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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. No More Fossils -- New Book Discussion with Dominic Boyer

    No More Fossils -- New Book Discussion with Dominic Boyer

    Join us for a new book discussion with author Professor Dominic Boyer, on 12 February at 3pm (UK time) online. In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story...

  8. 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...

  9. School visit about Open Access

    School visit about Open Access

    With Jackie Proven

    There will be a short presentation and then a Q&A about open access-related matters. This is an excellent opportunity for colleagues to learn more about...

  10. Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Hosted by Anna-Sophie Hobi. Lithium-ion batteries are pivotal in the efforts to 'decarbonise' the European economy. Consequently, a battery...

  11. Wednesday Seminar Series

    Wednesday Seminar Series

    Crafting uncontroversial internationalisms? Imperialism and the Third World in Esperanto media during the Cold War

    Before Esperanto's grammar and vocabulary were created, a language ideology was established to justify the need for this constructed language. In...

  12. Careers Event

    Careers Event

    Guest Speaker - John Everard

    This session is open to all students and postgraduates. This focus on a number of key topics, including developing your interview skills, making applications,...

  13. 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

  14. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- The Energy of Water

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- The Energy of Water

    Join the Centre for Energy Ethics for the next seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. This session will be dedicated to the story of the...

  15. Careers Event: Alumni Roundtable

    Careers Event: Alumni Roundtable

    Featuring the following wonderful speakers -- Ellasandra Walsh Marina Rivera Chris Anderson Charlie Quimby Alex Brunner Register -- Email...

  16. 3M Planet Final

    3M Planet Final

    Join us in Parliament Hall for the finals of the 3MPlanet competition. Each of our seven finalists has distilled their honours thesis on topics related to...

  17. Wednesday Seminar Series

    Wednesday Seminar Series

    Hispanismo, Shared Values, and Universality

    "Hispanismo, Shared Values, and Universality" The chapter explores Spain's relationship with its colonial past through the concept of...

  18. 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.

  19. North Korea -- What happens next?

    North Korea -- What happens next?

    John Vivian Everard is a British former diplomat. He was formerly the UK's ambassador to Belarus, the UK's ambassador to Uruguay and the UK's...

  20. 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...

  21. 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...

  22. 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...

  23. Gaza & Syria --- Connected Histories

    Gaza & Syria --- Connected Histories

    CSS Webinar

    "Events in the Middle East rarely are contained and isolation from the wider politics of the region. Historically the politics of Palestine and Syria have...

  24. Dirty Linen

    Dirty Linen

    CSTPV Seminar with Martin Doyle

    Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own,...

  25. Career Talk --- From PhD to Finance

    Career Talk --- From PhD to Finance

    With Daniel Peris

    Join the School of International Relations for this career talk by Daniel Peris. Started w/a Ph.D in Russian history; ended up as an institutional investor....

  26. 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...

  27. 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...

  28. 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.

  29. 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...

  30. Oqlanmagan --- The Unexonerated

    Oqlanmagan --- The Unexonerated

    Film screening and Q&A session

    In the 1990s, Uzbekistan's first president Islam Karimov arrested tens of thousands of practising Muslims, imams, and citizens engaged in Islamic study...

  31. St Andrews in Boston

    St Andrews in Boston

    Reception and talk with Professor Stephen Gethins and Professor Phillips O'Brien

    Development is delighted to invite you to join us for a reception and talk in Boston with Professor Stephen Gethins, Assistant Vice-Principal (International...

  32. 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.

  33. The Wednesday Seminar Series

    The Wednesday Seminar Series

    School of International Relations Wednesday Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023

    The Wednesday Seminar Series --- School of International Relations Wednesday Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023 Convenors: Drs Jeffrey Stevenson Murer and...

  34. From Traitors to Zealots

    From Traitors to Zealots

    with Dr Daniel Koehler - CSTPV Seminar

    What makes a neo-Nazi become a convinced anti-fascist or a radical left-winger become a devout Salafist? How do they manage to fit into their new environment...

  35. 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...

  36. 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!

  37. Book Launch: 'Engineering Reality' by Dr Cornelia Helmcke

    Book Launch: 'Engineering Reality' by Dr Cornelia Helmcke

    Join Centre for Energy Ethics postdoctoral researcher Dr Cornelia Helmcke for an informal event to celebrate the release of her book Engineering Reality: The...

  38. The Fate of Civilians in War

    The Fate of Civilians in War

    Stephen Neff, Edinburgh University

    The fundamental rule regarding civilians in armed conflict is the requirement at all times to distinguish civilian populations from combatants. Civilian...

  39. 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...

  40. Careers Advice Talk with Jamey Dumas

    Careers Advice Talk with Jamey Dumas

    Careers Advice Talk with Jamey Dumas Jamey Dumas is the Senior Intelligence officer for the US National Counterterrorism Center. He has served in a variety of...

  41. Transboundary water cooperation in Central Asia

    Transboundary water cooperation in Central Asia

    MECACS Seminar Series Event

    Dr. Dinara Ziganshina is the Director at the Scientific Information Centre of Interstate Commission for Water Coordination (SIC ICWC) in Central Asia, a...

  42. UAP and the Ethics of War

    UAP and the Ethics of War

    "Throughout the presentation we will explore the problems posed by Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) to current just war theories and international law....

  43. 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...

  44. Career Talk with ISWS

    Career Talk with ISWS

    Guest Speaker - James Black

    James Black is assistant director of the Defence and Security research group at RAND Europe. In addition to group management responsibilities, he leads the...

  45. TV broadcasting in authoritarian states: A tool to craft influence and identities

    TV broadcasting in authoritarian states: A tool to craft influence and identities

    Centre for Syrian Studies CSS

    Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science -- LSE. He...

  46. Can Central Asian States Keep Their Balancing Act?

    Can Central Asian States Keep Their Balancing Act?

    Talk by Prof Nargis Kassenova (Harvard University)

    Prof Kassenova will talk about the changing geopolitical environment, sets of security, political and economic challenges facing Central Asian states, their...

  47. PEPtalk: Tearing down policy barriers on the path to greening the grid

    PEPtalk: Tearing down policy barriers on the path to greening the grid

    Converting proposals to new clean power

    The Centre for Energy Ethics is pleased to announce the return of its Policy Engagement Practice seminar series --- PEPtalks. Please join us and our invited...

  48. Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature With Dr Anna Elena Torres

    Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature With Dr Anna Elena Torres

    Conversation with Dr Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, Director of the Centre for Art and Politics with conversational and musical contributions from Michael Alpert.

    Dr Anna Elena Torres will read from her latest book Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature, in a conversation with Dr Jeffrey...

  49. The End of the Afghan Campaign?

    The End of the Afghan Campaign?

    Special Guest Speakers - Lieutenant General (Retired) Giles Patrick Hill and General (Retired) Mick Nicholson

    Nearly three years have passed since the United States withdrew the last of its troops from Afghanistan, ending nearly twenty years of military presence and...

  50. 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.