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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. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. The Persian Parthenon

    The Persian Parthenon

    Professor Tom Harrison of the British Museum looks again at the old thesis that the iconography of the Parthenon took inspiration from the art of Persepolis. He...

  5. Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS
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    Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS

    Come along to meet people and share your experiences of moving to St Andrews

    The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is pleased to host a catered lunch for all staff and postgraduate students from or based in the Global South....

  6. Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS
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    Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS

    Come along to meet people and share your experiences of moving to St Andrews

    The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is pleased to host a catered lunch for all staff and postgraduate students from or based in the Global South....

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. Ali Ansari's Iran (Polity Histories) --- Book Signing
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    Ali Ansari's Iran (Polity Histories) --- Book Signing

    Ali Ansari is a Professor in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. In Iran (Polity Histories) Ali takes readers on a journey through...

  10. Institute of Scottish Historical Research --- Postgraduate Research Seminar

    Institute of Scottish Historical Research --- Postgraduate Research Seminar

    Frances Bickerstaff -- Timber, sheep and salmon: the monastic economy of south-west Scotland c. 1160-1230; Michael Fraser -- Scots and Huguenots in...

  11. 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...

  12. The Importance of Judicial Craft in Constitutional Adjudication

    The Importance of Judicial Craft in Constitutional Adjudication

    We are delighted to invite you to the ILCR Lecture by Kate O'Regan (Oxford), which will take place on Thursday, 25 April, from 5.15pm in the Old Seminar...

  13. 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...

  14. Law's Two Bodies Interview with Sir John Saunders

    Law's Two Bodies Interview with Sir John Saunders

    We are delighted to invite to the upcoming 'Law's Two Bodies' event featuring Sir John Saunders, which will take place on Friday, 19 April, at...

  15. CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): "But wait that's not real. Co-creating interventions to help young people spot online misinformation", hosted by...

  16. 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...

  17. Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    On how captive socio-ecology influences captive chimpanzees' competitiveness and other curiosities Over the last decades, captive researchers have...

  18. 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...

  19. History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

    History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

    Our knowledge of the period of European history conventionally called the Middle Ages rests, in a large part, on the writings that survive from that time, all...

  20. 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...

  21. Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"

    Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Abstract: Recent class of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms driving artificial intelligence (AI) are primarily based on deep learning. These classes of methods...

  22. Middle East & Iranian History Seminar -- Professor Brian Catlos (Colorado)

    Middle East & Iranian History Seminar -- Professor Brian Catlos (Colorado)

    Modelling Plurality - Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean

    Annual Lecture of the Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies Professor Brian Catlos (Colorado) -- Modelling Plurality -- Muslims,...

  23. Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Benjamin Jackson (University of Manchester)
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    Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Benjamin Jackson (University of Manchester)

    Clerical Domesticities in Eighteenth-Century England

    Dr Benjamin Jackson (John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester) Clerical Domesticities in Eighteenth-Century England

  24. 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

  25. 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...

  26. 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...

  27. 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...

  28. 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...

  29. School of Psychology and Neuroscience -- Friday Seminar

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience -- Friday Seminar

    On Friday 22nd, at 12noon we'll have Shiwen Li (Oxford) present on "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence --...

  30. Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence

    Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Shiwen Li (Oxford): "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence -- what humans and bumblebees have taught us", hosted...

  31. Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Laura Kounine (University of Sussex)
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    Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Laura Kounine (University of Sussex)

    "Not a drop of tears, or any sweat from fear came from her": Interrogating mind, body, and emotions in early modern German witch-trials

    Dr Laura Kounine (University of Sussex) "Not a drop of tears, or any sweat from fear came from her": Interrogating mind, body, and emotions in early...

  32. 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...

  33. Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Adrian Blau(King's College, London)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Adrian Blau(King's College, London)

    "The Origins of Quentin Skinner's "Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas"

    All welcome

  34. Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- John Marshall (John Hopkins)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- John Marshall (John Hopkins)

    Art, Artists, Aesthetics, Antiracism, Antislavery and AfroBritish Arguments 1787-1792: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

    Art, Artists, Aesthetics, Antiracism, Antislavery and AfroBritish Arguments 1787-1792: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of...

  35. Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees

    Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): "Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees", hosted by Prof Andy Whiten.

  36. Unearthing the Past: Insights from the 2023 Vindolanda Excavation Season

    Unearthing the Past: Insights from the 2023 Vindolanda Excavation Season

    Penny Trichler of the Vindolanda Trust takes a look back at the 2023 season of digging at Roman Vindolanda Fort on Hadrian's Wall. She explores the...

  37. Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Norman Vance (Sussex)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Norman Vance (Sussex)

    Individualism and its Discontents: Hobbies to Hayek and Beyond

    All welcome

  38. 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...

  39. 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...

  40. Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

    Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

    Inexplicable men of genius and what to do about them: a study in predicaments and alarms in the historiography of early Christian women

    Blossom Stefaniw is Professor of Intellectual History at MF University College in Oslo where she teaches in the Religious Studies department. Her research...

  41. 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...

  42. 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...

  43. 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...

  44. '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...

  45. 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...

  46. James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government by Bridget McCormack

    James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government by Bridget McCormack

    We are delighted to invite you to the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research (ILCR) Annual James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government featuring Bridget...

  47. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Synne Myrebøe (Vienna)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Synne Myrebøe (Vienna)

    The distinctiveness of Scandinavian intellectual history

    All Welcome

  48. 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...

  49. The Excavation of a Neolithic salt "factory" at Street House, Loftus, North Yorkshire

    The Excavation of a Neolithic salt "factory" at Street House, Loftus, North Yorkshire

    Independant archaeologist, Steven Sherlock, presents new evidence for Early Neolithic (3800--3700 BC) salt-working at Street House, Loftus, in north-east...

  50. 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...