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  1. ISWS Seminar Series -- 'Peacekeeping in Mali: The Royal Scots Dragoons Experience'

    ISWS Seminar Series -- 'Peacekeeping in Mali: The Royal Scots Dragoons Experience'

    Captain Tom Walpole of the Royal Scots Dragoons speaking on the unit's deployment to Mali to assist UN peacekeeping.

    Captain Tom Walpole of the Royal Scots Dragoons speaking on the unit's deployment to Mali to assist UN peacekeeping.

  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. All. Rights. Matter.

    All. Rights. Matter.

    Centre for Art and Politics Seminar

    Leilah Babirye made and exhibited the installation I care about you (2016) during the Artwork at Kampala Exhibition hosted at Makerere University in 2016. She...

  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. 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...

  6. Health Care Under Occupation: challenges for cancer and post-trauma care in Gaza, Palestine

    Health Care Under Occupation: challenges for cancer and post-trauma care in Gaza, Palestine

    STEPS Autumn Event

    STEPS is pleased to have The Bute Medical Society as our co-host for this event. Speakers: GERRY O'HARE Gerry O'Hare is an Oncology Clinical Nurse...

  7. 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,...

  8. North Korea -- What happens next?

    North Korea -- What happens next?

    John Vivian Everard is a British former diplomat. He was formerly the UK's ambassador to Belarus, the UK's ambassador to Uruguay and the UK's...

  9. 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...

  10. The Wednesday Seminar Series

    The Wednesday Seminar Series

    School of International Relations Wednesday Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023

    The Wednesday Seminar Series --- School of International Relations Wednesday Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023 Convenors: Drs Jeffrey Stevenson Murer and...

  11. 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...

  12. Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975

    Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975

    Lecture then Q&A Session

    When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full...

  13. From Soldiers to Rebels? The Catholic Ex-Servicemen's Association in 1970s Northern Ireland

    From Soldiers to Rebels? The Catholic Ex-Servicemen's Association in 1970s Northern Ireland

    Wednesday research seminars series

    Part of the School of International Relations Wednesday Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023. Convenors for Week five are Drs Jeffrey Stevenson Murer and Adam...

  14. Going Mainstream: How Extremists are Taking Over

    Going Mainstream: How Extremists are Taking Over

    CSTPV Online Talk with Julia Ebner

    Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, these groups all belonged on the fringes of the political spectrum. Today, accelerated by a...

  15. Cold War Worldmaking Between East Asia and the Arab World

    Cold War Worldmaking Between East Asia and the Arab World

    MECACS Seminar Series Event - Mohammed Alsudairi

    Seeking to transcend Western- and state-centric readings of the Cold War, the talk focuses on the various forms of ideational interaction and worldmaking that...

  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. 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'

  18. Careers with INGOs and NGOs

    Careers with INGOs and NGOs

    The Halo Trust; MLitt in Peace & Conflict Studies, 2015

    Speaker : Calum Gibbs Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and the MLitt and MPhil in Peacebuilding and Mediation All IR MLitt, MPhil and PhD students are very...

  19. 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:'...

  20. Colonial Relationality and an Islamic Metaphysics of (Anti-Colonial) Detachment

    Colonial Relationality and an Islamic Metaphysics of (Anti-Colonial) Detachment

    Wednesday research seminars series

    For this Week 7 event, Dr Jasmine Gani will present 'Colonial Relationality and an Islamic Metaphysics of (Anti-Colonial) Detachment'....

  21. Hong Kong, Activism and International Advocacy: Journey of a Political Activist in Quest for Freedom

    Hong Kong, Activism and International Advocacy: Journey of a Political Activist in Quest for Freedom

    Time & Date: 5 pm, October 25, 2023 Venue: School VI at United College Quadrangle, University of St Andrews Speaker: Nathan Law (Former member of...

  22. 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...

  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. 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...

  26. 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"

  27. 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...

  28. 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...

  29. Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor:  Caste, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK'

    Holding some ground on a greasy dancefloor: Caste, Queerness and South Asian Diaspora in the UK'

    School of International Relations EDI Committee in association with St Andrews Institute for Gender Studies and Saints LGBT+

    The first in an occasional speaker series Date: 1 November 2023 Time: 17.00 Venue: Arts Seminar 1 Sweaty, seductive sex club on a Saturday night in London, and...

  30. 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...

  31. Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits

    Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits

    CSTPV Seminar: book and discussion

    From Ukraine to Afghanistan and beyond, occupations and exit dilemmas permeate contemporary geopolitics. However, the existing literature on territorial...

  32. Discussion with Australia's former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison

    Discussion with Australia's former Prime Minister, Scott Morrison

    Join a discussion with Australia's former Prime Minister and current Member of Parliament for the New South Wales seat of Cook, Scott Morrison, hosted by...

  33. Jewish Self-Determination Beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs

    Jewish Self-Determination Beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs

    Jonathan Graubart's book Jewish Self-Determination Beyond Zionism: Lessons from Hannah Arendt and other Pariahs recovers and adapts the pre-1948...

  34. IR Speaker Event and Reception

    IR Speaker Event and Reception

    Staff and Student Mixer

    International Relations Staff and Student Mixer -- 08.11.23 3pm -- Talk on the International Relations of Outer Space with Dr Adam Bower 4.30pm...

  35. 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...

  36. 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....

  37. The causes and consequences of global police militarization

    The causes and consequences of global police militarization

    ISWS Seminar Series

    In recent decades, police forces around the world have become more militarized---adopting the weaponry, organisational structures, and accountability...

  38. Teach-In Gaza in Context

    Teach-In Gaza in Context

    Speakers Jasmine Gani, Jeffrey Murer, Anupama Ranawana and Rahul Rao will discuss historical roots, western alliances and ideology, global solidarities, old and...

  39. 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"

  40. 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...

  41. The use and misuse of the 'local turn'  -- Distinguished Scholar Lecture

    The use and misuse of the 'local turn' -- Distinguished Scholar Lecture

    Oliver P Richmond

    In this talk I try to develop a reassessment of the critical project for peace and conflict research. Firstly, I outline the main challenges and critiques...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. 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...

  45. 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...

  46. 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...

  47. Adapting to climate change: effective crisis management strategies

    Adapting to climate change: effective crisis management strategies

    Public lecture: Dr Christos Stylianides, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy, Hellenic Republic

    Join staff and students from the School of International Relations and the Graduate School for this public lecture presented by Dr Christos Stylianides,...

  48. 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...

  49. 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...

  50. Activism in the West Bank in times of war

    Activism in the West Bank in times of war

    Adi Lifshitz

    Through the first couple of days of the war, it became clear there was an immediate need for humanitarian support in the Palestinian community, both in the...