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  1. 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...

  2. Feminism in Contemporary Syria

    Feminism in Contemporary Syria

    Centre of Syrian Studies (CSS)

    Speakers at this Centre of Syrian Studies (CSS) event include Ola Rifai, Birgit Poopuu, Omar Imady, Roua Al Taweel and Lina Al Hafez, with Discussant, Rahaf...

  3. Mackenzie Institute event
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    Mackenzie Institute event

    Brain Health Seminar

    An in-person event at the School of Medicine by the Mackenzie institute for Early Diagnosis "The Brain Economy" presented by Dr Harris Eyre...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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,...

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

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

    Virtual panel on Thursday November 2nd 2023 at 16:00 to 17:30 GMT

    Chair Raymond Hinnebusch Speaker Nour al-Halabi, Leeds University Commentator Lina al Hafez, University Autònoma de Barcelona Nour is assistant professor at...

  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. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. Light lunch with medical alumni

    Light lunch with medical alumni

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    Join us for a light lunch gathering at The Health Academy at the Royal Preston Hospital, Preston. We're looking forward to catching up with School of...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...

  21. 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....

  22. School of Classics Seminar -- Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)
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    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...

  23. Bridging Continents: Navigating the EU-China Relationship

    Bridging Continents: Navigating the EU-China Relationship

    A talk by Italian academic Dr. Nicola Casarini

    We are excited to present "Bridging Continents: Navigating the EU-China Relationship", a talk by Italian academic Dr. Nicola Casarini. Dr. Casarini...

  24. 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...

  25. Terrorism and Democracy

    Terrorism and Democracy

    Talk by Lord Mark Sedwill followed by Q and A

    Join alumnus Sir Mark Sedwill, Head of the Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary to the UK Government, as he reflects upon his role as the Government's most...

  26. 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...

  27. Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Panayiotis Christoforou (Oxford)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Panayiotis Christoforou (Oxford)

    For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.

  28. The Russo-Ukraine war: a strategic update

    The Russo-Ukraine war: a strategic update

    Talk by Mykola Bielieskov

    Join colleagues from the School of International Relations and Mykola Bielieskov to discusses the Russo-Ukraine war. Mykola has an MA in International Relations...

  29. Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Larisa Ficulle (St Andrews)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Larisa Ficulle (St Andrews)

    Leaves of rue, Bayberries and Myrrh: Theory and Practice of Abortion in Byzantium

    TRIGGER WARNING For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.

  30. PGR Methods Cafe 2024

    PGR Methods Cafe 2024

    The School of IR is pleased to announce the return of the Methods Café for PGR students - all PGR students are warmly invited to join!

    Programme Lunch 1:00pm --- 1.30pm Panel Discussion 1.30pm --- 2:15pm Roundtable Discussions 1 2:15pm --- 3:15pm Break 3:15pm --- 3:30pm...

  31. 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...

  32. Centre for Late Antique Studies Annual Lecture -- Neil McLynn (Oxford)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Annual Lecture -- Neil McLynn (Oxford)

    Lost at Leuchars: Gregory Nazianzen at Sasima

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

  33. Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Giacomo Savani (Visiting Scholar)

    Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Giacomo Savani (Visiting Scholar)

    For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.

  34. Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman Empire.

    Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman Empire.

    A Social and Cultural History (Trigger Warning below) Christian Laes (Manchester)

    Note: the lecture will contain some images (ancient artifacts) of what was considered as bodily deformity and references to Nazi-propaganda that referred to...

  35. People and animals in Roman Britain --- Umberto Albarella (Sheffield)

    People and animals in Roman Britain --- Umberto Albarella (Sheffield)

    School of Classics Seminar

    TRIGGER WARNING Will include discussion of animal slaughter and butchery. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...

  36. Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire Annual Lecture

    Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire Annual Lecture

    Strange Stew: the Emperor Vitellius and his "Shield of Minerva" - Rhiannon Ash (Oxford)

    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...

  37. Evidence Based Early Diagnosis (EBED) Conference

    Evidence Based Early Diagnosis (EBED) Conference

    Exploring new diagnostics -- big promise, big challenge

    Are you an innovator, researcher, clinician, policy-maker, or regulator who is interested in early diagnosis? You might be a patient, a member of the public, or...

  38. Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy

    Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy

    St Andrews University - ISWS online seminar series events

    Since 2014, Xi Jinping has made security a focal point of his approach to governing China. But how do Xi Jinping and top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party...

  39. Editing slaves: Unfree labour and textual revision in Rome (Trigger Warning below)

    Editing slaves: Unfree labour and textual revision in Rome (Trigger Warning below)

    Talitha Keary

    Note: Note: the lecture will involve discussion of slavery, rape and torture. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...

  40. Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Further information and registration details can be found via the link below. Please contact [email protected] if you have additional...

  41. Tracking Empire: Global Entanglement and Non-linearity Seminar II

    Tracking Empire: Global Entanglement and Non-linearity Seminar II

    Chair: Prof Karin Fierke Discussant: Dr Rahul Rao Presenters: Andrew Milne, "Histories of the Unseen: Unconscious Oppression, Emancipatory Subjectivity...

  42. Tracking Empire: Global Entanglement and Non-linearity Seminar 1

    Tracking Empire: Global Entanglement and Non-linearity Seminar 1

    Chair: Prof Karin Fierke Discussant: Dr Katharina Hunfeld Presenters: Phuong Anh Nguyen "Confronting 'Temporal Others': The Role of Non-Linear...

  43. The Gatecrashers: a long view of lone actor assassins and terrorists

    The Gatecrashers: a long view of lone actor assassins and terrorists

    Featuring Tim Wilson

    Over little more than a decade, the so-called 'Lone Wolf' attacker has emerged as a central security threat. Such lone actors are usually seen as a...

  44. Virtual reality in anatomical sciences: transforming the way we teach and learn
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    Virtual reality in anatomical sciences: transforming the way we teach and learn

    Seminar by Dr Tomasz Cecot

    The School of Medicine will welcome Dr Tomasz Cecot this April, who will deliver this seminar on virtual reality in the anatomical sciences. Dr Cecot is a...

  45. Militant leaders and the patterns of terrorism

    Militant leaders and the patterns of terrorism

    with Dr Austin Doctor - CSTPV Seminar

    The lethality and the frequency of terrorist attacks conducted by militant organizations vary considerably. Some militants perpetrate extreme and systemic...

  46. Status reversal and its discontents

    Status reversal and its discontents

    Michael Hechter, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

    The recent rise of reactionary politics in modern democracies across the globe has been attributed to a variety of causes, including deindustrialisation,...

  47. Transregional Queer Activism in the SWANA

    Transregional Queer Activism in the SWANA

    MECACS Seminar Series Event

    Janine A. Clark is a Professor in the Department of Political Science. Her work focuses on decentralization and local politics, Islamist movements, civil...

  48. Book Talk : Pathways Towards Lasting Peace

    Book Talk : Pathways Towards Lasting Peace

    Kaleem Hussain

    Peace and Reconciliation in International and Islamic Law presents a lucid analysis, observing how the sources of international law and Islamic Law help or...

  49. of Colonies and Queens: myths of Carthage in a contact zone

    of Colonies and Queens: myths of Carthage in a contact zone

    Jo Quinn (Oxford)

    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...

  50. Life on Thin Ice...

    Life on Thin Ice...

    Third Generation Project Presents....

    Join acclaimed Film director and writer -- Dan McDougall as he speaks to staff and students. Mental health at the heart of the climate crisis...