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  1. Finsterworld

    Finsterworld

    Join Dora Osborne (Department of German) for a screening of Finsterworld (2013), a darkly comic film about Germany. The film will be followed by a Q&A with...

  2. Lost Detectives

    Lost Detectives

    The 'Lost Detectives' project is devoted to the adaptation of forgotten works of nineteenth-century Russian crime fiction. In this 'In...

  3. Byre World: Love Songs Lost

    Byre World: Love Songs Lost

    Join staff from the Department of Spanish and artists from the duo AURIC for a performance based on Spanish classical poetry, translated and adapted to English...

  4. 'Two Cultures' or One?

    'Two Cultures' or One?

    How many National Scientific Advisors on public Covid Strategy were women? What informed the messaging of public understanding of the science of Covid? Why is...

  5. French Film Festival: The Mountain / La Montagne (15)

    French Film Festival: The Mountain / La Montagne (15)

    A mild-mannered French engineer quits his job to live in a tent in the glaciers above Chamonix. Stunning Alpine photography forms the backdrop for a delicate...

  6. Palimpself

    Palimpself

    Palimpself is an exhibition of new visual artworks by the artist and academic Susan Diab that explores the relationship between language, memory, and...

  7. Nomadic Women: Latin America Beyond Borders

    Nomadic Women: Latin America Beyond Borders

    This event unites and brings into dialogue different women to discuss the ways in which their work reflects on their nomadic, diverse and transnational...

  8. On Fragility and Steel: Ukrainian Readings

    On Fragility and Steel: Ukrainian Readings

    Ukrainian PhD students and creative authors at St Andrews University as well as a guest author will read from their new texts, born as a response to the...

  9. The France of Houellebecq and Macron

    The France of Houellebecq and Macron

    What is the state of today's France as presided over by Emmanuel Macron and observed by the ageing enfant terrible of French letters, Michel Houellebecq?...

  10. Byre World: Around Distant Suns

    Byre World: Around Distant Suns

    Join Emily Finer (Department of Russian) in conversation with Emma Puranen, St Leonards interdisciplinary PhD student in Modern Languages, Biology and...

  11. St Leonards School presents Romeo and Juliet

    St Leonards School presents Romeo and Juliet

    But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. St Leonards School is thrilled to present Shakespeare's Romeo...

  12. Byre World: Writing for Ukrainian children in wartime

    Byre World: Writing for Ukrainian children in wartime

    Hosted by Dr Emily Finer, Senior Lecturer from the School of Modern Languages. Ukrainian writers, illustrators and publishers have responded to the war waged by...

  13. Poetry in translation: On Yellow Evenings

    Poetry in translation: On Yellow Evenings

    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...

  14. Death Café

    Death Café

    After a long year of online Death Cafés, it's wonderful that we can be together for them in July and August 2021, thanks to St Andrews Botanic Garden. In a...

  15. The Tannahill Weavers

    The Tannahill Weavers

    "The music may be pure old-time Celtic, but the drive and enthusiasm are akin to straight-ahead rock and roll." --- Winnipeg Free Press Born of...

  16. Byre World: The Holobiont Herbarium

    Byre World: The Holobiont Herbarium

    Hosted by Dr Damiano Benvegnu, from the School of Modern Languages Herbaria are collections of preserved biological specimens documenting the plants, algae, and...

  17. Death Café

    Death Café

    After a long year of online Death Cafés, it's wonderful that we can be together for them in July and August 2021, thanks to St Andrews Botanic Garden. In a...

  18. R. A Visual Essay on Ramón Gómez de la Serna

    R. A Visual Essay on Ramón Gómez de la Serna

    R is a visual essay and performance based on El Orador, a short film that captured one of the Spanish Avant-Garde writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna´s public...

  19. Byre World: Beyond Prophets and Visionaries

    Byre World: Beyond Prophets and Visionaries

    Join us for a bilingual poetry evening in which Luis García Montero, arguably one of Spain's greatest living poets, will read and discuss his work with...

  20. 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...