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Acting on Climate Change
Policy, Rights and Net Zero
Balancing rising energy demands with the need to curb and adapt to anthropogenic climate change in a just and equitable way is at the heart of an existential...
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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 also of cinema. In...
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Cultural Memory, Identity and Images
CIMS PG Symposium
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute is pleased to invite you to its annual postgraduate symposium, entitled 'Memory, Materiality and...
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3M Planet Final
Join us in Parliament Hall for the finals of the 3MPlanet competition. Each of our seven finalists has distilled their honours thesis on topics related to...
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Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- The Energy of Water
Join the Centre for Energy Ethics for the next seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. This session will be dedicated to the story of the...
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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...
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Ukraine Energy in the Spotlight Revisited: Nuclear Worlds
Join us online or in-person on October, 26, 5 pm (UK time) for an exciting discussion on the latest updates on Ukrainian nuclear energy. We will focus on the...
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Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight -- Electric Networks
Electricity, like air, is something we notice when it disappears. In 2022 Ukrainians faced an acute energy deficiency, in everyday life, at work, and public...
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Poetry in translation: On Yellow Evenings
Byre World event: free but please book
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...
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An evening with Austrian author Eva Reisinger
Eva Reisinger will read from her books "Was geht Österreich" and "Männer töten", for which she was nominated for the Austrian Debut...
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Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited -- What to do with Depletion and Energy Dependency?
Join the us online and in-person for our final seminar of Ukraine: Energy in the Spotlight Revisited. During our final session we will look at the future of the...
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Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅
A performance of lion and dragon dancers to usher in the lunar New Year
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...
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Reading and Writing Hong Kong in Scotland: Poetry Reading
Poets from Scotland and England who identify with the Hong Kong Chinese British diaspora read their poems. The poets Tim Tim Cheng, Anna Cheung, Sean Wai Keung,...
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Energy Cafe: Why we should care about care
This cafe will be hosted by Silvia Pergetti. The work it takes to operate and maintain energy systems is essential yet often missing from public and scholarly...
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Saints Talk: Professor Julia Prest
Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre - Then and Now
Development are delighted to invite you to the next instalment in our Saints Talk series from Professor Julia Prest, 'Colonial-Era Caribbean Theatre...
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Public Conversation on the Black Archive in Italian Studies
Join the Department of Italian for a public conversation with Professor Shelleen Greene, associate professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the UCLA School of...
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Energy Cafe: Radical action from above
The World Commission on Dams and the making of global guidelines for the planning and construction of large dams
Hosted by Christopher Schulz Large dams are back on the global development agenda. Researchers have counted thousands of dam projects that are currently planned...
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No More Fossils -- New Book Discussion with Dominic Boyer
Join us for a new book discussion with author Professor Dominic Boyer, on 12 February at 3pm (UK time) online. In No More Fossils, Dominic Boyer tells the story...
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Energised Ukraine: Art in Precarious Times
Byre World event: free but please book
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,...
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Read my mind: facial recognition technologies and contemporary Chinese art
Margaret Hillebrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College, will lecture on her current...
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Dragon and Lion Dance 舞龍舞獅
A performance of lion and dragon dancers to usher in the lunar New Year
Edinburgh's Yee's Hung Ga Kung Fu Academy will perform lion and dragon dances in St Salvator's Quad to celebrate the beginning of the Lunar...
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Book Launch: 'Engineering Reality' by Dr Cornelia Helmcke
Join Centre for Energy Ethics postdoctoral researcher Dr Cornelia Helmcke for an informal event to celebrate the release of her book Engineering Reality: The...
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Reading and Writing Hong Kong in Scotland: The New Diaspora
Over the past ten years a growing number of writers and artists from Hong Kong have established themselves in Scotland and elsewhere in the global Hong Kong...
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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...
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Light from the East: Middle Eastern Art (Dr Fabio Caiani)
Free, but please book your tickets on the Byre Theatre website
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...
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The Grapes of Desire: Fascist Agricultural Projects in Libya
CIMS Seminar in the Environmental Humanities by Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College)
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Insititute (CIMS) invites everyone to join this seminar by Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College) on 'The...
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PEPtalk: Relational approaches to navigating policy impact
The Centre for Energy Ethics is pleased to announce its Policy Engagement Practice seminar series --- PEPtalks. Please join us and our invited speakers as...
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Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique
'Engineering Reality' with Cornelia Helmcke
During this book launch event, author Cornelia Helmcke will meet critics Bibiana Duarte-Abadía (Wageningen University) and Christopher Schulz (University of St...
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Green and sustainable chemistry bootcamp with John Warner
Cefic, the European Chemistry Industry Council, and the University of St Andrews will collaborate to organise another edition of the 'Green and...
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CIMS PG Training Session in the Environmental Humanities
Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College)
All postgraduate research and postgraduate taught students are invited to attend the CIMS PG Training Session in Environmental Humanities with Professor Michele...
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Workshop -- Decolonize Narrative: Words and Images to Break Stereotypes
a multimedia workshop for students by Sara Manisera and Arianna Pagani
Decolonize Narrative: Words and Images to Break Stereotypes. This multimedia journalism lab will immerse participants in the dynamic intersection of words and...
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Menstruation Matters: Fighting Stigma in Scotland Today (Bettina Bildhauer)
Free, but please book your tickets on the Byre Theatre website
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....
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Imagining Re-Industrialisation: Battery Gigafactories and the energy transition in Norway
Hosted by Anna-Sophie Hobi. Lithium-ion batteries are pivotal in the efforts to 'decarbonise' the European economy. Consequently, a battery...
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CIMS -- Metamodern Memory: On Blade Runner, Then and Now
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) invites you to the talk 'Metamodern Memory: On Blade Runner, Then and Now' by Global...
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PEP talk: Turning Research into Impact: Responding to Calls for Evidence
Ever wondered what role research and evidence plays in policymaking? Have you considered how your research can help inform policy? Do you know how to engage...
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Prosthetic Performances: Technologies of the Black Mutative Body
CIMS seminar with Global Fellow Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA)
The Cultural Identity and Memory Institute (CIMS) welcomes everyone to join the research seminar by Global Fellow Professor Shelleen Greene (UCLA) on...
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Energy Café: Cost-benefit analyses, short-termism and social discount rate
The Social Discount Rate (SDR) determines the present value of future societal costs and benefits. A declining SDR suggests society values future benefits more...
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PEPtalk: The evolving landscape of evidence in policy and practice
Navigating the labyrinth
In the past 30 or so years our understanding of research and evidence use has broadened --- moving from linear views of an evidence use...
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Medium Format: Soil Photography, Ecological Mosaics, Dispossession
Dr William Schaefer - Associate Professor in Chinese Studies and Visual Culture, Durham University.
Wang Youshen's installation Mei pingmi (Per square meter) (2014) reconfigures urban ecosystems: Wang juxtaposes fragments of drywall from his repeatedly...
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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...
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Energy Café: Legitimising the ISDS Regime through Energy Justice
This seminar examines the role of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) regime in the global energy sector and its connection to energy justice. The ISDS...
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Ecuadorian cinema for the 21st century: Dr Fernanda Miño
Book launch and screening of Ratas, Ratones, Rateros (Sebastian Cordero, 1999)
Associate Lecturer in Film Studies, Dr Fernanda Miño, will be introducing her upcoming book Ecuadorian Cinema for the 21st Century. The first major English...
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Energy Café: Large scale renewable energy investments in energy insecure regions.
Why communities choose to resist
During this Energy Café, the centre's postdoctoral researcher Cornelia Helmcke will tie in her previous work on energy data justice in Colombia with her...
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PEPtalk: Tearing down policy barriers on the path to greening the grid
Converting proposals to new clean power
The Centre for Energy Ethics is pleased to announce the return of its Policy Engagement Practice seminar series --- PEPtalks. Please join us and our invited...
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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...
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Energy Café: Governing 'Wild' Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change
Our twice monthly Energy Café series will begin on Tuesday January 23rd with a presentation from Sean Field In this Café, Sean will discuss how natural gas...
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Attending to the local in a global emergency: translation as a lens on climate crisis
CIMS Seminar in the Environmental Humanities by Professor Şebnem Susam-Saraeva (The University of Edinburgh)
As one of the most global conversations in history, climate crisis discourse is intrinsically dependent on and intertwined with 'translation': from...
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Energy Cafe: Can the largest African country meet its energy security goal by 2030
Hosted by Zuhumnan Dapel. According to recent estimates on combating global energy poverty, more than half a billion people will still lack access to...
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Smog (1962): the critical geographies of Italian migration
Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Shelleen Greene
In 1962, Smog, an Italian-American co-production directed by Franco Rossi, debuted at the Venice Film Festival. The film was the opening screening of the 23rd...
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Sketching Stories of Climate Anxiety
As part of the Fife Climate Festival, this family-friendly (age 12+) workshop will explore climate justice and climate anxiety through different examples of...
