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  1. Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard): 'The neurobiology of zombie flies'

    Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard): 'The neurobiology of zombie flies'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Our first Friday Seminar of the semester will be by Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard) on 'The neurobiology of zombie flies: mechanisms of parasite...

  2. Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time

    Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time

    From the quote attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Come and join Ed as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in...

  3. Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Theology of Coexistence. From the Genesis of Difference to the Conceptualization of Coexistence in Islam.

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He is visiting St Andrews for...

  4. Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Islamic pastoral care between two worlds. Creating space in the academic field and in the community. (part 1 of 2)

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He is visiting St Andrews for...

  5. Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu

    Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu

    Talk by Akira O'Connor

    Akira O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, will give a talk on his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research on jamais vu....

  6. Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Islamic pastoral care between two worlds. Creating space in the academic field and in the community.

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He is visiting St Andrews for...

  7. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Craig Smeaton (SGSD UoStA)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Craig Smeaton (SGSD UoStA)

    Overview of SGSD analytical capabilities

    Overview of SGSD analytical capabilities

  8. Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    Prof Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow)

    Weekly Friday Seminar hosted by the School of Psychology and Neuroscience. Professor Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow) will be hosted by Prof James Ainge...

  9. Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah --- guest lecture

    Relationality and theological knowledge: Reflections on the human-to-human encounter considering al-Ġazālī's concept of friendship.

    Dr Mahmoud Abdallah is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Islamic Theology at the University of Tübingen in Germany. He is visiting St Andrews for...

  10. 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,...

  11. Light from the East: Middle Eastern Art (Dr Fabio Caiani)

    Light from the East: Middle Eastern Art (Dr Fabio Caiani)

    Free, but please book your tickets on the Byre Theatre website

    This event is a multi-media celebration of Middle Eastern art in honour of Catherine Cobham (former Head of the Arabic and Persian Department). Renowned Syrian...

  12. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Shona Jenkins (University of Edinburgh)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Shona Jenkins (University of Edinburgh)

    The human influence in the Central Congo Basin peatlands

    The human influence in the Central Congo Basin peatlands

  13. My Doric Diary

    My Doric Diary

    7.30pm -- Pay what you can £15.00 / £12.00 / £10.00

    A Doric jukebox musical from Katie Barnett and James Siggens of AyeTunes!, My Doric Diary is a heart-warming story about what it means to love and what it takes...

  14. Suitcase Stories: The Seven Ravens

    Suitcase Stories: The Seven Ravens

    Pay what you can £8.00 / £6.00 / £4.00

    Tragic Carpet Theatre presents The Seven Ravens. A Raven visits a young girl. Why are the birds gathering? and what is the secret that Ada learns about her...

  15. Suitcase Stories: The Seven Ravens

    Suitcase Stories: The Seven Ravens

    Pay what you can: £8, £6 or £4

    Tragic Carpet Theatre presents The Seven Ravens. A Raven visits a young girl. Why are the birds gathering? and what is the secret that Ada learns about her...

  16. Rachel Muers --- Smith Lecture Autumn 2023

    Rachel Muers --- Smith Lecture Autumn 2023

    A Systematics of One's Own: Reflections on a Search For Foremothers In Systematic Theology

    Each semester, an outstanding female scholar from any sub-discipline of Divinity is invited to St Andrews to deliver the Smith Lecture in memory of Agnes Lewis...

  17. Menstruation Matters: Fighting Stigma in Scotland Today (Bettina Bildhauer)

    Menstruation Matters: Fighting Stigma in Scotland Today (Bettina Bildhauer)

    Free, but please book your tickets on the Byre Theatre website

    At least half of the world's population experience menstruation and the menopause at some stage in their lives, and yet we hardly ever speak about it....

  18. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Shonil Bhagwat (The Open University)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Shonil Bhagwat (The Open University)

    TBC

  19. Explorathon 2023 presents Bright Club

    Explorathon 2023 presents Bright Club

    The thinking person's comedy night

    A brand new thinking person's comedy night, where Dr Bobbie May becomes a stand-up comedian. Topics of every flavour are set to stimulate our funny bones...

  20. Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research

    Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Katerina Mentzou (University of Dundee) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on "Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their...

  21. ITIA Workshop with Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin (Notre Dame)
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    ITIA Workshop with Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin (Notre Dame)

    'The Carmelite Subject: 'Fiction' and the Metaphysics of Contemplation.'

    On Friday, 17th of November, the Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA, School of Divinity) is hosting a workshop with visiting systematic...

  22. Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution

    Mermaids Performing Arts Fund present: Witness for the Prosecution 7.30pm -- Pay What You Can £12.00 / £10.00 / £8.00 Experience Agatha Christie's...

  23. Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)

    Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)

    Charles-St Andrews strategic partnership

    This hybrid event can be accessed online, and is part of a "University of St Andrews day" at Charles University. It is intended for University...

  24. Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution

    Mermaids Performing Arts Fund present: Witness for the Prosecution 7.30pm -- Pay What You Can £12.00 / £10.00 / £8.00 Experience Agatha Christie's...

  25. Systematic and Historical Theology seminar --- Michaelmas 2023, week 8

    Systematic and Historical Theology seminar --- Michaelmas 2023, week 8

    Turretin - A scholastic Reformed account of satisfaction

    In Martinmas 2023, the Theology seminar is reading important texts of Protestant Scholasticism. The seminar schedule and readings are available on the...

  26. Biblical Studies research seminar --- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Biblical Studies research seminar --- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Professor Eckart Frahm (Yale): Reception history of Enuma Elish

    This week's seminar will be online via Teams only. The seminar features Eckart Frahm, Professor of Assyriology at Yale University, who will be presenting...

  27. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Tessa van der Voort (Nutrient Management Institute)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Tessa van der Voort (Nutrient Management Institute)

    Soil to Sediment: carbon dynamics from a multidisciplinary viewpoint

    Soil to Sediment: carbon dynamics from a multidisciplinary viewpoint

  28. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 8

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 8

    Dr Saiyyidah Zaidi (Independent Scholar), 'This is the sound of my soul: Exploring belonging and inclusion in British Political Theology'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. Meetings are principally...

  29. Logos Institute research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 8

    Logos Institute research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 8

    Professor Greg Restall (St Andrews)

    The weekly research seminar of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology takes places on Fridays from 3.30 to 5pm in the Senior Common Room of St...

  30. 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...

  31. Systematic and Historical Theology seminar -- Michaelmas 2023, week 9

    Systematic and Historical Theology seminar -- Michaelmas 2023, week 9

    Simons - Radical christology

    In Martinmas 2023, the Theology seminar is reading important texts of Protestant Scholasticism. The seminar schedule and readings are available on the...

  32. Biblical Studies research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 9

    Biblical Studies research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 9

    Veronica Vandervliet (St Andrews), 'Reading Biblical Hebrew Poetry through the Lens of Information Structure Theory'

    The seminar features Veronica Vandervliet, PhD student at the University of St Andrews, who will be presenting a paper entitled, 'Reading Biblical Hebrew...

  33. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Caroline Clason (University of Durham)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Caroline Clason (University of Durham)

    Assessing and communicating glacier-fed water security in mountain regions

    Assessing and communicating glacier-fed water security in mountain regions

  34. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 9

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 9

    Anupama Ranawana (St Andrews), '"Reading" and "writing" Asia: A framework for intertextuality and textual interpretation from sites of struggle'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This week, our very own PhD...

  35. A Bunch of Amateurs -- The Film (15)

    A Bunch of Amateurs -- The Film (15)

    St Andrews Play Club and the Byre present

    Nothing can replace the real thing, but following the disappointing (but necessary) cancellation of St Andrews Play Club, this hilarious film is the next best...

  36. A Bunch of Amateurs -- The Film (15)

    A Bunch of Amateurs -- The Film (15)

    St Andrews Play Club and the Byre present

    Nothing can replace the real thing, but following the disappointing (but necessary) cancellation of St Andrews Play Club, this hilarious film is the next best...

  37. Language is iconic to the core: Dr Markus Perlman (Birmingham)

    Language is iconic to the core: Dr Markus Perlman (Birmingham)

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Markus Perlman (University of Birmingham) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on 'Language is iconic to the core'. The event will be...

  38. Logos Institute research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 9

    Logos Institute research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 9

    Professor Gavin D'Costa (Bristol & Rome), 'Ecclesiology: Why Jewish Catholicism is essential to the nature of the Catholic Church'

    The weekly research seminar of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology takes places on Fridays from 3.30 to 5pm in the Senior Common Room of St...

  39. Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'

    Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'

    Preceded by a PhD talk from Alexandra Safryghin (St Andrews): 'Commonalities and group differences in the communicative efficiency of chimpanzee gesturing'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Alexandra Safryghin will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "Commonalities...

  40. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 9

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 9

    Professor Ian Bradley (St Andrews), 'There is a happy land, far, far away: Victorian Hymns about Heaven'

    Seminar led by St Andrews' own Prof. Ian Bradley. ITIA research seminars meet each Friday during the academic year in St Mary's College Hall as a...

  41. Interfaith in the Academy moderated by Dr Eric Stoddart

    Interfaith in the Academy moderated by Dr Eric Stoddart

    Interfaith Week 2023: St Andrews

    Come and join us for an Academic Panel Discussion on Interfaith Dialogue as we dive deeper into the nitty-gritty of Interfaith. Our fantastic panel will be...

  42. Biblical Studies research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 10
    Cancelled

    Biblical Studies research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 10

    Dr Sam Newington (Aberdeen), Monsters in the Biblical and Classical World

    This seminar features Dr Sam Newington of the University of Aberdeen, who will be presenting a paper on the topic of monsters in the Biblical and Classical...

  43. Peace, Unity and Dialoguing Together: An Interfaith Discussion

    Peace, Unity and Dialoguing Together: An Interfaith Discussion

    Interfaith Week 2023: St Andrews

    Come and join for a conversation between the representatives of our different Faith as we dialogue together with representatives of a diverse array of faiths...

  44. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Ruth Bowyer (KCL and The Alan Turing Institute)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Ruth Bowyer (KCL and The Alan Turing Institute)

    Ageing resilience in a changing environment

    Ageing resilience in a changing environment

  45. Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar --- Autumn 2023, week 10

    Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics research seminar --- Autumn 2023, week 10

    Dr Eric Stoddart (St Andrews), 'Practising Divine Gaze: Is there any sacramental potential in digital surveillance?'

    CSRP research seminars and lectures take place on Thursdays during the term from 11.15am in College Hall, St Mary's College. This week, our very own...

  46. Logos Institute research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 10

    Logos Institute research seminar -- Autumn 2023, week 10

    Dr Daniel Hill (Liverpool), 'Does God Intend that Sin Occur?'

    The weekly research seminar of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology takes places on Fridays from 3.30 to 5pm in the Senior Common Room of St...

  47. The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)

    The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on: 'The social origins of language and...

  48. ITIA Workshop with Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin (Notre Dame)
    Limited access

    ITIA Workshop with Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin (Notre Dame)

    'The Carmelite Subject: 'Fiction' and the Metaphysics of Contemplation.'

    On Friday, 17th of November, the Institute of Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA, School of Divinity) is hosting a workshop with Professor Jennifer...

  49. Inaugural Interfaith Lecture: Recognise the human race as one

    Inaugural Interfaith Lecture: Recognise the human race as one

    Interfaith Week 2023: St Andrews

    The final event in the Interfaith Week series, an Inaugural Interfaith Lecture given by Jas Singh. With guest speaker, Jas Singh is a Sikh from Leeds, and a...

  50. Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania): 'The Social Origins of Language and Thought'

    Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania): 'The Social Origins of Language and Thought'

    Preceded by a PhD talk from Gal Badihi (St Andrews): 'The Influence of Social Dynamics on The Gestural Communication of East African Chimpanzees'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Gal Badihi will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "The Influence of Social...