Date: Saturday 27 February 2021 Time: 19:00 - 20:00 Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Films and theatre, Academic events, Student events Venue: Zoom
Sound Thought presents a concert of audiovisual and sound works from UK-based artists and practice researchers.
Date: Wednesday 24 February 2021 Time: 17:00 - 18:30 Categories: Academic events, Student events, Alumni events Venue: Online via Zoom webinar Speaker: Dr Robert Maslen, Dr Matthew Sangster, Lucinda Holdsworth
Trees permeate Fantasy literature and, in the twenty-first century, forests also hold the key to the future. Join us for a discussion on the importance of trees and forests in fantasy, as we begin the Immanent Grove project: planting a tree in the Highlands for each of our Fantasy Masters graduates to celebrate their achievements.
Date: Wednesday 24 February 2021 Time: 17:30 - 18:30 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Online via Zoom Speaker: Various
Join Theatre Studies for an LGBT History Month roundtable discussion exploring the untold histories surfaced by queer arts & performance.
Date: Monday 22 February 2021 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Speaker: Scarlett Thomas
Writer and Professor Scarlett Thomas reading and in conversation with Professor Louise Welsh
Date: Monday 22 February 2021 Time: 19:00 - 20:00 Categories: Films and theatre, Academic events, Student events Venue: Online
The Global Health Film Club brings people studying global health across UofG together. Events are open to postgraduates, undergraduates and staff.
Date: Thursday 18 February 2021 Time: 14:00 - 15:30 Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars Venue: Zoom Speaker: Yehoshua Granat (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
A lecture that will examine the ways in which epidemics are perceived in Hebrew poetic texts: from descriptions of plague as divine punishment, or demonic threat, in biblical Psalms, to the religious yet strikingly naturalistic attitude of a Hebrew poet from Padua who experienced the Italian Plague of 1629–1633.
Date: Thursday 11 February 2021 Time: 17:00 - 19:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Online, via Zoom Speaker: Onésimo T. Almeida (Brown University)
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.
Date: Monday 08 February 2021 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Speaker: Jessica J Lee
Writer and environmental historian Jessica Lee reading and in conversation with Dr Elizabeth K Reeder.
Date: Monday 18 January 2021 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Oyinkan Braithwaite
Celebrated novelist and poet Oyinkan Braithwaite in conversation.
Date: Thursday 10 December 2020 Time: 17:00 - 18:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Eden Robinson
Celebrated writer Eden Robinson in conversation with Alexandra Abletshauser as part of Creative Conversations with Indigenous Canada
Date: Monday 07 December 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Damian Barr
Writer and broadcaster Damian Barr reading and in conversation.
Date: Monday 30 November 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Anuradha Roy
Novelist Anuradha Roy reading and in conversation
Date: Monday 30 November 2020 Time: 19:00 - 20:30 Categories: Films and theatre, Social events Venue: Online
A performance informed and inspired by the results of a public consultation: what does it mean to be Scottish/New Scottish today? Part of Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Tuesday 24 November 2020 Time: 17:00 - 18:00 Categories: Exhibitions, Social events Venue: Online Speaker: Sandy Moffat, Ruth Nicol, Alan Riach
'Landmarks: Hugh MacDiarmid’s Brownsbank', features paintings by Sandy Moffat and Ruth Nicol, and poems by Alan Riach.
Date: Monday 23 November 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: P.M. Freestone
Author PM Freestone reading and in conversation
Date: Sunday 22 November 2020 Time: 14:00 - 17:00 Categories: Social events Venue: Online
An interactive workshop, co-presented with Deafblind Scotland alongside the In Touch exhibition, exploring the theme of touch post Covid19. Part of the Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Saturday 21 November 2020 Time: 14:00 - 15:30 Categories: Social events Venue: Online
Creative writing workshop using archival material from the Scottish temperance movements as inspiration for writing about alcohol. Part of the Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Friday 20 November 2020 Time: 18:00 - 19:30 Categories: Public lectures, Social events Venue: Online
A multimedia storytelling event recounting and reassessing some remarkable moments in Scottish-Native American history. Part of the Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Thursday 19 November 2020 Time: 13:00 - 13:45 Categories: Social events, Academic events Venue: Online
Encounter old and rare dictionaries in the University of Glasgow's Special Collections and learn about the fascinating history behind them. Part of Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Thursday 19 November 2020 Time: 18:00 - 19:30 Categories: Public lectures, Social events Venue: Online
A celebration of 100 years since the publication of 'A Voyage to Arcturus', a science fiction novel by Scottish author David Lindsay. Part of the Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Wednesday 18 November 2020 Time: 19:00 - 20:00 Categories: Social events, Academic events Venue: Online
An online, interactive showcase hosted by the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience exploring their ongoing research into perceptual illusions. Presented as part of the Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2020 Time: 16:00 - 17:00 Categories: Open days and visits Venue: Zoom
Find out more about postgraduate research study in the College of Arts, including available funding opportunities.
Date: Tuesday 17 November 2020 Time: 18:00 - 19:30 Categories: Social events, Academic events Venue: Online
A roundtable discussion in which leading thinkers reflect on how the Covid19 crisis may affect patterns of globalisation and inequality. Part of Being Human 2020.
Date: Monday 16 November 2020 Time: 12:30 - 13:30 Categories: Social events, Academic events Venue: Online
A Question Time style discussion exploring the impact of the Covid19 pandemic on the future of our museums and archives. Part of Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Monday 16 November 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Sandy NicDhòmhnaill Jones
Gaelic Crowned Bard Sandy NicDhòmhnaill Jones reading and in conversation
Date: Saturday 14 November 2020 Time: 15:00 - 16:00 Categories: Social events Venue: Online
Join a virtual field trip inside a playthrough of the BAFTA-Winning game 'Outer Wilds'. Part of Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Friday 13 November 2020 Time: 19:30 - 21:00 Categories: Concerts and music, Films and theatre, Social events Venue: Online
Black female artists and activists from Scotland and across the world reimagine new futures during and post Covid19. Part of Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Thursday 12 November 2020 - Sunday 22 November 2020 Time: 00:00 - 00:00 Categories: Social events Venue: Online
We invite all Scots and New Scots – at home or abroad – to take part in our consultation to share and explore what Scotland means to them. Part of the Being Human Festival 2020.
Date: Thursday 12 November 2020 - Sunday 22 November 2020 Time: 00:00 - 00:00 Categories: Exhibitions, Social events Venue: Online
A critical, online heritage tour of The Hunterian Museum, calling attention to the hidden histories of empire embedded in our collections. Presented as part of the Being Human festival 2020.
Date: Thursday 12 November 2020 - Sunday 22 November 2020 Time: 00:00 - 00:00 Categories: Exhibitions Venue: Online
A special online exhibition, co-developed and curated with the charity Deafblind Scotland, that responds creatively to the theme of touch post-COVID19. Presented as part of the Being Human festival 2020.
Date: Thursday 12 November 2020 Time: 19:00 - 20:30 Categories: Concerts and music, Social events Venue: Online
Share your questions, views and experiences as we discuss music, copyright and precarity in this new creative world.
Date: Monday 09 November 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Peter May
Novelist Peter May reading and in conversation.
Date: Thursday 05 November 2020 Time: 17:00 - 18:30 Categories: Public lectures, Academic events Venue: Online Speaker: Raymond Depardon
In 1980, renowned French photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon was commissioned by The Sunday Times to produce a series of photographs of the city of Glasgow and its residents. This interview is a unique opportunity to hear Raymond Depardon speak about the genesis of the project, the place of these photos in his career’s work, and the role of photography in documenting social life. Zoom interview in French with English translation.
Date: Thursday 05 November 2020 Time: 17:30 - 18:30 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Elizabeth Reeder
Novelist, poet, essayist Elizabeth Reeder reading and in conversation.
Date: Monday 02 November 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Daisy Lafarge
Poet and fiction writer Daisy Lafarge reading and in conversation.
Date: Friday 30 October 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo
Author and activist Bernardine Evaristo reading and in conversation.
Date: Thursday 29 October 2020 Time: 15:30 - 17:00 Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events Venue: Zoom Speaker: Prof Matthew J. Smith
Prof Matthew J. Smith (UCL) will deliver this year's James McCune Smith Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies. This presentation will examine the implications of Haitian independence for black people in the Caribbean after slavery.
Date: Thursday 29 October 2020 Time: 18:30 - 19:30 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Influential novelist, playwright, short story writer and critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o reading and in conversation
Date: Wednesday 28 October 2020 Time: 17:00 - 18:30 Categories: Academic events Venue: Online via Zoom webinar Speaker: Dr Juliette Wood
Join us on 28th October 2020 at 5pm via Zoom webinar for a thoroughly spooky lecture on the folklore and traditions of Halloween and associated festivals, such as Día de los Muertos, with world-renowned folklorist, author, and broadcaster Dr Juliette Wood, followed by Q&A.
Date: Tuesday 27 October 2020 Time: 15:30 - 17:00 Categories: Ceremonial events, Academic events Venue: Zoom Speaker: Zandra Yeaman, Helen Minnis, Jackie Kay, Glasgow City Councillor Graham Campbell and Miles Greenwood
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies, directed in 2020-2021 by Dr Peggy Brunache, Lecturer in Transatlantic Slavery.
Date: Thursday 22 October 2020 Time: 16:00 - 17:15 Categories: Academic events Venue: Online Speaker: Reading Group Members
We will hold a session on Black left feminism, led by Glasgow-based documentary film-maker, Christopher Reid.
Date: Thursday 22 October 2020 Time: 17:00 - 18:30 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Online, via Zoom. Speaker: Iain Piercy
The artist Iain Piercy, illustrator and set designer, will be discussing the intersection of his artwork with music and education for Scottish Opera.
Date: Monday 19 October 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Roseanne Watt
Poet, filmmaker, musician Roseanne Watt reading and in conversation
Date: Thursday 15 October 2020 Time: 17:30 - 18:30 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Graeme Armstrong
Novelist Graeme Armstrong reading and in conversation.
Date: Monday 12 October 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Rose Ruane
Writer Rose Ruane reading and in conversation.
Date: Monday 05 October 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: A. E. Stallings
Poet A. E. Stallings reading and in conversation.
Date: Thursday 01 October 2020 Time: 17:30 - 18:30 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Homi K Bhabha
Professor Homi K Bhabha discusses “The Unprepared” with Dr Sourit Bhattacharya
Date: Thursday 01 October 2020 - Tuesday 20 October 2020 Time: 19:00 - 19:00 Categories: Films and theatre Venue: Online
Join us, the UK’s five biggest festivals of African cinema – Scotland’s Africa in Motion, Afrika Eye in Bristol, the Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF), Film Africa in London, and Watch-Africa Cymru (Wales) – on an online journey of discovery during Black History Month, from 1-20 October 2020.
Date: Monday 28 September 2020 Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Jemma Neville
Human Rights Researcher and Author Jemma Neville reading and in conversation
Date: Thursday 17 September 2020 Time: 17:00 - 18:00 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Zoom Event Speaker: Nicholson Baker
Novelist and non-fiction writer Nicholson Baker reading and in conversation.
Date: Wednesday 17 June 2020 - Thursday 18 June 2020 Time: 09:00 Categories: Conferences Venue: Zoom Speaker: Keynote | Prof. Peter Gouzouasis (University of British Columbia)
This study day aims to raise the visibility of autoethnography and cognate methodologies and to bring together composers, creative practitioners, performers, and musicologists, to prompt academic dialogue between these groups. It aspires to cultivate modes of engagement in music that enable composers of all types and at all levels to locate their practices within a robust intellectual framework, and to articulate their relationship to wider sociocultural contexts.
Date: Monday 25 May 2020 - Friday 29 May 2020 Time: 09:00 - 17:00 Categories: Conferences, Films and theatre, Social events, Student events Venue: Digital Platforms
Join us on the ÚNA website from 25 - 29 June 2020 for a week of film, art, music and podcasts exploring myths and tales from Latin America & Scotland.
Date: Friday 15 May 2020 - Wednesday 15 July 2020 Time: 00:00 - 00:00 Categories: Concerts and music Venue: Scottish Opera and OperaVision
A team of scientists becomes trapped in the frozen Arctic wastelands. Tensions rise and relationships crumble, and then something appears, out of the ice. Another chance to experience this award-winning piece, courtesy of OperaVision and Scottish Opera.
Date: Thursday 30 April 2020 Time: 17:30 - 19:00 Categories: Films and theatre Venue: Gilmorehill Halls, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ Speaker: Anna Harpin, University of Warwick
Offering a counter argument to regular interpretations of Kim Noble’s work as reckless glimpses into the mind of a mad man, Anna Harpin presents the dynamics of intimacy, exposure, and care that are at play in his theatre work. Rejecting a pathologising and anti-intellectual gaze, Harpin explores the relationship between tenderness and cruelty excavating questions about what it means to be person, to have a life, and to live with difficult feelings.
Date: Wednesday 25 March 2020 Time: 17:15 - 18:30 Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Academic events Venue: 14 University Gardens, University of Glasgow G12 8QL Speaker: Marcin Stawiarski, University of Caen
Royal Musical Association Research Colloquia at the University of Glasgow
Date: Thursday 19 March 2020 Time: 15:00 - 17:00 Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Academic events Venue: 14 University Gardens, University of Glasgow G12 8QL Speaker: Iain Findlay-Walsh, University of Glasgow
Date: Wednesday 11 March 2020 Time: 17:15 - 18:30 Categories: Concerts and music, Academic events Venue: 14 University Gardens, University of Glasgow G12 8QL Speaker: Anna Bull, University of Portsmouth
Date: Friday 06 March 2020 Time: 11:00 - 13:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: Room 301, 15 Southpark Terrace Speaker: Professor TJ Clark
The Gifford Lectures in collaboration with the School of Culture & Creative Arts present a seminar with art historian Professor TJ Clark. Drawing on his latest book, 'Heaven on Earth: Painting and the Life to Come', Clark discuss Pieter Bruegel’s unique depiction of the afterlife.
Date: Friday 06 March 2020 Time: 18:00 - 19:30 Categories: Public lectures Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building, 3 Kelvin Way, University of Glasgow G12 8NN Speaker: Professor TJ Clark
Art historian TJ Clark discusses the ways we pay attention to artworks through the particular example of a 1917 painting by Henri Matisse. Presented in partnership with Glasgow International 2020.
Date: Thursday 05 March 2020 Time: 17:30 - 19:00 Categories: Films and theatre Venue: Gilmorehill Halls, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ Speaker: Shane Boyle, Queen Mary - University of London
What is the fossil economy of live art? And what, if anything, has live art registered about the social and environmental transformations wrought by a capitalist economy geared to perpetual growth and fuelled by ever-increasing volumes of fossil fuels like oil?
Date: Wednesday 04 March 2020 Time: 14:00 - 20:30 Categories: Exhibitions, Films and theatre, Social events Venue: Glasgow Women's Library, 23 Landressy Street, G40 1BP Speaker: Omar Badsha and Tako Taal
Organised in partnership with Glasgow Women's Library and South African History Online (SAHO), this day-long focus-group is an opportunity to spend time with - and explore the themes of - historically silenced voices; specifically, those of women, minority ethnic groups and activists, with our visiting guests from SAHO.
Date: Wednesday 04 March 2020 Time: 15:00 - 17:00 Categories: Academic events Venue: The Common Guild, 21 Woodlands Terrace, Glasgow G3 6DF Speaker: Professor Anne Wagner
Eminent art historian Anne Wagner discusses the work of some of the most significant sculptors of the present day.
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