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The University of St Andrews and NHS Fife are exploring what could be done to improve processes from initiation to successful completion of research projects involving both the University of St Andrews and NHS Fife. These discussions include many aspects, such as contact points and communications, guidance and navigation tools, and training.

We are looking for input from researchers who have had experience working on joint projects between the University of St Andrews and NHS Fife, or have considered/are considering doing so.

If you have some time to spare and would be willing to meet with me, I would really appreciate your input into these discussions. I have scheduled a few drop-in Teams sessions to allow for this, which are scheduled as follows:

Thursday 23 September 10:00-12:00 Click here to join the meeting
Monday 27 September 14:00-16:00 Click here to join the meeting
Tuesday 28 September 10:00-12:00 Click here to join the meeting
Monday 4 October 14:00-16:00 Click here to join the meeting
Tuesday 5 October 14:00-16:00 Click here to join the meeting

Alternatively, if you would like to discuss any ideas in person/on Teams please do not hesitate to contact me and we can arrange a meeting.

Best wishes,

Catriona Young
Joint Research Office Project Officer.
jro-planning@st-andrews.ac.uk

Dr Alysa Ghose
University of Edinburgh

Title: Knowledge from feeling, action from advice – the collective hustle and erotic witnessing of spiritual development in Cuban Espiritismo

Abstract: TBA

This is a School of Classics Research Seminar Series event.

To attend this seminar please subscribe to the Classics seminar mailing list, email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject line.

For further information please contact classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk.

The start of this century has seen a greater interest in the contemporary application of ancient philosophical ethics, although the widespread emphasis on stoicism and the possibility of understanding stoic ethics in isolation from the rest of stoic philosophy remain controversial.

Our century has also seen increasing anxiety about, and a conscious desire to strive for, standards in politics and public discourse, particularly in areas where the ethical and the cognitive intersect (integrity, honesty, fairness, grounds for belief). This workshop will bring together experts on ancient philosophy, from a range of areas, to discuss how ancient ethics can inform our responses to 21st-century challenges.

Programme

9am to 10am BST / 10am to 11am France
Angelo Giavatto
‘Achilles and Odysseus. Two ways of Rethinking Mortality in Ancient Ethics’

10am to 11am BST / 11am to 12 France
Lucia Saudelli
‘Knowledge, Virtue and Health in Plato’s Charmides: Ancient ethics and Contemporary issues’

Lunch break

1.30pm to 2.30pm BST / 2.30pm to 3.30pm France
Jason Carter
‘No One is Deceived Willingly: Plato on the Ethics of Moral Disagreement’

Short break

3pm to 4pm BST / 4pm to 5pm France
Carol Atack
‘The anachronistic gentleman: the persistence of inequalities in the ancient moral exemplar of the kaloskagathos’

4pm BST / 5pm France
Concluding reflections, led by M M McCabe

All welcome. If you wish to participate, please email the organisers, Dr Jordi Pia Comella and Dr Alex Long, at agl10@st-andrews.ac.uk by Thursday 30 September.

You provide your lunch and the Entrepreneurship Centre will provide an inspiring and engaging series of online masterclasses exploring key topics for anyone interested in getting an idea out into the world. 

In this masterclass Paul Bourne, Cambridge Judge Business School will give you top tips on finding an idea for a business or social enterprise.  Learn how to work out if an idea could have potential to become a startup enterprise.

This session is free and open to everyone, students, staff, and the public. 

This event will be run online. Please RSVP to attend.  The link to join the online event will be emailed to you before the event.

There are free events each day during St Andrews Enterprise Week 2021. Be sure to come along!  https://www.facebook.com/standrewsenterpriseweek/ 

Come along to hear Kate Matveeva explain her journey as an entrepreneur. 

Ekaterina Matveeva is a multilingual linguist, award-winning entrepreneur, founder of Amolingua, and leader of the ErasmusPlus funded project Lingo+. 

Since 2016, Amolingua develops language, cultural and soft skills training for professionals and business people to go global. The focus is on Latin American and CIS countries. 

Lingo+ is set to deliver bespoke training for educators to teach in a multilingual, multicultural environment.  

Ekaterina is on a mission to create a better connected multicultural, multilingual world.  

This lecture is free and open to everyone, students, staff, and the public. 

This event will be run online. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance and a link to join the session will be emailed to you before the event starts. 

There are free events each day during St Andrews Enterprise Week 2021. Be sure to come along! 
https://www.facebook.com/standrewsenterpriseweek/ 

During this Enterprise Week event, Dr Lissa Herron (PhD Neuroscience, 2008) and Enterprise Manager, Converge Challenge, along with Dr Ross Gillanders, Founder, Lightwater Sensors and Senior Research Fellow, School of Physics and Astronomy will explore the why and how of research commercialisation.

Commercialisation of research is becoming increasingly important and valued by universities, funding bodies and governments. This workshop will cover the value of research commercialisation, the different ways in which research can be commercialised, and what the pathways to commercialisation can look like in St Andrews.

By the end of this workshop, you should understand:

* What it means to commercialise research from a university
* Why research commercialisation is beneficial to universities and researchers
* The common routes and methods to commercialise research
* First steps to take if you want to commercialise your research

Converge Challenge competitions are open to staff, students and recent graduates of Scottish universities.

This lecture is free and open to everyone, students, staff, and the public.
This event will be run online. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance and a link to join the session will be emailed to you before the event starts.
There are free events each day during St Andrews Enterprise Week 2021. Be sure to come along! https://www.facebook.com/standrewsenterpriseweek/

Email – irevents@st-andrews.ac.uk to register!

The Institute for the Study of War and Strategy (ISWS) seminar series presents Dr Sara Plana postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania.

How do states control non-state armed groups they sponsor in foreign civil wars (proxies)? The speaker argues that the state sponsor’s goal against the shared enemy with the proxy—specifically, whether it involves defeating the enemy or stopping short of defeat—affects the tools of control states use and how effective they are at achieving proxy compliance. The seminar will test this theory and reveal the various dilemmas facing state sponsors by drawing on nested case studies of three efforts by the US to support non-state armed groups in the proxy war in Syria from 2013 to 2020.

Sara Plana received her PhD from MIT in September 2021 and is a postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book project examines how states manage non-state armed groups they sponsor in foreign civil wars (proxies) through in-depth, multi-method case studies of state-proxy relationships in the Syrian civil war from 2011 to present. Her broader research agenda investigates the causes, conduct, and consequences of proxy warfare as well as military organizational behavior and civil-military relations. She is a Fellow with the Bridging the Gap Project and a non-resident Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She graduated with an A.B. in Government from Harvard University.

The Keynote event for Enterprise Week is the not to be missed highlight of the week! You will hear from entrepreneurs from across the UK about their experiences and approach. There will be an opportunity to ask questions afterwards. The Keynote is being organised in partnership with St Andrews Business Club and the University’s Entrepreneurship Centre.

This event is free and open to everyone – students, staff, and the public. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance. A link to join the event will be emailed to you prior to the event.

SPEAKERS:

Barney Mauleverer, Co-founder, Fuel 10K
Andy Simpson, Founder & Managing Director, Angus 3D Solutions

Barney Mauleverer cut his teeth in food and drink during the front five years of early stage Innocent Drinks. Leaving in 2006 as European Manager, Barney sought a more entrepreneurial route of his own and set up food brand exporting company Fresh Marketing with fellow St Andrews alumnus Alex Matheson.

Today they supply over 40 markets with more than 25 UK produced innovation food and drink brands. In 2013, Alex and Barney launched breakfast brand FUEL10K which can be found on the shelves of supermarkets in the UK and some European, Middle Eastern and SE Asian countries.

Barney lives in Dorset with his catering wife and four kids. He loves a challenge enjoying the occasional extreme long distance footraces completing the Marathon des Sables in the Moroccan Dessert, the Jungle Marathon in Brazil and the Himalayan Everest Challenge on the Nepalese border. Next one is long overdue! Follow Barney on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/barneymauleverer/

Andy Simpson has over 35 years of manufacturing and management experience. Andy has managed several privately owned and international manufacturing companies in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. He brings a wealth of hands-on and management experience to the business and focuses on providing a service that surpasses customers’ expectations. Follow Andy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/angussolutionsgroup/

This event is free and open to everyone – students, staff, and the public.

There are free events each day during St Andrews Enterprise Week 2021. Be sure to come along!
https://www.facebook.com/standrewsenterpriseweek/

Speaker: Dr Ludovica Gazze, University of Warwick

Abstract: Children exposed to pollutants like lead have lower achievement in school and are more likely to engage in risky behavior. However, little is known about whether lead-exposed children affect the long-run outcomes of their peers. We estimate these spillover effects using unique data on preschool blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to education data for all students in North Carolina public schools. We compare siblings whose school-grade cohorts differ in the proportion of children with elevated BLLs, holding constant school and peers’ demographics. Having more lead-exposed peers is associated with lower high-school graduation and SAT-taking rates and increased suspensions and absences. Peer effects are larger for black students. Based on the lower likelihood of graduating high school alone, we estimate that the spillover effect of lead exposure is $8 billion per birth-year cohort.

Among their many privileges, India’s wealthiest households can rely on a consistent supply of electricity and access to cooking gas. The situation is rather different for other social groups, however. In this café Dr Vibhor Saxena will discuss how lower caste and tribal households can have less access to electricity and cooking fuel, even when controlling for other factors like income or education.

Vibhor is a Development Economist and his research is focused on the issues of energy, education, health and labour. He is currently working on the intersection of energy and gender relations in developing countries; health uptake in Uganda; and domestic violence and education outcomes in the UK. In the past, Vibhor has extensively worked on energy inequality; demography and health; and microfinance. His research style is mainly evidence based and employs econometric models and statistical software to test conjectures. Vibhor has experience in using large scale, nationally representative, cross-sectional and longitudinal data sets in his research. Vibhor equally enjoys his teaching and research supervision in stats, econometrics, and development at the UG and PG level.

You provide your lunch and the Entrepreneurship Centre will provide an inspiring and engaging series of online masterclasses exploring key topics for anyone interested in getting an idea out into the world. 

In this masterclass Bonnie Hacking, Programme Manager, Entrepreneurship Centre will give you an insight into developing a lean canvas for your idea. A lean canvas helps you deconstruct your idea and explore its viability and potential all on one page.  Exploring and researching your idea is the first step to getting it out into the world. 

This session is free and open to everyone, students, staff, and the public. 

This event will be run online. Please RSVP to attend.  The link to join the online event will be emailed to you before the event.

There are free events each day during St Andrews Enterprise Week 2021. Be sure to come along! https://www.facebook.com/standrewsenterpriseweek/ 

To join, contact Maria Castillo Alvarez (mcca1@st-andrews.ac.uk).

Chloe Ashley (she/her) is a St Andrews history graduate, currently working as a freelance producer based in London. In 2020, Chloe co-founded Undone Theatre where she is currently working as Executive Director. Undone Theatre is a theatre company that focuses on experimenting with different forms of storytelling, showcasing queer perspectives and undoing classical narratives. Chloe produced Undone Theatre’s most recent production, Selected Recordings of Us, which debuted at The Space London, supported by Arts Council England National Lottery funding. 

This event will be run online. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance and a link to join the session will be emailed to you before the event starts. 

There are free events each day during St Andrews Enterprise Week 2021. Be sure to come along!  https://www.facebook.com/standrewsenterpriseweek/ 

Staff and students are welcome to join the final of the 2021 St Andrews Prize for the Environment, where Snowchange Cooperative, Cities Without Hunger Brazil, or Planet Indonesia will be announced as the winner of this prestigious US$100,000 prize.

Based in the Arctic, Brazil and Indonesia, these projects are tackling issues of critical environmental and social importance, including food security, biodiversity loss, conservation, and access to healthcare. Learn more about the finalists.

During the event we will also hear from 2020 winner Dr Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH). Dr Kalema-Zikusoka will discuss how the Prize is enabling CTPH to extend their ‘One Health’ conservation model, which has almost doubled the number of mountain gorillas in Uganda, to the Eastern lowland gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Please join the School of Art History and the Museum, Galleries and Collection Institute for a lecture on The Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition at the Louvre (2019-2020): ‘a blockbuster with brains’.

Vincent Delieuvin is a Senior Curator in the Department of Paintings at the Louvre where he is in charge of the whole collection of 16th century Italian paintings. Since he joined the Louvre in 2006, he has curated or co-curated a number of major exhibitions, such as ‘Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice’ in 2009, ‘Late Raphael’ and ‘Leonardo da Vinci’s St Anne’ in 2012, and the major show dedicated to Leonardo in 2019 to mark the 500th anniversary of the painter’s death.

An internationally recognised scholar on Italian Renaissance painting, Vincent will talk about the multiple and diverse challenges of curating an exhibition on the most famous and celebrated Renaissance painter.

Please mute your microphone and ensure your camera is turned off when you join the meeting.

Whose voices are missing from museums? Which stories are not told? Which uncomfortable histories remain hidden? And how can museums move forward? From empire and colonialism to climate, identity and more, Critical Conversations bring together voices from a variety of perspectives to consider the critical issues. You will also have the opportunity to submit your thoughts and questions for the panel’s consideration.
Today’s panel will discuss green washing; the ways that some companies attempt to appear more environmentally friendly than they really are.

Visualising War is an interdisciplinary research project based at the University of St Andrews. It looks at how war gets represented in art, text, drama, music and many other kinds of storytelling.

Join us for two interactive, online conversations exploring how historic war stories influence our understanding of conflict in the modern world.

Conversation 1 (for military personnel/veterans/the wider military community): Wednesday 6 October, 12 noon to 2pm.

Conversation 2 (for civillians): Thursday 7 October, 12 noon to 2pm.

To register for either workshop please visit the project website.

This is a School of Classics Research Seminar Series event.

To attend this seminar please subscribe to the Classics seminar mailing list, email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject line.

For further information please contact classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk.

How does the global rise of populism impact regional governance? Media pundits and scholars often portray populism as a fundamental challenge to multilateralism and a rules-based international order. Especially in its current right-wing variant, populism appears to engender narrowly nationalist agendas, inward-looking policies, and sometimes open hostility to the very notion of transboundary cooperation. However, the track record of populist leaders around the world reveals no general unilateral backlash. Virtually all populist-led governments of recent years have remained engaged in multilateral organisations to a notable degree, and some of them have even launched new cooperation initiatives. The regional level is a particularly lively scene of such strategies, and regional organizations have become a primary site of contestation between populist and non-populist actors. This roundtable brings together experts on populism and regionalism to discuss the link between populism and foreign policy, how populist leaders perceive regional cooperation, and the broader implications for the so-called liberal international order.

Email irevents@st-andrews.ac.uk to register

Roast your Supervisor — A Research Events series organised by the ModCon Research Group: Dr Sam Haddow & Mia Furlong – Legacies of 9/11 (Content warning for themes of death, torture, and executions)

The series ‘Roast your Supervisor’ will give a platform to School of English staff to present their recent research to the School community.

There is, however, a twist to these events: Following the presenter’s presentation, they will be grilled by one of their own PhD students about the topic and their research.

This turns a conversational situation which most of us are used to — namely the supervisee explaining themselves and their research to their supervisor — on its head.

Naturally, it would also be encouraged for the audience to ask some critical questions and participate as actively as possible.

The events will take place on MS Teams on a fortnightly basis on Wednesdays at 5.30pm and they will be free to attend for anyone interested.

Please e-mail Sam Haddow (jsfh@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Sandro Eich (se56@st-andrews.ac.uk) with any questions or to be added to the MS Teams channel.

Please note: This event has been CANCELLED and will not take place.

You provide your lunch and the Entrepreneurship Centre will provide an inspiring and engaging series of online masterclasses exploring key topics for anyone interested in getting an idea out into the world.

In this masterclass Paul Bourne, Cambridge Judge Business School will give you top tips on pitching.  Learn how to deliver a first-class pitch from one of the industry-leaders.

This session is free and open to everyone, students, staff, and the public.

This event will be run online. Please RSVP to attend.  The link to join the online event will be emailed to you before the event.

There are free events each day during St Andrews Enterprise Week 2021. Be sure to come along! https://www.facebook.com/standrewsenterpriseweek/

The ‘Equality Matters’ symposium is coordinated by the St Andrews Global Challenges Forum.

The St Andrews Global Challenges Forum was formed in 2018 and builds on the University’s commitment to the Global Challenges agenda. The forum supports the University’s extensive Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) challenge-led research base, funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) GCRF QR Grant, and contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Chaired by Professor Thomas Meagher, this symposium is part of symposia webinar series on the overarching theme of ‘Sustainable Futures’ with the cross-cutting impact topics of:

• Equality Matters
• Sustainable Livelihoods
• Social Justice
• Evidence-based policy

Our vision for these themed sessions is that each will consist of two to three paired talks from St Andrews researchers and their ODA partners, followed by a panel presentation and discussion.

These topics are applicable to the SFC-funded GCRF projects portfolio as underlying issues are being addressed with more discipline-specific research. We intend that they will form the basis for substantive interdisciplinary discussions.

Find out more about GCRF on Facebook or Twitter.  For further information, please email RIS_GCRF@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Postgraduate research seminar.

Please contact Kate Dove on kad20@st-andrews.ac.uk or Liz O’Keefe on ero4@st-andrews.ac.uk for further information.

The CSS and MECACS present a joint presentation;

Dr. Phil. Carsten Wieland is a scholar, German diplomat, senior UN consultant, Middle East, and conflict expert with high-ranking mediation experience.
Book Presentation “Syria and the Neutrality Trap: The Dilemmas of Delivering Humanitarian Aid through Violent Regimes”
The Syrian war has been an example of the abuse and insufficient delivery of humanitarian assistance. According to international practice, humanitarian aid should be channelled through a state government that bears a particular responsibility for its population. Yet in Syria, the bulk of relief went through Damascus while the regime caused the vast majority of civilian deaths. Should the UN have severed its cooperation with the government and neglected its humanitarian duty to help all people in need? Decision-makers face these tough policy dilemmas, and often the “neutrality trap” snaps shut.

Dr Michelle Burgis-Kasthala – University of Edinburgh
Assembling Atrocity Archives for Syria: Assessing the Work of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability and the UN Syria Mechanism.
What types of material are being archived in the midst of Syria’s conflict? Who is gathering this material and for what ends? How might this material inform future criminal trials or broader transitional justice mechanisms? This talk draws on ethnographic research into two key archival actors in Syria’s war to reflect on avenues for redress and responsibility through such activities.
email irevents@st-andrews.ac.uk to register

‘Cultural projections of royal authority in Prince Henry Frederick’s creation as Prince of Wales in 1610’ – presented by Clemmie De la Poer Beresford (University of St. Andrews)

‘Liminal insiders? Disabled Natural Fools and Wonders at the Scottish Royal Court 1488-1603’ – presented by Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart (University of Andrews)

We are delighted to welcome you to the next instalment in our Saints Talk series from Professor Richard Whatmore, Democracy and Empire.

Democracies should not be empires, being unions of one free people or equally free peoples. Yet there is a direct connection between mass democracy and the world of guns, coal and steel as they emerged together in the nineteenth century.

This talk reveals that from the time democracy became a general political option during the French Revolution, it consistently failed to do what its first proponents hoped. The history of democracy continues to have considerable implications for our politics.

If you have missed any of the past Saints Talk Lectures, or can’t make the live stream of this one, you can watch them again on our YouTube channel.

We hope to see you on Thursday.

A Speaker Series not to be missed. Organised in partnership with the Entrepreneurial Education Working Group, this week’s edition of the Entrepreneurship Centre Speaker Series features St Andrews student and entrepreneur, Suhit Amin.

Suhit, 20, is a Young Entrepreneur and Founder of Saulderson Media. In February 2018, aged 16, he was diagnosed with Stage 2A Hodgkin Lymphoma. His illness motivated him to do something bigger and pursue his entrepreneurial passions.

Instead of letting his diagnosis bring him down, he channeled it into his ambitions – to be a successful entrepreneur. His mindset was that, if he wasn’t alive in a year’s time, he would want to go out doing something big and what he loves.

He overcame the odds and beat cancer whilst launching a successful business – now a seven-figure influencer marketing agency. He is now a five-times award-winning entrepreneur and speaker who leads multiple businesses across different sectors.

Join us to hear Suhit share his inspirational journey.

This is an online seminar of the semester, with Dr Ying Zhang, Associate Professor at the Dalhousie University. Simon Sharples (Miles lab) kindly agreed to hosting a post-seminar discussion along the lines of the ‘Growing up in Science’ discussions we started last year. Dr Zhang will be presenting her work on the neural circuits that control locomotion and the mechanisms underlying locomotor behaviors.

State-dependent limb movement and coordination allow animals to maintain stable locomotion under different circumstances. Interneuron networks in the spinal cord mediate incoming sensory and descending information as well as serve as central pattern generators to form and coordinate the final outgoing motor commands. My talk will focus on one of the excitatory spinal neuronal populations, V3 interneurons. I will demonstrate that subpopulations of V3 neurons play unique roles in state-dependent locomotor activity. Furthermore, I also will elucidate our current understanding of the molecular identity of some V3 subpopulations and their diversification across hierarchically-organised temporal and spatial developmental pathways.

MS Teams Link: https://tinyurl.com/pbxsa9rf

This expert meeting will take place 8 October 2021, from 15:00-19:00 BST. It is hosted by Prof. Kathryn Rudy and Suzette van Haaren, School of Art History, University of St Andrews (Scotland). Panel discussions will centre on pre-recorded and pre-circulated talks. Please reserve a ticket to take your seat in the audience for the discussions. Tickets are free.

Issues to be discussed
In a single click, a tap or swipe, the medieval manuscript appears on our screens: thousands of pixels light up and the ancient book lies open before us, in our office rather than in the reading room. The digital images emulate the book-like object in a two page-spread, or even animate it with graphics that turn its pages. We move through a digital facsimile that is reminiscent of its physical counterpart, and simultaneously is strange and new. What we see is familiar: age-stained parchment, neat script, colourful miniatures and gilded details. But we do not feel the subtle flexibility and soft skin of the parchment between our fingers as we turn the page — instead we feel the hard plastic of our mouse or trackpad, or the glass of our screens. The digital manuscript facsimile is not a medieval manuscript. Yet, the digital is fundamentally connected to parchment pages inscribed, decorated and bound in the Middle Ages.

The digital medieval manuscript has become exceedingly important for how medieval parchment codices are handled, studied and preserved. Libraries, museums and rare book collections are increasingly digitising their material, making objects more accessible to a larger public. Medieval manuscripts are being handled much more in digital environments than they are in reading rooms. Critically examining the effects of digitisation is fundamental to understand how medieval manuscripts move through the world today. The digital environment poses new affordances and constraints, bringing up many practical and ontological questions and ideas surrounding the medieval manuscript and its digital counterpart.

The event
We have invited experts in the field ranging from academics to digitisation specialists (and all overlaps imaginable) to talk about the digitsation of medieval manuscripts. The panel members have sent in videos. These will be available online from 1 October 2021 for everyone to watch.

During the expert meeting itself the panel members will engage in discussions surrounding their specific video topics. Audience members are encouraged to ask questions that contribute to the discussions.

“Book chest – study – private library: Where did medieval monastic superiors keep their books?” – Medieval History Seminar presented by Ben Pohl (University of Bristol)

In recent decades, rapid technological developments and the rise of a diverse commercial space industry have opened-up space to a much wider array of state and non-state actors. Space-based applications from satellites now enable virtually every aspect of modern life, from military operations to just-in-time logistics, banking, navigation and weather forecasting.

The growing volume and diversity of space operations raise concerns that the primary orbital zones are, in the oft-used phrase, increasingly “congested, competitive and contested”. These realities have led to intensifying calls for renewed multilateralism to address pressing challenges and ensure the peaceful and sustainable uses of outer space.

This expert roundtable examines the one key dimension of these multifaceted debates, concerning the prospective regulation of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons. The discussion will begin by introducing a recent open letter from the Outer Space Institute at the University of British Columbia (UBC), which urges the UN General Assembly to take up consideration of a treaty that would prohibit debris-generating ASAT tests. Panellists Professor Michael Byers, Victoria Samson and Sarah Thiele will situate this initiative in its technological, scientific, legal and diplomatic context and will consider additional proposals for regulating ASAT systems along with the political difficulties in developing restraints.

Professor Michael Byers of the Department of Political Science at UBC is Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law and co-director of the Outer Space Institute at UBC where, among other initiatives, he was a lead author of a recent International Open Letter on Kinetic Anti-Satellite (ASAT) Testing which provides the basis for this roundtable.
Victoria Samson is the Washington Office Director for Secure World Foundation, an internationally recognised expert on military space and security issues, and a prolific author of numerous op-eds, analytical pieces, journal articles and updates on missile defence and space security matters. She is the co-editor of the annual Global Counterspace Capabilities report, published by the Secure World Foundation.

Sarah Thiele is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UBC studying for a Bachelor of Science with Combined Honours in Physics and Astronomy. She is a Junior Fellow of the Outer Space Institute and previous intern at the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx). Sarah conducted the calculations on debris-generation from kinetic anti-satellite weapons presented in the OSI open letter.

Centre for French History and Culture – Salon Talk
‘Writing Enslaved People into the (Hi)story of Public Theatre in Colonial Saint-Domingue’ – presented by Julia Prest (Modern Languages, French)

This lunchtime event is one in a series of brown bag research seminars for staff in the School of Management.

The series aims to provide opportunities to showcase ongoing research and offer a regular space for colleagues across the School to come together and open up research conversations across the thematic groups and research centres.

In this seminar, Marisa McVey, Research Fellow in Business and Human Rights in the School, will be presenting her research.

Introducing her work, McVey notes: “Ensuring that corporations uphold their responsibility to respect human rights remains a complex, contestable and perhaps impossible task. Traditional studies on regulation of business and human rights have tended to focus on the polycentric interactions between states, corporations and rightsholders.”

The presentation will propose that a new perspective is necessary. It will focus on the ‘external experts’ in business and human rights – including consultants, NGOs and social auditors – who are increasingly called upon to carry out human rights due diligence work for multinational corporations.

McVey’s research offers a critical analysis of the business and human rights project and the current practices of corporate responsibility and accountability for human rights.

Further details about the seminar have been circulated to School of Management staff.

Professor Kim Baines from Western University, London, Ontario presents: ‘Fun with Low Valent Si and Ge Complexes: From Mechanism to Catalysis’.

One of the most important advances in inorganic chemistry over the last 30 years was the discovery of stable low valent species of the heavier main group elements. The detailed characterization of these unsaturated species has profoundly influenced our understanding of structure and bonding and the diverse reactivity of these compounds has provided facile entry into a number of previously unknown functional molecules.

Our investigations into the chemistry of ditetrelenes and low valent Group 14 cations are guided by our interest in the fundamental chemistry of ditetrelenes particularly pertaining to small molecule activations and potential applications of low valent compounds, particularly in catalysis. In this lecture, a detailed view of the activation of ammonia by a disilene and the hydrosilylation of carbonyl compounds by low valent germanium cations will be presented.

This meeting of the School of Management’s Knowledge and Practice thematic research group will be a gathering of the K&P reading group.

For this session the group will be joined by Honorary Professor Kathy Lund Dean to discuss Kathy’s 2018 article ‘Academic gerrymandering? expansion and expression of academic work’.

Further details about the meeting have been circulated to group members.

This seminar is hosted by the Centre for Late Antique Studies. Please contact Carlos Machado on carm3@st-andrews.ac.uk for the meeting link.

For further information please visit the Centre’s website using the link below.

The ‘Sustainable Livelihoods’ symposium is coordinated by the St Andrews Global Challenges Forum.

The St Andrews Global Challenges Forum was formed in 2018 and builds on the University’s commitment to the Global Challenges agenda. The forum supports the University’s extensive Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) challenge-led research base, funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) GCRF QR Grant, and contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Chaired by Professor Thomas Meagher, this symposium is part of symposia webinar series on the overarching theme of ‘Sustainable Futures’ with the cross-cutting impact topics of:

• Equality Matters
• Sustainable Livelihoods
• Social Justice
• Evidence-based policy

Our vision for these themed sessions is that each will consist of two to three paired talks from St Andrews researchers and their ODA partners, followed by a panel presentation and discussion.

These topics are applicable to the SFC-funded GCRF projects portfolio as underlying issues are being addressed with more discipline-specific research. We intend that they will form the basis for substantive interdisciplinary discussions.

Find out more about GCRF on Facebook or Twitter.  For further information, please email RIS_GCRF@st-andrews.ac.uk.

The Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies (MECACS) presents Dr Una McGahern – Exercising the right to move in Israel-Palestine: The power of everyday cross-border movements among Palestinian citizens of Israel

A rich body of work exists today which examines cross-border mobilities in Israel-Palestine and the ways in which these mobilities are intertwined not only with the structure of the occupation but with geographies of inclusion and exclusion, enclosure and enclavisation and processes of creeping apartheid across the Green Line. Much of this scholarship, however, focuses on the privileged and high-speed flow of Israeli Jewish settler-citizens compared with the slow and tightly constricted movements of Palestinian day-labourers from the occupied Palestinian territories as they navigate a complex system of gated settlements, checkpoints, permits, walls, fences and by-pass roads within the occupied Palestinian territories. Comparatively little attention has focused on the cross-border movements of Palestinian citizens of Israel who make up over 20 per cent of Israeli population, and who travel in-between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories in search of more affordable goods and services; work and social opportunities, a sense of community and place, as well as access to spaces for leisure, recreation and social interaction.

In this lecture, I will cast light on the neglected cross-border movements of Palestinian citizens of Israel focusing, in particular, on two forms of cross-border movements which illustrate subtle strategies of social and political innovation and contestation in practice: first, social or group running practices in the city of Jerusalem, and, second, the movements of thousands of young Palestinian citizens who study medicine and paramedical degree programmes at universities in the northern West Bank. In so doing, I will not only argue, as others have, that there is radical power in movement (to disrupt, challenge and potentially transform uneven geographies of power), but that the act of movement itself reveals the centrality of informal, flexible and mobile social networks in the exercise of the basic right to move.

Una McGahern is Senior Lecturer in Politics. Her research is interdisciplinary and ethnographic in nature and focuses on issues relating to security, mobility, protest and space in Israel-Palestine, with a particular focus on the everyday experiences of Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Email irevents@st-andrews.ac.uk to register

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar
‘The Chinese Imprint. Printing and Publishing China in the Dutch Republic, 1595-1700’ – presented by Trude Dijkstra (Warburg)

This research seminar will welcome Professor Kim Peijnenburg, EDHEC Business School. Her topic will be ‘Breaking bad: how health shocks prompt crime’.

The seminar is organised jointly by the Centre for Responsible Banking and Finance (CRBF) and the Financial Institutions and Markets (FIM) research group of the School of Management.

This event is for staff of the University and students in the School, in particular those with an interest in finance and economics.

At this seminar Dr Richard Moore, University of Warwick, will present an online seminar titled ‘Learning (to learn) from others’, hosted by Kirsty Graham.

In this talk Richard will argue that two skills identified as central to human cognitive uniqueness – pointing and imitation – may result from a common underlying cognitive shift in human or late hominin history. While they are typically argued to be the result of independent adaptations for cooperative communication and high-fidelity social learning, Richard’s research suggests that there are relatively weak grounds for thinking they derived from independent biological changes rather than a single cultural or ecological change.

He will argue that the development of both pointing comprehension and imitation likely resulted from an ecological change in our ancestral environment, which led our ancestors to look to each other, rather than to their environment, as sources of information about the world. Richard will explain why both ape emulation and pointing failure can be thought of as resulting from individualistic information gathering strategies, and sketch a scenario that would have made such strategies non-viable. Richard will present some empirical data he has collected with his collaborators, which supports a new explanation of why great apes are typically poor at pointing comprehension.

Finally, he will argue that since both pointing and imitation have been trained with enculturation, they should not be assumed to result from biological adaptations in the hominin lineage.

MS Teams link:

Dr Lisa Davidson
York University

Title: Multiculturalism as the Work of Miracles – Christianity and Canadian Belonging Among Racialized Presbyterians in Toronto

Abstract: TBA

This is a School of Classics Research Seminar Series event.

To attend this seminar please subscribe to the Classics seminar mailing list, email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject line.

For further information please contact classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk.

To join, contact Maria Castillo Alvarez (mcca1@st-andrews.ac.uk).

We are delighted to welcome you to the next instalment in our Saints Talk series from Dr Lucy Donaldson, on ‘Feeling and Filmmaking’.

Films are made by a vast network of personnel whose work is crucial in shaping our emotional and visceral responses to the world onscreen. Yet, the labour of those ‘below-the-line’ (personnel associated with craft and technical work) is frequently neglected in discussions of the creative achievement of film or its sensory impact.

In this talk Dr Donaldson will highlight the significance of contributions made by those responsible for the audio-visual design of film, drawing on interview and archival material in order to demonstrate the detailed attention and care taken by production designers, costume designers and sound designers in creating the material worlds of film. Looking across the work of those responsible for design is an opportunity to consider how films are crafted to engage us in tactile and textural worlds, to make us feel.

If you have missed any of the past Saints Talk Lectures, or can’t make the live stream of this one, you can watch them again on our YouTube channel.

We hope to see you on Tuesday.

Centre for French History and Culture – Biannual Seminar
‘Alexander the Minorite’s Commentary on the Apocalypse: Reassessing the First Crusade 150 Years Later’ – Jay Rubenstein (University of Southern California)

The ‘Social Justice’ symposium is coordinated by the St Andrews Global Challenges Forum.

The St Andrews Global Challenges Forum was formed in 2018 and builds on the University’s commitment to the Global Challenges agenda. The forum supports the University’s extensive Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) challenge-led research base, funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) GCRF QR Grant, and contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Chaired by Professor Thomas Meagher, this symposium is part of symposia webinar series on the overarching theme of ‘Sustainable Futures’ with the cross-cutting impact topics of:

• Equality Matters
• Sustainable Livelihoods
• Social Justice
• Evidence-based policy

Our vision for these themed sessions is that each will consist of two to three paired talks from St Andrews researchers and their ODA partners, followed by a panel presentation and discussion.

These topics are applicable to the SFC-funded GCRF projects portfolio as underlying issues are being addressed with more discipline-specific research. We intend that they will form the basis for substantive interdisciplinary discussions.

Find out more about GCRF on Facebook or Twitter.  For further information, please email RIS_GCRF@st-andrews.ac.uk.

This event, hosted by the University of St Andrews with short panels and discussion sessions, will be held online over the weekend of Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 October 2021. Associated institutions: Classical Reception Studies Network, University of Ljubljana and the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw.

Programme (all times are BST)
Saturday 23 October
10am to 10.15am: Welcome
Henry Stead, Elzbieta Olechowska and David Movrin

10.15am to 11.30am: The Ancient Proletarian Hero
Scott Lyall, Miryana Dimitrova, Oleksii Rudenko and Caitie Bugler (Chair)

2pm to 3.15pm: Classicists and Communism in and beyond the Soviet bloc
Elzbieta Olechowska, David Movrin, Emilo Zucchetti and Michael Carroll (Chair)

3.30pm to 5pm: Greek Tragedy and the Left
Natasha Remoundou, Claudio Sansone, Gloria Larini and Giovanna Di Martino (Chair)

Sunday 24 October
10.15am to 11.30am: Leftist Ancient History
Eivind Seland, Vittorio Saldutti, Anton Baryshnikov and Jon Hesk (Chair)

2pm to 3pm: Animating the past, classicising the future
Barbara Goff, Hanna Paulouskaya, Lubor Kysučan and Rhiannon Easterbrook (Chair)

3.30pm to 4.20pm: Round table – Future Directions
Edith Hall, Gregory Lee, Neville Morley with David Movrin and Henry Stead (Chairs)

This workshop will take place virtually via Microsoft Teams. To register, please email classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk by Wednesday 20 October 2021.

Energy demand is growing, while urgent calls to reduce and mitigate the environmental impact of carbon emissions are intensifying. Transitioning our societies to low-carbon economies seems both inevitable and essential to planetary survival. In the lead-up to COP26, the Centre for Energy Ethics is hosting a virtual conference to reflect carefully and critically on envisioned energy transitions and what they might entail. Bringing together researchers across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences, we ask: what visions of society and planetary futures are being put forth by ‘energy transitions’ around the world? What will their implications be? And how will they be realised?

Dr Furaha Asani will be joining the School of Biology to give this talk titled ‘Social responsibility in Science’, followed by a Q&A session and all staff and students are welcome to attend.

Furaha is a public academic, mental health advocate, precarious migrant, and writer with interest in the themes of global health equity, a world without borders, digital placemaking, liberatory STEM pedagogy, and science in pop culture.

She has written for several platforms including The Guardian, The Independent, Forbes.com, Medium, Star Trek, Huffpost and many others. Currently Furaha is Research Lead at Watershed, part of the team at The Free Black University, and co-chair of Wellcome Connecting Science’s Community Advisory Panel.

Registration link for event.

and the School of International Relations presents

Central Asian Reaction to the Taliban –

With the withdrawal of US and coalition forces from Afghanistan and the rapid takeover by the Taliban, neighbouring Central Asian countries are once again at the focus of international attention. Most Central Asian governments recognized the Taliban in a pragmatic decision to peacefully coexist with the neighboring extremist regime that will likely remain in power for the foreseeable future. Tajikistan is, however, denying the Taliban recognition and indirectly supporting resistance movement in Panjshir. Political leaders hope that most people in their countries will see it in the same way — a pragmatic solution to a difficult security challenge. However, the public in the region is largely split between those who consider Afghanistan as a culturally alien country and those who quietly support the Taliban’s ascend to power as testament of successful Islamic movement capturing state politics. The political and human catastrophe in Afghanistan is threatening to boost autocratic tendencies and further deepen political gaps in Central Asian societies. I will discuss the rationale behind each Central Asian government’s approach to the Talibanized Afghanistan and the looming domestic and external challenges to the region.

Erica Marat is an Associate Professor at the College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University. Her research focuses on violence, mobilization and security institutions in Eurasia, India, and Mexico. Before joining NDU, Dr. Marat was a visiting scholar at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center. Dr. Marat latest book titled The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press 2018) explores conditions in which police reform is likely to succeed or fail. Her articles appeared in Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and other outlets.

Email irevents@st-andrews.ac.uk to register

‘The site of Lalibela and its history from a local to a transnational perspective (10th-16th centuries)’ will be presented by Marie-Laure Derat of the Orient et Mediterranee (CNRS).

If you would like to join please email Alex Woolf on aw40@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Next Generation St Andrews is a series of Environmental Discussions between students and professionals and researchers in the environmental sector in the run-up to COP26. The speaker series has a fantastic line-up of internationally-renown researchers, ranging from all areas of interest.

Our line-up:
– October 25th 6-7 pm: Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Julia King (Climate Adaption and Mitigation)
– October 26th 6-7 pm: Caroline Hickman (Eco-Anxiety)
– October 27th 6-7 pm: Physicist Amory Lovins (Disruptive Technologies)
– October 28th 6-7 pm: Professor Alan Dangour (Global Health & the Environment)
– October 30th 6-7 pm: Claudia S. de Windt (Climate Law & Policy)
– October 31st 6-7 pm: Professor Prakash Kashwan (Climate Justice)

Self Evidence and Romanticism
This talk reflects on the evidentiary authority of human experience around the turn of the nineteenth century in Western Europe. It is part of a larger project that explores how artistic and scientific practices questioned the extent to which the human body could act as a source of reliable knowledge. After sketching out some of the broader theoretical and historical concerns of the project, I will look specifically at Henry Fuseli, an artist whose notoriously distorted representations of the white male nude puzzled viewers. Yet Fuseli remained significantly invested, intellectually and artistically, in the legibility of the body: for over two decades, the Swiss-born, London-based artist collaborated with his childhood friend Johann Lavater on a treatise on physiognomy, the study of the face and body to determine man’s inner traits. What were the epistemological stakes, I ask, of Fuseli’s art? Can ‘self evidence’ reanimate how we understand some of the formal devices now associated with the emergence of pictorial romanticism?

Dr O’Rourke’s talk will be followed by a question and answer session.
All welcome! We hope to see you there.

The link to join is below. Please direct any queries in advance of the event to Katie Garner, klg7@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Dr Katie Garner
Head of 18C, Romantic, and Victorian Research Group
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The Gifford Lectures (2021-2022) will be delivered by Oliver O’Donovan, Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Professor at St Andrews. This year, the lecture series will take place online via Microsoft Teams. Please note that a Teams link will be circulated later in October to registered attendees.

The lecture series, entitled ‘The Disappearance of Ethics’, will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 5.30pm starting on Tuesday 26 October 2021 with ‘The missing object: the good’ and ending on Thursday 11 November 2021:

• 28 October The missing frontier: time
• 2 November The missing agent: the person
• 4 November Creation and the recovery of reality
• 9 November Law and the recovery of history
• 11 November Spirit and the recovery of agency

Attendance is free and open to the public. We ask you to register online so we can keep track of numbers. Please register by booking tickets below.

Any questions can be directed to Dr Robyn Boeré on reb8@st-Andrews.ac.uk.

The prestigious Gifford Lectureships were established by Adam Lord Gifford (1820 to 1887), a senator of the College of Justice in Scotland. The purpose of Lord Gifford’s bequest to the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, St Andrews and Aberdeen was to sponsor lectures to “promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term – in other words, the knowledge of God”.

Find out more information about the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews.

Registration for the Fellowship Day hosted by the BSRC and IBANS is now open.

The event brings together external funders, current fellowship holders and colleagues from a range of Units who support the submission of fellowship applications.

There will be a CV surgery, where small groups will discuss CVs with a senior member of academic staff, time for Q&As, and the opportunity to meet with one of the funders via individual appointments.

This event will be of particular interest to PhD students and PDRAs, but anyone is welcome to attend. Please register at this link where you will find the full agenda for the day.

This is a School of Classics Research Seminar Series event.

To attend this seminar please subscribe to the Classics seminar mailing list, email selby-sympa@st-andrews.ac.uk and put “subscribe classics-ressem” in the subject line.

For further information please contact classcon@st-andrews.ac.uk.

The School of Management welcomes Honorary Professor Kathy Lund Dean, who will lead this virtual research workshop for all staff and students in the School.

The topic of the session will be ‘Publishing from large projects: next steps for dissertations, theses or large data projects’.

The seminar has been designed to help participants consider what contribution they would like to make and what audiences are most appropriate to showcase their research, in a supportive and interactive space. It will include practical tips for breaking up large projects into publishable ‘chunks’ suitable for many different scholarly outlets such as journals, book chapters or conference submissions.

From Grinding to Ignition: Opportunities of Solid-State Chemistry in Green Chemistry and Materials Science

Tomislav Friśčić (Department of Chemistry, McGill University)

Abstract

This presentation will outline our group’s recent advances in using solid-state reactivity for the development of cleaner, safer synthetic methodologies and materials designs. In particular, it will provide an overview of the emergence of mechanochemistry, i.e. chemical transformations induced by mechanical agitation such as grinding, milling, or extrusion, as a uniquely general solventless synthetic methodology that can also provide access to novel reactivity and molecules.[1]

We will also show how focusing on the mechanistic aspects of mechanochemical reactions, and in particular the use of methodologies for real-time and in situ monitoring of milling processes,[2] can lead to advances in the fundamental understanding and prediction of structures and thermodynamic stabilities of advanced materials, such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).[3,4] Specifically, we will show how mechanistic investigations of mechanochemical reactions led to the discovery of simple guidelines to design MOFs with controllable stability, based on established or readily accessible descriptors of molecular stability.[5]

Finally, we will use our studies of MOF stability and energetics as a springboard to highlight a potential new application of this class of materials for developing a new type of greener and uniquely tuneable aerospace fuels based on solid-state designs.[6]

References
[1] Friśčić et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 1018; [2] Friśčić et al. Nature Chem. 2013, 5, 66; [3] Akimbekov et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 7952; [4] Arhangelskis et al. Chem. Mater. 2019, 31, 3777; [5] Novendra et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 21720; [6] Titi et al. Sci. Adv. 2019, 5, eaav9044.

In this panel, three indigenous Amerindian women – Glicéria Tupinambř, Francineia Fontes Baniwa and Olinda Silvano Shipibo-Konibo, who are leaders, activists, artists and much else – will reply to questions and debate issues related to COP 26.

They have pre-recorded their talks which are available to listen to online. Please listen to them before the event, during which they will participate directly from Brazil and Peru (translation provided).

Part of a series of online seminars organised by CAS (Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies) the event has been made possible through the support of the Department of Social Anthropology and the University’s Impact Fund for the ‘Amplifying Amerindian Voices’ Project, written by Professorial Fellow Cecilia McCallum and Professor Mark Harris.

It has also benefitted from the voluntary work of Latin American anthropologists Luisa Elvira Belaúnde in Peru and Ulla Macedo in Brazil, along with other volunteers. The event will be held jointly with the RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute), as a plenary session of their Anthropology and Conservation Conference.

Roast your Supervisor is a Research Events series organised by the ModCon Research Group. At this event, Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri and Zehra Kazmi will present: ‘Vertigo and Affect Theory’.

The series ‘Roast your Supervisor’ will give a platform to School of English staff to present their recent research to the School community.

There is, however, a twist to these events: following the presenter’s presentation, they will be grilled by one of their own PhD students about the topic and their research.

This turns a conversational situation which most of us are used to – the supervisee explaining themselves and their research to their supervisor – on its head.

Naturally, it would also be encouraged for the audience to ask some critical questions and participate as actively as possible.

The events will take place on MS Teams on a fortnightly basis on Wednesdays at 5.30pm and they will be free to attend for anyone interested.

Please e-mail Sam Haddow (jsfh@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Sandro Eich (se56@st-andrews.ac.uk) with any questions or to be added to the MS Teams channel.

Joint ILCR and ‘Edinburgh Roman Law Group’ Seminar – “The Edicts of the Praetors: Law, Politics and Revolution in Ancient Rome”
Lisa Eberle (Tubingen)

The ‘Evidence-Based Policy’ symposium is coordinated by the St Andrews Global Challenges Forum.

The St Andrews Global Challenges Forum was formed in 2018 and builds on the University’s commitment to the Global Challenges agenda. The forum supports the University’s extensive Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) challenge-led research base, funded by the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) GCRF QR Grant, and contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Chaired by Professor Thomas Meagher, this symposium is part of symposia webinar series on the overarching theme of ‘Sustainable Futures’ with the cross-cutting impact topics of:

• Equality Matters
• Sustainable Livelihoods
• Social Justice
• Evidence-based policy

Our vision for these themed sessions is that each will consist of two to three paired talks from St Andrews researchers and their ODA partners, followed by a panel presentation and discussion.

These topics are applicable to the SFC-funded GCRF projects portfolio as underlying issues are being addressed with more discipline-specific research. We intend that they will form the basis for substantive interdisciplinary discussions.

Find out more about GCRF on Facebook or Twitter.  For further information, please email RIS_GCRF@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Marie Favereau (Université Paris Nanterre)
Shaping the northern frontier of the Muslim World: The Horde