Event typeSeminar

This meeting of the School of Management’s Knowledge and Practice thematic research group will be an opportunity for a virtual coffee and catch-up, and a chance to share plans and suggestions for the coming year.

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

“Merovingian Medicine: Dead or Alive?” – Medieval History Seminar presented by James Palmer (St. Andrews)

Speaker: Andrew Ellis, London School of Economics

Abstract: An agent makes a stochastic choice from a set of lotteries. She infers the outcomes of her options using a subjective causal model represented by a directed acyclic graph, and consequently may misinterpret correlation as causation. Her choices affect her inferences which in turn affect her choices, so the two together must form a personal equilibrium. We show how an analyst can identify the agent’s subjective causal model from her random choice rule. In addition, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions that allow an analyst to test whether the agent’s behavior is compatible with the model.

Join the School of Art History for the first Research lecture from Dr Neal Shasore of the London School of Architecture on ‘The Immanence of Empire: Architecture, Timber and Supply Chains in Interwar Britain’.

Weekly seminar of the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) online. This paper is a brief introduction to a larger research project that outlines different aspects, and therefore different methodologies related to the Yazidi genocide in Iraq that took place between 2014-2018 under the occupation of Daesh, known in the West as ISIS, a fundamentalist Islamic movement that created a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. Raqqa in Syria became the centralised political capital of the Caliphate while Mosul in Iraq became the centre of operations to apply a very struct sharia law in Iraq, including the ownership of slaves, and women as the main objects of such commercial operation in human beings. In this project, Nadia Murad, Amal Clooney, Olivia Wells, and others have led not only the communal discussions of the Murad Code in different university communities but have triggered this project as a three-volume publication project with the following volumes:
Mario I. Aguilar, Nadia Murad: Yazidi and World Peacemaker, Routledge, 2022.
Mario I. Aguilar, After Genocide, Empathic Cartographies, and the God of the Peripheries, SCM, 2023.
Mario I. Aguilar, Religion and Minorities in Iraq: From Gertrude Bell to the 2014 Yazidi genocide. Anthem Press, 2023.

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar
‘Russia and Courtly Europe: Early Modern Perspectives on Diplomatic Practice and Culture’ – Jan Hennings (Central European University)

Dr Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
University of São Paulo

Title: Amazonian shamanic iconographies: a comparative study

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.

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.

Dr Wazhmah Osman (Temple University) will be discussing her new book Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists.

Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women’s rights, democracy, modernity and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era.

Dr Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing.

After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace.

Register at the information link below – all welcome. The event will take place online on Microsoft Teams.

Dr Ewan Gibbs (University of Glasgow)
‘Understanding Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland’

Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research Seminar
Saints Law Seminar – “Economics, Law, History” with Joao Rafael Cunha (St. Andrews) and Montserrat Lopez Jerez (St. Andrews)

“The Making of Rus: Medieval Realm, Late Medieval Literati, and Modern Historiography” – Medieval History Seminar presented by Yulia Mikhailova (New Mexico Tech)

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

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar
‘”Paper, Bubble and Wind Trade”: Economies of Theatre and The Great Mirror of Folly (1720)’ – presented by Suzanne Kooloos (Amsterdam)

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.

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.

‘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)

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

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.

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.

Dr Lisa Davidson
York University

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

Abstract: TBA

“The site of Lalibela and its history from a local to a transnational perspective (10th-16th centuries) – presented by Marie-Laure Derat (Orient et Mediterranee (CNRS))

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.

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

“To underlie the law within three tides as sea faring men’ : Merchants and mariners before the Aberdeen courts in the later middle ages” – presented by Dr Edda Frankot (Nord University)

Dr Julienne Obadia
University of Cambridge

Title: Paying in Processing Time – The Contract Complex, Polyamory, and the Relational Production of Unrelationality in American Late Liberalism

Abstract: TBA

This research seminar will welcome Dr Giota Papadimitri, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth. Her topic will be ‘Social traits and credit card default: a two-stage prediction framework’.

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.

Medieval History Seminar – presented by Giles Gasper (Durham) – title to be confirmed

‘Creating a nation: an artefactual history of Scotland AD 800-1200’ – Adrian Maldonado (National Museums of Scotland)
A joint seminar with Medieval History and ISHR

Dr Brian Alleyne
University of London, Goldsmiths

Title: Technological speculations and explorations in odd places, or, how to be a geek in the Global South

Abstract: Except for industrialising Asia, the Global South is not generally associated with deep innovation in digital technologies: research recognises Southern innovation in terms of improvisation around affordance considering material derivation, but fundamental tech development is seen as happening in the North. In this talk I challenge this construction by exploring geek culture outside global North centred national silos and ethnocentric frameworks. I offer first the outline of a surprising narrative history of computing in the Caribbean, before discussing two cases. The first case is built around a thematic ‘distant reading’ of speculative fiction written by authors identified with the English and Spanish Caribbean. The second case addresses efforts by geeks from Cuba and Trinidad-Tobago to enter the supposedly lucrative field of digital commodity production. Alongside the substantive presentation, I highlight several methodological issues around ‘fieldwork’ that I had to confront because travel was impossible owing to the pandemic.

This research seminar will welcome Professor Konstantin Sokolov, from Fogelman College of Business and Economics, University of Memphis. His topic will be ‘Who benefits from securities exchange innovation?’.

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.

Medieval History Seminar
“Between Textual and Emotional Communities? Touch and Medieval French Literary Culture” presented by Henry Ravenhall (Cambridge)

Medieval History Seminar JOINT with English
“‘Writing – to the Moment’ in Richard Methley’s Mystical Diary Refectorium Salutis (1487)” presented by Laura Saetveit-Miles (University of Bergen)

Early Modern and Reformation Seminar
‘”Be a sinner and sin boldly.” Albrecht Dürer: Guilt, faith and the epidemic of his time’ – presented by Birgit Münch (Bonn)

Prof Jenny Huberman
University of Missouri, Kansas City

Title: Moments are Still the Elements of Profit – The App Economy and the Digital Extraction of Surplus-Value

Abstract: Over the last two decades, while the ranks of the under and unemployed have swelled, and as the commercial demand for more precise data has skyrocketed, the smartphone task and gaming app industry has exploded. Likened to a portable Mechanical Turk, or a veritable “data enrichment” industry, apps such as Spare5, Taps for Money, InboxDollars, Cash Karma, Mistplay, Bingo Box, Solitude Cube, Swagbucks, Survey Junkie, Lifepoints, PrizeRebel, and TreasureTrooper, to name just a few, are advertised to e-commerce and AI companies as a way to get the most direct access to potential consumers, and as way to gain a “cost-effective” leg up in the “arms race in training data.” They are also presented to consumers or users as a means to “win” or “earn some money by performing simple tasks irrespective of the place where you are.” Companies propose that by downloading these apps onto smartphones users can render their “free time” economically productive. In this talk, I explore how the smartphone app industry is facilitating the digitized extraction of surplus-value. I argue that it is precisely by blurring the boundaries between work and leisure, and in many cases, “gamifying” tasks, that the app economy, which is inextricably tied to the platform economy, is able to perpetuate and extend a classic form of capitalist expropriation into the most intimate reaches of daily life. Drawing upon an analysis of some of the most popular smartphone “earning” apps, I will demonstrate that although much has changed in the era of digital capitalism, moments, as Marx recognized long ago, are still the elements of profit.

Scottish History Seminar
Education and the Catholic Mission in Scotland, c. 1660-1707 – presented by Dr Karie Schultz (University of St Andrews)