Younger Hall, located on North Street, is one of the University’s biggest venues. The Music Centre is currently based in Younger Hall and regularly hosts performances by professional and amateur musicians. The University’s graduation ceremonies also take place in Younger Hall twice a year in June and December.
The main hall has the capacity for 1,000 people with further venue spaces available in the conference room and the Stewart room.
We invite you to join our first postcolonial methods workshop. Postcolonial, decolonial and anticolonial research (and their associated methodologies) aims to broaden our understandings of the colonial dynamics in our societies, politics, culture, and more. This research recognises the way in which are our day-to-day lives are intertwined with colonialism and imperialism, and seek to…
From the outside to the inside of the policy circle — during our next PEP talk, we will hear from two leading energy scientists in Scotland and their way into politics. Dr Kirsten Jenkins is energy equity and justice researcher from the University of Edinburgh and, since January 2024, Climate Change and Net Zero Adviser…
Join members of CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs) for the launch of the Philosophy of Climate Science (PhiCliSci) working group, which will bring together philosophers and climate scientists to discuss central themes relating to the climate crisis. In the first session, climate scientist Graeme MacGilchrist and philosopher Katharina Bernhard will give short…
The University is working with Rewilding Kinkell to manage the Craig Hurtle SSSI using a family of Highland Cattle to graze down invasive plants and restore this rare coastal grassland just south of St Andrews. As part of Sustainability Week you can meet the cows with farmer Rory Fife from Rewilding Kinkell and find out…
The School of English is delighted to announce that the internationally acclaimed American poet Peter Gizzi will be a Senior Global Fellow at St Andrews in 2024/25. To mark his Fellowship, the School will host a colloquium on Professor Gizzi’s work on Friday, 18 October, to be followed by a public reading. PETER GIZZI is…
Dr Sam Haddow, Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Drama, in the School of English is hosting a free performance event and Q&A with the pioneering KlangHaus Theatre Company. Klanghaus is a company that generates site responsive, truly immersive dreamlike shows with the audience experience and care to the fore. The work is bespoke, agile, terrifying,…
In the past 30 or so years our understanding of research and evidence use has broadened — moving from linear views of an evidence use ‘pipeline’ to an appreciation of the dynamic ways in which various forms of evidence and knowledge are combined to bring about policy and practice change. This more nuanced understanding has…
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Insititute (CIMS) invites everyone to join this seminar by Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College) on ‘The Grapes of Desire: Fascist Agricultural Projects in Libya’. This seminar focuses on human culture as applied to forms of agricultural cultivation. Grapevines are considered as a vehicle that carries culture rather than as…
All postgraduate research and postgraduate taught students are invited to attend the CIMS PG Training Session in Environmental Humanities with Professor Michele Monserrati (Smith College). The session will commence with a one-hour talk by Professor Monserrati on his research methodology. Following this enlightening presentation, from 2 to 3 pm, there will be an interactive conversation…
As one of the most global conversations in history, climate crisis discourse is intrinsically dependent on and intertwined with ‘translation’: from ‘knowledge translation’ (KT, mainly referring to the dissemination of research findings to stakeholders and general population) and metaphorical use (translating scientific information into effective action), to interlingual translation and interpreting (research papers, children’s literature…