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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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,...

  8. 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...

  9. 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....

  10. 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...

  11. Online lecture: Promoting Sustainability in Higher Education: Strategies, Challenges and Impacts

    Online lecture: Promoting Sustainability in Higher Education: Strategies, Challenges and Impacts

    Charles-St Andrews strategic partnership

    Promoting Sustainability in Higher Education: Strategies, Challenges and Impacts Professor Ineke de Moortel is the co-lead of the University of St Andrews...

  12. 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...

  13. Inaugural Lecture -- Peter Wahl

    Inaugural Lecture -- Peter Wahl

    Delving into the Foundations of Future Technologies, One Atom at a Time

    The success of today's technology is a result of in-depth materials research. It involves manipulating materials at incredibly tiny scales, just a few...

  14. 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...

  15. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight -- Electric Networks

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight -- Electric Networks

    Electricity, like air, is something we notice when it disappears. In 2022 Ukrainians faced an acute energy deficiency, in everyday life, at work, and public...

  16. 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...

  17. University Community Fund Showcase Celebration

    University Community Fund Showcase Celebration

    Exhibition to celebrate UCF-funded projects

    The Principal invites you to join colleagues at an event to celebrate and showcase three years of the University of St Andrews Community Fund and the projects...

  18. Byre World: Kaili Blues

    Byre World: Kaili Blues

    Join Dr Keru Cai for a screening of the 2015 film Kaili Blues, which brought international acclaim to the young Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan. Hailing from the...

  19. Medium Format: Soil Photography, Ecological Mosaics, Dispossession

    Medium Format: Soil Photography, Ecological Mosaics, Dispossession

    Dr William Schaefer - Associate Professor in Chinese Studies and Visual Culture, Durham University.

    Wang Youshen's installation Mei pingmi (Per square meter) (2014) reconfigures urban ecosystems: Wang juxtaposes fragments of drywall from his repeatedly...

  20. 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...

  21. Film screening: The Earth Holds Me

    Film screening: The Earth Holds Me

    A documentary by Sara Manisera and Arianna Pagani

    As part of the School of Modern Languages Writers in Residence programme, we will be screening the documentary The Earth Holds Me (La terra mi tiene) followed...

  22. Byre World: When there's love inside

    Byre World: When there's love inside

    Join Senior Lecturer of the School of Modern Languages, Orhan Elmaz on Valentine's Day for a literary conversation about everything the heart may (or may...

  23. Workshop -- Decolonize Narrative: Words and Images to Break Stereotypes

    Workshop -- Decolonize Narrative: Words and Images to Break Stereotypes

    a multimedia workshop for students by Sara Manisera and Arianna Pagani

    Decolonize Narrative: Words and Images to Break Stereotypes. This multimedia journalism lab will immerse participants in the dynamic intersection of words and...

  24. Public Conversation on the Black Archive in Italian Studies

    Public Conversation on the Black Archive in Italian Studies

    Join the Department of Italian for a public conversation with Professor Shelleen Greene, associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the UCLA School of...

  25. 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...

  26. Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅
    Cancelled

    Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅

    A performance of lion and dragon dancers to usher in the lunar New Year

    Edinburgh's Yee's Hung Ga Kung Fu Academy will perform lion and dragon dances in St Mary's Quad to celebrate the beginning of the Lunar New...

  27. Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅

    Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅

    A performance of lion and dragon dancers to usher in the lunar New Year

    Edinburgh's Yee's Hung Ga Kung Fu Academy will perform lion and dragon dances in St Salvator's Quad to celebrate the beginning of the Lunar...

  28. Prosthetic Performances: Technologies of the Black Mutative Body

    Prosthetic Performances: Technologies of the Black Mutative Body

    CIMS seminar with Global Fellow Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA)

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Institute (CIMS) welcomes everyone to join the research seminar by Global Fellow Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA) on...

  29. Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Colva Roney-Dougal

    Inaugural Lecture -- Professor Colva Roney-Dougal

    Perfect symmetry: counting what matters

    Before dying in a duel at the age of 20, Évariste Galois made some of the first discoveries in what came to be known as group theory: the study of symmetry....

  30. Memory, Narrative and Ecology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Memory, Narrative and Ecology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    CIMS Seminar in the Environmental Humanities by Dr Avishek Parui (IIT Madras)

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Insititute (CIMS) invites everyone to join this seminar by Dr Avishek Parui (IIT Madras) on 'Memory, Narrative,...

  31. An elusive genre: Andrew Lang, the fairytale and Celtic fantasy

    An elusive genre: Andrew Lang, the fairytale and Celtic fantasy

    Andrew Lang Memorial Lecture 2024

    Dr Juliette Wood, Lectuer in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University and Former President and current Council member of The Folklore Society, will present...

  32. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Gregory Lee

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Gregory Lee

    Contributions to Global Thinking from the Space we have imagined as China

    Professor Lee will address the thinking of the philosopher Zhuangzi who was active in a part of the territory we now call China during the late 4th century BCE,...

  33. Attending to the local in a global emergency: translation as a lens on climate crisis

    Attending to the local in a global emergency: translation as a lens on climate crisis

    CIMS Seminar in the Environmental Humanities by Professor Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (The University of Edinburgh)

    As one of the most global conversations in history, climate crisis discourse is intrinsically dependent on and intertwined with 'translation': from...

  34. CIMS PG Training Session in the Environmental Humanities

    CIMS PG Training Session in the Environmental Humanities

    Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College)

    All postgraduate research and postgraduate taught students are invited to attend the CIMS PG Training Session in Environmental Humanities with Professor Michele...

  35. The Grapes of Desire: Fascist Agricultural Projects in Libya

    The Grapes of Desire: Fascist Agricultural Projects in Libya

    CIMS Seminar in the Environmental Humanities by Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College)

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Insititute (CIMS) invites everyone to join this seminar by Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College) on 'The...

  36. Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- What to do with Depletion and Energy Dependency?

    Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- What to do with Depletion and Energy Dependency?

    Join the us online and in-person for our final seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. During our final session we will look at the future of the...

  37. Shanghai Alumni Event

    Shanghai Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  38. Poetry in translation: On Yellow Evenings

    Poetry in translation: On Yellow Evenings

    Byre World event: free but please book

    Jordi Larios, a Catalan poet, translator and Professor of Spanish at St Andrews, will be in conversation about the making of On Yellow Evenings, his latest book...

  39. Read my mind: facial recognition technologies and contemporary Chinese art

    Read my mind: facial recognition technologies and contemporary Chinese art

    Margaret Hillebrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College, will lecture on her current...

  40. Beijing Alumni Event

    Beijing Alumni Event

    We are delighted to inform you that Professor Brad MacKay, our Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (International Strategy and External Relations) in the...

  41. Gleaning, Fragmentation and Environmental Writing

    Gleaning, Fragmentation and Environmental Writing

    CIMS Seminar in Environmental Humanities by Professor Timothy C Baker (Aberdeen)

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Insititute welcomes everyone to join this seminar by Professor Timothy C Baker (Aberdeen) on 'Gleaning, Fragmentation,...

  42. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    Race, Place and Home

    In the early 2000s it was claimed that Britain was 'sleepwalking to segregation'. Twenty years on an average neighbourhood in Britain is more...

  43. Energised Ukraine: Art in Precarious Times

    Energised Ukraine: Art in Precarious Times

    Byre World event: free but please book

    What is energy? Is it something that we remember only at moments when we think it might disappear completely? During this talk, hosted by Viktoriia Grivina,...

  44. 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...

  45. Cultural memory, identity and images

    Cultural memory, identity and images

    CIMS PG Symposium

    Prepare to immerse yourself in a captivating exploration of 'cultural identity, memory and images' at this interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium...

  46. 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...