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  1. International Museums Conference & ICOFOM 47th Annual Assembly

    International Museums Conference & ICOFOM 47th Annual Assembly

    Transnational Island Museologies

    The International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM), the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, and the European Research Council (ERC) selected...

  2. Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication

    Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication

    A conversation with Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar

    The turbulent Yiddish world of the first half of the twentieth century produced great works not only of literature, theatre, and music, but of cinema. In their...

  3. Digital Geographies and the City: Methodologies of Hope

    Digital Geographies and the City: Methodologies of Hope

    Public Lecture by Professor Sarah Elwood, 23/24 Senior Global Fellow

    About In many places, digitally-mediated urbanism is ubiquitous, violent and unequal, as techno capitalist development processes and the platformization of...

  4. Classical Reception and pedagogy
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    Classical Reception and pedagogy

    Object-based Teaching - Classical Reception and University Collections

    These morning and afternoon workshops are the first in a planned series on 'Classical Reception and pedagogy' that will focus on the ways the reception of...

  5. Classical Reception and pedagogy

    Classical Reception and pedagogy

    A Scottish perspective on teaching the reception of classical material culture

    This is the first workshop in a planned series on 'Classical Reception and pedagogy' that will focus on the ways that the reception of classical...

  6. Narrative Space and Possible Worlds

    Narrative Space and Possible Worlds

    Encountering Ancient Narratives from a Cognitive Science Perspective

    This conference is the last event of an exciting collaborative research project on Narrative Space and Possible Worlds: Encountering Ancient Narratives from a...

  7. Sands 24: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Sands 24: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Anna Hints' atmospheric, almost mystical, feature-length documentary debut invites us to become part of a supportive, witty, sweaty female collective who...

  8. 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...

  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. Painting in Steam -- new start time of 2pm

    Painting in Steam -- new start time of 2pm

    Climate, Combustion, and Pollution in British Art

    Join the School of Art History and Dr Stephanie O'Rourke for 'Painting in Steam: Climate, Combustion, and Pollution in British Art'. Reception...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Leshu Torchin

    This presentation maps out a research project in the making that investigates disability inclusion schemes within the UK screen industries, and specifically the...

  14. 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...

  15. Art History Research Lecture: Prof Basile Baudez

    Art History Research Lecture: Prof Basile Baudez

    Textiles in the City: Canaletto dresses Piazza San Marco

    This talk focuses on the different ways Canaletto transformed the image of venice's Piazza San Marco by using textiles that operate as architectural...

  16. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar --- Candlemas 2024, week 7

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar --- Candlemas 2024, week 7

    Dr Yusen Yu (St Andrews), 'Medieval Islamic Cosmology and Its Visual Culture'

    This week's seminar is led by our own Dr Yusen Yu, in the School of Art History, on the topic 'Medieval Islamic Cosmology and Its Visual...

  17. 2024 Octavia Elfrida Saunders Memorial Lecture: Professor Lesley Lokko OBE
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    2024 Octavia Elfrida Saunders Memorial Lecture: Professor Lesley Lokko OBE

    Building and being

    For an architect, in too many ways to count, to be is to build and to build is to be. But increasingly, in a more fluid and often fragile world, the nature of...

  18. '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...

  19. 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...

  20. Art History Research Lecture: Prof Susan Laxton

    Art History Research Lecture: Prof Susan Laxton

    'Surrealist Photomontage c. 1931: Politics and Desire'

    Join us for Professor Susan Laxton's Research Seminar on 'Surrealist Photomontage c. 1931: Politics and Desire' at 4pm on the 21 February in...

  21. Art History Research Lecture: Professor Christopher S Wood

    Art History Research Lecture: Professor Christopher S Wood

    'Aby Warburg's Europe'

    Join us for Professor Christopher S Wood Research Seminar on 'Aby Warburg's Europe' and a wine reception afterwards at 79 North Street. In...

  22. 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...

  23. Rethinking Victorian Mediascapes
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    Rethinking Victorian Mediascapes

    School of Art History Workshop

    Presenters at this Art History workshop will be: 9.15am to 9.55am -- Stephanie O'Rourke, John Martin and the Art of Infrastructure, School of Art...

  24. Publishing Orientalism: a transcultural industry?
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    Publishing Orientalism: a transcultural industry?

    An event with Professor Mary Roberts, University of Sydney and Senior Global Scholar

    Spaces are strictly limited, so booking is essential. This event will showcase a selection of nineteenth-century illustrated publications across various media...

  25. 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...

  26. 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...

  27. 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...

  28. St Leonard's Lecture Series

    St Leonard's Lecture Series

    Following the success so far of the St Leonard's Lecture Series 2023-2024, St Leonard's College and the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary...

  29. Under pressure: history painting at the threshold of national cultures

    Under pressure: history painting at the threshold of national cultures

    Art History Research Lecture: Professor Mary Roberts, Senior Global Fellow, University of Sydney

    Polish artist Stanislaw Chlebowski's career was forged in multiple worlds, in multiple studios and across multiple national narratives. Chlebowski created...

  30. 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...

  31. Alberta Whittle: The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers

    Alberta Whittle: The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers

    Alberta Whittle's film commission The Axe Forgets, But The Tree Remembers is a multi-voiced portrayal of members of the Windrush Generation and their...

  32. A job guarantee for Scotland?
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    A job guarantee for Scotland?

    With the rise of AI and casualised work, and the drive to transition away from polluting industries, the ability people have to keep themselves employed has...

  33. 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...

  34. 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...

  35. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Celeste Smith (SEES, UoStA)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Celeste Smith (SEES, UoStA)

    Determining the volcanic sources of the double 1600 CE sulfate peaks in Greenland ice cores

    Determining the volcanic sources of the double 1600 CE sulfate peaks in Greenland ice cores

  36. 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...

  37. The 2023 Neil Smith Lecture: Professor Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto
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    The 2023 Neil Smith Lecture: Professor Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto

    Deadly Lifeworlds and Palliative Politics: Colonial Infrastructure and Beyond

    Logistics has become the preeminent calculative science of the contemporary martial and corporate regime of motion. Frequent disruption of ports, canals, pipes,...

  38. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Ruth Bowyer (KCL and The Alan Turing Institute)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Ruth Bowyer (KCL and The Alan Turing Institute)

    Ageing resilience in a changing environment

    Ageing resilience in a changing environment

  39. Art History Research Lecture: Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda

    Art History Research Lecture: Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda

    Intimate Strangers: Visual Arts and the Emergence of Print-Based Celebrity Culture in 19th-Century Iran

    Join us on the 15th November at 4pm in School 2 of St Salvator's Quad for Dr Mira Xenia Schwerda's Research Lecture. During the Iranian...

  40. 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...

  41. 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...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Caroline Clason (University of Durham)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Caroline Clason (University of Durham)

    Assessing and communicating glacier-fed water security in mountain regions

    Assessing and communicating glacier-fed water security in mountain regions

  45. 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...

  46. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Tessa van der Voort (Nutrient Management Institute)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Tessa van der Voort (Nutrient Management Institute)

    Soil to Sediment: carbon dynamics from a multidisciplinary viewpoint

    Soil to Sediment: carbon dynamics from a multidisciplinary viewpoint

  47. Art History Research Lecture: Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani

    Art History Research Lecture: Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani

    Visualising "The Inner Plantation"

    Join us on the 1st November at 4pm in School 2 of St Salvator's Quad for Dr Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani's Research Lecture. This talk explores literary...

  48. 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...

  49. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Shonil Bhagwat (The Open University)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Shonil Bhagwat (The Open University)

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  50. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Shona Jenkins (University of Edinburgh)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar -- Shona Jenkins (University of Edinburgh)

    The human influence in the Central Congo Basin peatlands

    The human influence in the Central Congo Basin peatlands