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  1. 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...

  2. 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

  3. 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...

  4. VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminar

    VMSG 60th Anniversary Seminar

    Climate and societal impact of large volcanic eruptions - Proffesor Siwan Davies, Swansea University

    The Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group (VMSG) is planning a number of seminars across the UK to mark its 60th Anniversary. The School of Earth and...

  5. 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...

  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. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar: Dr Ana Gutierrez Garza

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar: Dr Ana Gutierrez Garza

    Title: Mobilising vulnerability: Political resistance among housing activists in Madrid

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar followed by discussion.

  8. 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...

  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. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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.

  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. What's new in Windows 11

    What's new in Windows 11

    Cuppa Teams

    Join IT Services at Cuppa Teams to find out more about the new features in Windows 11. We will look at: -- Redact personal information using Snipping Tool...

  15. Energy Café: Governing 'Wild' Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change

    Energy Café: Governing 'Wild' Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change

    Our twice monthly Energy Café series will begin on Tuesday January 23rd with a presentation from Sean Field In this Café, Sean will discuss how natural gas...

  16. Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    How can thinking like an animator inform anthropological research?

    The workshop is open to all students of Anthropology (UG, PGT AND PGR) (15 seats). Department of Social anthropology brings to you a one of its kind hands-on...

  17. Energy Cafe: Can the largest African country meet its energy security goal by 2030

    Energy Cafe: Can the largest African country meet its energy security goal by 2030

    Hosted by Zuhumnan Dapel. According to recent estimates on combating global energy poverty, more than half a billion people will still lack access to...

  18. SEES Seminar: The return to the Moon --- with robots and humans, Prof. Gordon Osinski

    SEES Seminar: The return to the Moon --- with robots and humans, Prof. Gordon Osinski

    We are pleased to be welcoming Prof. Osinski from the University of Western Ontario to our School. He has been hand-picked by NASA to train the next corps of...

  19. 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...

  20. 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.

  21. 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...

  22. 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...

  23. New features in Microsoft Edge

    New features in Microsoft Edge

    Join IT Services to have a look at some of the new features in Microsoft Edge. Microsoft Edge for Business is a browser that offers many features to help you...

  24. 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...

  25. 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!

  26. 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...

  27. 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...

  28. 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...

  29. Outlook: Scheduling time with colleagues

    Outlook: Scheduling time with colleagues

    Making your meetings and catch ups more productive

    If you struggle to find a meeting time that suits everyone, come along to IT Services Central drop-in. We'll be looking at Outlook's scheduling poll...

  30. 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...

  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. 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.

  33. 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.

  34. Getting ready for annual leave

    Getting ready for annual leave

    Streamline your final to-do list before going on annual leave

    Ahead of the Christmas holidays, join IT Services to learn tips to streamline your final to-do list before you sign off. We will look at: Booking focus time...

  35. CyberScotland Week Cuppa Teams

    CyberScotland Week Cuppa Teams

    CyberScotland Week brings people and organisations across Scotland together to raise cyber security awareness and build cyber resilience. Cyber threats pose...

  36. 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...

  37. 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!

  38. 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...

  39. 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...

  40. 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...

  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. 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...

  43. Saints Talk: Dr Leshu Torchin

    Saints Talk: Dr Leshu Torchin

    Documentary Film (and other Media) in a Post-Truth World

    Development is delighted to invite you to the next instalment in our Saints Talk series from Dr Leshu Torchin, 'Documentary Film (and other Media) in a...

  44. 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...

  45. Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner

    Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner

    Beyond institutional denial: a global constitutional convention for future generations

    Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by...

  46. 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...

  47. 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...

  48. Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry

    Public lecture by Professor Tahseen Jafry

    About climate justice: what does it mean and what lies ahead?

    Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by...

  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. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Mary Fairio

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Mary Fairio

    "Wok bung wantaim (working together): Women associations and foreign aid in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG)".

    Abstract Despite an increase in aid assistance, women continue to struggle to be recognised as leaders in formal spaces in Papua New Guinea (PNG). So, I ask:...