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  1. University of St Andrews' Annual Public Meeting

    University of St Andrews' Annual Public Meeting

    The University of St Andrews' Annual Public Meeting is to be held on Saturday 15 June 2024 from 3pm to 4pm in the Buchanan Lecture Theatre, Union Street, KY16 9PQ. This event is an integral component of the University's commitment to social responsibility as outlined in the University Strategy 2022 to 2027, and is...

  2. Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive

    Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive

    An exploratory workshop

    With more than 15,000 original texts, the Persepolis Fortification Archive is one of the largest surviving governmental archives from the ancient world. The surviving texts date from the 13th to the 28th regnal years of Darius I (509 to 493 BCE), with the majority falling between regnal years 21 and 24. The archive records...

  3. Past Perspectives: How can premodern environmental research be made useful in the climate emergency?

    Past Perspectives: How can premodern environmental research be made useful in the climate emergency?

    Impact Workshop, Monday May 27, 2024 Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh

    The human species has forever been adapting to dynamic environmental conditions. The premodern world provides a laboratory of various experiments in human-environment interactions: a rich history of successes and failures, acute and chronic pressures, false-starts and path dependencies, resilience and vulnerabilities---all operating on a global scale over the longue durée. How should we collate,...