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  1. Alumni Weekend 2024

    Alumni Weekend 2024

    Alumni are invited to come together from June 14-16 in St Andrews, for a weekend of meeting up with old friends, reminiscing about University days in the...

  2. 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...

  3. Transition and the Historiographical Vagaries of Silent American Cinema

    Transition and the Historiographical Vagaries of Silent American Cinema

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Prof Charlie Keil

    When first introduced as a concept specific to early cinema in an essay for Cinema Journal in 1991, the notion of "transition" came firmly attached...

  4. 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 also of cinema. In...

  5. Cultural Memory, Identity and Images

    Cultural Memory, Identity and Images

    CIMS PG Symposium

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute is pleased to invite you to its annual postgraduate symposium, entitled 'Memory, Materiality and...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. NY Alumni Club --- Tartan Day Parade Events

    NY Alumni Club --- Tartan Day Parade Events

    Join the St Andrews Alumni Club of New York to walk in the 26th Annual Tartan Day Parade on Saturday 6 April. Alumni, students, parents and friends of St...

  14. 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,...

  15. 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,...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...

  21. 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...

  22. In Conversation --- Iran: Wonders of Nature
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    In Conversation --- Iran: Wonders of Nature

    Interdisciplinary panel discussion followed by Q&A with refreshments. Bringing together experts from disciplines across the University, we're asking...

  23. 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...

  24. 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...

  25. 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...

  26. 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...

  27. 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...

  28. 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...

  29. 3M Planet Final

    3M Planet Final

    Join us in Parliament Hall for the finals of the 3MPlanet competition. Each of our seven finalists has distilled their honours thesis on topics related to...

  30. 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...

  31. 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,...

  32. 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...

  33. '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...

  34. 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...

  35. 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,...

  36. 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...

  37. 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...

  38. Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅
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    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...

  39. 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...

  40. 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...

  41. 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...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. 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...

  45. 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...

  46. 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...

  47. 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...

  48. 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...

  49. 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...

  50. 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...