College of Arts & Humanities

Somnolent Cartographies: The Sonic Ecologies of Sleep

07 Jul

Date: Friday 07 July 2023
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events, Student events
Venue: Civic House, 26 Civic Street Glasgow, G4 9RH
Speaker: Dr Maria Sledmere + Dr Kevin Leomo

A day-long workshop exploring the ecological connections between sound, sleep and the environment.

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Fast Geology/Slow Architecture (Erratic Drift Part 3)

16 Jun

Date: Friday 16 June 2023 - Saturday 17 June 2023
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures
Venue: 1 Cadogan Street, Glasgow G2 6QQ

An exhibition and discussion about stone and concrete, consolidation and drift, and humans’ interrelationships with the lithic materials that form and underpin the built environment, curated by Minty Donald and Nick Millar.

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Art / Scent

14 Jun

Date: Wednesday 14 June 2023
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Studio 2, Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Clara Weale

Explore the use of scent as an artistic material in this interactive workshop, with discussion and opportunities to smell fragrant materials.

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SCCA Postgraduate Symposium on Practice-Based Research

12 Jun

Date: Monday 12 June 2023
Time: 11:00 - 16:30
Categories: Academic events, Student events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow

Join PhD researchers and staff for discussions on practice-based research at this Symposium at the Advanced Research Centre.

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Listen to the Amazon

08 Jun

Date: Thursday 08 June 2023
Time: 16:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Films and theatre, Academic events, Student events
Venue: James Arnott Theatre Gilmorehill Halls, University of Glasgow 9 University Ave, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Valeria Levi

Join early career artist Valeria Levi for an interdisciplinary performance blending dance with language to raise environmental awareness on the Amazon crisis. Presented in collaboration with the Dear Green Bothy, the Tramway and Theatre Studies (TS) Performance, Ecology, Heritage Research Hub, Valeria Levi.

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Christopher Smith: AHRC Keynote Lecture

07 Jun

Date: Wednesday 07 June 2023
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre, 1445 Argyle Street, G3 8AW University of Glasgow
Speaker: Christopher Smith

Join Christopher Smith, Executive Chair of the AHRC, for a keynote lecture on the role of the arts and humanities in universities today.

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The Secret Job CLub

23 May

Date: Tuesday 23 May 2023
Time: 13:00 - 16:00
Categories: Student events, World Changing Glasgow Conversation
Venue: Level 4, Fraser Building
Speaker: Secret alumni speakers...

Want to find out about employers who LOVE Arts students? Want to learn about the skills you have from studying your Arts degree that will set you apart? Want to hear about careers where you can earn big? Yep, sign me up! What's the secret though?, we hear you say. Well, these are not the type of employers you would ordinarily think of when you say, "Arts graduate jobs".

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Works in progress: text/image storytelling -- a postgraduate roundtable

18 May

Date: Thursday 18 May 2023
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures, Student events
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Convened by Rachel Eager and Rhys Pasterneck (Stirling Maxwell Centre PGR)

PGR students showcase their research in 15-minute presentations to facilitate discussions around Text/Image Storytelling.

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History of Art Research Seminar: Dr. Samuel Raybone

17 May

Date: Wednesday 17 May 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: The Hepburn Room, 7 University Gardens
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Raybone

Join History of Art for a Research Seminar on ‘Collecting Impressionism in Wales: transnational networks and national imaginaries in the collection of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies’ from Dr. Samuel Raybone.

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Dark Fantasies. Aesthetics of the Nightmare from the 20th Century to the Present

11 May

Date: Thursday 11 May 2023 - Wednesday 24 May 2023
Categories: Conferences, Exhibitions
Venue: Goethe Institut Glasgow

An international conference on nightmare aesthetics from the 20th century to the present will be held in the Goethe Institut, Glasgow, on 11th and 12th May 2023. An exhibition of nightmare aesthetics in comic and graphic art will be opened on 11th May and run until 24th May.

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Fashion as Creative Economy

03 May

Date: Wednesday 03 May 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Kelvinhall Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Angela McRobbie

Angela McRobbie will present ‘Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-Enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan'.

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Scottish Gut Project: 'Living Together' Film Screening

28 Apr

Date: Friday 28 April 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Conferences, Films and theatre, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre

Join the Scottish Gut Project for 'Living Together', a special film screening with Q&A as part of the 'Modernity and the Gut' Symposium.

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Scottish Gut Project: Modernity and the Gut Symposium

27 Apr

Date: Thursday 27 April 2023 - Friday 28 April 2023
Time: 10:00 - 20:00
Categories: Conferences, Films and theatre, Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre

Join The Scottish Gut Project for Modernity and the Gut, a medical humanities symposium held at Kelvinhall at the University of Glasgow, April 27-28.

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Overtourism in Majorca: Screening of ‘Overbooking’

27 Apr

Date: Thursday 27 April 2023
Time: 19:00
Categories: Films and theatre, Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Centre for Contemporary Arts
Speaker: Álex Dioscórides

Join The Dear Green Bothy for a screening and Q&A sessions of the Majorcan documentary 'Overbooking' which examines the ecological effects of mass tourism.

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[RESCHEDULED] Dear Green Bothy Graduate Attributes Lunchtime Sessions - Romane Boyer

26 Apr

Date: Wednesday 26 April 2023
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: Studio Two, Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Romane Boyer

[Reschduled to April 26] Workshop series open to all students in the College of Arts, focusing specifically on the University of Glasgow Graduate Attribute ‘Ethically and Socially Aware’. Guest speakers will discuss how ethical and social awareness in relation to sustainability and the environment supports their work, how students can engage with this skill in their academic and personal development, and how it can transfer to a variety of professional and community contexts.

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The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (MS Hunter 252): images, text and paratext – book launch

20 Apr

Date: Thursday 20 April 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Archives and Special Collections Seminar Room, University of Glasgow Library, Level 12
Speaker: Graeme Small (Durham University)

Book launch of collaborative study of the only surviving manuscript in the world of Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles (c1475-1500) Ms Hunter 252 (U.4.10), the only surviving manuscript copy in the world of the Burgundian answer to the Decameron.

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History of Art Research Seminar: Dr. Ayako Ono

19 Apr

Date: Wednesday 19 April 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: The Hepburn Room, 7 University Gardens
Speaker: Dr. Ayako Ono

Join History of Art for a Research Seminar on ‘Whistler's tonal painting and mōrōtai’ from Dr. Ayako Ono.

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Primer: Onyeka Igwe

13 Apr

Date: Thursday 13 April 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW
Speaker: Onyeka Igwe

Join commissioned artist Onyeka Igwe, who will screen her film ‘The Miracle on George Green’ and discuss her practice to date. 'Primers' are presented by The Common Guild in collaboration with Dr. Dominic Paterson at the University of Glasgow.

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Ruth Maclennan Artist Talk: Treeline

11 Apr

Date: Tuesday 11 April 2023
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Films and theatre, Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Ruth Maclennan

Join Ruth Maclennan for an artist talk hosted by Dr Dominic Paterson, where Ruth will screen and discuss Treeline, a collectively made film compiled from hundreds of hours of footage of forests submitted by people across the world. Treeline will be exhibited at the Advanced Research Centre from April 3-14. Presented in collaboration between The Dear Green Bothy, Thinking Culture, and the ARC Spring Fling.

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Natural Error

03 Apr

Date: Monday 03 April 2023 - Friday 14 April 2023
Time: 09:00 - 17:30
Categories: Exhibitions, Films and theatre
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (The ARC)

Rodell Warner's 'Natural Error' is a series of digital animations created from glitches in computer code. Each of these fleeting micro-sequences, ghosting up like fireflies from the surface of the screen, is of a creature (or other element from the biosphere) that is currently classified as endangered – by the encroachment of man, by rising tides and temperatures, or by habitat disruption from extreme weather events.

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Ken Loach in Conversation with David Archibald

30 Mar

Date: Thursday 30 March 2023
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Films and theatre, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events
Venue: The Revelator: Barclay Curle Building. 739 South Street, Glasgow G14 0BX
Speaker: Ken Loach

Join us at the Revelator (or via Zoom), where Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Studies David Archibald will meet with legendary film director Ken Loach (who will be joining via Zoom) to discuss Archibald's new book, Tracking Loach: Politics | Practices | Production.

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Dear Green Bothy Graduate Attributes Lunchtime Sessions - Sapna Agarwal

28 Mar

Date: Tuesday 28 March 2023
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Sapna Agarwal

Workshop series open to all students in the College of Arts, focusing specifically on the University of Glasgow Graduate Attribute ‘Ethically and Socially Aware’. Sapna Agarwal, community organiser, educator, activist, and coordinator of the Woodlands Anti-Racist community library, will talk about her work with the Woodlands community group in relation to sustainable personal and professional practices. She will also facilitate attendees to discuss and share their ideas in a supportive space. Hot drinks and biscuits provided!

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CREATe Public Lecture: 'Present at their own making', Professor John Hartley

28 Mar

Date: Tuesday 28 March 2023
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre , University of Glasgow 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW
Speaker: Professor John Hartley

Join Professor John Hartley, University of Sydney, for a public lecture exploreing the emergence of a digital ‘popular front’, organizing to confront the challenges of the Anthropocene at panhuman, planetary scale. Presented by CCPR and CREAte as part of a Partnership Collaboration Award with the University of Sydney. 

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Dear Green Bothy Graduate Attributes Lunchtime Sessions - Louise Oliver

24 Mar

Date: Friday 24 March 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Louise Oliver

Workshop series open to all students in the College of Arts, focusing specifically on the University of Glasgow Graduate Attribute ‘Ethically and Socially Aware’. Louise Oliver, producer of Paisley Book Festival, will talk about her creative and professional practice in relation to the climate crisis but also in relation to sustainable personal practices working in the Arts and Cultural sector. Hot drinks and biscuits provided!

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History of Art Research Seminar: Dr. Suchitra Choudhury

23 Mar

Date: Thursday 23 March 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: The Hepburn Room, 7 University Gardens
Speaker: Dr. Suchitra Choudhury

Join History of Art for a Research Seminar on ‘The curious case of Indian shawls in Britain: history, art, and politics’ from Dr. Suchitra Choudhury.

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A Moon for my Father

21 Mar

Date: Tuesday 21 March 2023
Time: 18:30
Categories: Films and theatre, Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Centre for Contemporary Arts
Speaker: Mania Akbari

Screening of Mania Akbar's 'A Moon for my Father' (2019) at the CCA, celebrating Persian New Year. Followed by pre-recorded interview between Akbari and Zahra Kosroshahi, Lecturer in Film & TV Studies. Part of the School of Culture & Creative Arts 'Thinking Culture' programme.

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POSTPONED UNTIL AUTUMN - History of Art Research Seminar: Dr. Tom Nichols

15 Mar

Date: Wednesday 15 March 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: The Hepburn Room, 7 University Gardens
Speaker: Dr. Tom Nichols

** Event postponed until Autumn ** Join History of Art for a Research Seminar, ‘Piazzetta’s dark Arcadias’, from Dr. Tom Nichols.

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La Ciencia de Cervantes / The Science of Cervantes (Stirling Maxwell Seminar and book launch)

09 Mar

Date: Thursday 09 March 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Archives and Special Collections Seminar Room, University of Glasgow Library
Speaker: Vicente Pérez de León (University of Glasgow), Frank Quitely (independent illustrator), Esperanza Jiménez (independent illustrator)

A discussion of text/image interaction at the cusp of the Modern Era, from Mexico to Cervantes' Spain, Keppler's scientific mind, Frank Quitely's demons, inter alia.

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Glasgow Theatre Seminar

09 Mar

Date: Thursday 09 March 2023
Time: 17:30
Categories: Films and theatre, Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: seminar room 123a, Gilmorehill Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Speaker: Katie Hart

Katie Hart will share insights from her recently completed PhD on women’s cultural leadership in Scotland as part of the Glasogw Theatre Seminar, organised by Theatre Studies at the University of Glasgow.

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Dear Green Bothy Graduate Attributes Lunchtime Sessions - Andrea Fisher

08 Mar

Date: Wednesday 08 March 2023
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: Studio Two, Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Andrea Fisher

Workshop series open to all students in the College of Arts, focusing specifically on the University of Glasgow Graduate Attribute ‘Ethically and Socially Aware’. Guest speakers will discuss how ethical and social awareness in relation to sustainability and the environment supports their work, how students can engage with this skill in their academic and personal development, and how it can transfer to a variety of professional and community contexts.

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History of Art Research Seminar: Dr. Holly Trusted

08 Mar

Date: Wednesday 08 March 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Hepburn Room, 7 University Gardens
Speaker: Dr. Holly Trusted

Join us for a History of Art Research Seminar with Dr Holly Trusted's presentation 'Spanish art in North-East England: researching the Spanish sculpture at Bishop Auckland'.

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Léopold Chauveau’s ‘La littérature enfantine’ lecture (1938): a talk on a talk

20 Feb

Date: Monday 20 February 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library) and online.
Speaker: Nat Paterson (Stirling Maxwell Centre PhD, University of Glasgow)

A talk on a lecture by author, illustrator, and visual artist Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940) at the Club George Sand. Nat Paterson discusses Chauveau's arguments about the purpose of children’s literature (didacticism vs pleasure) that were familiar to contemporary readers, and ideas more surprising for the period, such as the suggestion children are cynical due to their mistreatment and doubts about anthropocentrism expressed ironically when analysing animal stories. The unpublished translation of the lecture, by Nat Paterson, will be available on the day (all rights reserved).

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Letters, with love ~ Reading Event

15 Feb

Date: Wednesday 15 February 2023
Time: 19:00
Categories: Social events, Academic events, Student events
Venue: The Pipe Factory

‘Letters, with love’ returns for an evening of readings, on Wednesday 15th February 7pm onwards, at The Pipe Factory Glasgow. Come join us as we share written pieces, with intimacy spanning distance and familiarity, in the hope of bringing people together through correspondence, celebrating forms of loving and support.

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Parados and paralizados: portraits of unemployment in post-2008 Spanish cinema

07 Feb

Date: Tuesday 07 February 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Raquel Martínez Martín (University of Strathclyde)

Raquel Martínez Martín analyses how post-2008 films adopt visual (im)mobility to highlight the paralysing effects of long-term unemployment in Spain.

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Stirling Maxwell Centre Spring 2023 Seminar Series

07 Feb

Date: Tuesday 07 February 2023 - Thursday 18 May 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures, Student events
Venue: University of Glasgow Library (various venues) and online.
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.

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Stitching Soft Matter

31 Jan

Date: Tuesday 31 January 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Social events, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Join us for the launch of PhD research Simon Whitehead's limited edition artists' book exploring pandemic touch diaries as part of the Dear Green Bothy programme.

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Burns and the Environment

23 Jan

Date: Monday 23 January 2023
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Robyn Stapleton, Professor Nigel Leask

Join the Centre for Robert Burns Studies and The Dear Green Bothy for the Advanced Research Centre’s (ARC’s) first Burns Night! We’ll be exploring some of our shared interests with talks and performance exploring ways in which the Scottish National Bard, Robert Burns, engaged with the environment in his life and work.

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The value of patient, plodding books: how the comics industry courted mid-century US librarians

29 Nov

Date: Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Joe Sutliff Sanders (University of Cambridge)

Joe Sutliff Sanders (University of Cambridge) discusses 1970s and 1980s experiments in public libraries in the USA. When libraries sought to bring comics onto their shelves, librarians embarked on an ideological juggling to justify their experiments and make comics work in a library environment.

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Collecting Spain: textiles at the V&A, 1850-1950 (book launch)

10 Nov

Date: Thursday 10 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library, level 3) + Zoom (see below)
Speaker: Ana Cabrera Lafuente (V&A Museum) and Lesley Miller (University of Glasgow); respondent: Hilary Macartney (University of Glasgow)

Introduced by Professor Lesley Miller (University of Glasgow), Dr Ana Cabrera (V&A Museum) discusses her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship research at the V&A Museum. With Dr Hilary Macartney (Stirling Maxwell Centre and Stirling Maxwell Project, University of Glasgow), as respondent.

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Performing Sicily

31 Oct

Date: Monday 31 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: The Hidden Lane Gallery (26A, 1103 The Hidden Ln, Argyle St, Finnieston, Glasgow, G3 8ND)
Speaker: Dario Tomasello (University of Messina), with Joseph Farrell (University of Strathclyde), Enza De Francisci (University of Glasgow)

An evening with special guest Dario Tomasello (University of Messina), on how the Sicilian environment is seen through the lens of Luigi Pirandello, Aleister Crowley, and other authors.

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Translating the Cantigas — an impossible task?

24 Oct

Date: Monday 24 October 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Sir Alexander Stone Building, room 204
Speaker: Richard Zenith

Translating the Cantigas — an impossible task? Workshop with the translator Richard Zenith

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Fernando Pessoa unmasked?

24 Oct

Date: Monday 24 October 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures, Social events
Venue: John Smith's Bookstore (Fraser Building, University of Glasgow).
Speaker: Richard Zenith

Zenith's Pessoa: an Experimental Life, a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, was called "one of the great literary biographies of the century" by Simon Winchester.

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Pessoa: an Experimental Life — in conversation with biographer Richard Zenith

24 Oct

Date: Monday 24 October 2022 - Friday 28 October 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Various
Speaker: Richard Zenith

Pessoa: an Experimental Life Biographer Richard Zenith discusses Pessoa’s experiments in literature, politics, sexuality, and spirituality. He will talk as well about his method for drawing a portrait of the shy office worker lurking behind the many personae he called heteronyms.

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Creative Conversations: Amanda Thomson

17 Oct

Date: Monday 17 October 2022
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Amanda Thomson

Writer and artist Amanda Thomson in conversation with Professor Louise Welsh

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Twice-told tales: verbal and visual narratives in the Cantigas de Santa Maria

13 Oct

Date: Thursday 13 October 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkd-igrjsuH9BBN2yAxQGco-eaqTihW7rQ
Speaker: Stephen Parkinson (University of Oxford)

Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2022 Seminar Series Twice-told tales: verbal and visual narratives in the Cantigas de Santa Maria Stephen Parkinson (University of Oxford)

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Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2022 Seminar Series

13 Oct

Date: Thursday 13 October 2022 - Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events
Venue: TalkLab (University of Glasgow Library) and other venues
Speaker: Various

Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2022 Seminar Series. A series of public lectures exploring the close connection of text and images.

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Creative Conversations: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

10 Oct

Date: Monday 10 October 2022
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

Novelist Yara Rodrigues Fowler in Conversation about her work

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Creative Conversations: Christie Williamson

03 Oct

Date: Monday 03 October 2022
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Christie Williamson

Poet Christie Williamson in Conversation about his work.

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