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  1. Artist in Residence: one year on

    Artist in Residence: one year on

    CEE's Artist-in-Residence: Rebecca Sharp

    Join CEE's Artist-in-Residence, poet Rebecca Sharp, for this work-in-progress sharing event. Rebecca will be sharing some of the new poems written during...

  2. 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...

  3. Energy Café -- We drift like worried fire: photography explorations in the North Sea

    Energy Café -- We drift like worried fire: photography explorations in the North Sea

    offshore, onboard and on land

    Photographer, lecturer and CEE affiliated researcher, Peter Iain Campbell, has been photographically documenting the changing nature of the oil and gas industry...

  4. PEP talk: Turning Research into Impact: Responding to Calls for Evidence

    PEP talk: Turning Research into Impact: Responding to Calls for Evidence

    Ever wondered what role research and evidence plays in policymaking? Have you considered how your research can help inform policy? Do you know how to engage...

  5. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar: Dr Ana Gutierrez Garza

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar: Dr Ana Gutierrez Garza

    Title: Mobilising vulnerability: Political resistance among housing activists in Madrid

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar followed by discussion.

  6. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Nathan McAllister

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Nathan McAllister

    'I will go to my father's village where they will give love': kula exchange as an ethos of love

    Please join us for this week's seminar, which will be given by our very own PhD student, Nathan McAllister.

  7. 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....

  8. Energy Café: Large scale renewable energy investments in energy insecure regions.

    Energy Café: Large scale renewable energy investments in energy insecure regions.

    Why communities choose to resist

    During this Energy Café, the centre's postdoctoral researcher Cornelia Helmcke will tie in her previous work on energy data justice in Colombia with her...

  9. Burnt out: one Australian's experience of our changing climate

    Burnt out: one Australian's experience of our changing climate

    Performance and post-show discussion

    This performance is BSL interpreted. Weaving spoken word and movement, Penny uses her own experiences to take us on a journey through Australia's...

  10. 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...

  11. Energy Café: Cost-benefit analyses, short-termism and social discount rate

    Energy Café: Cost-benefit analyses, short-termism and social discount rate

    The Social Discount Rate (SDR) determines the present value of future societal costs and benefits. A declining SDR suggests society values future benefits more...

  12. PEPtalk: Relational approaches to navigating policy impact

    PEPtalk: Relational approaches to navigating policy impact

    The Centre for Energy Ethics is pleased to announce its Policy Engagement Practice seminar series --- PEPtalks. Please join us and our invited speakers as...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. Book Launch: 'Engineering Reality' by Dr Cornelia Helmcke

    Book Launch: 'Engineering Reality' by Dr Cornelia Helmcke

    Join Centre for Energy Ethics postdoctoral researcher Dr Cornelia Helmcke for an informal event to celebrate the release of her book Engineering Reality: The...

  18. Energy Café: Legitimising the ISDS Regime through Energy Justice

    Energy Café: Legitimising the ISDS Regime through Energy Justice

    This seminar examines the role of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime in the global energy sector and its connection to energy justice. The ISDS...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...

  21. 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...

  22. 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...

  23. 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...

  24. Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics

    Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics

    A speaker and networking event on biophotonics.

    This event is open to all women & non-binary students in STEM subjects at Scottish Universities and Colleges. Equate is delighted to be partnering with...

  25. 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...

  26. Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'

    Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    In recent decades, dogs have become one of the most popular animal species in comparative psychology. One reason for this is the unique evolutionary history of...

  27. PEPtalk: Tearing down policy barriers on the path to greening the grid

    PEPtalk: Tearing down policy barriers on the path to greening the grid

    Converting proposals to new clean power

    The Centre for Energy Ethics is pleased to announce the return of its Policy Engagement Practice seminar series --- PEPtalks. Please join us and our invited...

  28. Energy Cafe: Can the largest African country meet its energy security goal by 2030

    Energy Cafe: Can the largest African country meet its energy security goal by 2030

    Hosted by Zuhumnan Dapel. According to recent estimates on combating global energy poverty, more than half a billion people will still lack access to...

  29. Dr Andrew Macaskill (UCL): Internal state-dependent control of feeding behaviour via the hippocampus

    Dr Andrew Macaskill (UCL): Internal state-dependent control of feeding behaviour via the hippocampus

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Internal state dependent control of feeding behaviour via hippocampal ghrelin signalling. Hunger is an internal state that not only invigorates feeding, but...

  30. Women in Science at St Andrews: panel discussion on progress and future directions

    Women in Science at St Andrews: panel discussion on progress and future directions

    Panel discussion with four Principal's office members to celebrate, inspire and promote Women in Science

    Five years ago, University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, said: "In St Andrews, as in other UK higher education...

  31. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar --- Dr Sera Park

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar --- Dr Sera Park

    An ethics of duty and the infinitude of kinship relations: bereaved family activism in the aftermath of the Sewol Ferry Disaster

    Please join us for this week's social anthropology departmental seminar!

  32. Energy Café: Governing 'Wild' Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change

    Energy Café: Governing 'Wild' Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change

    Our twice monthly Energy Café series will begin on Tuesday January 23rd with a presentation from Sean Field In this Café, Sean will discuss how natural gas...

  33. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Manar Kawasmi

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Manar Kawasmi

    Development Beyond Dependency and Soft Power: The Creation of a Palestinian NGO-nation

    This presentation focuses on development in Palestine post-Cold War and the establishment of the PA in 1993. Since this time, Palestine has headed the donor aid...

  34. 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...

  35. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Guilherme Moreira Fians

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Guilherme Moreira Fians

    The death of Elizabeth II on Wikipedia: Knowledge co-production, freedom, and technoliberal participation in online setting

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar!

  36. Energy Café: Saving energy, saving the Revolution

    Energy Café: Saving energy, saving the Revolution

    Energy efficiency and revolutionary ethics in the Cuban transition

    Dr Gustav Cederlöf School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden In the pursuit of socialism, Cuba become one of Latin America's most...

  37. Inaugural Peter Gow Memorial Lecture (Hybrid)

    Inaugural Peter Gow Memorial Lecture (Hybrid)

    Prof Aparecida Vilaça --

    A lecture celebrating the intellectual legacy of Amazonianist anthropologist Peter Gow. Delivered by Prof Aparecida Vilaça (Museu Nacional, Universidade...

  38. No More Fossils -- New Book Discussion with Dominic Boyer

    No More Fossils -- New Book Discussion with Dominic Boyer

    Join us for a new book discussion with author Professor Dominic Boyer, on 12 February at 3pm (UK time) online. In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story...

  39. Saints Talk: Dr Stavroula Pipyrou

    Saints Talk: Dr Stavroula Pipyrou

    Too Close, Too Distant: The Perpetual Transformation of the Political

    Development is delighted to invite you to the next instalment in our Saints Talk series from Dr Stavroula Pipyrou, 'Too Close, Too Distant: The Perpetual...

  40. Book Launch for Dr Aimée Joyce

    Book Launch for Dr Aimée Joyce

    "Spectral Borders: History, Neighborliness and Discord on the Polish-Belarusian Frontier"

    The Centre for Global Postsocialisms, Southeastern, Central and East European Studies, and the Department of Social Anthropology invite you to celebrate the...

  41. 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...

  42. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Mary Fairio

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Mary Fairio

    "Wok bung wantaim (working together): Women associations and foreign aid in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea (PNG)".

    Abstract Despite an increase in aid assistance, women continue to struggle to be recognised as leaders in formal spaces in Papua New Guinea (PNG). So, I ask:...

  43. Energy Cafe: Shores of Change

    Energy Cafe: Shores of Change

    The global energy transition and the future of African coastal states

    The urgency to address the impacts of climate change has reached a critical point. Although the global community acknowledges the imperative for a united...

  44. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar ~ Oliver French

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar ~ Oliver French

    The Vermin Society: Pathologising human-animal imaginaries in India during the third plague pandemic

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar, with the talk from University of St Andrews PhD candidate, Oliver French.

  45. Sketching Stories of Climate Anxiety

    Sketching Stories of Climate Anxiety

    As part of the Fife Climate Festival, this family-friendly (age 12+) workshop will explore climate justice and climate anxiety through different examples of...

  46. 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...

  47. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Catherine Alexander

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Catherine Alexander

    From thrift to austerity: The life and death of a London housing estate

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar, given by Prof Catherine Alexander from the University of Durham.

  48. Prof Alistair Lawrence (SRUC): The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare

    Prof Alistair Lawrence (SRUC): The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Prof Alistair Lawrence, (Scotland's Rural College), will present on "The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare", hosted...

  49. Prof Manuel Spitschan (MPI): What does the eye tell the clock?

    Prof Manuel Spitschan (MPI): What does the eye tell the clock?

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Prof Manuel Spitschan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen): "What does the eye tell the clock? Mechanisms underlying the impact of...

  50. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva

    From extermination to surveillance: rats, rat-catchers, and international health (1900-1945

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar!