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Trees and the anthropocene in Greek and Roman antiquity
Workshop followed by the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED SHORTLY
Morning Session 9.15 -- 9.30 Introduction 9.30 -- 10.15 Emma Bentley: Dionysus Dendritês: Wood and Carpentry in Greek Tragedy 10.15 -- 11.00...
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Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard): 'The neurobiology of zombie flies'
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Our first Friday Seminar of the semester will be by Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard) on 'The neurobiology of zombie flies: mechanisms of parasite...
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The Sentient Sponge: between natural history, art history and philosophy
Verity Platt (Cornell)
This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...
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The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 1)
The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy this year focuses on 'The Ideal Citizen'. Graduate students from the UK, the US, Canada,...
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The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy (Day 2)
The St Andrews Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy this year focuses on 'The Ideal Citizen'. Graduate students from the UK, the US, Canada,...
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The Discourse on the Ancestral Constitution in the Early Hellenistic Period
Laura Loddo (Milan)
This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...
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Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu
Talk by Akira O'Connor
Akira O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, will give a talk on his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research on jamais vu....
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Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech
Prof Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow)
Weekly Friday Seminar hosted by the School of Psychology and Neuroscience. Professor Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow) will be hosted by Prof James Ainge...
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A Case Study of the Archaeology of Ancient Medicine: The Asklepieion of Paros Re-Study Project
Tomas Alusik (Charles University Prague)
This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...
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New approaches to the study of imperial historiography
Workshop organised by Christian Djurslev
Programme 1.00-1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10-2.10: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style' in...
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New approaches to the study of imperial historiography
Programme 1pm to 1.10pm: Introduction by Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus) 1.10pm to 2.10pm: Nicolas Wiater (St Andrews) 'Rethinking 'Style'...
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How the Christians stole the past:
Greek chronology and Roman history in Theophilus of Antioch's Ad Autolycum - Christian Thrue Djurslev (Aarhus)
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of Colonies and Queens: myths of Carthage in a contact zone
Jo Quinn (Oxford)
This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected]. If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...
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Explorathon 2023 presents Bright Club
The thinking person's comedy night
A brand new thinking person's comedy night, where Dr Bobbie May becomes a stand-up comedian. Topics of every flavour are set to stimulate our funny bones...
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Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Katerina Mentzou (University of Dundee) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on "Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their...
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Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)
Charles-St Andrews strategic partnership
This hybrid event can be accessed online, and is part of a "University of St Andrews day" at Charles University. It is intended for University...
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Uninvited guests, unexpected passengers: Insects and past environments in the Eastern Mediterranean
Eva Panagiotakopulu (Edinburgh)
This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...
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Editing slaves: Unfree labour and textual revision in Rome (Trigger Warning below)
Talitha Keary
Note: Note: the lecture will involve discussion of slavery, rape and torture. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...
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Language is iconic to the core: Dr Markus Perlman (Birmingham)
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Dr Markus Perlman (University of Birmingham) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on 'Language is iconic to the core'. The event will be...
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Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'
Preceded by a PhD talk from Alexandra Safryghin (St Andrews): 'Commonalities and group differences in the communicative efficiency of chimpanzee gesturing'
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Alexandra Safryghin will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "Commonalities...
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Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman Empire.
A Social and Cultural History (Trigger Warning below) Christian Laes (Manchester)
Note: the lecture will contain some images (ancient artifacts) of what was considered as bodily deformity and references to Nazi-propaganda that referred to...
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The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on: 'The social origins of language and...
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Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania): 'The Social Origins of Language and Thought'
Preceded by a PhD talk from Gal Badihi (St Andrews): 'The Influence of Social Dynamics on The Gestural Communication of East African Chimpanzees'
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Gal Badihi will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "The Influence of Social...
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Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics
A speaker and networking event on biophotonics.
This event is open to all women & non-binary students in STEM subjects at Scottish Universities and Colleges. Equate is delighted to be partnering with...
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Untranslatability
Martin Revermann (Toronto)
This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...
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Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
In recent decades, dogs have become one of the most popular animal species in comparative psychology. One reason for this is the unique evolutionary history of...
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Dr Andrew Macaskill (UCL): Internal state-dependent control of feeding behaviour via the hippocampus
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Internal state dependent control of feeding behaviour via hippocampal ghrelin signalling. Hunger is an internal state that not only invigorates feeding, but...
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Women in Science at St Andrews: panel discussion on progress and future directions
Panel discussion with four Principal's office members to celebrate, inspire and promote Women in Science
Five years ago, University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, said: "In St Andrews, as in other UK higher education...
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The Persian empire and 'India', 522 -- 486 BCE
Rhyne King - St Andrews
This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...
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The Ladies at the bank: women and money at the end of the Second Punic War
Kristina Milnor - Columbia
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Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Giacomo Savani (Visiting Scholar)
For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.
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Rhetoric in Plato's Academy?: the lost Περὶ τέχνης of Xenocrates of Chalcedon
Phillip Horky - Durham University
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How Did Ancient Rome Shape India's Decolonization? -- Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews)
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Cancelled
St Andrews Centre for Receptions of Antiquity Annual Lecture -- Alena Sarkissian (Prague)
Launching the Cold War on Stage 1945--1956
This is a School of Classics Online Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to...
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Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Panayiotis Christoforou (Oxford)
For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.
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Centre for the Public Understanding of Greek and Roman Drama --- Lyndsay Coo (Bristol)
The sisterhood of the Danaids
TRIGGER WARNING Will include mention of suicide, rape and sexual violence. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join...
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School of Classics Seminar -- Jason König (St Andrews)
Imagining the earth in ancient Greek and Roman literature: human-environment relations in Lucian's True Stories
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School of Classics Seminar -- Janja Soldo (Edinburgh)
Female addressees and letter writers in Latin letters and letter collections: first thoughts on a neglected corpus of women's writing
-As agreed please add the following link to the bottom of the Event Description: For further information please contact [email protected] Also please...
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'Aristotle's psychology and its reception' --- Sean Kelsey (Notre Dame) and Peter Adamson (LMU)
Neither Arche Nor CEPPA (NANC) Event
All are welcome.
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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...
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Prof Alistair Lawrence (SRUC): The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Prof Alistair Lawrence, (Scotland's Rural College), will present on "The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare", hosted...
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Violence and Social Bonds in Late Antique Egypt: Women as Victims, Perpetrators, and Adjudicators
Anna Kelley - St Andrews
TRIGGER WARNING Will include discussions of both domestic and sexual violence, abduction marriage and rape. This is a School of Classics Event. For further...
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Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture -- Speaker: Professor Ursula Coope (Oxford)
'Contingency and the Present'
For further information please contact [email protected]
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Prof Manuel Spitschan (MPI): What does the eye tell the clock?
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Prof Manuel Spitschan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen): "What does the eye tell the clock? Mechanisms underlying the impact of...
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People and animals in Roman Britain --- Umberto Albarella (Sheffield)
School of Classics Seminar
TRIGGER WARNING Will include discussion of animal slaughter and butchery. This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact...
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Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): "Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees", hosted by Prof Andy Whiten.
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Centre for Late Antique Studies Seminar --- Larisa Ficulle (St Andrews)
Leaves of rue, Bayberries and Myrrh: Theory and Practice of Abortion in Byzantium
TRIGGER WARNING For further information and to register to join the seminar please follow the link.
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School of Psychology and Neuroscience -- Friday Seminar
On Friday 22nd, at 12noon we'll have Shiwen Li (Oxford) present on "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence --...
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Centre for the Literatures of the Roman Empire Annual Lecture
Strange Stew: the Emperor Vitellius and his "Shield of Minerva" - Rhiannon Ash (Oxford)
This is a School of Classics Event. For further information please contact [email protected] If you wish to join this event on Teams, sign up to our...
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Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence
School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar
Shiwen Li (Oxford): "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence -- what humans and bumblebees have taught us", hosted...