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  1. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Christos Lynteris

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Christos Lynteris

    Zoonotic Transformations of a Pandemic Disease

    Between the 1890s and the 1950s, bubonic plague became the first disease in human history to lead to a global pandemic that was scientifically understood as...

  2. The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series --- Patricia Hill Collins

    The Andrew Carnegie Lecture Series --- Patricia Hill Collins

    Reimagining community: intersectionality and participatory democracy

    Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and Charles Phelps Taft Professor...

  3. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nathan Bailey

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nathan Bailey

    Social control

    What determines the physical structure and behaviour of an individual animal? This talk addresses the evolutionary tension between every organism's own...

  4. The Sustainability Challenge
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    The Sustainability Challenge

    A discussion by Professor Sir Ian Boyd and Dr Jesse Ausubel

    The world stands at an important crossroads. From the way we consume energy and food to how we manage waste and resources, the choices we make today will...

  5. St Andrews Prize for the Environment 2024 Final

    St Andrews Prize for the Environment 2024 Final

    Sustainability Week

    Join us during Sustainability Week for the 2024 final of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment. The St Andrews Prize is a major international competition led...

  6. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Physics and Astronomy

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: Physics and Astronomy

    Professor Natalia Korolkova: "Artisan light for quantum technologies" Professor Brendon Lovett: "Conquering the complexity of the quantum...

  7. Inaugural Lecture Showcase: History

    Inaugural Lecture Showcase: History

    The following Professors will deliver their Inaugural Lectures: -- Professor James Palmer: "The Appeal of the Apocalyptic at the Dawn of the Middle...

  8. Professor Dame Anne Glover CBE BSc PhD FRS: Why evidence matters

    Professor Dame Anne Glover CBE BSc PhD FRS: Why evidence matters

    St Leonard's College 50th Anniversary Lecture

    University students and staff, and the general public, are all welcome to attend what will be a compelling lecture by Dame Anne Glover, titled 'Why...

  9. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Ian Johnson

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Ian Johnson

    Reginald Pecock: the greatest of failures?

    In 1457, Reginald Pecock, Bishop of Chichester who was born circa 1390 and died around 1460, in the very act of trying to teach orthodox doctrine to the laity...

  10. Scottish Council on Global Affairs St Andrews

    Scottish Council on Global Affairs St Andrews

    University marks taking over chairship of Scotland's only international affairs think tank

    St Andrews will mark taking over the chairship of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) with a talk by former Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar TD on...