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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. 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...

  10. 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?...

  11. 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?...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...

  21. 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...

  22. Light from the East: Middle Eastern Art Now

    Light from the East: Middle Eastern Art Now

    Join Byre World for a multimedia celebration of Middle Eastern art in honour of Catherine Cobham (former Head of the Arabic and Persian Department). Renowned...

  23. Mariupol Memory Park

    Mariupol Memory Park

    Join us for an afternoon of events dedicated to Mariupol, Ukraine, organised by Victoria Donovan (Professor of Ukrainian and East European Studies) and Dr Anna...

  24. 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...

  25. Light from the East: Middle Eastern Art (Dr Fabio Caiani)

    Light from the East: Middle Eastern Art (Dr Fabio Caiani)

    This event is a multi-media celebration of Middle Eastern art in honour of Catherine Cobham (former Head of the Arabic and Persian Department). Renowned Syrian...

  26. Menstruation Matters: Fighting Stigma in Scotland Today (Bettina Bildhauer)

    Menstruation Matters: Fighting Stigma in Scotland Today (Bettina Bildhauer)

    At least half of the world's population experience menstruation and the menopause at some stage in their lives, and yet we hardly ever speak about it....

  27. Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide

    Staying alive: conversations about literature and suicide

    What makes life feel worth living, especially when it feels impossible to go on? Recent research into suicide prevention suggests that media reports about...

  28. All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre: The Swings

    All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre: The Swings

    Byre Theatre presents the All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre: a five-metre-high giant swing set, two swings, two aerialists and a sound installation where you...

  29. Beyond Prophets and Visionaries: An Evening of Poetry with Luis García Montero

    Beyond Prophets and Visionaries: An Evening of Poetry with Luis García Montero

    Please 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...

  30. East German Cinema and the Holocaust: Konrad Wolf 100

    East German Cinema and the Holocaust: Konrad Wolf 100

    Sterne (Stars), Konrad Wolf, 1959. In German with English subtitles. In Bulgaria in 1943 Wehrmacht sergeant Walter is stationed in a small city and supervises...

  31. The olive and the oak: a meeting of east and west through stories, dance and music

    The olive and the oak: a meeting of east and west through stories, dance and music

    Join Byre World on a moving and joyful journey across the Middle East through stories, poetry, music and dance. Featuring contributions from students and...

  32. Summoning The Spirits: Séances and Creative Practice in Britain, France and Beyond

    Summoning The Spirits: Séances and Creative Practice in Britain, France and Beyond

    In 1848, Maggie and Kate Fox, two teenage sisters from Hydesville, NY, played a prank on their parents which quickly sparked an international phenomenon. The...

  33. QueerTales: women's lives reenacted

    QueerTales: women's lives reenacted

    Inspired by feminist and queer efforts, Queer Tales will showcase stories that interrogate dominant narratives on women and their diversity. In these complex...

  34. Byre World 24/25: The Mothers of the Belgian Empire's Stolen Children

    Byre World 24/25: The Mothers of the Belgian Empire's Stolen Children

    During Belgium's colonisation of what are now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, mixed-'race' children born from relations...

  35. Stories in migration: politics, gender and literature in the UK

    Stories in migration: politics, gender and literature in the UK

    In conversation with Dr Liliana Chřvez-Díaz, University of St Andrews and Dr Dunia Gras, Universitat de Barcelona. What memories will remain of those without...

  36. Energised Ukraine: Art in Precarious Times

    Energised Ukraine: Art in Precarious Times

    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,...

  37. Translating Mothersland: Shahzoda Samarqandi, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and the Politics of Language

    Translating Mothersland: Shahzoda Samarqandi, Shelley Fairweather-Vega, and the Politics of Language

    Shahzoda Samarqandi's novel Mothersland is rooted in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan. Written in Tajik, translated into Russian, and from there into...