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Creative Conversations: Don Paterson

Date: Monday 01 March 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Don Paterson

Poet and musician Don Paterson reading and in conversation with Dr Carolyn Jess-Cooke

RMA Research Colloquia in Music

Date: Wednesday 27 January 2021 - Wednesday 24 March 2021
Time: 17:15 - 18:30
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Academic events
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Varied

Music hosts a series of colloquia on behalf of the Royal Musical Association featuring national and international guest speakers, along with staff and postgraduate students. All welcome!

Stirling Maxwell Centre Spring 2021 Seminar Series

Date: Thursday 11 February 2021 - Thursday 25 March 2021
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures, Student events
Venue: Online, via Zoom
Speaker: Various

The seminar series is a learned group of regular public seminars and workshops. We host speakers and world renowned experts on subjects pertinent to the Centre’s remit, from the Medieval period to the twenty-first century. Subjects range from emblems, comics, cinema, cartoons, History of the Book, History of Art, Philology, Cultural History, History of Architecture, Shakespearean theatre, Early Modern Festivals, 3D architectural reconstruction, and many more. Our programme of events and activities reflects our research culture and our international reach. Our seminars and workshops are open to scholars, students, and (unless specified) to general public alike.

The Hunterian Weekly Talk Series - Old Ways New Roads

Date: Tuesday 16 February 2021 - Tuesday 30 March 2021
Time: 13:00 - 13:30
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Various

Old Ways New Roads: Travels in Scotland 1720-1832, The Hunterian’s major new exhibition will be moving online in the coming weeks. To celebrate, we are hosting a series of weekly talks featuring the people who worked on the exhibition and the authors who contributed towards the publication. Talks will be 10-15 minutes long and will be followed by question time. The zoom links will be made available each week on the Old Ways New Roads page on the Hunterian website.

Glasgow Theatre Seminars

Date: Thursday 25 February 2021 - Thursday 22 April 2021
Time: 17:30
Categories: Films and theatre, Academic events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online

A series of talks, discussions and events hosted by Theatre Studies. Drawing together researchers, theatre makers and other artists, the seminar is a public forum for exploring theatre and performance in the past, present and future, as well as the relationship between scholarship and practice.

#UofGEngage Forum: Sci/Eng & Arts Collaborations

Date: Friday 05 March 2021
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Zoom

Join the #UofGEngage Forum for its second event, exploring public engagement collaborations between science/engineering and the arts.

Creative Conversations: Kirstin Innes

Date: Monday 08 March 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Kirstin Innes

Writer and journalist Kirstin Innes reading and in conversation with Dr Zoe Strachan

Creative Conversations: Shola Von Reinhold

Date: Monday 15 March 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Shola Von Reinhold

Writer Shola Von Reinhold reading and in conversation with Dr Zoe Strachan

Creative Conversations: Oliver Langmead

Date: Tuesday 16 March 2021
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Oliver Langmead

Creative Conversations: Book Launch for Oliver Langmead’s Birds of Paradise

Creative Conversations: Lisa Robertson

Date: Monday 22 March 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Lisa Robertson

Poet and Essayist Lisa Robertson reading and in conversation

BALEAP Conference: Exploring pedagogical approaches in EAP teaching

Date: Tuesday 06 April 2021 - Saturday 10 April 2021
Time: 8:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: online

English for Academic study at the University of Glasgow is delighted to welcome you to the BALEAP 2021 Conference, which will run in the week commencing 5th April, with an opening on Tuesday the 6th April to Saturday the 10th. Building on the 2019 Leeds conference theme (the practitioner), we aim to provide a forum to explore pedagogies for teaching EAP in different contexts, at different levels, face to face and online, and for EAP teacher development.

Regeneration: 6th Annual PGR Conference in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies

Date: Friday 14 May 2021
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Online via Zoom

Hosted by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, this one-day conference will explore how the theme of 'regeneration' finds expression in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies. Call for papers now open, deadline for submissions: Wednesday 10 March 2021