What Sort of Artist Are You explores the art-stories of visual artist Raymond Watson during the last decade. In the event, Watson will discuss the challenge and process of creating projects and exhibitions that compose these stories, including sculpting the Good Friday Agreement, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, and the multimedia art of Honey Bees.…
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…
Naila and the Uprising is a Palestinian film which documents women in Gaza attempting to draw attention to the ongoing suffering of Palestinians. The film, lent by Cinema Poltica, is increasingly relevant, despite being released 8 years ago. The screening aims to make the severity of what is happening in Palestine evident in the UK,…
The Sir Malcolm Knox Memorial Lecture is given each academic year by a leading philosopher or political theorist. It is organised through the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs (CEPPA), a research centre in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. The 2025 Knox Lecture will be delivered by Professor David Enoch of the…
The Scottish Council on Global Affairs (SCGA) will host a discussion on re-building the Future of Ukraine to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Monday 24 February. During the discussion, Ukrainian John Smith Fellows, visiting St Andrews as part of the Scotland-Ukraine Reconstruction and Recovery Leadership Programme, will outline how…
Join us for ‘Turkish Defence and Foreign Policy: A New Era?’ with Dr Ziya Meral, Lecturer at SOAS, Senior Associate Fellow RUSI, and Visiting Fellow of the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre, at this lecture hosted by Defence-Tech, the School of IR, and the Roosevelt Group. Recent developments in Syria highlighted Turkey’s renewed capacities and…
American Politics Association and School of IR Speaker Event with Daniel Stoian, Senior Diplomat at the US State Department. Daniel Stoian is an experienced senior diplomat who has run seminars on diplomacy and negotiation at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. He is particularly keen on public diplomacy and public service, as well as incorporating innovation…
This lecture will reflect on the histories of conflict and revolution in Sudan, analysing the causes and drivers of its multiple conflicts, including geopolitical dimensions. It will appraise the failures and (partial) successes of regional, international and national peace-making, and draw broader lessons about mediation and conflict resolution in what has become one of the…
: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck is best known as commander of the Schutztruppe in German East Africa during the First World War, where his daring and increasingly mobile campaign earned him the nickname ‘lion of Africa’. His previous career as a colonial officer with deployments in the Boxer Rebellion (1900-1901) and during the Herero and Nama…
Earth orbit is an increasingly “congested, competitive, and contested” domain. Human societies are deeply reliant on satellite-enabled services but accumulating space objects and the development of anti-satellite (ASAT) technologies threaten the future sustainability of space activities. This paper makes the case that a global ban on destructive ASAT testing is both urgently necessary and politically…