Upcoming events

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  1. ICFUST 2024

    ICFUST 2024

    The 2nd International Congress on Far-UVC Science and Technology (ICFUST) will bring together researchers, innovators and policymakers from around the world to share the latest efficacy and safety information on this important pathogen-annihilating...

  2. The Persian Parthenon

    The Persian Parthenon

    Professor Tom Harrison of the British Museum looks again at the old thesis that the iconography of the Parthenon took inspiration from the art of Persepolis. He does so by taking a wider view of the role of Persia as a model for Athenian imperialism. By examining the evidence for other Persian architectural and...

  3. Narrative Space and Possible Worlds

    Narrative Space and Possible Worlds

    Encountering Ancient Narratives from a Cognitive Science Perspective

    This conference is the last event of an exciting collaborative research project on Narrative Space and Possible Worlds: Encountering Ancient Narratives from a Cognitive Science Perspective. The project, funded by the St Andrews-Bonn Collaborative Research Grant Programme, brought together researchers based at the University of St Andrews and the University of Bonn from a...

  4. Acting on Climate Change

    Acting on Climate Change

    Policy, Rights and Net Zero

    Balancing rising energy demands with the need to curb and adapt to anthropogenic climate change in a just and equitable way is at the heart of an existential challenge facing Scotland and, indeed, the world. Most people agree that addressing climate change in urgent. However, how this should be done, by whom, at what...

  5. St Andrews Climate Week

    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...

  6. Ali Ansari's Iran (Polity Histories) --- Book Signing
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    Ali Ansari's Iran (Polity Histories) --- Book Signing

    Ali Ansari is a Professor in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. In Iran (Polity Histories) Ali takes readers on a journey through Iran's turbulent history. Join us at the Wardlaw Museum to meet Ali and talk all things Iran. The event includes a book signing and complimentary...

  7. Mechanisms of TDP-43-induced neurodegenerative disease

    Mechanisms of TDP-43-induced neurodegenerative disease

    Research seminar as part of the School of Biology's Biomolecular Sciences (BMS) External Seminar series by Dr Leeanne McGurk, School of Life Sciences, 
University of...

  8. The Elimination of Trachoma: Past, present and future
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    The Elimination of Trachoma: Past, present and future

    A Seminar by Dr Danny Haddad

    This April, the Mackenzie Institute for Early Diagnosis will welcome Dr Danny Haddad, who will deliver this seminar on efforts to eliminate trachoma. Dr Haddad and CBM Global are key partners for the School of Medicine's Arclight Project -- working to improve eye and ear health worldwide. Dr Haddad is Director for Inclusive Eye...

  9. Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    Constructing Other Worlds: A practical workshop on Animation and Ethnography

    How can thinking like an animator inform anthropological research?

    The workshop is open to all students of Anthropology (UG, PGT AND PGR) (15 seats). Department of Social anthropology brings to you a one of its kind hands-on workshop exploring mediums of still image filmmaking facilitated by Animator, Priit Tender and Anthropologist, Carlo Cubero. Animators and ethnographers each engage in composing rich and complex...

  10. The Importance of Judicial Craft in Constitutional Adjudication

    The Importance of Judicial Craft in Constitutional Adjudication

    We are delighted to invite you to the ILCR Lecture by Kate O'Regan (Oxford), which will take place on Thursday, 25 April, from 5.15pm in the Old Seminar Room (Mediaeval History Building, 65-71 South Street). The lecture will focus on "The Importance of Judicial Craft in Constitutional Adjudication." It will be followed by the end of semester...

  11. Evidence Based Early Diagnosis (EBED) Conference

    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...

  12. Knowledge, Culture, and Spirituality in the Islamic Civilization

    Knowledge, Culture, and Spirituality in the Islamic Civilization

    Dr Khairudin Aljunied

    The St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology is pleased to welcome Dr Khairudin Aljunied from National University of Singapore to speak on the topic of 'Knowledge, Culture, and Spirituality in the Islamic Civilization' on Wednesday 1st May 2024 at 4:30pm in the Senate Room, Parliament Building, University of St Andrews. The Islamic Civilization was, for...

  13. Cultural memory, identity and images

    Cultural memory, identity and images

    CIMS PG Symposium

    Prepare to immerse yourself in a captivating exploration of 'cultural identity, memory and images' at this interdisciplinary postgraduate symposium organised by the Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS). At this year's event, there will be a special emphasis on the transformative role of imagery while delving into the intricate realms of cultural identity...

  14. Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

    Further information and registration details can be found via the link below. Please contact [email protected] if you have additional...

  15. International Museums Conference & ICOFOM 47th Annual Assembly

    International Museums Conference & ICOFOM 47th Annual Assembly

    Transnational Island Museologies

    The International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM), the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, and the European Research Council (ERC) selected and UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) funded Shared Island Stories research project are pleased to welcome delegates to the hybrid (in-person and online) conference on the topic of Transnational Island...

  16. 'Dog Apartment', a Master Class with Priit Tender, part of the 'Constructing Other Worlds' events.

    'Dog Apartment', a Master Class with Priit Tender, part of the 'Constructing Other Worlds' events.

    Prof. Priit Tender (Estonian Academy of Arts) will give a masterclass on his film, Dog Apartment as part of the two-day event 'Constructing Other Worlds' - Free

    As part of a two-day event 'Constructing Other Worlds: Ethnography/Animation' Prof. Priit Tender (Estonian Academy of Arts) will be presenting a masterclass on his animated film, Dog Apartment. Priit will describe the motivations behind and technical questions involved in creating Dog Apartment as an example of some of the work of animation studio Nukufilm...

  17. Centre for Energy Ethics: Long Field Loop by Rebecca Sharp

    Centre for Energy Ethics: Long Field Loop by Rebecca Sharp

    FREE but please book

    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...

  18. Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive: An Exploratory Workshop

    Quantification and the Persepolis Fortification Archive: An Exploratory Workshop

    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 a workshop in the University of St Andrews, Scotland, on 30th and 31st...

  19. The Diplomacy of Terror.  European States and Arab-Palestinian Terrorism during the Cold War

    The Diplomacy of Terror. European States and Arab-Palestinian Terrorism during the Cold War

    CSTPV Seminar with Prof. Valentine Lomellini, University of Padua (Italy)

    In the late 1960s, a new political actor appeared on the European stage: armed organisations from the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin export terrorism to the Old Continent to influence the international scene. France, West Germany, Great Britain and Italy -- countries simultaneously affected by domestic terrorism -- found themselves facing a new...