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  1. The Persian Parthenon

    The Persian Parthenon

    Professor Tom Harrison of the British Museum looks again at the old thesis that the iconography of the Parthenon took inspiration from the art of Persepolis. He...

  2. Iran: Wonders of Nature

    Iran: Wonders of Nature

    The exhibition, 'Iran: Wonders of Nature' brings together stunning examples of the country's rich visual tradition, many of them on display in...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. The Normandy Campaign --- 80 years on

    The Normandy Campaign --- 80 years on

    Commemorative talk

    This public presentation to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy will feature a talk from Lt Col Andy Middlemiss BEM DL Ex KOSB....

  6. 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

  7. Disability in Higher Education
    Cancelled

    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

  8. Ali Ansari's Iran (Polity Histories) --- Book Signing
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    Ali Ansari's Iran (Polity Histories) --- Book Signing

    Ali Ansari is a Professor in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. In Iran (Polity Histories) Ali takes readers on a journey through...

  9. Biblical Studies research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 12

    Biblical Studies research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 12

    Prof. Caroline Humfress (St Andrews), "Comparative History of Ancient Law"

    This seminar features St Andrews own Prof. Caroline Humfress (History), who will be presenting a paper entitled, "Comparative History of Ancient...

  10. Institute of Scottish Historical Research --- Postgraduate Research Seminar

    Institute of Scottish Historical Research --- Postgraduate Research Seminar

    Frances Bickerstaff -- Timber, sheep and salmon: the monastic economy of south-west Scotland c. 1160-1230; Michael Fraser -- Scots and Huguenots in...

  11. James Gregory Lecture on Human Flourishing

    James Gregory Lecture on Human Flourishing

    Professor Justin Barrett, "Does My Brain Fit with the World Around Me? An Evolutionary Psychological Perspective"

    This will be a public lecture in the series of James Gregory lectures on human flourishing. The presenter will be Professor Justin Barrett and it will be titled...

  12. Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Theology of Coexistence. From the Genesis of Difference to the Conceptualization of Coexistence in Islam.

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He is visiting St Andrews for...

  13. 2024 Religion and Politics Lecture
    Cancelled

    2024 Religion and Politics Lecture

    Dr Kate Kirkpatrick (Regent's Park College), '"There must be religion for women as for the people": Beauvoir on Marx, Women, and Religion'

    The 2024 Religion and Politics Lecture at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, will be delivered...

  14. 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...

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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...

  18. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Vassilios Paipais (St Andrews)

    Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology

  19. Law's Two Bodies Interview with Sir John Saunders

    Law's Two Bodies Interview with Sir John Saunders

    We are delighted to invite to the upcoming 'Law's Two Bodies' event featuring Sir John Saunders, which will take place on Friday, 19 April, at...

  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. Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Relationality and theological knowledge: Reflections on the human-to-human encounter considering al-Ġazālī's concept of friendship.

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He is visiting St Andrews for...

  22. 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!

  23. (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...

  24. 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...

  25. History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

    History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

    Our knowledge of the period of European history conventionally called the Middle Ages rests, in a large part, on the writings that survive from that time, all...

  26. 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...

  27. 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...

  28. Loaves and fishes in St Andrews: excavations at 100 North Street

    Loaves and fishes in St Andrews: excavations at 100 North Street

    Julie Franklin Finds, Archiving and Post-Excavation Project Manager at Headland Archaeology Scotland presents new findings from recent excavations at 100 North...

  29. PEPtalk: The evolving landscape of evidence in policy and practice

    PEPtalk: The evolving landscape of evidence in policy and practice

    Navigating the labyrinth

    In the past 30 or so years our understanding of research and evidence use has broadened --- moving from linear views of an evidence use...

  30. Energy Café: Legitimising the ISDS Regime through Energy Justice

    Energy Café: Legitimising the ISDS Regime through Energy Justice

    This seminar examines the role of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime in the global energy sector and its connection to energy justice. The ISDS...

  31. Burnt out: one Australian's experience of our changing climate

    Burnt out: one Australian's experience of our changing climate

    Performance and post-show discussion

    This performance is BSL interpreted. Weaving spoken word and movement, Penny uses her own experiences to take us on a journey through Australia's...

  32. 'Dog Apartment', a Master Class with Priit Tender, part of the 'Constructing Other Worlds' events.

    'Dog Apartment', a Master Class with Priit Tender, part of the 'Constructing Other Worlds' events.

    Prof. Priit Tender (Estonian Academy of Arts) will give a masterclass on his film, Dog Apartment as part of the two-day event 'Constructing Other Worlds'

    As part of a two-day event 'Constructing Other Worlds: Ethnography/Animation' Prof. Priit Tender (Estonian Academy of Arts) will be presenting a...

  33. PEP talk: Turning Research into Impact: Responding to Calls for Evidence

    PEP talk: Turning Research into Impact: Responding to Calls for Evidence

    Ever wondered what role research and evidence plays in policymaking? Have you considered how your research can help inform policy? Do you know how to engage...

  34. Energy Café: Cost-benefit analyses, short-termism and social discount rate

    Energy Café: Cost-benefit analyses, short-termism and social discount rate

    The Social Discount Rate (SDR) determines the present value of future societal costs and benefits. A declining SDR suggests society values future benefits more...

  35. James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government by Bridget McCormack

    James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government by Bridget McCormack

    We are delighted to invite you to the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research (ILCR) Annual James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government featuring Bridget...

  36. Transept Spring 2024 Art Exhibition

    Transept Spring 2024 Art Exhibition

    (a)void

    Transept, a group of artists and theologians connected with ITIA (the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts) at the University of St Andrews is...

  37. The Excavation of a Neolithic salt "factory" at Street House, Loftus, North Yorkshire

    The Excavation of a Neolithic salt "factory" at Street House, Loftus, North Yorkshire

    Independant archaeologist, Steven Sherlock, presents new evidence for Early Neolithic (3800--3700 BC) salt-working at Street House, Loftus, in north-east...

  38. 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...

  39. Lightning talks: Global, Spatial and Transnational History at St Andrews
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    Lightning talks: Global, Spatial and Transnational History at St Andrews

    This fun and fast-paced event will profile some of the current research in global, spatial and transnational history taking place across St Andrews. Speakers,...

  40. 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...

  41. 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...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. 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...

  45. 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...

  46. Energy Café: Large scale renewable energy investments in energy insecure regions.

    Energy Café: Large scale renewable energy investments in energy insecure regions.

    Why communities choose to resist

    During this Energy Café, the centre's postdoctoral researcher Cornelia Helmcke will tie in her previous work on energy data justice in Colombia with her...

  47. 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...

  48. 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...

  49. 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...

  50. 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...