St Salvator’s Quadrangle
Eva Reisinger will read from her books “Was geht Österreich” and “Männer töten”, for which she was nominated for the Austrian Debut Book Prize 2023. In her lastest book she tells the story of a little village in Upper Austria, where power relations are reversed and she takes a take on the question “What happens…
Time & Date: 5 pm, October 25, 2023 Venue: School VI at United College Quadrangle, University of St Andrews Speaker: Nathan Law (Former member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong)
Since the book of Genesis, the themes of expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the loss of innocence, and the search for a lost paradise –in a religious or a non-religious context– appear everywhere in Western art and literature. The purpose of this two-day symposium is to provide a thorough and original examination of such…
This lecture draws upon Edward Said’s contrapuntal reading of imperialism to critique the self-referential, exceptionalist impulses of contemporary liberalism – what I call “liberal narcissism.” Reflecting on some of the conceptual limitations of mainstream political theory’s approach to the entanglements of liberalism and imperialism, I seek to bring the historical insights of the “turn to…
Abstract At the end of 2022, the first Inter-Governmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC-1) to develop a binding UN treaty (instrument) to end plastic pollution took place in Punta del Este, Uruguay. The meeting brought together delegates from over 160 countries, joined by hundreds of observers from stakeholder and civil society groups. Dr Patrick O’Hare has…
Event with the women in business society. It will need a projector to do a teams call. We will be offering a CV workshop.
Event with the women in business society. It will need a projector to do a teams call. We will be offering a CV workshop.
CRSCEES in association with the GCRF Fellowship present this special event with Anna Dovgopol, ‘Gender, Rhetoric and the Reality of War in Ukraine’. Russia attacked Ukraine not just with missiles, but also with ideas – mainly, the idea of a ‘Russian world’ that includes Ukraine as an integral part and denies Ukraine its right of…
This is a session that will stream Lecture 2 of Week 5 of AH2002. Participants are welcome to stay at the end for discussion. This is an event organized by the academic representation of Art History second-year students.
This is a session that will stream Lecture 1 of Week 5 of AH2002. Participants are welcome to stay at the end for discussion. This is an event organized by the academic representation of Art History second-year students.