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  1. Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research

    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...

  2. Can Central Asian States Keep Their Balancing Act?

    Can Central Asian States Keep Their Balancing Act?

    Talk by Prof Nargis Kassenova (Harvard University)

    Prof Kassenova will talk about the changing geopolitical environment, sets of security, political and economic challenges facing Central Asian states, their...

  3. JJ Valletta Memorial Lecture 2023

    JJ Valletta Memorial Lecture 2023

    From machine learning to migration: Quantitative approaches for understanding animal groups on the move. Lecture by Professor Colin Torney, U. Glasgow.

    Professor Colin Torney, University of Glasgow, will deliver the 2nd annual JJ Valletta Memorial Lecture on "From machine learning to migration:...

  4. Colonial Relationality and an Islamic Metaphysics of (Anti-Colonial) Detachment

    Colonial Relationality and an Islamic Metaphysics of (Anti-Colonial) Detachment

    Wednesday research seminars series

    For this Week 7 event, Dr Jasmine Gani will present 'Colonial Relationality and an Islamic Metaphysics of (Anti-Colonial) Detachment'....

  5. Hong Kong, Activism and International Advocacy: Journey of a Political Activist in Quest for Freedom

    Hong Kong, Activism and International Advocacy: Journey of a Political Activist in Quest for Freedom

    Time & Date: 5 pm, October 25, 2023 Venue: School VI at United College Quadrangle, University of St Andrews Speaker: Nathan Law (Former member of...

  6. Careers with INGOs and NGOs

    Careers with INGOs and NGOs

    The Halo Trust; MLitt in Peace & Conflict Studies, 2015

    Speaker : Calum Gibbs Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and the MLitt and MPhil in Peacebuilding and Mediation All IR MLitt, MPhil and PhD students are very...

  7. Going Mainstream: How Extremists are Taking Over

    Going Mainstream: How Extremists are Taking Over

    CSTPV Online Talk with Julia Ebner

    Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, these groups all belonged on the fringes of the political spectrum. Today, accelerated by a...

  8. Cold War Worldmaking Between East Asia and the Arab World

    Cold War Worldmaking Between East Asia and the Arab World

    MECACS Seminar Series Event - Mohammed Alsudairi

    Seeking to transcend Western- and state-centric readings of the Cold War, the talk focuses on the various forms of ideational interaction and worldmaking that...

  9. From Soldiers to Rebels? The Catholic Ex-Servicemen's Association in 1970s Northern Ireland

    From Soldiers to Rebels? The Catholic Ex-Servicemen's Association in 1970s Northern Ireland

    Wednesday research seminars series

    Part of the School of International Relations Wednesday Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023. Convenors for Week five are Drs Jeffrey Stevenson Murer and Adam...

  10. Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    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...

  11. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    Peiran Wu will give an introduction to Lean, the theorem-proving software.

  12. Feminism in Contemporary Syria

    Feminism in Contemporary Syria

    Centre of Syrian Studies (CSS)

    Speakers at this Centre of Syrian Studies (CSS) event include Ola Rifai, Birgit Poopuu, Omar Imady, Roua Al Taweel and Lina Al Hafez, with Discussant, Rahaf...

  13. Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975

    Uncivil War: the British Army and the Troubles, 1966-1975

    Lecture then Q&A Session

    When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full...

  14. The Wednesday Seminar Series

    The Wednesday Seminar Series

    School of International Relations Wednesday Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023

    The Wednesday Seminar Series --- School of International Relations Wednesday Research Seminar Series Autumn 2023 Convenors: Drs Jeffrey Stevenson Murer and...

  15. TV broadcasting in authoritarian states: A tool to craft influence and identities

    TV broadcasting in authoritarian states: A tool to craft influence and identities

    Centre for Syrian Studies CSS

    Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science -- LSE. He...

  16. Curle Lecture 2023

    Curle Lecture 2023

    Should we be perturbed about AI?

    The vulnerability of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to adversarial perturbations raises questions around security and ethics, and many governments are now...

  17. Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu

    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....

  18. Careers Event

    Careers Event

    Guest Speaker - John Everard

    This session is open to all students and postgraduates. This focus on a number of key topics, including developing your interview skills, making applications,...

  19. North Korea -- What happens next?

    North Korea -- What happens next?

    John Vivian Everard is a British former diplomat. He was formerly the UK's ambassador to Belarus, the UK's ambassador to Uruguay and the UK's...

  20. Health Care Under Occupation: challenges for cancer and post-trauma care in Gaza, Palestine

    Health Care Under Occupation: challenges for cancer and post-trauma care in Gaza, Palestine

    STEPS Autumn Event

    STEPS is pleased to have The Bute Medical Society as our co-host for this event. Speakers: GERRY O'HARE Gerry O'Hare is an Oncology Clinical Nurse...

  21. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    Ian Miguel will speak on recent progress in solving Puzznic, and Colva Roney-Dougal will talk about how to count the subgroups of the symmetric group

  22. All. Rights. Matter.

    All. Rights. Matter.

    Centre for Art and Politics Seminar

    Leilah Babirye made and exhibited the installation I care about you (2016) during the Artwork at Kampala Exhibition hosted at Makerere University in 2016. She...

  23. Professor Ben de Bivort (Harvard): 'The neurobiology of zombie flies'

    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...