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  1. 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...

  2. Acting on Climate Change

    Acting on Climate Change

    Policy, Rights and Net Zero

    Balancing rising energy demands with the need to curb and adapt to anthropogenic climate change in a just and equitable way is at the heart of an existential...

  3. CAConrad Poetry Event with Dr Rosa Campbell

    CAConrad Poetry Event with Dr Rosa Campbell

    Listen to the Golden Bommerang Return

    Join us in School 6 for a unique poetry event with award-winning, Columbia University poet CAConrad! University of St Andrews School of English fellow Rosa...

  4. Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    How can thinking like an animator inform anthropological research?

    The workshop is open to all students of Anthropology (UG, PGT AND PGR) (15 seats). Department of Social anthropology brings to you a one of its kind hands-on...

  5. 'Dog Apartment', a Master Class with Priit Tender, part of the 'Constructing Other Worlds' events.

    'Dog Apartment', a Master Class with Priit Tender, part of the 'Constructing Other Worlds' events.

    Prof. Priit Tender (Estonian Academy of Arts) will give a masterclass on his film, Dog Apartment as part of the two-day event 'Constructing Other Worlds'

    As part of a two-day event 'Constructing Other Worlds: Ethnography/Animation' Prof. Priit Tender (Estonian Academy of Arts) will be presenting a...

  6. Disability in Higher Education
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    Disability in Higher Education

    A Roundtable Event hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology

    Please join us for a roundtable event to discuss Disability in Higher Education

  7. Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    'Engineering Reality' with Cornelia Helmcke

    During this book launch event, author Cornelia Helmcke will meet critics Bibiana Duarte-Abadía (Wageningen University) and Christopher Schulz (University of St...

  8. Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway

    Hosted by Anna-Sophie Hobi. Lithium-ion batteries are pivotal in the efforts to 'decarbonise' the European economy. Consequently, a battery...

  9. Women's History of Colonial Spaces in India

    Women's History of Colonial Spaces in India

    School of English and School of Art History Joint Research Seminar

    Join the School of English and the School of Art History for a joint Research Seminar on Women's History of Colonial Spaces in India with Dr Yashaswinini...

  10. A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    A Changing Climate Changing Lives: Poetry Writing Competition

    This reading, hosted by the School of English and Centre for Energy Ethics, will showcase the creative writing submissions from selected undergraduate students...

  11. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Ilana Gershon

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Ilana Gershon

    The Pandemic Workplace: What US Employment Contracts Revealed about Social Contracts during the Pandemic

    On 5th April, please join us for our final seminar of the academic year, with Professor Ilana Gershon from Rice University. Professor Gershon is currently...

  12. English Research Seminar -- Dr Caroline Edwards

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Caroline Edwards

    English Research Seminar

  13. Institute of Intellectual History --- Tom Pye (UCL)

    Institute of Intellectual History --- Tom Pye (UCL)

    The tailzie and the politics of the feudal law in eighteenth-century Britain

    All welcome

  14. Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    The World Commission on Dams and the making of global guidelines for the planning and construction of large dams

    Hosted by Christopher Schulz Large dams are back on the global development agenda. Researchers have counted thousands of dam projects that are currently planned...

  15. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Elena Liber

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Elena Liber

    "The First TikTok War": Digital-Visual Storytelling and the Shaping of Narratives from Ukraine

    Please join us for this week's Social Anthropology Departmental seminar, with Dr Elena Liber, Lecturer in Digital Anthropology at University College...

  16. KlangHaus in the School of English

    KlangHaus in the School of English

    Dr Sam Haddow, Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Drama, in the School of English is hosting a free performance event and Q&A with the pioneering...

  17. English Research Seminar -- Tita Chico

    English Research Seminar -- Tita Chico

    English Research Seminar.

  18. Books, objects and instruments in the history of science and culture: a show-and-tell event

    Books, objects and instruments in the history of science and culture: a show-and-tell event

    Please join us for an introduction to items from the St Andrews Collections. Specialists in the history of mathematics, science, and culture will showcase an...

  19. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Frances Pine

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Frances Pine

    Borders, classifications, inequalities: ordinary uncertainties at critical moments

    Please join us for this week's departmental seminar, with Dr Frances Pine from Goldsmiths, University of London.

  20. PEPtalk: The evolving landscape of evidence in policy and practice

    PEPtalk: The evolving landscape of evidence in policy and practice

    Navigating the labyrinth

    In the past 30 or so years our understanding of research and evidence use has broadened --- moving from linear views of an evidence use...

  21. 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...

  22. English Research Seminar --- Chris Townsend

    English Research Seminar --- Chris Townsend

    English Research Seminar

  23. 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...

  24. Energy Cafe: Why we should care about care

    Energy Cafe: Why we should care about care

    This cafe will be hosted by Silvia Pergetti. The work it takes to operate and maintain energy systems is essential yet often missing from public and scholarly...

  25. 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...

  26. 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...

  27. 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!

  28. 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...

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

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki

    English Research Seminar

  30. 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...

  31. 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.

  32. 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...

  33. 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....

  34. 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...

  35. 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...

  36. 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...

  37. 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.

  38. 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...

  39. 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...

  40. 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:...

  41. 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...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. 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...

  45. 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...

  46. 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...

  47. 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!

  48. 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...

  49. 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...

  50. 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...