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Knox Lecture 2024 --- Professor Elizabeth Anderson
Categorical inequality and the economy of esteem
The Knox Lecture is an annual public lecture in the area of philosophy. This year's speaker is Professor Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan), who will be speaking on the topic of 'Categorical inequality and the economy of Esteem'. Social theorists have had considerable empirical success in modeling social hierarchy in terms of 'categorical inequality'. In this...
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Impacting global health through implementation science and digital health innovations
A Lecture by Professor Xiaolin Wei
This May, the School of Medicine will welcome medically trained public health specialist Professor Xiaolin Wei, who will deliver this seminar on the application of implementation science and digital health innovations to global health issues. Implementation science employs rigorous methods to promote the systematic incorporation of research findings into routine practice, and hence, to...
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Centre for Energy Ethics: Long Field Loop by Rebecca Sharp
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Join Poet, playwright, and interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Sharp for the finale of her Centre for Energy Ethics resicdency, where she will launch her new collection of poems, Long Field Loop. When so much of moving forward includes looking back, the poems in Long Field Loop make space for making amends --- a space where...
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Seminar with Peter Hall, Professor of Medical Oncology, ECRC, University of Edinburgh
Data opportunities for high-value high-quality cancer care in Scotland
The Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies are delighted to welcome guest speaker Peter Hall, Professor of Medical Oncology, ECRC, University of Edinburgh to give a seminar on "Data opportunities for high-value high-quality cancer care in Scotland" on Thursday 23rd May 2024. Peter will also be joined by his colleague Elizabeth Lemmon, Research Fellow within...
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Transition and the Historiographical Vagaries of Silent American Cinema
Film Studies Speaker Series: Prof Charlie Keil
When first introduced as a concept specific to early cinema in an essay for Cinema Journal in 1991, the notion of "transition" came firmly attached to the name and work of D.W. Griffith. Subsequently, it was broadened to apply to all American filmmaking from 1907-1913, and then later again to define a period that...
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St Andrews Climate Week
The inaugural University of St Andrews Climate Week will run from 27-30 May 2024, with a series of events designed to highlight climate-themed research and build new cross-disciplinary collaborations. Climate Week is a STAIRS-funded initiative, featuring: -- a flagship St Andrews Climate Change Conference on Tuesday 28 May. Confronting climate change is one of...
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Former First Minister to launch Speaker Series
Former First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, will launch the University's Scotland's Future Speaker Series. Ms Sturgeon, who was First Minister and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) from 2014 to 2022, will share her thoughts on Scotland's future and how it could and should look. The former First Minister will reflect...
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Public lecture by Professor Stephen Gardiner
Beyond institutional denial: a global constitutional convention for future generations
Join CEPPA (Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs) for a public lecture on climate justice as part of Climate Week. The lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Gardiner of the University of Washington. Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a governance...
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Evidence Based Early Diagnosis (EBED) Conference
Exploring new diagnostics -- big promise, big challenge
Are you an innovator, researcher, clinician, policy-maker, or regulator who is interested in early diagnosis? You might be a patient, a member of the public, or a shareholder in a company making exciting technology in this area. If so, join the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis to explore what success looks like for the...
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When Nature stumbles on a good thing: from promiscuous binding to essential enzyme activity
Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Prof. Joelle Pelletier, Department of Chemistry, University of...
