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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. Tiepido-Cool

    Tiepido-Cool

    Participants will be invited to respond to the work of visual artist, Davide D'Elia, and to work collectively with word and image to produce prose poems...

  3. Research Talk: Female Agency in Cinema

    Research Talk: Female Agency in Cinema

    "From Spaghetti to Aguardiente: Female Agency and Decolonial Representations in Italian and Colombian Western Cinema" by Dr Paula Barreiro...

  4. Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana

    Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana

    14.00 -- Paradiso Canto XXX -- Dr George Corbett (University of St Andrews) 14.30 -- Paradiso Canto XXXI -- Dr Claudia Rossignoli (University of St Andrews)...

  5. Worlding Books

    Worlding Books

    Meike Ziervogel of Peirene Press is the most innovative publisher of literature in translation working in the UK today. Key to Peirene's success has been its...

  6. Webinar: Brexit Means ? for the Arts

    Webinar: Brexit Means ? for the Arts

    Roundtable discussion with: Kally Lloyd-Jones (Co-director, Byre Theatre) Katie Eagleton (Directors of Libraries and Museums) Michael Downes (Director of Music,...

  7. Climate Fiction Session

    Climate Fiction Session

    What is climate fiction? Why does it matter? Come along to our taster climate fiction reading session where we will discuss climate fiction and look at the...

  8. Graphic Novel Café 2

    Graphic Novel Café 2

    In this follow-up session about illustrating graphic novels with author-illustrator Carol Adlam, the Modern Languages Writer-in-Residence will give feedback and...

  9. CISI/Cultural Memory Group Public Lecture

    CISI/Cultural Memory Group Public Lecture

    Professor Francie Cate-Arries, of the College of William and Mary, presents 'Oral Testimonies of Franco's Repression in Spain: Mourning, Memory, Symbolic...

  10. 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...

  11. School Research Seminar Series -- New Directions in World Literature

    School Research Seminar Series -- New Directions in World Literature

    Dr Adam Talib (Durham University) Associate editor Journal of Arabic Literature, editorial board member Journal of World Literature Professor Birgit Tautz...

  12. Lost Detectives

    Lost Detectives

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

  13. The IDOL -- Arabic Film Screening

    The IDOL -- Arabic Film Screening

    A film screening of the film The Idol by Hany Abu-Assad introduced by Viviane Saglier and Kirill Dmitriev. This film screening is being hosted by the...

  14. Introduction to Scriptwriting

    Introduction to Scriptwriting

    A selection of short exercises and live chat session with Modern Languages Writer-in-Residence Carol Adlam. Carol is an award-winning author-illustrator...

  15. Seminar on 'Les tombeaux poétiques' by Delphine Rumeau

    Seminar on 'Les tombeaux poétiques' by Delphine Rumeau

    Delphine Rumeau, visiting scholar from Perpignan, will be giving this seminar on 'Les tombeaux poétiques'. The talk will be in French.

  16. LXVI Anglo-Catalan Society Annual Conference

    LXVI Anglo-Catalan Society Annual Conference

    This is the Anglo-Catalan Society's annual conference. The audience is made up of academics working in the field of Catalan Studies as well as members of...

  17. Uncle Vanya

    Uncle Vanya

    Honours students from the Department of Russian in the School of Modern Languages are staging Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov on Thursday 23 April and Friday 24...

  18. Chinese Spring Music Festival

    Chinese Spring Music Festival

    Chinese students studying in St Andrews in partnership with the Laidlaw Music Centre and the new Department of Chinese Studies will perform and present music...

  19. Graphic Novel café 1

    Graphic Novel café 1

    Ask questions and chat about writing and illustrating graphic novels with Modern Languages Writer-in-Residence and author-illustrator Carol Adlam...

  20. '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...

  21. Gundermann

    Gundermann

    Gundermann tells the story of Gerhard "Gundi" Gundermann, one of East Germany's most significant music artists. A digger driver who writes songs,...

  22. Byre World: In the Margins

    Byre World: In the Margins

    Join Dr Katrin Wehling-Giorgi (Italian, University of Durham) in conversation with Dr Rebecca Walker and Carlotta Moro (Italian, University of St Andrews) about...

  23. Tomatoes as EcoCultural Artefacts

    Tomatoes as EcoCultural Artefacts

    At the intersection of environmental humanities and modern languages, this event explores how student-led research can contribute to the contemporary rethinking...

  24. Byre World: This is Not a War Story

    Byre World: This is Not a War Story

    This is Not a War Story tracks a ragtag group of combat veterans in New York, whose anti-war art, poetry and papermaking keep them together, despite the spectre...

  25. Deconstructing 'The Chinese Dream'

    Deconstructing 'The Chinese Dream'

    Miao Ying is an artist whose practice addresses the politics of the internet in China, and the circulation of online ideologies, values, and aesthetics. Her...

  26. Island thinking

    Island thinking

    Join colleagues from the Schools of Geography and Sustainable Development, Modern Languages, and Art History and guests for this interdisciplinary panel...

  27. Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana

    Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana

    Join the School of Modern Languages to celebrate the conclusion of its long-standing lectura dantis and take part in the global celebrations of this 'anno...

  28. Writing Chinese History with Images

    Writing Chinese History with Images

    Join Gregory Lee (Department of Chinese Studies) as he discusses the use of an image archive in his ongoing research project "A Cultural History of China...

  29. 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...

  30. Ai Weiwei in conversation

    Ai Weiwei in conversation

    Join us as Ai Weiwei, the internationally renowned artist and filmmaker, answers questions about his work. The event is hosted to mark the launch of Chinese...

  31. Shades of Meaning: Translation and Jennie Erdal

    Shades of Meaning: Translation and Jennie Erdal

    The 'Missing Shade of Blue', by the local author, Jennie Erdal, relates the social, linguistic and amorous encounters of a translator on a trip to...

  32. 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...

  33. CIMS Reading Group: Translation and Activism

    CIMS Reading Group: Translation and Activism

    Our next interdisciplinary reading group will focus on translation and activism. We welcome participation from staff, postgraduate students, and Honours...

  34. Quackery Throughout History

    Quackery Throughout History

    Roll up! Rollup! Come witness the astounding benefits of Dr Ted L L Bergman's amazing cure-all! Now that we have your attention... Dr Ted L L Bergman is a...

  35. Conference: 'New Perspectives on Moderata Fonte'

    Conference: 'New Perspectives on Moderata Fonte'

    Day one: Monday 23 September 2024 1.40 to 2pm: Welcome and opening remarks 2pm to 3.30pm: Panel 1. Moderata Fonte: Gender and Genres 3.30pm to 3.45pm: Break...

  36. 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...

  37. Byre World: Writing Noises

    Byre World: Writing Noises

    European artists in the 1920s are seeking the abolition of all barriers: art in all forms should inform life and art should have no other boundaries but life...

  38. 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...

  39. 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?...

  40. Rebecca Walker: The Sense of Fracture

    Rebecca Walker: The Sense of Fracture

    Dr Rebecca Walker (TCD) in conversation with Dr Carlotta Moro (Exeter). Rebecca Walker's recent monograph, 'The Sense of Fracture in Goliarda...

  41. Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅

    Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅

    Edinburgh's Yee's Hung Ga Kung Fu Academy will perform lion and dragon dances in St Mary's Quad to celebrate the beginning of the Lunar New...

  42. Eurodonbas (2022) film screening -- Scotland Premiere

    Eurodonbas (2022) film screening -- Scotland Premiere

    EuroDonbas (2022) is a documentary film that explores the historic links between industrial communities in Europe and the Ukrainian East, and the local...

  43. 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?...

  44. Panel: Roadmaps to EDI and Peacebuilding

    Panel: Roadmaps to EDI and Peacebuilding

    Opening keynote by H.E. Laura Sarabia, Colombian Ambassador to the UK, followed by an insightful conversation on the role of women's leadership in...

  45. Good Till the Close

    Good Till the Close

    A collaboration between the Centre for Energy Ethics and the Centre for Poetic Innovation, Good Till The Close is a 'fortune-telling',...

  46. Postgraduate Symposium: Memory and Identity in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Postgraduate Symposium: Memory and Identity in Latin America and the Caribbean

    An interdisciplinary, one-day symposium for researchers who work on the Americas through the lens of Memory and Identity Studies. Co-sponsored by the Cultural...

  47. CIMS Institute Lecture Series: Professor Mihaela Mihai

    CIMS Institute Lecture Series: Professor Mihaela Mihai

    Professor Mihaela Mihai (Chair of Political Theory, University of Edinburgh) will talk to us about 'Resonant Eco-grief and the Challenge of "Staying...

  48. MAN/ufactured: (Historical) Masculinity in Question

    MAN/ufactured: (Historical) Masculinity in Question

    Recent controversies surrounding what it means to be a man --- whether it is how one dresses, acts, or even feels --- are but the latest incarnation of...

  49. 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...

  50. Tartan Journeys through the African Diaspora

    Tartan Journeys through the African Diaspora

    Tartan might be quintessentially Scottish, but it has travelled around the world and been adapted or absorbed in fascinating ways by various cultures. Tartan is...