Event listings

Give Your Thoughts and Win

17 Apr

Date: Wednesday 17 April 2024
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Jim's Bar, Queen Margaret Union
Speaker: Shona Macnaughton | Hannah Proctor

Join artist Shona Macnaughton for an alternative pub quiz where the answers will never be correct and everyone can lose.

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Adam Smith 300 Global Reading Group - The Theory of Moral Sentiments

05 Mar

Date: Tuesday 05 March 2024 - Sunday 02 June 2024
Time: 09:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Zoom

A reading group for academics, alumni, students, and the public to join together as a global community. Discuss Smith's ideas in The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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From Parchment to Pixels: Cultural Collection Digital Expedition

18 Apr

Date: Thursday 18 April 2024 - Friday 19 April 2024
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online

This online workshop consists of two half-days on digital approaches to collection-based research, engagement, and teaching. Day one includes presentations from cultural heritage organisations and researchers, highlighting data exploration opportunities for PhD research, and a spotlight on digital projects within the SGSAH network. Day two features mini tutorials, introducing digital research skills from recent PhD projects, related to social media, immersive technologies and data visualisations.

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Donor Restrictions on Galleries and Museums

18 Apr

Date: Thursday 18 April 2024
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: The Hunterian Art Gallery
Speaker: Elena Cooper and Steph Scholten

Join us for a fascinating discussion on how rules about donations affect museums and galleries. The event celebrates a special issue of the Art Antiquity and Law journal. We'll explore how history and law can change the way museums use their collections. Plus, enjoy drinks and networking in a vibrant atmosphere.

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"Walking" Book Launch Event

24 Apr

Date: Wednesday 24 April 2024
Time: 13:00 - 19:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Tom Jeffreys

Join us to celebrate the launch of Walking, the latest addition to the Documents of Contemporary Art series, published by the Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press.

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Book launch: Digital Contention in a Divided Society

24 Apr

Date: Wednesday 24 April 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow

Join Paul Reilly (University of Glasgow) and host, Dave Scott (Nil by Mouth), to celebrate the paperback launch of Paul’s book, Digital contention in a divided society: Social media, parades and protests in Northern Ireland.

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Socialist Materialist Feminist Theatre in post-colonial spaces (India) - Interactions and Intersectionality: Professor Bishnupriya Dutt

26 Apr

Date: Friday 26 April 2024
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Professor Bishnupriya Dutt

Theatre Studies at Glasgow is delighted to welcome Visiting Leverhulme Professor Bishnupriya Dutt (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) to campus for the latest installment of the Glasgow Theatre Seminar series.

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Reimagining Haiti: Decolonial Visions

29 Apr

Date: Monday 29 April 2024
Time: 11:30 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online (Zoom link to be emailed to registered attendees)
Speaker: Dr Rachel Douglas, University of Glasgow

Rewriting or rasanblaj (gathering/re-assembling in Haitian Kreyòl) is a fundamental process at the heart of Haitian-style culture and rebuilding. The book on which this talk is based reorients Haitian studies around rasanblaj, testing its value as a methodological tool for interpreting Haitian culture and other cultures of the Global South. Rewriting in postcolonial contexts is often viewed as ‘writing back’ to metropolitan literary classics; here we turn instead to Haitians’ self-rewriting.

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Constructing large-scale 3D building models via LiDAR point clouds

30 Apr

Date: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online (Zoom)

This UBDC webinar explores using classified airborne LiDAR point clouds to model 3D urban areas.

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Viral Communication: Workshop

03 May

Date: Friday 03 May 2024
Time: 9:00 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

A one-day workshop that will explore the influence of infection across visual culture, social dynamics, and medicine. 

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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity

15 May

Date: Wednesday 15 May 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Lecture Theatre 438, James McCune Smith Learning Hub
Speaker: Daron Acemoglu

We are delighted to welcome Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who will present this year’s lecture which will focus on his new book titled "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity".

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The Divine Economy with Paul Seabright

28 May

Date: Tuesday 28 May 2024
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW
Speaker: Paul Seabright

Paul Seabright, Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, and former Director of the interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, discusses his new book – “The Divine Economy

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