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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. Classical Reception and pedagogy

    Classical Reception and pedagogy

    A Scottish perspective on teaching the reception of classical material culture

    This is the first workshop in a planned series on 'Classical Reception and pedagogy' that will focus on the ways that the reception of classical...

  4. Classical Reception and pedagogy
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    Classical Reception and pedagogy

    Object-based Teaching - Classical Reception and University Collections

    These morning and afternoon workshops are the first in a planned series on 'Classical Reception and pedagogy' that will focus on the ways the reception of...

  5. St Andrews Climate Week

    St Andrews Climate Week

    The inaugural University of St Andrews Climate Week will run from 27-30 May 2024, with a series of events designed to highlight climate-themed research and...

  6. Untranslatability

    Untranslatability

    Martin Revermann (Toronto)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  7. Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture -- Speaker: Professor Ursula Coope (Oxford)

    Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture -- Speaker: Professor Ursula Coope (Oxford)

    'Contingency and the Present'

    For further information please contact [email protected]

  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. Visualising Peace Photography Exhibition

    Visualising Peace Photography Exhibition

    The Visualising Peace Project has been collaborating with PRISMA Photography Magazine to host a competition and exhibition on the theme of Visualising Peace....

  10. 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

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Tim Stuart Buttle (York)

    "Behind the curtain: Hobbes and the politics of recognition

  14. The Persian empire and 'India', 522 -- 486 BCE

    The Persian empire and 'India', 522 -- 486 BCE

    Rhyne King - St Andrews

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  15. 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

  16. New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    New approaches to the study of imperial historiography

    Programme 1pm to 1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10pm to 2.10pm: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style'...

  17. 'Aristotle's psychology and its reception' --- Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) and Peter Adamson (LMU)

    'Aristotle's psychology and its reception' --- Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) and Peter Adamson (LMU)

    Neither Arche Nor CEPPA (NANC) Event

    All are welcome.

  18. The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 2)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 2)

    The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy this year focuses on 'The Ideal Citizen'. Graduate students from the UK, the US, Canada,...

  19. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Ariane Fichtl (Helsinki and St Andrews)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Ariane Fichtl (Helsinki and St Andrews)

    Overcoming the biopolitical dynamic of enslavement to achieve Immediate Emancipation

    All Welcome

  20. The Sentient Sponge: between natural history, art history and philosophy

    The Sentient Sponge: between natural history, art history and philosophy

    Verity Platt (Cornell)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  21. The Discourse on the Ancestral Constitution in the Early Hellenistic Period

    The Discourse on the Ancestral Constitution in the Early Hellenistic Period

    Laura Loddo (Milan)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  22. Museum of Dreamworlds: Silent Antiquity Films in the British National Film Archive

    Museum of Dreamworlds: Silent Antiquity Films in the British National Film Archive

    School of Classics Seminar - Maria Wyke (UCL)

    TRIGGER WARNING May contain a reference to (or a moving image of) violence, possibly sexual. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please...

  23. Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Dr Nadine Chan

    Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Dr Nadine Chan

    Film Studies Speaker Series

    Dr Nadine Chan (University of Toronto) will present her research in a talk entitled: 'Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Ambient Governmentality and...

  24. Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama --- Lyndsay Coo (Bristol)

    Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama --- Lyndsay Coo (Bristol)

    The sisterhood of the Danaids

    TRIGGER WARNING Will include mention of suicide, rape and sexual violence. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join...

  25. 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...

  26. St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity Annual Lecture -- Alena Sarkissian (Prague)
    Cancelled

    St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity Annual Lecture -- Alena Sarkissian (Prague)

    Launching the Cold War on Stage 1945--1956

    This is a School of Classics Online Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to...

  27. Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity

    Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity

    Workshop followed by the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED SHORTLY

    Morning Session 9.15 -- 9.30 Introduction 9.30 -- 10.15 Emma Bentley: Dionysus Dendritês: Wood and Carpentry in Greek Tragedy 10.15 -- 11.00...

  28. The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War

    The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War

    Kristina Milnor - Columbia

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  29. Uninvited guests, unexpected passengers: Insects and past environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Uninvited guests, unexpected passengers: Insects and past environments in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Eva Panagiotakopulu (Edinburgh)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  30. 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...

  31. Violence and Social Bonds in Late Antique Egypt: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, and Adjudicators

    Violence and Social Bonds in Late Antique Egypt: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, and Adjudicators

    Anna Kelley - St Andrews

    TRIGGER WARNING Will include discussions of both domestic and sexual violence, abduction marriage and rape. This is a School of Classics Event. For further...

  32. 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...

  33. 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,...

  34. Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Workshop organised by the German Screen Studies Network (GSSN)

    This GSSN workshop focuses on the "politics" of film exhibition in the Cold War, i.e., the influence of institutional actors from politics, culture...

  35. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Valerie Wallace (St Andrews)

    Valerie Wallace (St Andrews) The case of William Macao: alienness, subjecthood and legal pluralism during Britain's reign of alarm

  36. Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive: An Exploratory Workshop

    Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive: An Exploratory Workshop

    The St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA) and the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) would like to invite Postgraduate Researchers...

  37. 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...

  38. How the Christians stole the past:

    How the Christians stole the past:

    Greek chronology and Roman history in Theophilus of Antioch's Ad Autolycum - Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  39. A Case Study of the Archaeology of Ancient Medicine: The Asklepieion of Paros Re-Study Project

    A Case Study of the Archaeology of Ancient Medicine: The Asklepieion of Paros Re-Study Project

    Tomas Alusik (Charles University Prague)

    This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...

  40. Green treasures from the magic mountains . . .  and other stories from the Scottish Neolithic

    Green treasures from the magic mountains . . . and other stories from the Scottish Neolithic

    Archaeology Society 2023 Mitford Lecture

    Dr Alison Sheridan, Emerita Principal Curator of Early Prehistory at National Museums Scotland is our 2023 Mitord lecturer. She will tell us the fascinating...

  41. Early Neolithic timber halls in Scotland: Dr Brian Hope-Taylor, Yeavering, Doon Hill, Balbridie and 50 years of confusion or worse

    Early Neolithic timber halls in Scotland: Dr Brian Hope-Taylor, Yeavering, Doon Hill, Balbridie and 50 years of confusion or worse

    Professor Ian Ralston, Abercromby Professor of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

    In July 1959, while Brian Hope-Taylor, Ministry of Works digger and soon-to-be Assistant Lecturer in Archaeology at Cambridge, was still excavating the great...

  42. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Alan Kahan (University of Versailles/St Quentin)

    Three Pillars and Four Fears: A History of Liberalisms

  43. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Dafydd Daniel (St Andrews)

    From the Enlightenment to the Scottish Land Commission: The Ethics (and Metaphysics) of Owning Land

  44. Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Norman Vance (Sussex)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Norman Vance (Sussex)

    Individualism and its Discontents: Hobbies to Hayek and Beyond

    All welcome

  45. Medieval History Seminar --- Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield)
    Cancelled

    Medieval History Seminar --- Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield)

    Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople

    Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield) Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople

  46. School of Classics Seminar -- Jason König (St Andrews)

    School of Classics Seminar -- Jason König (St Andrews)

    Imagining the earth in ancient Greek and Roman literature: human-environment relations in Lucian's True Stories

    For further information please email [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our seminar mailing list. Email...

  47. Rhetoric in Plato's Academy?: the lost Περὶ τέχνης of Xenocrates of Chalcedon

    Rhetoric in Plato's Academy?: the lost Περὶ τέχνης of Xenocrates of Chalcedon

    Phillip Horky - Durham University

    For further information please emai [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on MS Teams, sign up to our seminar mailing list. Email...

  48. School of Classics Seminar -- Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)
    Cancelled

    School of Classics Seminar -- Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)

    Female addressees and letter writers in Latin letters and letter collections: first thoughts on a neglected corpus of women's writing

    -As agreed please add the following link to the bottom of the Event Description: For further information please contact [email protected] Also please...

  49. 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...

  50. The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History

    The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History

    Professor Bela Kapossy (Lausanne)

    The Winch lecture series this year will be given by Professor Bela Kapossy and will be held over three nights, 10th, 11th and 12th October. The title of the...