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  1. Medieval History Seminar --- Professor Jennifer Jahner (Caltech)

    Medieval History Seminar --- Professor Jennifer Jahner (Caltech)

    Sir John Fortescue and the Making of Legal Science

    Professor Jennifer Jahner (Caltech) Sir John Fortescue and the Making of Legal Science

  2. Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- 2024 Cameron Fellow

    Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- 2024 Cameron Fellow

    Legal Commentaries and Literary Visions: Gender and Law in Early Modern France

    2024 Cameron Fellow Seminar Janine Lanza (Wayne State University) Legal Commentaries and Literary Visions: Gender and Law in Early Modern France

  3. Iran: Wonders of Nature

    Iran: Wonders of Nature

    The exhibition, 'Iran: Wonders of Nature' brings together stunning examples of the country's rich visual tradition, many of them on display in...

  4. Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Norman Vance (Sussex)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Norman Vance (Sussex)

    Individualism and its Discontents: Hobbies to Hayek and Beyond

    All welcome

  5. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Tim Stuart Buttle (York)

    "Behind the curtain: Hobbes and the politics of recognition

  6. Middle East & Iranian History Seminar -- Professor Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University)

    Middle East & Iranian History Seminar -- Professor Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University)

    Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Sogdiana

    Professor Michael Shenkar (Hebrew University) Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Sogdiana

  7. Middle East & Iranian History Seminar --- Dr Gamze Yavuzer Eper

    Middle East & Iranian History Seminar --- Dr Gamze Yavuzer Eper

    Legal Plurality in the Early Modern Ottoman Period: Greek Orthodox Subjects between Islamic and Ecclesiastical Courts

    Dr Gamze Yavuzer Eper Legal Plurality in the Early Modern Ottoman Period: Greek Orthodox Subjects between Islamic and Ecclesiastical Courts

  8. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Vassilios Paipais (St Andrews)

    Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology

  9. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Alan Kahan (University of Versailles/St Quentin)

    Three Pillars and Four Fears: A History of Liberalisms

  10. Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Adrian Blau(King's College, London)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- Adrian Blau(King's College, London)

    "The Origins of Quentin Skinner's "Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas"

    All welcome

  11. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Valerie Wallace (St Andrews)

    Valerie Wallace (St Andrews) The case of William Macao: alienness, subjecthood and legal pluralism during Britain's reign of alarm

  12. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series

    Dafydd Daniel (St Andrews)

    From the Enlightenment to the Scottish Land Commission: The Ethics (and Metaphysics) of Owning Land

  13. Middle East & Iranian History Seminar -- Professor Brian Catlos (Colorado)

    Middle East & Iranian History Seminar -- Professor Brian Catlos (Colorado)

    Modelling Plurality - Muslims, Christians and Jews in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean

    Annual Lecture of the Centre for Anatolian and East Mediterranean Studies Professor Brian Catlos (Colorado) -- Modelling Plurality -- Muslims,...

  14. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Synne Myrebøe (Vienna)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Synne Myrebøe (Vienna)

    The distinctiveness of Scandinavian intellectual history

    All Welcome

  15. The Persian Parthenon

    The Persian Parthenon

    Professor Tom Harrison of the British Museum looks again at the old thesis that the iconography of the Parthenon took inspiration from the art of Persepolis. He...

  16. Institute of Scottish Historical Research Seminar --- Dr Bradford Bow (University of Aberdeen)

    Institute of Scottish Historical Research Seminar --- Dr Bradford Bow (University of Aberdeen)

    Americanising Scottish Enlightenment Racial Theories: Franklin, Jefferson, Rush and Smith on becoming white in the early republic.

    Dr Bradford Bow (University of Aberdeen) Americanising Scottish Enlightenment Racial Theories: Franklin, Jefferson, Rush and Smith on becoming white in the...

  17. Medieval History Seminar --- Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield)
    Cancelled

    Medieval History Seminar --- Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield)

    Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople

    Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield) Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople

  18. Medieval History Seminar -- Professor Nora Berend (University of Cambridge)

    Medieval History Seminar -- Professor Nora Berend (University of Cambridge)

    The wondrous life of a medieval crown: The Holy Crown of Hungary

    Professor Nora Berend (University of Cambridge) The wondrous life of a medieval crown: The Holy Crown of Hungary

  19. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Christopher de Bellaigue

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Christopher de Bellaigue

    Suleyman the Magnificent and the 16th century race for empire

    All Welcome

  20. Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Benjamin Jackson (University of Manchester)

    Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Benjamin Jackson (University of Manchester)

    Clerical Domesticities in Eighteenth-Century England

    Dr Benjamin Jackson (John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester) Clerical Domesticities in Eighteenth-Century England

  21. JOINT Medieval History and The Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research Seminar

    JOINT Medieval History and The Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research Seminar

    Jesus' Confirmation of the Torah in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

    Professor Holger Zellentin (Tübingen) Jesus' Confirmation of the Torah in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

  22. Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- John Marshall (John Hopkins)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar -- John Marshall (John Hopkins)

    Art, Artists, Aesthetics, Antiracism, Antislavery and AfroBritish Arguments 1787-1792: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

    Art, Artists, Aesthetics, Antiracism, Antislavery and AfroBritish Arguments 1787-1792: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano's Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of...

  23. The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History

    The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History

    Professor Bela Kapossy (Lausanne)

    The Winch lecture series this year will be given by Professor Bela Kapossy and will be held over three nights, 10th, 11th and 12th October. The title of the...

  24. Ali Ansari's Iran (Polity Histories) --- Book Signing
    Limited access

    Ali Ansari's Iran (Polity Histories) --- Book Signing

    Ali Ansari is a Professor in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. In Iran (Polity Histories) Ali takes readers on a journey through...

  25. Biblical Studies research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 12

    Biblical Studies research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 12

    Prof. Caroline Humfress (St Andrews), "Comparative History of Ancient Law"

    This seminar features St Andrews own Prof. Caroline Humfress (History), who will be presenting a paper entitled, "Comparative History of Ancient...

  26. Medieval History Seminar -- Professor Carlos Noreña (Berkeley) -- POSTPONED to 2024
    Cancelled

    Medieval History Seminar -- Professor Carlos Noreña (Berkeley) -- POSTPONED to 2024

    The Urban Systems of the Iberian Peninsula, 150-650 CE

    THIS SEMINAR HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED Professor Carlos Noreña (Berkeley) The Urban Systems of the Iberian Peninsula, 150-650 CE

  27. Medieval History Seminar -- Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield)
    Cancelled

    Medieval History Seminar -- Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield)

    Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople

    Dr Mirela Ivanova (University of Sheffield) Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople

  28. The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History -- Symposium

    The Donald Winch Lectures in Intellectual History -- Symposium

    Professor Bela Kapossy (Lausanne)

    A symposium on The Republican Restoration at which Professor Bela Kapossy will take questions and receive comments from Professor Michael Sonenscher...

  29. Institute of Scottish Historical Research Seminar --- Professor Annie Tindley (Newcastle University)

    Institute of Scottish Historical Research Seminar --- Professor Annie Tindley (Newcastle University)

    A nobility of trees: the dukes of Buccleuch and forestry in the nineteenth century

    Professor Annie Tindley (Newcastle University) A nobility of trees: the dukes of Buccleuch and forestry in the nineteenth century

  30. Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Laura Kounine (University of Sussex)
    Cancelled

    Early Modern and Reformation Seminar --- Dr Laura Kounine (University of Sussex)

    "Not a drop of tears, or any sweat from fear came from her": Interrogating mind, body, and emotions in early modern German witch-trials

    Dr Laura Kounine (University of Sussex) "Not a drop of tears, or any sweat from fear came from her": Interrogating mind, body, and emotions in early...

  31. Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Ariane Fichtl (Helsinki and St Andrews)

    Institute of Intellectual History seminar series -- Ariane Fichtl (Helsinki and St Andrews)

    Overcoming the biopolitical dynamic of enslavement to achieve Immediate Emancipation

    All Welcome

  32. JOINT Institute of Scottish Historical Research and Medieval History Seminar

    JOINT Institute of Scottish Historical Research and Medieval History Seminar

    Chronicling the Mistress in late Medieval Scotland and England

    Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri (University of Edinburgh) Chronicling the Mistress in late Medieval Scotland and England

  33. Institute of Scottish Historical Research --- Postgraduate Research Seminar

    Institute of Scottish Historical Research --- Postgraduate Research Seminar

    Frances Bickerstaff -- Timber, sheep and salmon: the monastic economy of south-west Scotland c. 1160-1230; Michael Fraser -- Scots and Huguenots in...

  34. Unearthing the Past: Insights from the 2023 Vindolanda Excavation Season

    Unearthing the Past: Insights from the 2023 Vindolanda Excavation Season

    Penny Trichler of the Vindolanda Trust takes a look back at the 2023 season of digging at Roman Vindolanda Fort on Hadrian's Wall. She explores the...

  35. Annual Lecture in Black History

    Annual Lecture in Black History

    Understanding the past: Diversity in England, Scotland and the 'British Isles'

    Investigations into diversity in the 'British Isles' are sometimes dismissed as 'political correctness' gone mad, or...

  36. Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

    Annual Lecture in the History of Women, Gender and Sexuality

    Inexplicable men of genius and what to do about them: a study in predicaments and alarms in the historiography of early Christian women

    Blossom Stefaniw is Professor of Intellectual History at MF University College in Oslo where she teaches in the Religious Studies department. Her research...

  37. History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

    History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

    Our knowledge of the period of European history conventionally called the Middle Ages rests, in a large part, on the writings that survive from that time, all...

  38. The Excavation of a Neolithic salt "factory" at Street House, Loftus, North Yorkshire

    The Excavation of a Neolithic salt "factory" at Street House, Loftus, North Yorkshire

    Independant archaeologist, Steven Sherlock, presents new evidence for Early Neolithic (3800--3700 BC) salt-working at Street House, Loftus, in north-east...

  39. Loaves and fishes in St Andrews: excavations at 100 North Street

    Loaves and fishes in St Andrews: excavations at 100 North Street

    Julie Franklin Finds, Archiving and Post-Excavation Project Manager at Headland Archaeology Scotland presents new findings from recent excavations at 100 North...

  40. Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Screening Politics---Film Festivals, Archives and Cinematic Exhibition in the Cold War

    Workshop organised by the German Screen Studies Network (GSSN)

    This GSSN workshop focuses on the "politics" of film exhibition in the Cold War, i.e., the influence of institutional actors from politics, culture...

  41. Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts research seminar -- Martinmas 2023, week 8

    Dr Sarah Leith (St Andrews), 'Rocks and Realities: Mountain Literature in Modern Scotland'

    Seminar led by St Andrews' own Dr Sarah Leith. ITIA research seminars meet each Friday during the academic year in St Mary's College Hall as a space...

  42. Lightning talks: Global, Spatial and Transnational History at St Andrews
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    Lightning talks: Global, Spatial and Transnational History at St Andrews

    This fun and fast-paced event will profile some of the current research in global, spatial and transnational history taking place across St Andrews. Speakers,...

  43. Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Dr Nadine Chan

    Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Dr Nadine Chan

    Film Studies Speaker Series

    Dr Nadine Chan (University of Toronto) will present her research in a talk entitled: 'Colonial Cinema in the Open Air: Ambient Governmentality and...

  44. Green treasures from the magic mountains . . .  and other stories from the Scottish Neolithic

    Green treasures from the magic mountains . . . and other stories from the Scottish Neolithic

    Archaeology Society 2023 Mitford Lecture

    Dr Alison Sheridan, Emerita Principal Curator of Early Prehistory at National Museums Scotland is our 2023 Mitord lecturer. She will tell us the fascinating...

  45. James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government by Bridget McCormack

    James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government by Bridget McCormack

    We are delighted to invite you to the Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research (ILCR) Annual James Wilson Lecture in Law and Government featuring Bridget...

  46. Early Neolithic timber halls in Scotland: Dr Brian Hope-Taylor, Yeavering, Doon Hill, Balbridie and 50 years of confusion or worse

    Early Neolithic timber halls in Scotland: Dr Brian Hope-Taylor, Yeavering, Doon Hill, Balbridie and 50 years of confusion or worse

    Professor Ian Ralston, Abercromby Professor of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

    In July 1959, while Brian Hope-Taylor, Ministry of Works digger and soon-to-be Assistant Lecturer in Archaeology at Cambridge, was still excavating the great...