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  1. 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...

  2. Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers

    Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Kay Dickinson

    Dr Kay Dickinson will introduce her upcoming book Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers (BFI, 2024). Why are big budget films typically made across...

  3. Careers Event

    Careers Event

    Guest Speaker - John Everard

    This session is open to all students and postgraduates. This focus on a number of key topics, including developing your interview skills, making applications,...

  4. Careers Event: Alumni Roundtable

    Careers Event: Alumni Roundtable

    Featuring the following wonderful speakers -- Ellasandra Walsh Marina Rivera Chris Anderson Charlie Quimby Alex Brunner Register -- Email...

  5. Life on Thin Ice...

    Life on Thin Ice...

    Third Generation Project Presents....

    Join acclaimed Film director and writer -- Dan McDougall as he speaks to staff and students. Mental health at the heart of the climate crisis...

  6. 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...

  7. Women in Politics

    Women in Politics

    Guest Panel Discussion

    In both politics and public life in the UK, women have historically been underrepresented. In recent years, however, women's representation has increased,...

  8. 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...

  9. School visit about Open Access

    School visit about Open Access

    With Jackie Proven

    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...

  10. Wednesday Seminar Series

    Wednesday Seminar Series

    Crafting uncontroversial internationalisms? Imperialism and the Third World in Esperanto media during the Cold War

    Before Esperanto's grammar and vocabulary were created, a language ideology was established to justify the need for this constructed language. In...

  11. Light lunch with medical alumni

    Light lunch with medical alumni

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    Join us for a light lunch gathering at The Health Academy at the Royal Preston Hospital, Preston. We're looking forward to catching up with School of...

  12. 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...

  13. Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS
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    Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS

    Come along to meet people and share your experiences of moving to St Andrews

    The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is pleased to host a catered lunch for all staff and postgraduate students from or based in the Global South....

  14. Yiddish cinema: the drama of troubled communication

    Yiddish cinema: the drama of troubled communication

    A conversation with Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar

    The turbulent Yiddish world of the first half of the twentieth century produced great works not only of literature, theatre and music, but also of cinema. In...

  15. Saints Talk: Dr Leshu Torchin

    Saints Talk: Dr Leshu Torchin

    Documentary Film (and other Media) in a Post-Truth World

    Development is delighted to invite you to the next instalment in our Saints Talk series from Dr Leshu Torchin, 'Documentary Film (and other Media) in a...

  16. NY Alumni Club --- Tartan Day Parade Events

    NY Alumni Club --- Tartan Day Parade Events

    Join the St Andrews Alumni Club of New York to walk in the 26th Annual Tartan Day Parade on Saturday 6 April. Alumni, students, parents and friends of St...

  17. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Shonil Bhagwat (The Open University)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Shonil Bhagwat (The Open University)

    TBC

  18. Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy

    Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy

    St Andrews University - ISWS online seminar series events

    Since 2014, Xi Jinping has made security a focal point of his approach to governing China. But how do Xi Jinping and top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party...

  19. Tracking Empire: Global Entanglement and Non-linearity Seminar II

    Tracking Empire: Global Entanglement and Non-linearity Seminar II

    Chair: Prof Karin Fierke Discussant: Dr Rahul Rao Presenters: Andrew Milne, "Histories of the Unseen: Unconscious Oppression, Emancipatory Subjectivity...

  20. Smog (1962): the critical geographies of Italian migration

    Smog (1962): the critical geographies of Italian migration

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Shelleen Greene

    In 1962, Smog, an Italian-American co-production directed by Franco Rossi, debuted at the Venice Film Festival. The film was the opening screening of the 23rd...

  21. Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'

    Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    In recent decades, dogs have become one of the most popular animal species in comparative psychology. One reason for this is the unique evolutionary history of...

  22. The Future of German Screen Studies Conference

    The Future of German Screen Studies Conference

    The conference will delve into the future prospects of German Screen Studies amidst ongoing technological evolution, heightened cultural and political discord,...

  23. Tracking Empire: Global Entanglement and Non-linearity Seminar 1

    Tracking Empire: Global Entanglement and Non-linearity Seminar 1

    Chair: Prof Karin Fierke Discussant: Dr Katharina Hunfeld Presenters: Phuong Anh Nguyen "Confronting 'Temporal Others': The Role of Non-Linear...

  24. 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...

  25. 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...

  26. The Gatecrashers: a long view of lone actor assassins and terrorists

    The Gatecrashers: a long view of lone actor assassins and terrorists

    Featuring Tim Wilson

    Over little more than a decade, the so-called 'Lone Wolf' attacker has emerged as a central security threat. Such lone actors are usually seen as a...

  27. Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Leshu Torchin

    This presentation maps out a research project in the making that investigates disability inclusion schemes within the UK screen industries, and specifically the...

  28. Militant leaders and the patterns of terrorism

    Militant leaders and the patterns of terrorism

    with Dr Austin Doctor - CSTPV Seminar

    The lethality and the frequency of terrorist attacks conducted by militant organizations vary considerably. Some militants perpetrate extreme and systemic...

  29. A job guarantee for Scotland?
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    A job guarantee for Scotland?

    With the rise of AI and casualised work, and the drive to transition away from polluting industries, the ability people have to keep themselves employed has...

  30. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Caroline Clason (University of Durham)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Caroline Clason (University of Durham)

    Assessing and communicating glacier-fed water security in mountain regions

    Assessing and communicating glacier-fed water security in mountain regions

  31. St Andrews Alumni Carol Service 2023

    St Andrews Alumni Carol Service 2023

    We look forward to welcoming you to this year's Alumni Carol Service led by the University Assistant University Chaplain, Revd Samantha Ferguson. We are...

  32. Transregional Queer Activism in the SWANA

    Transregional Queer Activism in the SWANA

    MECACS Seminar Series Event

    Janine A. Clark is a Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her work focuses on decentralization and local politics, Islamist movements, civil...

  33. Status reversal and its discontents

    Status reversal and its discontents

    Michael Hechter, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

    The recent rise of reactionary politics in modern democracies across the globe has been attributed to a variety of causes, including deindustrialisation,...

  34. Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics

    Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics

    A speaker and networking event on biophotonics.

    This event is open to all women & non-binary students in STEM subjects at Scottish Universities and Colleges. Equate is delighted to be partnering with...

  35. Colonial Relationality and an Islamic Metaphysics of (Anti-Colonial) Detachment

    Colonial Relationality and an Islamic Metaphysics of (Anti-Colonial) Detachment

    Wednesday research seminars series

    For this Week 7 event, Dr Jasmine Gani will present 'Colonial Relationality and an Islamic Metaphysics of (Anti-Colonial) Detachment'....

  36. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Shona Jenkins (University of Edinburgh)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Shona Jenkins (University of Edinburgh)

    The human influence in the Central Congo Basin peatlands

    The human influence in the Central Congo Basin peatlands

  37. Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees

    Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): "Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees", hosted by Prof Andy Whiten.

  38. Book Talk : Pathways Towards Lasting Peace

    Book Talk : Pathways Towards Lasting Peace

    Kaleem Hussain

    Peace and Reconciliation in International and Islamic Law presents a lucid analysis, observing how the sources of international law and Islamic Law help or...

  39. 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...

  40. 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...

  41. Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence

    Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Shiwen Li (Oxford): "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence -- what humans and bumblebees have taught us", hosted...

  42. The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)

    The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on: 'The social origins of language and...

  43. Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    Prof Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow)

    Weekly Friday Seminar hosted by the School of Psychology and Neuroscience. Professor Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow) will be hosted by Prof James Ainge...

  44. Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'

    Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'

    Preceded by a PhD talk from Alexandra Safryghin (St Andrews): 'Commonalities and group differences in the communicative efficiency of chimpanzee gesturing'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Alexandra Safryghin will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "Commonalities...

  45. Why and how Ukraine should win the war

    Why and how Ukraine should win the war

    Public lecture by Professor Philips O'Brien

    Why should the world maintain the support towards Ukraine if there are no significant changes along the front line? How can we speed up the deoccupation of...

  46. 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...

  47. CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): "But wait that's not real. Co-creating interventions to help young people spot online misinformation", hosted by...

  48. 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...

  49. 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...

  50. 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...