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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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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

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.

Creative Conversations: Barbara Jenkins

26 Sep

Date: Monday 26 September 2022
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Barbara Jenkins

Barbara Jenkins discusses the memoir The Stranger who was Myself

Creative Conversations: Gwendoline Riley

22 Sep

Date: Thursday 22 September 2022
Time: 18:30 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Room, Woolfson Medical Building
Speaker: Gwendoline Riley

Award-winning writer Gwendoline Riley in conversation about her work.

Creative Conversations: Olivia Laing

15 Sep

Date: Thursday 15 September 2022
Time: 18:30 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: St Andrews Building, Lecture Theatre 213
Speaker: Olivia Laing

Novelist and non-fiction author Olivia Laing discusses her work with Colin Herd

Bothy Conversations

14 Jul

Date: Thursday 14 July 2022
Time: 11:00 - 16:00
Categories: Conferences, Exhibitions, Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, COP26 Physical
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Join us for an event celebrating the successes of The Dear Green Bothy and discussions on how we can develop the project in the future.

Once and Future Fantasies Conference

13 Jul

Date: Wednesday 13 July 2022 - Sunday 17 July 2022
Time: 9:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: University of Glasgow
Speaker: Nalo Hopkinson, Professor Dame Marina Warner

Once and Future Fantasies is the first conference co-sponsored by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts to take place outside North America. The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow on 13-17 July 2022. The art of the fantastic has never been more visible than it is today. This conference asks what the fantastic in the arts has to offer at this time of crisis, rooted as it is in the distant and recent past, while remaining extraordinarily sensitive to the shifting landscape of the present and the infinite possibilities of the future.

GLEAM: Glasgow Electronic and Audiovisual Media Festival

08 Jun

Date: Wednesday 08 June 2022 - Friday 10 June 2022
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall. Main Building

Creative Practice Research in Music presents GLEAM: Glasgow Electronic and Audiovisual Media Festival, which showcases world class sonic practise, electronic music and audiovisual media. During this three day event, there will be opportunities to see professional artists, our professorial and doctoral practise and research in Sonic Arts and Electronic Music; graduates and collaborators in Sound Thought; and showcasing our current student works!! Events are FREE.

On judgment, skin, and bones: Montaigne’s anatomy of conscience (a Stirling Maxwell Centre Seminar)

26 May

Date: Thursday 26 May 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Humanity Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow (Room 255, Main Building) AND online
Speaker: Corinne Noirot (Virginia Tech)

In the last of our Spring 2022 Seminar Series, Corinne Noirot (Virginia Tech) discusses Montaigne's essays with the proposal of a visual anatomy of consciousness.

The Cramb Residency: Maggie Nicols

18 May

Date: Wednesday 18 May 2022 - Friday 20 May 2022
Time: 14:00 - 22:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall

The 2021/22 Cramb Residency is awarded to experimental vocalist Maggie Nicols, who presents Whatever Arises: three days of music, art and conversation.

The Storm Watchers: Celebrating George Mackay Brown's Centenary

12 May

Date: Thursday 12 May 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Centre
Speaker: Gerda Stevenson and Alan Riach

Join Gerda Stevenson and Alan Riach for an evening of poetry and film celebrating the centenary of George Mackay Brown.

Making Music Your Career [2 day event]

11 Apr

Date: Monday 11 April 2022 - Tuesday 12 April 2022
Time: 10:30 - 16:30
Categories: Concerts and music, Conferences, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Are you considering a career working in our multi-faceted music industries, whether in Scotland, in the UK or further afield? Come and hear how to make music your career from the professionals, sign up for individual advice clinics, get free refreshments and hear performances. Open to ANYONE considering a career in music. **FREE, JUST TURN UP!**

Live Art: Histories of the Present

06 Apr

Date: Wednesday 06 April 2022 - Thursday 07 April 2022
Time: 10:00
Categories: Conferences, Academic events
Venue: Gilmorehill Halls

Live Art: Histories of the Present explores the complex relationship between live art and the material, historical conditions which have fostered and sometimes constrained the possibilities for experimental and interdisciplinary performance. Through short talks, roundtable discussions and workshops, part of the AHRC-funded Live Art in Scotland project, it engages with the structures that enable and are generated by live art and its communities of practice – the ways in which artists and researchers are engaged in tracing its past to (re)imagine its futures. With contributions from Dominic Johnson, Phoebe Patey Ferguson, Heike Roms, Gavin Butt and Vanessa Macaulay.

Islands in the Global Age: Identification, Estrangement and Renewal in the East-West Dialogue

28 Mar

Date: Monday 28 March 2022 - Wednesday 30 March 2022
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Ramona Fotiade

This online conference is organised jointly between the SMLC in the College of Arts at the University of Glasgow and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Kyushu to celebrate the Memorandum of Understanding signed in December 2020 and the new research collaborations which have started to emerge after the scoping event focused on Modernism and Post-Modernity in Scotland and Japan, organised in April 2021.

Stirling Maxwell Centre Spring 2022 Seminar Series

10 Mar

Date: Thursday 10 March 2022 - Thursday 26 May 2022
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Conferences, Public lectures
Venue: Humanity Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Various

The Stirling Maxwell Centre for the Study of Text/Image Cultures Spring 2022 Seminar Series explores aspects of visual culture and its relationship with text in cultures and expressions from around the world. All seminars and events are free, in-person and online, and are ticketed. See each individual event for details.