Event listings

Wee World Changers: Family Fun

28 Jun

Date: Friday 28 June 2024 - Friday 31 October 2025
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Museum

Enjoy our free, self-led activities for families at the Hunterian Museum. Daily drop-in, no booking required.

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Wee World Changers: Art Explorers Trail

28 Jun

Date: Friday 28 June 2024 - Friday 31 October 2025
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

Enjoy our free, family-friendly trail at the Hunterian Art Gallery. Daily drop-in, no booking required.

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Look Club

08 Jan

Date: Wednesday 08 January 2025 - Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

At Look Club we'll be encountering artworks together and will experience art in a way we haven't before. No prior or historical context is necessary and there are no right or wrong answers, only opinions and perspectives. Enjoy this unique session to think deeply and share a space for listening. Come along and meet new people, increase your own sense of confidence and take time to be culturally curious!

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Glasgow 850 at The Hunterian

01 Feb

Date: Saturday 01 February 2025 - Wednesday 31 December 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery and Kelvin Hall

Glasgow 850 marks Glasgow’s 850th anniversary with a year-long programme of events that reflect on how the city has transformed.

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Re:reading

24 Feb

Date: Monday 24 February 2025 - Wednesday 31 December 2025
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University Library, Level 2 exhibition space

Exhibition exploring libraries as dynamic, collaborative spaces, where fresh insights can by uncovered by re-interpreting collections.

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Building Memories

29 Mar

Date: Saturday 29 March 2025 - Sunday 18 January 2026
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Kelvin Hall

As part of Glasgow 850, 'Building Memories' looks at three demolished Glasgow buildings, each of which lives on in surprising ways in The Hunterian collections.

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Geo-Natter

04 Jun

Date: Wednesday 04 June 2025 - Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 13:30 - 15:30
Categories: Hunterian, Social events
Venue: Kelvin Hall

Come along to Kelvin Hall on the first Wednesday of each month for Geo-Natter!

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Museum of Things

21 Jun

Date: Saturday 21 June 2025 - Sunday 19 October 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Museum

Through a process of artistic reclamation, Museum of Things delves critically and creatively into The Hunterian’s spaces and artefacts, reimagining their significance in contemporary contexts.

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Margaret Salmon: Assembly

27 Jun

Date: Friday 27 June 2025 - Sunday 19 October 2025
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Hunterian, Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

'Assembly' is a solo exhibition of new work by acclaimed artist-filmmaker Margaret Salmon. Resulting from and reflecting upon a process of community outreach, story counselling and cinematic experimentation, the exhibition encompasses a film, photographs, and sculptures in an installation that will expand over time, inviting local audiences to return to The Hunterian’s galleries as materials shift and evolve. An intimate enquiry made by a socially-committed, locally-engaged artist, 'Assembly' highlights the voices of a diverse range of residents within the areas of Kelvinside and Maryhill, Glasgow.

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Festival of Social Science- "Our working Lives"

18 Oct

Date: Saturday 18 October 2025 - Saturday 08 November 2025
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Public lectures, Films and theatre, Exhibitions
Venue: Multiple venues across campus

The 23rd ESRC Festival of Social Science will run from 18 October to 8th November. This year’s central theme is "Our Working Lives", exploring how digital technology is reshaping the way we work and interact.

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The Critical Technologies Supply Chain

20 Oct

Date: Monday 20 October 2025 - Tuesday 21 October 2025
Time: 09:30 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: tbc

Quantum, Semiconductors, Photonics, Telecommunication and more

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World-Changing Glasgow 850 Games Jam

20 Oct

Date: Monday 20 October 2025
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: Williams Room, McIntyre Builfing

Join a team to see if you can win a £500 prize in this game competition! £100 prizes will be awarded to the top 2 runners up! Celebrating 850 Years of Innovation & Imagination Glasgow has given the world television, ultrasound, Irn Bru, raincoats, legendary artists, and groundbreaking ideas. Now it’s your turn. To mark the city’s 850th anniversary, we’re inviting students to take part in the World-Changing Glasgow Games Jam — a celebration of creativity, risk-taking, and bold new visions.

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From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness

21 Oct

Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Jamella N. Gow

​In this talk, Dr Jamella N. Gow will examine how global racial hierarchies rooted in histories of racialized Black labour under capitalism define Caribbean nations as Black. Tracing the global historical processes of colonialism, imperialist underdevelopment, and neoliberalism in the Caribbean, she will show how these processes then inform racist policies that target nations and their migrants by relying on tropes of both Black criminality and exploitability now reproduced on a global scale.

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Choral Contemplations I: Palestrina 500

21 Oct

Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025
Time: 18:10 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Celebrating 500 years since the birth of Palestrina

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Are You Entertained?

21 Oct

Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Student events, Academic events, Films and theatre
Venue: James Arnott Theatre, Gilmorehill Centre

Thinking Culture presents a legally compliant and non-spectacular event that is definitely not a political cabaret about immigration law, from PhD student Kfir Lapid-Mashall.

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Approaches to Active Learning: Object Based Learning

22 Oct

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Robyne Calvert

Object-based learning (OBL) is a dynamic and engaging pedagogical approach that enriches teaching by anchoring abstract concepts in tangible (and sometimes intangible) things. It is an established practice in many arts disciplines, but has more recently been growing in use in wider fields. Through teaching with physical or digital objects like artworks, artefacts, scientific instruments, historical documents, or everyday items; OBL encourages active engagement to develop analytical, observational, and interpretive skills.

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Adam Wilson (York Minster)

22 Oct

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Writing from within the abyss, with Dr Hyab Yohannes

22 Oct

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Ln, Glasgow G11 6EW
Speaker: Dr Hyab Yohannes

This talk by Dr Hyab Yohannes of the UNESCO RIELA team explores the dual nature of writing, as both a journey and an act of resistance.

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Professor Michael Given’s inaugural lecture

22 Oct

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Professor Michael Given

Professor Michael Given’s inaugural lecture - Rock and river, soil and forest, herd and home: landscape and conviviality in Scotland and Cyprus

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Methods and Ethics for SoTL

23 Oct

Date: Thursday 23 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

Are you looking to get started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? Are you interested in designing enquiries into your teaching, exploring student learning and enhancing your practice as an educator? This is the second in a series of 3 CPD sessions which will help you get started, regardless of where and when you are in your career.

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Lunchtime Concert: Haydée Schvartz

23 Oct

Date: Thursday 23 October 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening in partnership with the University's Cramb Residency in Music. A unique opportunity to come along and hear an exciting recital of piano music from Argentine pianist Haydée Schvartz. This event is free of charge and open to all! Please note that tickets must be reserved via the Eventbrite link below.

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Reflections on Edward Said (1935-2003)

23 Oct

Date: Thursday 23 October 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Melville Room (Gilbert Scott 458)
Speaker: Dr Moshe Behar (University of Manchester)

Moshe Behar, Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester, argues that the devastation in Gaza constitutes a profound moral and political crisis. Drawing on Edward Said’s vision, he critiques settler-colonial paradigms and reaffirms the relevance of a single binational polity as a horizon for justice and coexistence.

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Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in Science

23 Oct

Date: Thursday 23 October 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Professor Rupamanjari Ghosh

Drawing on her experience as a physicist, university leader, and advocate for inclusive excellence, Professor Rupamanjari Ghosh reflects on the evolving landscape of equity, diversity, and inclusion in science.

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Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture 2025

24 Oct

Date: Friday 24 October 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: McCall Lecture Theatre, Garscube Campus
Speaker: Professor Andrea Nolan

The 2025 Weipers Memorial Lecture, ‘Clinics to campus: a veterinary tale of pain, pleasure and progress’, will be delivered by Professor Andrea Nolan. After four decades as a veterinary surgeon during periods of immense change, Andrea will reflect on the different but surprisingly complementary threads of her learning from work as a researcher in animal pain and a university leader to offer insights for the future.

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Using AI ethically in research (AIFest)

27 Oct

Date: Monday 27 October 2025
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events
Venue: 237B, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow, G11 6EW

This event will discuss the opportunities and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the conduct of research.

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Festival of Data Science and AI

27 Oct

Date: Monday 27 October 2025 - Wednesday 29 October 2025
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Festival of Data Science & AI.

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52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life (Opening Panel and Exhibition)

27 Oct

Date: Monday 27 October 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: James McCune Smith Learning Hub Foyer, University Avenue Glasgow, G12 8QW
Speaker: Bilge Serin; Alison McCandlish, Funda Mengilli

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life is an exhibition on diversity in urban life and questions how the same moments can be interpreted in different ways by different individuals. The exhibition showcases a selection of photographs capturing mundane moments in everyday life, along with their interpretations by the illustrator. Full project portfolio can be seen: https://www.instagram.com/52squares

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Online UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integration (May Peace Prevail)

27 Oct

Date: Monday 27 October 2025 - Friday 31 October 2025
Time: 8:00 - 19:00
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures, Conferences
Venue: Online
Speaker: Alison Phipps, Naomi Head, Bilgin Ayata, Luigi Toscano, Matt Rabagliati, Shira Klein, Ramon Ayres and many more

Discussions, workshops, presentations, quiet space and performances on the theme of peacebuilding and integration through education, languages and arts - led by the UNESCO Chair team at the University of Glasgow

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The Political Economy of AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Politics, Society, and the Economy (AIFest)

28 Oct

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events
Venue: 237B, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow, G11 6EW

This interactive panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for politics, society, and the economy.

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Engineering & Technology Fair 2025

28 Oct

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025 - Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 11:00 - 14:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: Kelvin Hall

If you’ve got a curious mind and a desire to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges, a career in engineering or technology might be for you! The engineering and technology sectors offer endless possibilities to those who dare to dream about the future.

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Decolonising the Curriculum in your Discipline

28 Oct

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

This workshop introduces the topic of Decolonising the Curriculum and outlines an approach to plan, assess and review curriculum changes. We will consider our teaching materials and practices through the lens of decoloniality and identify typical barriers. Participants will be invited to discuss – and, if time allows, workshop – decolonising strategies that are compatible with the objectives of upcoming courses. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach international and/or diverse student cohorts.

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CREATe Public Lecture by Monica Westin

28 Oct

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Seminar Suite 237 ABC, Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Monica Westin

This talk by Monica Westin - Director of Open Policy Development at Cambridge University Press - explores copyright as infrastructure in the age of AI: the shared, networked, and interoperable systems that lower transaction costs, enable scale, shape participation, and, following Chachra, embody “material expressions of shared commitments.” From this perspective, the lecture will illuminate copyright infrastructure failure modes central to the scholarly knowledge economy, and advance practical remedies grounded in the principles of infrastructural maintenance.

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To Whom Does This Belong? Film Screening and Panel Discussion

28 Oct

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Time: 17:45 - 21:15
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Kelvin Hall

Celebrating Black History Month, join Museum X and The Hunterian for the first Scottish screening of To Whom Does This Belong? — an evening of film, conversation, and creativity exploring heritage, belonging, and the legacies of empire through museum collections.

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SHUT UP! Should offensive speech be free?

28 Oct

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Room 255, Humanities Lecture Theatre, Gilbert Scott Building
Speaker: Prof Adam Tomkins

The debate over free speech has become a battleground in our modern-day culture war. Should we be able to say whatever we want, no matter how offensive? Should some words be banned? How has social media – and its potential to polarize us ever more – changed the debate on how we should interact with each other?

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Choral Evensong: Simon and Jude (Apostles)

28 Oct

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Time: 18:10 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A service of choral evensong marking the feast day of the apostles Simon and Jude.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Identify

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of our SoTL journey this month is identification. How do we decide which themes and topics we would like to explore through our SoTL enquiry? Maybe the student feedback for the course has identified some issues that we would like to explore, perhaps our reflections on last year’s teaching have highlighted an area for a possible SoTL project, or alternatively we might like to consider how to redesign one of our course assessments. In this session we will consider various possibilities for identifying SoTL projects, whether individually or collaboratively.

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Ronan McQuade (Glasgow)

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Sustainability Salon: The issues with EVs - continued

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Alumni events, Academic events, Public lectures, Conferences
Venue: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 18 Lilybank Gardens, Room 423

Join us for the second Sustainability Salon on the issues surrounding electric vehicles (EVs).

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What Does EDI Mean in Classrooms Today?

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teams
Speaker: Dr Beth Cairns

This talk offers an opportunity to pause and reflect on the current landscape of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) within higher education. As universities face increasing financial pressures, organisational restructurings, and shifting societal expectations, the context in which EDI work takes place is changing, both for institutions and for the students and staff who inhabit them.

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Mass Incarceration, Mass Incorporation, and the Rise of a Protagonist Judiciary in Brazil

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Luiz Dal Santo, University of Oxford.

This presentation challenges the reproduction of dominant Northern theories by explaining how mass incarceration emerged and has persisted in Brazil—a peripheral, dependent state undergoing democratisation, economic growth, and social inclusion.

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ARC Conversations – Debate: ‘AI in academia: embrace or resist?’

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: •Ana Basiri - Professor of Geospatial Data Science and Director of Centre for Data Science and AI - School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, •David Lo

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to accelerate research, personalise learning and ease administrative burden, yet it also raises important questions about academic integrity, equity and the role of human expertise. Join us for this critical discussion as we explore these opportunities and challenges across research, teaching and academic practice. After the debate stay for a chat over drinks.

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Magnetism and the Brain: Pollution, particles and Alzheimer’s disease

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Charles Wilson Building, Lecture Theatre 201
Speaker: Professor Barbara Maher

Barbara Maher’s major research interests are in environmental magnetism and palaeomagnetism. She uses magnetic methods to obtain palaeoclimatic, palaeoenvironmental and dating information from the magnetic records of Quaternary terrestrial sediments, deep-sea sediments, and pre-Quaternary rocks. She studies sources of particulate pollutants in the environment and led the international Working Group on Dust and Climate. Barbara led the team which recently discovered the abundant presence of externally-derived magnetite, and co-associated metal-bearing air pollution particles in the human brain, identifying for the first time a possible causal role for these particles in neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer’s disease.

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Dissemination and Next Steps ...

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

Are you looking to get started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? Are you interested in designing enquiries into your teaching, exploring student learning and enhancing your practice as an educator? This is the third in a series of 3 CPD sessions which will help you get started, regardless of where and when you are in your career.

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Lunchtime Concert: GLEAM Takeover feat. Marko Ciciliani

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures, Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: Marko Ciciliani

Lunchtime listening: Glasgow Electronic and Audiovisual Media Festival (GLEAM) 2025 guest programmes this slot in the Lunchtime Concert Series with a performance-lecture from Marko Ciciliani. This event is free of charge and open to all!

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GLEAM Festival 2025

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 13:00 - 21:30
Categories: Student events, Academic events, Public lectures, Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

GLEAM (Glasgow Electronic and Audiovisual Media Festival) returns on Thursday 30th October with a packed programme of performances and presentations.

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Annual James Wood Lecture: Constitutional Rights with a Privy Council Twist

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Senate Room, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Lady Rose, Justice of the UK Supreme Court

Join us for this year's Annual James Wood Lecture on 30 October, which will be delivered by Lady Rose, Justice of the UK Supreme Court. Lady Rose will speak to the topic of 'Constitutional Rights with a Privy Council Twist'.

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Glasgow Painting Trail – A Tour and Talk at The Hunterian

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Hunterian
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery
Speaker: Anne Dulau and Zandra Yeaman

Join us in the Hunterian Art Gallery after-hours, for a painting trail exploring Glasgow's connections to slavery and colonialism.

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JMS Network: Dr Shantel George and Taylar Carty

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Public lectures
Venue: Kelvin Hall
Speaker: Dr Shantel George

An Black History Month special in-conversation seminar with Dr Shantel George and PhD student in History, Taylar Carty.

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CinemARC: Sinners

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Get ready for this special Halloween screening of Ryan Coogler's Sinners.

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Engaging International Students in Active Learning

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

Internationalisation brings inspiring encounters but also potential misalignments of teacher and student expectations. These misalignments apply especially to expectations around how learning should take place and the role teachers and students play in the (co-)construction of knowledge. In order to create more alignment with our students, this session will offer an overview of the specific transition challenges international students may face and introduce approaches to scaffold active learning and create an inclusive classroom community. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach diverse international student cohorts.

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Taiwan Film Festival in Scotland 2025: Encounter Taiwan and the World

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025 - Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 18:00
Categories: Student events, Social events, Films and theatre
Venue: Centre of Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT)

A selection of contemporary Taiwanese cinema that delves into the intricate tapestry of identity, memory, and societal transformation. This festival serves as a luminous platform of encounter, where Taiwan's cinematic imagination dialogues with Scotland's cultural landscape, and where local stories refract global questions of belonging, resilience, and renewal, to bridge Taiwan and Scotland, fostering a lasting cultural exchange that celebrates cinema's power to connect inward truths with outward visions, creating a shared space for reflection and inspiration. We invite you to join us in these marvellous encounters - where Taiwan meets the world, and where Scotland, in turn, encounters Taiwan.

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Reflections on 26 years of devolution in the Scottish Parliament

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Public lectures
Venue: Humanities Lecture Theatre, The Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Online
Speaker: David McGill, Clerk and Chief Executive of the Scottish Parliament

David McGill, Clerk and Chief Executive of the Scottish Parliament, reflects on its past and looks ahead to the election in May 2026.

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Choral Contemplations II: Mythical Beasts

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 18:10 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Join us for a free twilight concert of choral and organ music exploring mythical beasts!

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The Living Lab: Healthcare Innovation Symposium

05 Nov

Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Teaching and Learning Centre

Join the Living Laboratory for a full day designed to equip delegates with the insights, strategies, and connections needed to transform pioneering ideas into impactful healthcare solutions - delivering real-world value within the NHS and on a global stage.

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The Craft of Clarity: Designing Learning Outcomes with Impact

05 Nov

Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis and Dr Errol Rivera

Creating intended learning outcomes (ILOs) is one of the most difficult parts of the curriculum design process. This workshop will enable participants to craft clear, inclusive, and purposeful intended learning outcomes that serve as the foundation for effective course design and assessment. This session will not only provide the anatomy of a strong ILO, but will give participants the opportunity to create their own strong ILOs for a course that they teach.

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Angelique Po (Vancouver)

05 Nov

Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Future Creatives

06 Nov

Date: Thursday 06 November 2025
Time: 11:00 - 19:00
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Films and theatre, Exhibitions, Concerts and music
Venue: Queen Margaret Union

Future Creatives is a celebration of student work, projects and performances from the School of Culture & Creative Arts.

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Lunchtime Concert: Dopey Monkey

06 Nov

Date: Thursday 06 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening: Dopey Monkey (Martin Lee Thomson and Danielle Price) present a programme of genre-defying new and arranged music for euphonium and tuba. This event is free of charge and open to all!

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Explore a Career in Teaching

06 Nov

Date: Thursday 06 November 2025
Time: 17:00 - 19:30
Categories: Student events, Academic events
Venue: St Andrews Building, Gilmorehill Campus

Ever been curious about a career in teaching? Have a real passion for your subject area? Ready to take your first step towards inspiring the next generation? By attending this event, you'll gain an understanding of what it's like to work in teaching and have the chance to network with local teachers and fellow students.

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World-Changing Glasgow 850 Games Jam - Prizegiving

06 Nov

Date: Thursday 06 November 2025
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Categories: Student events
Venue: Wolfson Building, Atrium

To mark the city’s 850th anniversary, we’re inviting students to take part in the World-Changing Glasgow Games Jam — a celebration of creativity, risk-taking, and bold new visions.

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Annual Remembrance Service

09 Nov

Date: Sunday 09 November 2025
Time: 10:45
Categories: Ceremonial events
Venue: Bute Hall

The University’s Annual Remembrance Service will be on Sunday 9 November 2025. All are welcome to attend. Events will begin at the South Front of the University from 10.45am, where the silence will be observed at 11.00am. This will be followed by the Service of Remembrance in the Bute Hall.

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Rubrics to the Rescue? How the Use of Rubrics Can Enhance Assessment of Student Learning and Provision of Feedback

12 Nov

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis

This session will look at how the use of rubrics can help enhance the student learning experience. It will provide an overview of how to create sustainable rubrics and how rubrics can be used to help create meaningful, criterion based assessment, and provide more focused feedback to students. You will also get the chance to see examples of rubrics from colleagues on campus, and ask them about their experience.

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Michael Bawtree (Glasgow)

12 Nov

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Professor Sarah Cook’s inaugural lecture

12 Nov

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Professor Sarah Cook

Professor Sarah Cook’s inaugural lecture - Curating art and technology from the Internet to AI.

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Measuring the International Relevance and Cultural Inclusivity of your Course

18 Nov

Date: Tuesday 18 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

This workshop introduces the Internationally Relevant Curriculum Scales (IRCS), a tool that enables us to systematically evaluate our course materials, teaching and classroom interactions for international relevance and cultural inclusivity. By using a simplified version of the tool interactively in the workshop, it will demonstrate how the data can be analysed and translated into actionable changes to our curriculum and practice. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach international and/or diverse student cohorts.

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Mark Browne (Glasgow)

19 Nov

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Eastern Europe’s ‘Peripheral Whiteness’: Class and Gender Racialization among Polish Migrants and Returnees

19 Nov

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek and Dr Sylwia Urbańska

In this talk, Dr Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek and Dr Sylwia Urbańska will develop the concept of peripheral Whiteness in the context of Eastern Europeans, arguing that their position is characterized by conditional access to the privileges associated with Whiteness. Focusing on the example of Polish migrants in Western European labour markets and Polish returnees at Poland’s eastern borders, the talk will demonstrate how processes of racialization are deeply intertwined with dimensions of class and gender.

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CinemARC: The Social Network

19 Nov

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 17:30 - 20:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

The ARC presents this special screening of Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s 2010 hit, The Social Network.

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Lunchtime Concert: Aref Ghorbani and Amir Hossein Feyzi

20 Nov

Date: Thursday 20 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening: Aref Ghorbani and Amir Hossein Feyzi present an exciting programme of music. This event is free of charge and open to all!

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HESPA Autumn ‘All-In’ Conference

25 Nov

Date: Tuesday 25 November 2025 - Thursday 27 November 2025
Time: 09:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Virtual
Speaker: Vivienne Stern (UUK), Chris Hale (University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand) and Amanda Oliver (Committee of University Chairs

Free place for the HESPA Autumn ‘All-In’ Conference – Planners Power Up

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Plan

26 Nov

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

This month the focus of our SoTL journey is planning. Once we have identified what we would like our SoTL to focus on, how are we going to put this into practice? Maybe we would like to make changes to our own teaching practices, perhaps we have questions that we would like to answer by exploring the relevant literature, maybe we are contemplating an evaluation of past or current teaching and learning in our discipline. In this session we discuss strategies for developing a successful SoTL plan.

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Kevin Bowyer

26 Nov

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

A short, free, lunchtime organ recital - come and hear this beautiful instrument played live.

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Beyond Efficiency: Automating Marking to Improve Feedback, Moderation, and Programme Design

26 Nov

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teams
Speaker: Rebekah Marangon

This session explores how low-code automation tools, such as Microsoft Forms and Power Automate, can be used to transform marking and feedback in higher education. Based on practical experience within undergraduate law modules, the talk highlights how automation can enhance feedback quality, improve consistency, and significantly reduce marking time - while preserving academic integrity and pedagogical depth.

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Lunchtime Concert: The Stone Combo

27 Nov

Date: Thursday 27 November 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening: Come along to hear a programme of music by dynamic jazz trio The Stone Combo. This event is free of charge and open to all!

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Approaches to Active Learning: Peer Learning

03 Dec

Date: Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Aleix Tura Vecino

This session introduces staff to peer learning as a dynamic and inclusive form of active learning. Designed for educators seeking to enhance student engagement and collaboration, the session explores key principles, benefits, and practical applications of peer learning across disciplines.

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Lunchtime Concert: Scottish Opera Emerging Artists

04 Dec

Date: Thursday 04 December 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening: Scottish Opera's Emerging Artists present a varied programme of works. This event is free and open to all!

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UofG London Burns Supper

09 Jan

Date: Friday 09 January 2026
Time: 18:30 - 23:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: The Caledonian Club

Join us for a celebration of Scottish culture and heritage at our London Burns Supper, with a night of great entertainment, whisky and food!

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UofG Glasgow Burns Supper

17 Jan

Date: Saturday 17 January 2026
Time: 18:30 - 23:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: The University of Glasgow

Join the University of Glasgow as they host a Glasgow Burns Supper in the Bute Hall on the Gilmorehill campus! This event offers alumni, friends and students the opportunity to celebrate the life, works and spirit of the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, in a night that highlights and embraces Scottish culture and heritage.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Design

28 Jan

Date: Wednesday 28 January 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We begin the new year by looking at how best to design a SoTL project. Whether we are contemplating embarking on a literature review, designing a learning and teaching intervention or undertaking an evaluation of a previous intervention, it is vital to spend time planning at the outset. In this session we will consider the main methodologies that we might use for a SoTL project, and the methods associated with each.

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UofG Chicago Burns Celebration

04 Feb

Date: Wednesday 04 February 2026
Time: 18:30 - 22:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: TBC

Join us for a celebration of Scottish culture and heritage at our Chicago Burns Celebration!

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UofG Boston Burns Supper

06 Feb

Date: Friday 06 February 2026
Time: 18:30 - 23:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: TBC

Join us for a celebration of Scottish culture and heritage at our Boston Burns Supper.

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Humanities Lecture Series 2025-26: Dr Sim Innes

11 Feb

Date: Wednesday 11 February 2026
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Dr Sim Innes

Dr Sim Innes - Gaelic song poetry and British Empire conflicts 1874-1930.

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Applying for the SoTL Funding Scheme

17 Feb

Date: Tuesday 17 February 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch and Dr Nathalie Tasler

This session is aimed at colleagues who would like to know more about the SoTL Funding Scheme and are interested in applying. We will look through the call for bids for 2025-26 and consider which types of project might be eligible. Members of the network who have been successful in their bids will be available to talk about their projects and offer advice.

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From Design to Dialogue: Building Feedback Literacy for Staff and Students

18 Feb

Date: Wednesday 18 February 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis

This session will equip participants with the knowledge, strategies, and tools to enhance their own feedback literacy and to foster feedback literacy in their students. It emphasizes feedback as a dialogic, developmental process embedded in assessment design and everyday teaching practice.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Investigate

25 Feb

Date: Wednesday 25 February 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of our SoTL journey this month is investigation. Once we have identified a possible SoTL project and decided on a project design, how do we begin our investigation? In this session we ask questions about how to establish which resources we might need, how much time we have to dedicate to our project and who else might be available to support us.

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From Silos to Synergy: Supporting Student Learning Through a Programme Focused Approach to Assessment and Feedback

12 Mar

Date: Thursday 12 March 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis

Programmatic assessment implies that assessment is organised across a programme, rather than for individual courses. This programme structure allows for iterative assessment practices to flourish, and for students to engage with the assessment process more meaningfully. This session will help participants think about how to map their courses programmatically and make meaningful links between courses on a programme.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Write

25 Mar

Date: Wednesday 25 March 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of this month’s stage of the SoTL journey is writing. Of course, this is an activity that occurs throughout the whole process, from reflection all the way through to implementation. In this session we look at how to identify ways in which to build in writing into your regular practices, whether those be daily, weekly, or less often. As well as looking at strategies for developing regular writing practices, we will also consider which tools you might use to help you to take and make notes.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Disseminate

29 Apr

Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

This month we consider how to develop a dissemination strategy for SoTL practitioners. We will begin with a series of questions which are designed to help us to build our personal plan for dissemination before looking at some of the pathways for publication which are available for UofG colleagues internally and externally. Examples of successful SoTL publications will be provided in order to help us to plan for our own publications.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Reflect

27 May

Date: Wednesday 27 May 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We end our SoTL journey this year as we began, with reflection. In this session we each take time to look back at our previous learning, teaching and SoTL activities and celebrate any successes we have had, however large or small these might be. We also reflect on any challenges we have faced and consider how we might overcome any such barriers in the future. Then we look forward and consider how we would like to engage in SoTL over the summer months – and even begin planning for the next academic year.

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