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  1. Status reversal and its discontents

    Status reversal and its discontents

    Michael Hechter, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

    The recent rise of reactionary politics in modern democracies across the globe has been attributed to a variety of causes, including deindustrialisation,...

  2. Mamma Mia! (PG)

    Mamma Mia! (PG)

    Friends of the Byre present - Pay what you can £8.00 / £6.00

    The long-standing community group Friends of the Byre present us a screening of the 2008 hit musical film, Mamma Mia. Transport to a Greek Island where the...

  3. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    The last CIRCA seminar of the semester will be on April 11th. Ian Gent and Jiaping Lu wil speak. Jiaping's title Generation of Iterated Wreath Products of...

  4. The Little Mermaid (PG)

    The Little Mermaid (PG)

    Pay what you can £8.00 / £6.00 / £4.00

    The beloved story of Ariel, is brought up to date with stunning performances from Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy and Javier Bardem. Shown with subtitles. Dir:...

  5. Oqlanmagan --- The Unexonerated

    Oqlanmagan --- The Unexonerated

    Film screening and Q&A session

    In the 1990s, Uzbekistan's first president Islam Karimov arrested tens of thousands of practising Muslims, imams, and citizens engaged in Islamic study...

  6. 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...

  7. Jean de Florette (PG)

    Jean de Florette (PG)

    Pay what you can £8.00 / £6.00

    Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a feud over a valuable spring in a...

  8. Nye (Cert 12A tbc)

    Nye (Cert 12A tbc)

    National Theatre Live: - Pay What You Can £20.00 / £15.00 / £10.00

    Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain's welfare state and...

  9. Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy -- Lecture 5: Arunachala

    This is the fifth of a series of six Gifford Lectures by Prof. Carlisle. They are open to all. Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy...

  10. Interdisciplinary Encounters: Challenge-led Assessment

    Interdisciplinary Encounters: Challenge-led Assessment

    We're delighted to launch a new series of interdisciplinary events, Interdisciplinary Encounters, with a lunchtime roundtable on 'Challenge-led...

  11. In Conversation: Sarah Stein Greenberg and Rosemary Scrimgeour

    In Conversation: Sarah Stein Greenberg and Rosemary Scrimgeour

    Join Sarah Stein Greenberg, Global Fellow (Education) at St Andrews and Executive Director of the Stanford d.school, and Rosemary Scrimgeour, Co-founder of...

  12. The Motive and the Cue (15)

    The Motive and the Cue (15)

    National Theatre Live: - Pay What You Can £20.00 / £15.00 / £10.00

    Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play. 1964: Richard Burton,...

  13. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Ilana Gershon

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Professor Ilana Gershon

    The Pandemic Workplace: What US Employment Contracts Revealed about Social Contracts during the Pandemic

    On 5th April, please join us for our final seminar of the academic year, with Professor Ilana Gershon from Rice University. Professor Gershon is currently...

  14. Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Elena Liber

    Social Anthropology Departmental Seminar -- Dr Elena Liber

    "The First TikTok War": Digital-Visual Storytelling and the Shaping of Narratives from Ukraine

    Please join us for this week's Social Anthropology Departmental seminar, with Dr Elena Liber, Lecturer in Digital Anthropology at University College...

  15. Manon des Sources (PG)

    Manon des Sources (PG)

    Pay what you can £8.00 / £6.00

    The concluding segment to one of the best-known French films follows the fortunes of Jean de Florette's daughter Emmanuelle Béart, heir to her...

  16. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (PG)

    Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (PG)

    Pay what you can £8.00 / £6.00 / £4.00

    Sweet, poignant, funny and Oscar nominated this story about a tiny shell's unique perspective on life promises joy and love for grown ups and children...

  17. Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy -- Lecture 4: Incarnations

    This is the fourth of a series of six Gifford Lectures by Prof. Carlisle. They are open to all. Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy...

  18. Gleaning, Fragmentation and Environmental Writing

    Gleaning, Fragmentation and Environmental Writing

    CIMS Seminar in Environmental Humanities by Professor Timothy C Baker (Aberdeen)

    The Cultural Identity and Memory Insititute welcomes everyone to join this seminar by Professor Timothy C Baker (Aberdeen) on 'Gleaning, Fragmentation,...

  19. Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Gifford Lectures 2024 --- Clare Carlisle, King's College London

    Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy -- Lecture 6: Transcendence for Beginners

    This is sixth of a series of six Gifford Lectures by Prof. Carlisle. They are open to all. Transcendence for Beginners: Life Writing and Philosophy Biography is...

  20. The Gatecrashers: a long view of lone actor assassins and terrorists

    The Gatecrashers: a long view of lone actor assassins and terrorists

    Featuring Tim Wilson

    Over little more than a decade, the so-called 'Lone Wolf' attacker has emerged as a central security threat. Such lone actors are usually seen as a...

  21. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Mike Watkinson

    Title and Abstract --- TBC For details regarding the speaker and their research please see their website.

  22. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Jonathan R Nitschke

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Jonathan R Nitschke

    Molecules in Metal Boxes

    Simple organic subcomponents can come together around metal-ion templates to produce intricate hollow capsules, which can bind guest molecules selectively. This...

  23. School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Professor Daniella Goldfarb

    School of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Professor Daniella Goldfarb

    Presentation by Professor Daniella Goldfarb of the Weizmann institute of Science, hosted by Janet Lovett.

  24. Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature With Dr Anna Elena Torres

    Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature With Dr Anna Elena Torres

    Conversation with Dr Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, Director of the Centre for Art and Politics with conversational and musical contributions from Michael Alpert.

    Dr Anna Elena Torres will read from her latest book Horizons Blossom, Borders Vanish: Anarchism and Yiddish Literature, in a conversation with Dr Jeffrey...

  25. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Matthew J Fuchter

    Maximising dissymmetry and handling directionality in chiral materials

    We have an ongoing interest in the development of conjugated chiral organic molecules which can emit and detect circularly-polarized (CP) light within thin film...

  26. National Theatre Live: Dear England (15 tbc)

    National Theatre Live: Dear England (15 tbc)

    a new play by James Graham directed by Rupert Goold Joseph Fiennes (The Handmaid's Tale) plays Gareth Southgate in James Graham's (Sherwood)...

  27. 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...

  28. 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...

  29. Ideas and Practices for Experiential Teaching and Learning from the Stanford d.school

    Ideas and Practices for Experiential Teaching and Learning from the Stanford d.school

    Free interactive workshop for educators

    Experiential learning can bring the classroom to life and empower our educators and students as co-creators of impactful curricula. CEED invites all educators...

  30. Perceptions of Illegitimate Violence in Intercultural Wars in German East Africa (circa 1884 to 1914)

    Perceptions of Illegitimate Violence in Intercultural Wars in German East Africa (circa 1884 to 1914)

    ISWS Spring Seminar with Professor Tanja Bührer, University of Salzburg

    Tanja Bührer's lecture explores what was considered legitimate and illegitimate violence in intercultural wars in the colonial realm during the fin de...

  31. Defining Refugees: International Norms, National Interests, and the Politics of Refugee Status

    Defining Refugees: International Norms, National Interests, and the Politics of Refugee Status

    Guest Speaker - Dr. Deenesh Sohoni

    Deenesh Sohoni is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Studies program at William & Mary. His research examines...

  32. 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...

  33. Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"

    Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Abstract: Recent class of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms driving artificial intelligence (AI) are primarily based on deep learning. These classes of methods...

  34. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Josh Makepeace (University of Birmingham)

    This event is open to final year undergraduate project students, PhD students, post-doctoral researchers and academic staff.

  35. School of Chemistry Colloquium:  Dr Alessia Portiere (ELDICO Scientific AG)

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Alessia Portiere (ELDICO Scientific AG)

    Electron Diffraction -- an innovative and advantageous tool for structure determination of nanocrystalline materials

    Abstract: MicroED (microcrystal electron diffraction) is emerging as a powerful technique for the structural elucidation of challenging compounds as it bypasses...

  36. Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    On how captive socio-ecology influences captive chimpanzees' competitiveness and other curiosities Over the last decades, captive researchers have...

  37. 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...

  38. School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko

    School of Chemistry Colloquium: Professor Evgeny Pidko

    Death and Life of Homogeneous Carbonyl Reduction Catalysts: Navigating the Maze of Deactivation Chemistry for Sustained Performance

    Catalytic reduction of carbonyl moieties in ketones and esters is fundamental to the production of high-value fine chemicals. Although traditional precious...

  39. CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): "But wait that's not real. Co-creating interventions to help young people spot online misinformation", hosted by...

  40. Virtual reality in anatomical sciences: transforming the way we teach and learn

    Virtual reality in anatomical sciences: transforming the way we teach and learn

    Seminar by Dr Tomasz Cecot

    The School of Medicine will welcome Dr Tomasz Cecot this April, who will deliver this seminar on virtual reality in the anatomical sciences. Dr Cecot has...

  41. Bridging Continents: Navigating the EU-China Relationship

    Bridging Continents: Navigating the EU-China Relationship

    A talk by Italian academic Dr. Nicola Casarini

    We are excited to present "Bridging Continents: Navigating the EU-China Relationship", a talk by Italian academic Dr. Nicola Casarini. Dr. Casarini...

  42. Logos Institute research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 11

    Logos Institute research seminar -- Spring 2024, week 11

    Dr Daniel Hill (Liverpool), 'Does God Intend that Sin Occur? We Affirm'

    The weekly research seminar of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology takes places on Fridays from 3.30 to 5pm in the Senior Common Room of St...

  43. Sands 24: Orlando, My Political Biography (15)

    Sands 24: Orlando, My Political Biography (15)

    Pay What You Can £10.00 / £8.00 / £6.00

    (Orlando, ma biographie politique) Deftly weaving fact and fiction, Orlando, My Political Biography uses Virginia Woolf's classic novel to explore gender...