Upcoming events

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...

Date: Thursday 14 May 2026
Time: 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
Location: School I, St Salvator's Quad

Giraffeonomics: the political economy of giraffe conservation and trade

Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

The Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies is delighted to announce the fourth seminar in the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, titled...

Date: Thursday 26 February 2026
Time: 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Location: Old Burgh School

Family financial socialisation in the digital age

Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

The Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies is delighted to announce the sixth seminar in the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, titled 'Family...

Date: Thursday 30 April 2026
Time: 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Location: Old Burgh School

The Pianist in Exile

Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

The Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies is delighted to announce the seventh and final seminar in the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, titled...

Date: Thursday 28 May 2026
Time: 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Location: Old Burgh School

Unheard, unseen, unjust: challenging the individualisation of loneliness in the lives of ethnic mino

Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

The Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies is delighted to announce the fifth seminar in the series, titled 'Unheard, unseen, unjust: challenging...

Date: Thursday 26 March 2026
Time: 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Location: Students Union

Chaplain's Conversation

with Dr Sandra Romenska, Business School, Managements

Dr Sandra Romenska of the University Business School's Department of Management will be in conversation with the University Chaplain, Donald MacEwan, as she...

Date: Wednesday 18 February 2026
Time: 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm
Location: The Byre Theatre

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'. He'd started his...

Date: Thursday 9 April 2026
Time: 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
Location: School I, St Salvator's Quad

Settlement and society in Argyll and the southern Hebrides, circa 800BC to circa AD1300

Dr Russell Ó Ríagřin, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of History, takes a settlement-based approach to the social processes at work in mid-west...

Date: Thursday 11 December 2025
Time: 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
Location: School I, St Salvator's Quad

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Teaching with purpose: cultivating civic-minded English educators through community engagement

The speaker for this Centre for International, Language and Teacher Education Research (CILTER) event is Agnes Tang, Program Director, MATESOL, College of...

Date: Friday 9 January 2026
Time: 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Location: Online
Attend: Booking required

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...

Date: Thursday 12 March 2026
Time: 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
Location: School I, St Salvator's Quad

Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

DR ANNE CRONE, AOC Archaeology, will be talking about how long-running excavations at Black Loch of Myrton in Dumfries and Galloway have transformed our...

Date: Thursday 12 February 2026
Time: 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
Location: School I, St Salvator's Quad