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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. English Research Seminar -- Dr Megan Leitch (University of Cardiff)

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Megan Leitch (University of Cardiff)

    The Medieval Middlebrow: Romance and the Body Politic, 1300-1534

    English Research Seminar featuring Dr Megan Leitch (University of Cardiff) -- "The Medieval Middlebrow: Romance and the Body Politic,...

  3. Alexander Berry and Colonial Legacies

    Alexander Berry and Colonial Legacies

    A colloquium hosted by the School of English

    In 1889 the University of St Andrews received a gift of £100,000 from David Berry fulfilling the intentions of his older brother Alexander who had been a...

  4. What a Waste! Representations of Waste in the Post-War (1945-1990)

    What a Waste! Representations of Waste in the Post-War (1945-1990)

    What a Waste! is an interdisciplinary graduate conference platforming new critical work on the environmental humanities. Whether you're interested in the...

  5. In Person SEES Seminar --- Dr Robert Johannes Giebel, Researcher, Berlin Institute of Technology

    In Person SEES Seminar --- Dr Robert Johannes Giebel, Researcher, Berlin Institute of Technology

    A short story of carbonatites: Processes involved in magma ascent and related effects on mineralization

    Carbonatites are relatively rare magmatic rocks originating from the Earth's mantle, defined by a modal content of 50 vol.% carbonates.Despite their...

  6. CIMS -- Metamodern Memory: On Blade Runner, Then and Now

    CIMS -- Metamodern Memory: On Blade Runner, Then and Now

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) invites you to the talk 'Metamodern Memory: On Blade Runner, Then and Now' by Global...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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....

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. An evening with Austrian author Eva Reisinger
    Cancelled

    An evening with Austrian author Eva Reisinger

    Eva Reisinger will read from her books "Was geht Österreich" and "Männer töten", for which she was nominated for the Austrian Debut...

  15. 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...

  16. English Research Seminar -- Maureen McLane
    Cancelled

    English Research Seminar -- Maureen McLane

    Maureen McLane will be reading from her new collection of poems, What You Want (Penguin, 2023).

  17. An evening with Austrian author Eva Reisinger

    An evening with Austrian author Eva Reisinger

    Eva Reisinger will read from her books "Was geht Österreich" and "Männer töten", for which she was nominated for the Austrian Debut...

  18. 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...

  19. Reading and Writing Hong Kong in Scotland: Poetry Reading

    Reading and Writing Hong Kong in Scotland: Poetry Reading

    Poets from Scotland and England who identify with the Hong Kong Chinese British diaspora read their poems. The poets Tim Tim Cheng, Anna Cheung, Sean Wai Keung,...

  20. Reading and Writing Hong Kong in Scotland: The New Diaspora

    Reading and Writing Hong Kong in Scotland: The New Diaspora

    Over the past ten years a growing number of writers and artists from Hong Kong have established themselves in Scotland and elsewhere in the global Hong Kong...

  21. 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....

  22. Ukraine Energy in the Spotlight Revisited: Nuclear Worlds

    Ukraine Energy in the Spotlight Revisited: Nuclear Worlds

    Join us online or in-person on October, 26, 5 pm (UK time) for an exciting discussion on the latest updates on Ukrainian nuclear energy. We will focus on the...

  23. Phillis Wheatley's Poems at 250 --- talk and exhibition launch

    Phillis Wheatley's Poems at 250 --- talk and exhibition launch

    Join award-winning playwright Adeola Solanke for an introduction to Phillis Wheatley, one of the first published Black creative writers in English. 2023 marks...

  24. In conversation: Ade Solanke and May Sumbwanyambe

    In conversation: Ade Solanke and May Sumbwanyambe

    Major playwrights discuss dramatising Black experience in 18th Century Britain

    Adeola Solanke is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, and founder of Spora Stories, telling the stories of the African diaspora. Her new play, Phillis...

  25. 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...

  26. 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...

  27. 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 visiting systematic...

  28. 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...

  29. English Research Seminar --- Kaite O'Reilly

    English Research Seminar --- Kaite O'Reilly

    New Soup from Old Bones - on adaptation and reinvention

    School of English Research Seminar featuring playwright Kaite O'Reilly. New Soup from Old Bones -- on adaptation and reinvention. From the earliest...

  30. 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...

  31. English Research Seminar --- Dr Tamsin Badcoe (University of Bristol)

    English Research Seminar --- Dr Tamsin Badcoe (University of Bristol)

    Writing Saltwater Experience in the Early Modern Literary Sea Voyage

    School of English Research Seminar featuring Dr Tamsin Badcoe (University of Bristol) -- Writing Saltwater Experience in the Early Modern Literary Sea...

  32. 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...

  33. 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...

  34. 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...

  35. 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...

  36. 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...

  37. 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...

  38. 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...

  39. 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...

  40. 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...

  41. 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...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. Saints Talk: Professor Julia Prest

    Saints Talk: Professor Julia Prest

    Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre - Then and Now

    Development are delighted to invite you to the next instalment in our Saints Talk series from Professor Julia Prest, 'Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre...

  45. English Research Seminar -- Dr Katie Halsey (University of Stirling)

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Katie Halsey (University of Stirling)

    Books, Borrowing and New Versions of Scottish Literary History

    Dr Katie Halsey (University of Stirling) -- "Books, Borrowing and New Versions of Scottish Literary History"

  46. CALL FOR PAPERS: Saints English Graduate Conference

    CALL FOR PAPERS: Saints English Graduate Conference

    An interdisciplinary conference run by and for postgraduate and early career researchers. This year's theme is 'Play and Pleasure'.

    This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore the dynamic relationships between play and pleasure in various literary and cultural contexts, while...

  47. 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...

  48. 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...

  49. 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...

  50. A Queer Bestiary

    A Queer Bestiary

    Non/Humans in Contemporary US Literature

    This talk outlines Dr Lloyd's forthcoming book, A Queer Bestiary: Non/Humans in Contemporary US Literature. Taking the Medieval bestiary as its starting...