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  1. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Laura Moretti

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Laura Moretti

    Gazing from the Gallery: The Betende Knabe and the Politics of Display

    This lecture addresses the display history of the Betende Knabe (Praying Boy), a Greek bronze statue currently housed in the Altes Museum in Berlin, exploring...

  2. Beijing Alumni Event

    Beijing Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  3. Shanghai Alumni Event

    Shanghai Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  4. 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,...

  5. Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Colva Roney-Dougal

    Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Colva Roney-Dougal

    Perfect symmetry: counting what matters

    Before dying in a duel at the age of 20, Évariste Galois made some of the first discoveries in what came to be known as group theory: the study of symmetry....

  6. 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,...

  7. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    Race, Place and Home

    In the early 2000s it was claimed that Britain was 'sleepwalking to segregation'. Twenty years on an average neighbourhood in Britain is more...

  8. 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,...

  9. Former First Minister to launch Scotland's Future Speaker Series in St Andrews
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    Former First Minister to launch Scotland's Future Speaker Series in St Andrews

    Former First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, will launch the University's Scotland's Future Speaker Series. Ms Sturgeon, who was First...

  10. Inaugural Lecture -- Peter Wahl

    Inaugural Lecture -- Peter Wahl

    Delving into the Foundations of Future Technologies, One Atom at a Time

    The success of today's technology is a result of in-depth materials research. It involves manipulating materials at incredibly tiny scales, just a few...