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  1. Biblical Studies research seminar --- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Biblical Studies research seminar --- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Professor Eckart Frahm (Yale): Reception history of Enuma Elish

    This week's seminar will be online via Teams only. The seminar features Eckart Frahm, Professor of Assyriology at Yale University, who will be presenting...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. Hebrew Bible/Ancient Judaism research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 1

    Hebrew Bible/Ancient Judaism research seminar -- Candlemas 2024, week 1

    Welcome back Tea

    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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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,...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 'God, Guns and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America'

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

    Bruce Hoffman - Jacob Ware

    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...

  12. 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...

  13. ITIA Workshop with Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin (Notre Dame)
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    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...

  14. Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman

    Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman

    MECACS Event

    Title: "Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman" Precis: "The Dhufar Revolution was fought between 1965-1976 in...

  15. Salafi Political Socialisation in Post-Arab Spring Egypt and Tunisia

    Salafi Political Socialisation in Post-Arab Spring Egypt and Tunisia

    Helen Murphey

    Title: Salafi Political Socialisation in Post-Arab Spring Egypt and Tunisia Presenter: Dr Helen Murphey The formation and ascent of Salafi political parties and...

  16. Wednesday Seminar Series

    Wednesday Seminar Series

    Hispanismo, Shared Values, and Universality

    "Hispanismo, Shared Values, and Universality" The chapter explores Spain's relationship with its colonial past through the concept of...

  17. IR Speaker Event and Reception

    IR Speaker Event and Reception

    Staff and Student Mixer

    International Relations Staff and Student Mixer -- 08.11.23 3pm -- Talk on the International Relations of Outer Space with Dr Adam Bower 4.30pm...

  18. Careers with INGOs and NGOs

    Careers with INGOs and NGOs

    The Halo Trust; MLitt in Peace & Conflict Studies, 2015

    Speaker : Calum Gibbs Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and the MLitt and MPhil in Peacebuilding and Mediation All IR MLitt, MPhil and PhD students are very...

  19. "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...

  20. 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...

  21. 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...

  22. 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...

  23. 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...

  24. 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...

  25. 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...

  26. 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...

  27. 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...

  28. 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...

  29. '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...

  30. 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...

  31. 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...

  32. 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...

  33. 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...

  34. 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...

  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 -- 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...

  38. 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...

  39. 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...

  40. 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...

  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. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. 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...

  45. 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...

  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. 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...

  49. 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...

  50. 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...