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  1. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Prof. Michael Hill
    Cancelled

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Prof. Michael Hill

    Title and abstract TBC

  2. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor M. Kevin Brown

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor M. Kevin Brown

    Abstract and Title TBC

  3. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter

    Maximising dissymmetry and handling directionality in chiral materials

    We have an ongoing interest in the development of conjugated chiral organic molecules which can emit and detect circularly-polarized (CP) light within thin film...

  4. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    Targeted small molecule fluorescent probes for the detection of mobile zinc

    Zinc mis-regulation is associated with a wide range of disease states and there is an ongoing need to study the behaviour of 'mobile' or...

  5. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Stellios Arseniyadis

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Stellios Arseniyadis

    Title and Abstract TBC

  6. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Xenia Beyrich-Graf

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Xenia Beyrich-Graf

    Innovation drives Transformation: The Role of R&D in BASF's Sustainability Transformation

    Around 111,500 employees contribute to the BASF Group's success worldwide. Our business is divided into the Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions,...

  7. 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 of cinema. In their...

  8. Sands 24: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Sands 24: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Anna Hints' atmospheric, almost mystical, feature-length documentary debut invites us to become part of a supportive, witty, sweaty female collective who...

  9. Teach-in: Gaza and justice

    Teach-in: Gaza and justice

    As we pass 100 days of Israel's military campaign in Gaza with a spread of conflict in the region, this Teach-In provides a forum for discussing questions...

  10. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Köhler

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Köhler

    Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.

  11. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Abbie McLaughlin

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Abbie McLaughlin

    Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.

  12. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Roly Armstrong

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Roly Armstrong

    Twists and Turns in Stereoselective Amide Synthesis

    Fuelled by an increasing requirement within the pharmaceutical industry for 3D building blocks, there is significant demand for new synthetic methods targeting...

  13. Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art Film Screening: Everyone I Know Is Sick

    Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art Film Screening: Everyone I Know Is Sick

    Film screening and panel discussion presenting newly commissioned videos that generate connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.

    St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art and the Centre for Screen Cultures is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone...

  14. Film screening: Tea & Sympathy (1956)

    Film screening: Tea & Sympathy (1956)

    A screening of Tea & Sympathy (1956) to accompany the talk by Professor Richard Dyer and book launch of The Richard Dyer Reader on 15th November, 4pm-6pm in...

  15. Book talk: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China, Jia Tan
    Cancelled

    Book talk: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China, Jia Tan

    Jia Tan is Global Fellow at St Andrews

    The Gender Institute and the Mlitt in Gender Studies (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary studies), invites you to the book presentation of Digital Masquerade....

  16. Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China

    Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China

    Book talk from Jia Tan, Global Fellow at St Andrews

    The Gender Institute and the Mlitt in Gender Studies (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary studies) invites you to the book presentation of Digital Masquerade,...

  17. Book talk: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China, Jia Tan
    Cancelled

    Book talk: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China, Jia Tan

    Jia Tan is Global Fellow at St Andrews

    The Gender Institute and the Mlitt in Gender Studies (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary studies), invites you to the book presentation of Digital Masquerade....

  18. Smog (1962): the critical geographies of Italian migration

    Smog (1962): the critical geographies of Italian migration

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Shelleen Greene

    In 1962, Smog, an Italian-American co-production directed by Franco Rossi, debuted at the Venice Film Festival. The film was the opening screening of the 23rd...

  19. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Jonathan R Nitschke

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Jonathan R Nitschke

    Molecules in Metal Boxes

    Simple organic subcomponents can come together around metal-ion templates to produce intricate hollow capsules, which can bind guest molecules selectively. This...

  20. Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Leshu Torchin

    This presentation maps out a research project in the making that investigates disability inclusion schemes within the UK screen industries, and specifically the...

  21. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    Chemical and Electrochemical Energy Storage Facilitated by Lithium Imide

    This event is open to final year undergraduate project students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic staff. Effective energy storage is one of...

  22. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Alessia Portiere (ELDICO Scientific AG)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alessia Portiere (ELDICO Scientific AG)

    Electron Diffraction -- an innovative and advantageous tool for structure determination of nanocrystalline materials

    Abstract: MicroED (microcrystal electron diffraction) is emerging as a powerful technique for the structural elucidation of challenging compounds as it bypasses...

  23. 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...

  24. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alison Hill

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alison Hill

    Unique data sets for robust and authentic online open book assessments

    Online assessments where there is a clear 'correct' answer are susceptible to students working together, sharing (or even selling) answers. The...

  25. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Larissa von Krbek

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Larissa von Krbek

    Stimuli responsiveness in molecules, cages, and dynamic libraries

    Photoswitchable molecules can reversibly interconvert between two different isomers. With new applications for photoswitches constantly emerging, the necessity...

  26. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Yi Jin

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Yi Jin

    Metal Fluoride Complexes Reveal Changes of Dynamic and Modified Oncogene Proteins

    Abstract: GTP hydrolysis is central to biology, being involved in regulating a wide range of cellular processes. In recent years, there has been more success in...

  27. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko

    Death and Life of Homogeneous Carbonyl Reduction Catalysts: Navigating the Maze of Deactivation Chemistry for Sustained Performance

    Catalytic reduction of carbonyl moieties in ketones and esters is fundamental to the production of high-value fine chemicals. Although traditional precious...

  28. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Kirsten Zeitler

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Kirsten Zeitler

    Photoredox Catalytic Strategies for the Activation of Strong Bonds

    Over the past decade, photocatalysis has become a powerful synthetic tool, offering novel reaction pathways that were previously inaccessible by other methods....

  29. 'The Drum': film screening plus panel discussion

    'The Drum': film screening plus panel discussion

    On 5 March, Dundee Contemporary Arts will be screening the 1938 film 'The Drum' from a rare vintage 16mm print, as part of the events programme for...

  30. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Daniel T. Gryko

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Daniel T. Gryko

    1,4-Dihydropyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole and Dipyrrolonaphthyridinedione -- Novel Building Blocks for Optoelectronics

    Recently we have discovered and optimized the first practical synthesis of non-fused pyrrole[3,2-b]pyrroles via domino reaction of aldehydes, primary amines,...

  31. Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Energy Cafe: Imagery and community agency in energy futures

    Hosted by Gair Dunlop. Whether it's enormous offshore wind developments or the slow drawdown of nuclear facilities, community agency in relation to...

  32. Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner

    Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner

    Cefic, the European Chemistry Industry Council, and the University of St Andrews will collaborate to organise another edition of the 'Green and...

  33. Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day One

    Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day One

    Ajamu X and Matthew Arthur Williams in conversation

    Who should be responsible for safeguarding queer and trans collections for posterity, and how should this be done? 'Hands off' is a two-day...

  34. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Robert Mokaya (University of Nottingham)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Robert Mokaya (University of Nottingham)

    Porous carbons as sustainable energy materials

    This event is open to academic staff, final year undergraduate project students, MSc students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. The talk, titled...

  35. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Robert Weatherup (University of Oxford)

    Revealing Reactions at Electrochemical and Catalytic Interfaces with Operando X-ray Spectroscopy

    The performance of materials for energy storage and conversion depends critically on reactions taking place at the interfaces between these materials and their...

  36. Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day Two

    Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day Two

    Who should be responsible for safeguarding queer and trans collections for posterity, and how should this be done? 'Hands off' is a two-day...

  37. Special Seminar:  Dr Alex Ganin (University of Glasgow)

    Special Seminar: Dr Alex Ganin (University of Glasgow)

    Application of metallic 2D chalcogenides in energy conversion and storage applications

    Application of metallic 2D chalcogenides in energy conversion and storage applications Abstract: What if we could catalyse game-changing advances in renewable...

  38. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Professor Anna Slater (University of Liverpool)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Anna Slater (University of Liverpool)

    Developing tools for supramolecular materials discovery

    Molecular materials and supramolecular systems have great potential in multiple applications, but their synthesis and scale-up is still challenging. When...

  39. 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...

  40. Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century: Dr Fernanda Miño

    Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century: Dr Fernanda Miño

    Book launch and screening of Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (Sebastian Cordero, 1999)

    Associate Lecturer in Film Studies, Dr Fernanda Miño, will be introducing her upcoming book Ecuadorian Cinema for the 21st Century. The first major English...

  41. International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen.

    International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen.

    International Symposium: Ceramic Materials and Carbon-Neutral Energy Research Including Hydrogen. Speakers: Mihails Kusnezoff (Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic...

  42. Special lecture to mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology

    Special lecture to mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology

    Professor Sir Peter Bruce (University of Oxford)

    Please note the change of venue for this event to Lecture Theatre 3 in The Gateway. To mark the opening of the Colin Vincent Centre for Battery Technology,...

  43. 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...

  44. 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...

  45. Screening Politics: Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

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

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

  46. Fond of Little Tunes: Homosexuality and Music in Hollywood Cinema

    Fond of Little Tunes: Homosexuality and Music in Hollywood Cinema

    Talk by Professor Richard Dyer and Scottish book launch for The Richard Dyer Reader

    Writer Richard Dyer will be in St Andrews on 15 November for the Scottish launch of The Richard Dyer Reader, a book recently published by BFI/Bloomsbury and...

  47. Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art Film Screening: Everyone I Know Is Sick

    Visual AIDS Day With(out) Art Film Screening: Everyone I Know Is Sick

    Film screening and panel discussion presenting newly commissioned videos that generate connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability.

    St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Art and the Centre for Screen Cultures is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting Everyone...