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  1. Anniversary of the full scale invasion of Ukraine: four years later

    Anniversary of the full scale invasion of Ukraine: four years later

    St Andrews Ukrainian Society with guest speaker Vitaliia Turchyn

    Tuesday 24 February 2026 marks the fourth year since the full invasion of Ukraine. This event will include student speakers sharing their own experiences of...

  2. Chaplain's Conversation

    Chaplain's Conversation

    Dr Sandra Romenska, Business School

    Dr Sandra Romenska of the University Business School will be in conversation with the University Chaplain, Donald MacEwan, as she explores her path to the...

  3. Engineering biology for a sustainable materials future

    Engineering biology for a sustainable materials future

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Joanna Sadler, University of Edinburgh.

  4. The Middle Corridor: Finance and Security

    The Middle Corridor: Finance and Security

    MECACS Seminar Series Event - Ms Arzu Abbasova (RUSI, London) - Chair: Dr Filippo Costa Buranelli

    Arzu Abbasova is a Research Analyst at the Centre for Finance and Security at Royal United Services Institute. She leads the research on the pathways to...

  5. MusicTalks with Timothy Schwarz

    MusicTalks with Timothy Schwarz

    The influence on today's composers of older traditions and compositions - FREE

    Our free music talks highlight a wide variety of musical research.

  6. Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Elizabeth Petcu

    Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Elizabeth Petcu

    'Dürer's Precision'

    Join us for Dr Elizabeth Petcu's Research Lecture on 'Dürer's Precision' and a wine reception afterwards at 79 North Street.

  7. The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    Clestrain Hall was built in the 1760s and was the childhood home of arctic explorer John Rae. It is an exceptional survival of Georgian architecture and is...

  8. Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Richard McClary

    Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Richard McClary

    'Fake or Real? Questioning the Authenticity of Mina'i Ware Bowls'

    Join us for Dr Richard McClary's Research Lecture on 'Fake or Real? Questioning the Authenticity of Mina'i Ware Bowls' and a wine...

  9. Interdisciplinary Research Festival

    Interdisciplinary Research Festival

    Interdisciplinarity in the wild

    Join the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies for the University's first Interdisciplinary Research Festival, an event celebrating the diversity,...

  10. Scottish Arctic Network Conference and AGM

    Scottish Arctic Network Conference and AGM

    The Scottish Arctic Conference and Scottish Arctic Network Annual General Meeting will be hosted at University of St Andrews from 5-6 March. The event brings...

  11. Geopolitics of Ports and Islands: the case of Yemen

    Geopolitics of Ports and Islands: the case of Yemen

    Speaker: Dr Khaled Fattah (United Nations) Chair: Dr Hsinyen Lai

    Details to be added

  12. People make history

    People make history

    Local history day

    Celebrate the rich history of our local area at the Wardlaw Museum's local history day. Join Libraries and Museums for a special event where local history...

  13. Art History Research Lecture -- Seif El Rashidi

    Art History Research Lecture -- Seif El Rashidi

    'Cotton Palaces for Kings and Tourists: Continuities and Revivals in the Egyptian Tentmaking Tradition from the 1880-1980'

    Join us for Seif El Rashidi's Research Lecture on 'Cotton Palaces for Kings and Tourists: Continuities and Revivals in the Egyptian Tentmaking...

  14. Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture: Professor Gábor Betegh, University of Cambridge

    Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture: Professor Gábor Betegh, University of Cambridge

    Plato on forgetting and re-understanding

    For further information please email [email protected].

  15. Scottish Arctic Network Conference and AGM

    Scottish Arctic Network Conference and AGM

    The Scottish Arctic Conference and Scottish Arctic Network Annual General Meeting will be hosted at University of St Andrews from 5-6 March. The event brings...

  16. Peace, war and conflict in the ancient world

    Peace, war and conflict in the ancient world

    The workshop plans to examine the following questions: What theories of the origin of conflict, or suggestions for conflict-avoidance, do we find in the ancient...

  17. Making light of the great dark? Andrew Lang on American literature

    Making light of the great dark? Andrew Lang on American literature

    Andrew Lang Memorial Lecture 2026

    Dr Tom Hubbard was the first librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library and has held visiting lectureships or professorships at the Universities of Grenoble,...

  18. Non-violent mobilisation against terrorism: why and how it matters

    Non-violent mobilisation against terrorism: why and how it matters

    Guest Speakers: Dr Javier Argomaniz, Dr Tim Wilson and Dr Boris Tsokov

    When studying terrorist campaigns, analysis typically centres on the two principal protagonists: the state and militant organisations. This narrow focus...

  19. Digital Sovereignty in the European Union

    Digital Sovereignty in the European Union

    CGLG Talk with Guest Speaker Michal Czerniawski

    Michal Czerniawski works in the Justice Committee of the European Parliament, specialising in digital laws, personal data protection, and transparency. As part...

  20. Smith Lecture Spring 2026: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

    Smith Lecture Spring 2026: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

    The secret history of Christian women: purity, power and the end of the American century

    Each semester, an outstanding female scholar from any sub-discipline of Divinity is invited to St Andrews to deliver the Smith Lecture in memory of Agnes Lewis...

  21. Voyage round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Voyage round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Exactly two hundred years ago, William Daniell published the final part of his eight-volume Voyage Round Great Britain. Daniell had started his journey in 1813...

  22. Symposium: 'The Chosen Ones? Character Groupings in Classical and Medieval Art and Literature'

    Symposium: 'The Chosen Ones? Character Groupings in Classical and Medieval Art and Literature'

    Plenary Speaker: Professor Eva von Contzen, University of Freiburg

    For updates and information on purchasing tickets please visit our website https://chosen-symposium-2026.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Fees

  23. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    State propaganda through art and sport in fascist Italy

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  24. Emotions as sites of embodied learning in the classroom

    Emotions as sites of embodied learning in the classroom

    Distinguished Teacher Lecture: Professor Naomi Head, University of Glasgow

    Emotions have become a recognised element of International Relations curricula, shaping modules and taking up intellectual space within our disciplinary...

  25. International law and emotions: challenges and prospects

    International law and emotions: challenges and prospects

    CGLG Seminar with Guest Speaker Professor Andrea Bianchi

    At this CGLG event, Professor Andrea Bianchi of the Geneva Graduate Institute will present his work on international law and emotions. Andrea's research...

  26. Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society (IMHS) Annual Lecture 2026 --- What is museum closure?

    Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society (IMHS) Annual Lecture 2026 --- What is museum closure?

    by Prof Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology and Director of the Mapping Museums Lab at Birkbeck, University of London.

    What is museum closure? Over the last two years the Mapping Museums Lab at Birkbeck (University of London) have been collecting data on which museums have...

  27. To the Rescue --- Rupture and Resilience of the UN Charter Order

    To the Rescue --- Rupture and Resilience of the UN Charter Order

    CGLG Talk with Special Guest - Antje Wiener

    Abstract: The rule-based international legal order is under duress. Recent breaches of international law on behalf of members of the United Nations (UN)...

  28. Intense Episodes --- Workshop Call for Papers

    Intense Episodes --- Workshop Call for Papers

    About the Workshop Organised by Yichi Zhang, Evgeniya Pakhomova, and Nathan McAllister, and funded by the Ladislav Holy Trust, this workshop seeks to explore...

  29. Book talk: Axis of Empire: A history of Iran-US Relations

    Book talk: Axis of Empire: A history of Iran-US Relations

    MECACS Seminar Series Event via MS Team email [email protected] for the link

    Axis of Empire: A History of Iran--US Relations by Afshin Matin-Asgari A chronicle of intrigue and influence in the Iran-US entanglement Ironic plot twists...

  30. Azerbaijan's war and peace: political strategy and vision for the future

    Azerbaijan's war and peace: political strategy and vision for the future

    Speakers: Dr Murad Muradov (Topchubashov Center, Baku, Azerbaijan) Chair: Professor Rick Fawn

    Murad Muradov graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the Academy of Public Administration of the Republic of Azerbaijan...

  31. International Women's Day at the Wardlaw Museum

    International Women's Day at the Wardlaw Museum

    Craft drop in

    Celebrate International Women's Day at the Wardlaw Museum with free, drop-in, self-led craft activities inspired by the Mary, Queen of Scots exhibition at...

  32. Land and Power in the Later Roman World

    Land and Power in the Later Roman World

    Land and landownership underpinned the socio-economic fabric of the late Roman world. Land played a defining role in the working of the state and secular...

  33. The problematic association between foreign military assistance and increased terrorist attacks in recipient nations

    The problematic association between foreign military assistance and increased terrorist attacks in recipient nations

    ISWS Seminar Series with Guest Speaker Aoife McCullough

    Foreign military assistance is intended to support security forces in recipient nations to fight insurgencies, and maintain stability and political order....

  34. Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    DR SOPHIA ADAMS, British Museum, tells the story of a remarkable find. In December 2021 a metal detectorist reported a possible in-situ deposit of Iron Age...

  35. Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society seminar -- Martin Barnes

    Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society seminar -- Martin Barnes

    'Why Photography Matters: Changing Contexts at the V&A'

    Since its invention in the 1820s, photography has been used and understood in many ways: as a technology of seeing, a social document, a commercial transaction,...

  36. Scottish Arctic Network Conference and AGM

    Scottish Arctic Network Conference and AGM

    The Scottish Arctic Conference and Scottish Arctic Network Annual General Meeting will be hosted at University of St Andrews from 5-6 March. The event brings...

  37. Mercenary: genealogy of a concept in international relations

    Mercenary: genealogy of a concept in international relations

    CGLG Event with Guest Speaker Dr Malte Riemann

    At this CGLG event, Malte Riemann, Assistant Professor at Leiden University, will join us to discuss his book proposal, Mercenary: Genealogy of a Concept in...

  38. Pedagogy as success and failure: what happens when teaching doesn't always look like learning?

    Pedagogy as success and failure: what happens when teaching doesn't always look like learning?

    DTL Teaching Forum with Professor Naomi Head - Staff and PGR Students of International Relations Only

    Within the context of the increasing pressures of teaching evaluations and metrics of success, how do we make sense of what goes on under the surface in our...

  39. Before the attack: what we are learning about preventing public violence

    Before the attack: what we are learning about preventing public violence

    Paul Wilkinson Memorial Lecture with guest speaker Professor Jessica Stern

    Public violence, including mass public shootings and terrorist attacks, accounts for a very small fraction of overall homicide, yet it produces an outsized...

  40. Military effectiveness and the rise of military professionalism under Louis XIV

    Military effectiveness and the rise of military professionalism under Louis XIV

    the Artillery -- Cutting Edge or Laggard? with guest speaker Guy Rowlands

    Few historians bandying around the terms 'military professional' and 'military professionalism' have given much space to explaining what...

  41. The George Jack Memorial Lecture: 'They are my only diary': Wilfred Owen, A Life in Letters

    The George Jack Memorial Lecture: 'They are my only diary': Wilfred Owen, A Life in Letters

    Dr Jane Potter, Oxford Brookes University

    In commemoration of George Barr Jack (1946 to 1999). Celebrated as one of the greatest poets of the First World War, Wilfred Owen is less recognised as an...

  42. Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict

    Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict

    ISWS Book Launch Event

    Book launch -- Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict Edited by Michael Finch, Aimée Fox & David Morgan-Owen...

  43. Life on the legitimacy frontier: understanding the authority struggle between the UN Security Council and the office of the Ombudsperson

    Life on the legitimacy frontier: understanding the authority struggle between the UN Security Council and the office of the Ombudsperson

    Speakers: Dr Anette Stimmer and Professor Christian Kreuder-Sonnen

    At this CGLG event, we will discuss Professor Christian Kreuder-Sonnen's (Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena) and Anette Stimmer's (University of...

  44. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    Painted Links: An exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  45. If it's not a bug, it's a feature: how the normalisation of hate speech has made games vulnerable to extremism

    If it's not a bug, it's a feature: how the normalisation of hate speech has made games vulnerable to extremism

    Guest speaker: Dr Rachel Kowert, Research Psychologist

    What happens when hate speech becomes so routine in a cultural space that it's treated as unremarkable background noise? This talk will examine how...

  46. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    From Ancient Greece to modern spectacle: the visual culture of the Olympic Games

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  47. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    Oval balls and cubist players

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  48. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    Cycling in Modern and Contemporary Art

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  49. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    Women in sport in art

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...