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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. 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. 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...

  4. Sands 24: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Sands 24: Smoke Sauna Sisterhood

    Pay what you can: £10, £8, £6

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

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. English Research Seminar -- Dr Caroline Edwards

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Caroline Edwards

    English Research Seminar

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. English Research Seminar -- Tita Chico

    English Research Seminar -- Tita Chico

    English Research Seminar.

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. In Conversation --- Iran: Wonders of Nature
    Limited access

    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...

  16. English Research Seminar --- Chris Townsend

    English Research Seminar --- Chris Townsend

    English Research Seminar

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...

  21. 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...

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

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki

    English Research Seminar

  23. 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...

  24. 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...

  25. 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....

  26. '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...

  27. 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...

  28. 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...

  29. 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...

  30. 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...

  31. 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...

  32. 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...

  33. 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...

  34. 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...

  35. 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...

  36. English Research Seminar -- Dr Edward Allen

    English Research Seminar -- Dr Edward Allen

    Catch as Catch Can: Towards an Understanding of Literary-Sonic Pests

    Dr Allen is Associate Professor in modern British and Irish Literature, and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. His primary focus is sound and media...

  37. Light lunch with medical alumni

    Light lunch with medical alumni

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    Join us for a light lunch gathering at The Health Academy at the Royal Preston Hospital, Preston. We're looking forward to catching up with School of...

  38. Nibbles and drinks with alumni and friends

    Nibbles and drinks with alumni and friends

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    It's been a while since we've had an alumni get together in Manchester so we'd like to extend an invitation to all our alumni in the area to...

  39. Perspectives on 'Recolouring the Queer'

    Perspectives on 'Recolouring the Queer'

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    Join the Kaleidoscope Alumni Network at the House of Books and Friends for this event that celebrates our individual and collective efforts to engage in...

  40. Chai Night with STAMSA

    Chai Night with STAMSA

    Kaleidoscope Alumni Network

    Come along to meet fellow St Andrews Muslim Students Association and Islamic Society alumni and friends for an informal and friendly chai with light bites....

  41. St Andrews Alumni Carol Service 2023

    St Andrews Alumni Carol Service 2023

    We look forward to welcoming you to this year's Alumni Carol Service led by the University Assistant University Chaplain, Revd Samantha Ferguson. We are...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. 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...

  45. 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...

  46. 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...

  47. 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"

  48. 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...

  49. 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...

  50. 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...