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  1. L'Incontro: An Archive of Italian Life in Scotland

    L'Incontro: An Archive of Italian Life in Scotland

    Exhibition of Archival Photography

    'L'incontro: An Archive of Italian life in Scotland' is a curated collection of photographs and images offering a glimpse into the rich and...

  2. Byre World 24/25: The Holobiont Herbarium

    Byre World 24/25: The Holobiont Herbarium

    Hosted by Dr Damiano Benvegnu, from the School of Modern Languages - FREE but please book

    Herbaria are collections of preserved biological specimens documenting the plants, algae, and fungi of the world. Even though their scientific role has declined...

  3. Byre World 24/25: Poetry from the Mine (and elsewhere)

    Byre World 24/25: Poetry from the Mine (and elsewhere)

    Hosted by Dr Gavin Bowd, from the School of Modern Languages - FREE but please book

    To mark the beginning of the Festival of Languages and the fortieth anniversary of the 1984-1985 miners' strike, Gavin Bowd and acclaimed poet Paul...

  4. 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...

  5. 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,...

  6. Byre World 24/25: The Seven Sages of Scotland

    Byre World 24/25: The Seven Sages of Scotland

    Hosted by Dr Jane Bonsall, from the School of Modern Languages

    What might we learn from medieval narratives about violence, gender, and truth-telling? This adaptation of the 15th-century Older Scots story collection The...

  7. Byre World 24/25: The Seven Sages of Scotland

    Byre World 24/25: The Seven Sages of Scotland

    Hosted by Dr Jane Bonsall, from the School of Modern Languages

    What might we learn from medieval narratives about violence, gender, and truth-telling? This adaptation of the 15th-century Older Scots story collection The...

  8. Byre World 24/25: Meet the Artist: Uncovering 'Palimpself'

    Byre World 24/25: Meet the Artist: Uncovering 'Palimpself'

    Hosted by Dr Elise Hugueny-Leger, from the School of Modern Languages - FREE but please book

    What can an encounter between a writer, two researchers and a visual artist lead to? In this conversation with Drs Elise Hugueny-Léger (University of St...

  9. Byre World 24/25: Publishing from and for Morocco: A Conversation

    Byre World 24/25: Publishing from and for Morocco: A Conversation

    Hosted by Clara Defachel in conversation with Hicham Houdaifa and Kanza Sefrioui

    This talk will discuss the challenges faced by authors, translators and publishers in Morocco to publish their texts locally, in a literary market that is...

  10. Disability in Higher Education
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    Disability in Higher Education

    A Roundtable Event hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology

    Please join us for a roundtable event to discuss Disability in Higher Education

  11. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- The Energy of Water

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- The Energy of Water

    Join the Centre for Energy Ethics for the next seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. This session will be dedicated to the story of the...

  12. Ukraine Energy in the Spotlight Revisited: Nuclear Worlds

    Ukraine Energy in the Spotlight Revisited: Nuclear Worlds

    Join us online or in-person on October, 26, 5 pm (UK time) for an exciting discussion on the latest updates on Ukrainian nuclear energy. We will focus on the...

  13. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight -- Electric Networks

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight -- Electric Networks

    Electricity, like air, is something we notice when it disappears. In 2022 Ukrainians faced an acute energy deficiency, in everyday life, at work, and public...

  14. Institute of Intellectual History --- Tom Pye (UCL)

    Institute of Intellectual History --- Tom Pye (UCL)

    The tailzie and the politics of the feudal law in eighteenth-century Britain

    All welcome

  15. Acting on Climate Change

    Acting on Climate Change

    Policy, Rights and Net Zero

    Balancing rising energy demands with the need to curb and adapt to anthropogenic climate change in a just and equitable way is at the heart of an existential...

  16. Inaugural Peter Gow Memorial Lecture (Hybrid)

    Inaugural Peter Gow Memorial Lecture (Hybrid)

    Prof Aparecida Vilaça --

    A lecture celebrating the intellectual legacy of Amazonianist anthropologist Peter Gow. Delivered by Prof Aparecida Vilaça (Museu Nacional, Universidade...

  17. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Frances Pine

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Frances Pine

    Borders, classifications, inequalities: ordinary uncertainties at critical moments

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar, with Dr Frances Pine from Goldsmiths, University of London.

  18. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar ~ Oliver French

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar ~ Oliver French

    The Vermin Society: Pathologising human-animal imaginaries in India during the third plague pandemic

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar, with the talk from University of St Andrews PhD candidate, Oliver French.

  19. Book Launch for Dr Aimée Joyce

    Book Launch for Dr Aimée Joyce

    "Spectral Borders: History, Neighborliness and Discord on the Polish-Belarusian Frontier"

    The Centre for Global Postsocialisms, Southeastern, Central and East European Studies, and the Department of Social Anthropology invite you to celebrate the...

  20. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Elena Liber

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Elena Liber

    "The First TikTok War": Digital-Visual Storytelling and the Shaping of Narratives from Ukraine

    Please join us for this week's Social Anthropology Departmental seminar, with Dr Elena Liber, Lecturer in Digital Anthropology at University College...

  21. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar --- Dr Sera Park

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar --- Dr Sera Park

    An ethics of duty and the infinitude of kinship relations: bereaved family activism in the aftermath of the Sewol Ferry Disaster

    Please join us for this week's social anthropology departmental seminar!

  22. Poetry in translation: On Yellow Evenings

    Poetry in translation: On Yellow Evenings

    Byre World event: free but please book

    Jordi Larios, a Catalan poet, translator and Professor of Spanish at St Andrews, will be in conversation about the making of On Yellow Evenings, his latest book...

  23. Byre World: Kaili Blues

    Byre World: Kaili Blues

    Join Dr Keru Cai for a screening of the 2015 film Kaili Blues, which brought international acclaim to the young Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan. Hailing from the...

  24. Byre World: When there's love inside

    Byre World: When there's love inside

    Join Senior Lecturer of the School of Modern Languages, Orhan Elmaz on Valentine's Day for a literary conversation about everything the heart may (or may...

  25. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Ilana Gershon

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Ilana Gershon

    The Pandemic Workplace: What US Employment Contracts Revealed about Social Contracts during the Pandemic

    On 5th April, please join us for our final seminar of the academic year, with Professor Ilana Gershon from Rice University. Professor Gershon is currently...

  26. Sketching Stories of Climate Anxiety

    Sketching Stories of Climate Anxiety

    As part of the Fife Climate Festival, this family-friendly (age 12+) workshop will explore climate justice and climate anxiety through different examples of...

  27. Energy Cafe: Shores of Change

    Energy Cafe: Shores of Change

    The global energy transition and the future of African coastal states

    The urgency to address the impacts of climate change has reached a critical point. Although the global community acknowledges the imperative for a united...

  28. Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    'Engineering Reality' with Cornelia Helmcke

    During this book launch event, author Cornelia Helmcke will meet critics Bibiana Duarte-Abadía (Wageningen University) and Christopher Schulz (University of St...

  29. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Nathan McAllister

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Nathan McAllister

    'I will go to my father's village where they will give love': kula exchange as an ethos of love

    Please join us for this week's seminar, which will be given by our very own PhD student, Nathan McAllister.

  30. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Catherine Alexander

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Catherine Alexander

    From thrift to austerity: The life and death of a London housing estate

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar, given by Prof Catherine Alexander from the University of Durham.

  31. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Guilherme Moreira Fians

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Guilherme Moreira Fians

    The death of Elizabeth II on Wikipedia: Knowledge co-production, freedom, and technoliberal participation in online setting

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar!

  32. Film screening: The Earth Holds Me

    Film screening: The Earth Holds Me

    A documentary by Sara Manisera and Arianna Pagani

    As part of the School of Modern Languages Writers in Residence programme, we will be screening the documentary The Earth Holds Me (La terra mi tiene) followed...

  33. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Gregory Lee

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Gregory Lee

    Contributions to Global Thinking from the Space we have imagined as China

    Professor Lee will address the thinking of the philosopher Zhuangzi who was active in a part of the territory we now call China during the late 4th century BCE,...

  34. Memory, Narrative and Ecology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Memory, Narrative and Ecology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    CIMS Seminar in the Environmental Humanities by Dr Avishek Parui (IIT Madras)

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Insititute (CIMS) invites everyone to join this seminar by Dr Avishek Parui (IIT Madras) on 'Memory, Narrative,...

  35. Saints Talk: Dr Stavroula Pipyrou

    Saints Talk: Dr Stavroula Pipyrou

    Too Close, Too Distant: The Perpetual Transformation of the Political

    Development is delighted to invite you to the next instalment in our Saints Talk series from Dr Stavroula Pipyrou, 'Too Close, Too Distant: The Perpetual...

  36. An evening with Austrian author Eva Reisinger
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    An evening with Austrian author Eva Reisinger

    Eva Reisinger will read from her books "Was geht Österreich" and "Männer töten", for which she was nominated for the Austrian Debut...

  37. Energy Café: Saving energy, saving the Revolution

    Energy Café: Saving energy, saving the Revolution

    Energy efficiency and revolutionary ethics in the Cuban transition

    Dr Gustav Cederlöf School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba become one of Latin America's most...

  38. 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...

  39. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva

    From extermination to surveillance: rats, rat-catchers, and international health (1900-1945

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar!

  40. Byre World 24/25: Writing for Ukrainian Children in Wartime

    Byre World 24/25: Writing for Ukrainian Children in Wartime

    Hosted by Dr Emily Finer, Senior Lecturer from the School of Modern Languages

    Ukrainian writers, illustrators, and publishers have responded to the war waged by Russia by publishing an unprecedented number of children's books. In...

  41. A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    This reading, hosted by the School of English and Centre for Energy Ethics, will showcase the creative writing submissions from selected undergraduate students...

  42. Gleaning, Fragmentation and Environmental Writing

    Gleaning, Fragmentation and Environmental Writing

    CIMS Seminar in Environmental Humanities by Professor Timothy C Baker (Aberdeen)

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Insititute welcomes everyone to join this seminar by Professor Timothy C Baker (Aberdeen) on 'Gleaning, Fragmentation,...

  43. An evening with Austrian author Eva Reisinger

    An evening with Austrian author Eva Reisinger

    Eva Reisinger will read from her books "Was geht Österreich" and "Männer töten", for which she was nominated for the Austrian Debut...

  44. 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...

  45. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- What to do with Depletion and Energy Dependency?

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- What to do with Depletion and Energy Dependency?

    Join the us online and in-person for our final seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. During our final session we will look at the future of the...

  46. Reading and Writing Hong Kong in Scotland: Poetry Reading

    Reading and Writing Hong Kong in Scotland: Poetry Reading

    Poets from Scotland and England who identify with the Hong Kong Chinese British diaspora read their poems. The poets Tim Tim Cheng, Anna Cheung, Sean Wai Keung,...

  47. Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅
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    Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅

    A performance of lion and dragon dancers to usher in the lunar New Year

    Edinburgh's Yee's Hung Ga Kung Fu Academy will perform lion and dragon dances in St Mary's Quad to celebrate the beginning of the Lunar New...

  48. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Manar Kawasmi

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Manar Kawasmi

    Development Beyond Dependency and Soft Power: The Creation of a Palestinian NGO-nation

    This presentation focuses on development in Palestine post-Cold War and the establishment of the PA in 1993. Since this time, Palestine has headed the donor aid...

  49. Energy Cafe: Why we should care about care

    Energy Cafe: Why we should care about care

    This cafe will be hosted by Silvia Pergetti. The work it takes to operate and maintain energy systems is essential yet often missing from public and scholarly...

  50. Saints Talk: Professor Julia Prest

    Saints Talk: Professor Julia Prest

    Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre - Then and Now

    Development are delighted to invite you to the next instalment in our Saints Talk series from Professor Julia Prest, 'Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre...