Upcoming events

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  1. Remembering Service

    Remembering Service

    The Chaplaincy extends a warm invitation to our community members who have experienced the death of a family member, friend, student, peer, or colleague. Regardless of your faith or philosophy of life, you are welcome to join us for a reflective service featuring readings and music. There will also be an opportunity to light...

  2. Compline for Graduation

    Compline for Graduation

    A service of night prayer, with music and spoken prayers and silence. Open to all graduating students, their families and guests, and all others, regardless of their faith or philosophy of...

  3. Grief Group

    Grief Group

    Staff lunch

    This group is open to all staff who are grieving, whether your loss is recent or in the past. It offers an opportunity to find common ground with others if you are feeling isolated and alone and is a safe place to discuss and share various aspects of grief. Drinks and light lunch provided,...

  4. Grief Group

    Grief Group

    Staff lunch

    This group is open to all staff who are grieving, whether your loss is recent or in the past. It offers an opportunity to find common ground with others if you are feeling isolated and alone and is a safe place to discuss and share various aspects of grief. Drinks and light lunch provided,...

  5. Chaplain's Conversation

    Chaplain's Conversation

    with Dr Michael Downes

    In conversation with the Chaplain, Donald MacEwan, Michael Downes will discuss his path to the University, and his thoughts about the future of music in education. Michael is the Director of Music, appointed in 2008. He read English and Music at King's College, Cambridge and completed a doctorate on Debussy at the University of...

  6. Sunday Worship

    Sunday Worship

    Come join us for the University Service in St Salvator's Chapel with St Salvator's Chapel Choir. Gowns are welcome but definitely not required. An optional, short service of holy communion will follow. This service will take place in person and will be available to watch via livestream. See the 'Livestreamed services' section on our...

  7. Sunday Worship

    Sunday Worship

    Come join us for the University Service in St Salvator's Chapel with St Salvator's Chapel Choir. Gowns are welcome but definitely not required. An optional, short service of holy communion will follow. This service will take place in person and will be available to watch via livestream. See the 'Livestreamed services' section on our...

  8. Grief Group

    Grief Group

    Staff

    This group is open to all staff who are grieving, whether your loss is recent or in the past. It offers an opportunity to find common ground with others if you are feeling isolated and alone and is a safe place to discuss and share various aspects of grief. Drinks and light lunch provided,...

  9. Chaplain's Conversation

    Chaplain's Conversation

    with Professor Silvia Paracchini

    In conversation with the Chaplain, Donald MacEwan, Professor Silvia Paracchini, will discuss her path to the University, what inspires her research and thoughts about the future of education. Silvia, Professor or Neurogenetics and Genomics, leads the Neurogenetics group who are interested in genetic basis of complex cognitive and behavioural phenotypes using multidisciplinary approaches. Free...

  10. Sunday Worship

    Sunday Worship

    Come join us for the University Service in St Salvator's Chapel with St Salvator's Chapel Choir. Gowns are welcome but definitely not required. An optional, short service of holy communion will follow. This service will take place in person and will be available to watch via livestream. See the 'Livestreamed services' section on our...

  11. Sunday Worship

    Sunday Worship

    Service of Welcome

    Come join us for the University Service of Welcome in St Salvator's Chapel with St Salvator's Chapel Choir. The sermon will be preached by the University Chaplain, Revd Dr Donald MacEwan. Gowns are welcome but definitely not required. An optional, short service of holy communion will follow. This service will take place in person...

  12. Sunday Worship

    Sunday Worship

    Opening Service

    Come join us for the University Service of Opening in St Salvator's Chapel with St Salvator's Chapel Choir. The sermon will be preached by the University Chaplain, Revd Dr Donald MacEwan. Gowns are welcome but definitely not required. An optional, short service of holy communion will follow. This service will take place in person...

  13. University Staff Golf Competitions

    University Staff Golf Competitions

    Free

    Organisers of the annual staff golf competitions are looking for participants for 2024. Anyone interested in playing in this year's knock-out competitions should contact Renald Schaub on [email protected] for the four-ball better-ball competition or Graham Miller on [email protected] for the Singles (Boase Quaich) competition by Monday 1 April. Please provide a name, club and...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies

    The Next Generation of Classical Reception Studies

    The St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity (SACRA) and the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN) would like to invite postgraduate researchers and early career academics based in the UK and working in the field of classical reception studies to this workshop at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. There is no...

  17. The Future of German Screen Studies Conference

    The Future of German Screen Studies Conference

    The conference will delve into the future prospects of German Screen Studies amidst ongoing technological evolution, heightened cultural and political discord, and historical upheavals on national, European, and global levels. Exploring innovative methodologies and concepts, scholars and students will investigate German-language cinematic, televisual, streaming, and site-specific screen media, spanning historical, contemporary, and forthcoming periods....

  18. Everything is political, decolonisation is an ongoing process

    Everything is political, decolonisation is an ongoing process

    Leena Nammari

    It is the colonisers themselves and their people that need re-educating and have to start rethinking their own prejudices and assumed knowledge. The indigenous know their history and they hold on to it with the tools that they have on hand. They use storytelling, their unique clothing, their foods and cuisine and just existing...

  19. 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,...