The Arts Building is one of the University’s newer buildings. Situated between The Scores and the University Library, it is home to the School of International Relations.
The Arts Building contains a 90-seat lecture theatre and 9 seminar rooms which can hold between 22 to 44 people each. As well as being used for teaching, the lecture theatre is often used for talks from University and visiting academics.
10.00-11.00 Professor Allan Hepburn ‘John Wyndham’s Trouble with Women’ This paper will draw upon the Kinsey report on female sexuality (1954), developments in contraception, and other signs of the spreading sexual revolution in the 1950s to elucidate Wyndham’s views of women’s rights and the regulation of women’s bodies in The Trouble with Lichens, ‘Survival’, and…
In contrast to position-based mediation, a Human Needs Based Approach to International Mediation takes into account the underlying needs behind positions and wants. Trust building and nonviolent communication are key in revealing the parties’ true needs in a conflict.
CIMS invites you to the CIMS Seminar, “Synthetic Memory: AI and the end of the human past” given by Professor Andrew Hoskins, University of Edinburgh (personal chair in AI, Memory and War) Reception to Follow Abstract Human memories are lively, they feel part of us as core to our identity, offering coherence and continuity to…
Join us for an Application Writing Lab dedicated to the InFrame Culture Catalyst Fund. This event is designed to give you protected time to work on your application free from the distractions of your normal day-to-day position. The InFrame team will also be on hand to answer questions and give guidance on strengthening your application.…
Candlemas Curation an exhibition of the creative work of IR5066 The Global Politics of Everyday Life students with the invited participation of my IR4570 Everyday Life and Global Politics. It will take place next Wednesday 23rd from 1-5pm in Arts Seminar Room 5 and the second floor foyer. Light refreshments will be served.
A chance to share your research, network with colleagues who share similar research passions and think ahead about possible research and impact collaborations. Norma and Malaka Shwaikh as CPCS co-chairs would like to invite you for our ‘CPCS Research and Networking Lunch’ on Wednesday 23rd of April 13:30-15:00. This is a great chance to share…
Des Browne was appointed Chief Secretary to the Treasury in May 2005. A year later he became Defence Secretary in succession to John Reid. He was previously Minister of State for Citizenship and Immigration at the Home Office. Mr Browne has also been Minister of State for Work at the Department for Work and Pensions…
In a moment of increasing opposition, how can the discourse of human rights be critically reimagined to enable its long-term cultural and political purchase? This question sits at the core of the University’s newest research centre, the Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights. “Interdisciplinary Rights Conversations” is the first initiative of the CCRHR.…
Dr Akanksha Mehta is a queer feminist educator, researcher, writer, community organiser, trade unionist, and photographer. She works as Senior Lecturer in Gender, Race and Cultural Studies and the co-director of the Centre for Feminist Research at Goldsmiths, University of London. With her comrades, she co-runs the anti-colonial feminist public education collective Insurgent Knowledges, the…
Teach-In on Romani Rights by Amnesty St Andrews and the Mutual Aid Clinic Join Amnesty International St Andrews and the Mutual Aid Clinic for a Teach-In on Romani Rights at 5pm-6:30pm, Tuesday April 1st in the Arts Lecture Theatre (IR). Hear speakers discuss Romani cultural identities around the world, their experiences, and the ways of…