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  1. Book talk: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China, Jia Tan
    Cancelled

    Book talk: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China, Jia Tan

    Jia Tan is Global Fellow at St Andrews

    The Gender Institute and the Mlitt in Gender Studies (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary studies), invites you to the book presentation of Digital Masquerade....

  2. Book talk: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China, Jia Tan
    Cancelled

    Book talk: Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China, Jia Tan

    Jia Tan is Global Fellow at St Andrews

    The Gender Institute and the Mlitt in Gender Studies (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary studies), invites you to the book presentation of Digital Masquerade....

  3. 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,...

  4. 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...

  5. Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China

    Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China

    Book talk from Jia Tan, Global Fellow at St Andrews

    The Gender Institute and the Mlitt in Gender Studies (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary studies) invites you to the book presentation of Digital Masquerade,...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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).

  10. English Research Seminar -- Jesse Nathan (University of California, Berkeley)

    English Research Seminar -- Jesse Nathan (University of California, Berkeley)

    Jesse Nathan (University of California, Berkeley) reading from 'Eggtooth'

  11. English Research Seminar -- Dr Sonja Lawrenson (Manchester Metropolitan University)
    Cancelled

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Sonja Lawrenson (Manchester Metropolitan University)

    The Supernatural 'At Home and Abroad:' Imperial Gothic in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda

    English Research Seminar featuring Dr Sonja Lawrenson (Manchester Metropolitan University) discussing "The Supernatural 'At Home and Abroad:'...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. English Research Seminar --- Travis Mossotti (Washington University)

    English Research Seminar --- Travis Mossotti (Washington University)

    Travis Mossotti (Washington University) seminar and the UK book launch for his new poetry collection "Racecar Jesus"

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Workshop organised by the German Screen Studies Network (GSSN)

    This GSSN workshop focuses on the "politics" of film exhibition in the Cold War, i.e., the influence of institutional actors from politics, culture...

  19. Screening Politics: Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Screening Politics: Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    This workshop focuses on the "politics" of film exhibition in the Cold War, i.e., the influence of institutional actors from politics, culture and...

  20. 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...

  21. 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"

  22. 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...

  23. Fond of Little Tunes: Homosexuality and Music in Hollywood Cinema

    Fond of Little Tunes: Homosexuality and Music in Hollywood Cinema

    Talk by Professor Richard Dyer and Scottish book launch for The Richard Dyer Reader

    Writer Richard Dyer will be in St Andrews on 15 November for the Scottish launch of The Richard Dyer Reader, a book recently published by BFI/Bloomsbury and...

  24. 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...

  25. English Research Seminar -- Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)

    English Research Seminar -- Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)

    'Beowulf and the Wrath of God'

    School of English Research Seminar featuring Professor Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford). Professor Leneghan will be discussing 'Beowulf and the...

  26. Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century: Dr Fernanda Miño

    Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century: Dr Fernanda Miño

    Book launch and screening of Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (Sebastian Cordero, 1999)

    Associate Lecturer in Film Studies, Dr Fernanda Miño, will be introducing her upcoming book Ecuadorian Cinema for the 21st Century. The first major English...

  27. 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...

  28. 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...

  29. 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...

  30. English Research Seminar -- Dr Edward Allen

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Edward Allen

    Catch as Catch Can: Towards an Understanding of Literary-Sonic Pests

    Dr Allen is Associate Professor in modern British and Irish Literature, and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. His primary focus is sound and media...

  31. 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...

  32. English Research Seminar --- Thijs Porck (Leiden University)

    English Research Seminar --- Thijs Porck (Leiden University)

    Old English is Dutch and Beowulf is ours! Appropriations of Early Medieval English in 19th-Century Europe

    "In the 19th century, Old English poems were claimed as cultural heritage by various non-Anglophone nations, including Scandinavians, the Germans and the...

  33. 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...

  34. Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day One

    Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day One

    Ajamu X and Matthew Arthur Williams in conversation

    Who should be responsible for safeguarding queer and trans collections for posterity, and how should this be done? 'Hands off' is a two-day...

  35. Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day Two

    Hands off: LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage and Ethical Stewardship -- Day Two

    Who should be responsible for safeguarding queer and trans collections for posterity, and how should this be done? 'Hands off' is a two-day...

  36. 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...

  37. English Research Seminar -- Professor Catherine Spooner

    English Research Seminar -- Professor Catherine Spooner

    Gothic White: A Counter-History of the White Dress in Modern Literature and Culture

    Women in white are ubiquitous in Gothic fiction and film, from the eighteenth-century illustrations to Ann Radcliffe's novels, to the folk costumes of...

  38. Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin: The Bruce (A Cathedral Opera)

    Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin: The Bruce (A Cathedral Opera)

    Musicians and Singers from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

    Kazakh musician Rakhat-Bi Abdyssagin's operatic depiction of Robert the Bruce. 'The Bruce: Cathedral Opera' is a 1-hour piece for church organ...

  39. 'The Drum': film screening plus panel discussion

    'The Drum': film screening plus panel discussion

    On 5 March, Dundee Contemporary Arts will be screening the 1938 film 'The Drum' from a rare vintage 16mm print, as part of the events programme for...

  40. 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...

  41. George Jack Lecture -- Professor Michael Kuczynski

    George Jack Lecture -- Professor Michael Kuczynski

    Blake's Pilgrimage

    In 1809, the visionary writer and artist William Blake exhibited a fresco painting (as he called it) of Chaucer's pilgrims from the Canterbury Tales....

  42. English Research Seminar -- Dr Swati Moitra

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Swati Moitra

    Toru Dutt and the Poetry of 'Improvement': English-Language Poetry and the Shaping of Calcutta in the 19th Century English-language poetry emerging...

  43. English Research Seminar -- Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki

    English Research Seminar

  44. Jon Pineda -- a reading from his current work-in-progress

    Jon Pineda -- a reading from his current work-in-progress

    We're delighted to welcome Jon Pineda from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, who will be reading from his new novel, currently a...

  45. John Pineda workshop

    John Pineda workshop

    Writing and Publishing Across Genres

    For School of English undergraduates only. In this workshop, novelist and poet Jon Pineda will discuss approaches to publishing across different genres of...

  46. English Research Seminar -- Dr Tom Duggett

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Tom Duggett

    Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts and the uses of anachronism Tom Duggett 'I did not take Shakespeare's tragedy for a genuine...

  47. English Research Seminar -- Dr Tom Duggett

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Tom Duggett

    Horace Walpole's Historic Doubts and the uses of anachronism Tom Duggett 'I did not take Shakespeare's tragedy for a genuine...

  48. English Research Seminar --- Chris Townsend

    English Research Seminar --- Chris Townsend

    English Research Seminar

  49. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts film screening and panel -- Candlemas 2024, week 9

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts film screening and panel -- Candlemas 2024, week 9

    Film screening of Carl Theodor Dryer's 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' and panel discussion (ITIA)

    The Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts (ITIA) extends a warm invitation to a special screening of Carl Theodor Dryer's 'The Passion...

  50. Anti-Racism in Teaching, Research and Institution Building: A Workshop with Professor Tita Chico, ho

    Anti-Racism in Teaching, Research and Institution Building: A Workshop with Professor Tita Chico, ho

    This relaxed workshop will feature brief presentations from students and staff drawing on their work and experience to ask how the University can foster...