circa 1884 to 1914)

    ISWS Spring Seminar with Professor Tanja Bührer, University of Salzburg

    Tanja Bührer's lecture explores what was considered legitimate and illegitimate violence in intercultural wars in the colonial realm during the fin de...

  23. Working with the media: translating academic knowledge for wider audiences

    Working with the media: translating academic knowledge for wider audiences

    Masterclass with Jenny Mathers, University of Aberystwyth

    Universities and funding bodies increasingly expect researchers to engage in knowledge exchange and to work with stakeholders to increase the impact of their...

  24. Insights, dilemmas and hopes in knowledge-making on feminist politics --- a meditation

    Insights, dilemmas and hopes in knowledge-making on feminist politics --- a meditation

    IPT event: Dr Radhika Govinda, University of Edinburgh

    Dr Radhika Govinda is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of GENDER.ED, the University of Edinburgh's interdisciplinary hub for gender and...

  25. TV broadcasting in authoritarian states: A tool to craft influence and identities

    TV broadcasting in authoritarian states: A tool to craft influence and identities

    Centre for Syrian Studies CSS

    Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science -- LSE. He...

  26. Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust 

    Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust 

    Mary Fulbrook, University College London

    Using contemporary sources, Mary Fulbrook's most recent book, Bystander Society (OUP, 2023), explores the ways in which ordinary Germans became...

  27. Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature With Dr Anna Elena Torres

    Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature With Dr Anna Elena Torres

    Conversation with Dr Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, Director of the Centre for Art and Politics with conversational and musical contributions from Michael Alpert.

    Dr Anna Elena Torres will read from her latest book Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature, in a conversation with Dr Jeffrey...

  28. The Crocus City Hall terrorist attack: regional, political and security implications

    The Crocus City Hall terrorist attack: regional, political and security implications

    In collaboration with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)

    While no clear evidence has yet been presented for who did it and why, it is clear that the attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow will have serious repercussions...

  29. Wednesday Seminar Series

    Wednesday Seminar Series

    Smuggling and Conflict Complexity in Mali: A Socio-Economic Approach

    21.02.24 1pm Arts Seminar 7 Thomas Hinkel Smuggling and Conflict Complexity in Mali: A Socio-Economic Approach The research seminars are intended for the...

  30. Adapting to climate change: effective crisis management strategies

    Adapting to climate change: effective crisis management strategies

    Public lecture: Dr Christos Stylianides, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, Hellenic Republic

    Join staff and students from the School of International Relations and the Graduate School for this public lecture presented by Dr Christos Stylianides,...

  31. The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series: Mark Sedwill, Baron Sedwill of Sherborne GCMG FRGS LLD

    The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series: Mark Sedwill, Baron Sedwill of Sherborne GCMG FRGS LLD

    Global Challenges: Cooperation in the Era of Competition

    Development invites you to hear from Mark Sedwill, Baron Sedwill of Sherborne GCMG FRGS LLD as part of The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series for his talk titled...

  32. The Diplomacy of Terror.  European States and Arab-Palestinian Terrorism during the Cold War
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    The Diplomacy of Terror. European States and Arab-Palestinian Terrorism during the Cold War

    CSTPV Seminar with Prof. Valentine Lomellini, University of Padua (Italy)

    In the late 1960s, a new political actor appeared on the European stage: armed organisations from the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin export terrorism...

  33. Photography Society Pub Quiz

    Photography Society Pub Quiz

    🍻PUB QUIZ🍻 Take a break from your revision at 7:30pm on Thursday, the 11th of April for PhotoSoc's Pub Quiz! Prepare to answer a wide variety of...

  34. Jewish Self-Determination Beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs

    Jewish Self-Determination Beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs

    Jonathan Graubart's book Jewish Self-Determination Beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs recovers and adapts the pre-1948...

  35. Photography Skills Workshop

    Photography Skills Workshop

    Join the Photography Society for a photography upskilling workshop!

    Are you interested in photojournalism, theatre photography, sports photography, and more? We are very lucky to have another FREE workshop with Louise,...

  36. Professor Mathias Thaler -- No other planet: utopian visions for a climate-changed world

    Professor Mathias Thaler -- No other planet: utopian visions for a climate-changed world

    IPT Masterclass

    Mathias Thaler is Professor of Political Theory in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His main research interest is in...

  37. Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor:  Caste, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK'

    Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor: Caste, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK'

    School of International Relations EDI Committee in association with St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies and Saints LGBT+

    The first in an occasional speaker series Date: 1 November 2023 Time: 17.00 Venue: Arts Seminar 1 Sweaty, seductive sex club on a Saturday night in London, and...

  38. The 3rd Degree
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    The 3rd Degree

    St Andrews students take on staff in the ultimate quiz

    'The 3rd Degree' is coming to St Andrews and you're invited to watch St Andrews students take on staff in the ultimate quiz. Three brave St...

  39. Dirty Linen

    Dirty Linen

    CSTPV Seminar with Martin Doyle

    Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own,...

  40. School visit about Open Access

    School visit about Open Access

    There will be a short presentation and then a Q&A about open access-related matters. This is an excellent opportunity for colleagues to learn more about...