Event listings

Jimmy Robert: Tobacco Flower

Date: Friday 11 June 2021 - Sunday 05 September 2021
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

'Tobacco Flower' is a major installation of new work by artist Jimmy Robert, which focuses on relationships between Europe and the Caribbean. Taking tobacco flower textile designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh as a key point of departure and working across several mediums, including film, photography and sound, Robert explores multiple traces left by Glasgow's role within colonialism. Supported by Glasgow International and Goethe-Institut.

Erratic Drift

Date: Saturday 12 June 2021 - Wednesday 01 December 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Social events, COP26
Venue: in-person

A performance and film project following a series of drifts/walks around Glasgow in the company of rocks, stones, silt, artists, archaeologists, geomorphologists, and architects. Erratic Drift explores relationships between human and geological timeframes, movements, and structures. Launched as part of the 2021 Architecture Fringe.

Whistler: Art and Legacy

Date: Friday 09 July 2021 - Sunday 31 October 2021
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

The Hunterian is home to one of the world’s largest collections of the work of American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). This major new exhibition showcases the collection's strength and richness, exploring the development of Whistler’s artistic practice and the role that Glasgow played in supporting him and forming his artistic legacy.

Soundwalk: self-led audio tour of Glasgow

Date: Tuesday 03 August 2021 - Wednesday 01 December 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Social events, COP26
Venue: in person, West End of Glasgow

In collaboration with Glasgow-based sound design students, Sound Thought presents a curated soundwalk of locations around Glasgow, exploring notions of acoustic ecology and the impact of humans and noise pollution on our local environments. To take part, simply download the self-led walk as a free audio file onto your mobile device.

ViCEPHEC 2021: Variety in Chemistry Education / Physics Higher Education Conference

Date: Monday 16 August 2021 - Friday 20 August 2021
Time: 9:30
Categories: Conferences, Academic events
Venue: Online

Variety in Chemistry Education / Physics Higher Education Conference is an annual national conference that brings together educators in chemistry and physics to discuss and share developments, ideas and good practice in learning and teaching at tertiary level.

2021 ViCEPHEC Invited Public Outreach Lecture

Date: Wednesday 18 August 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel

Invited Public Outreach Lecture: Towards A Research-Informed Education: Applying Cognitive Psychology To Teaching and Learning

Women’s Work, Nature, and the Colonies: Screenings & Discussions with Africa in Motion

Date: Friday 20 August 2021 - Sunday 22 August 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Films and theatre, Public lectures, Academic events, COP26
Venue: online

In collaboration with Africa in Motion Film Festival and the EDI Lab at the University of Glasgow, the Dear Green Bothy presents a three-day programme of screenings and discussions about environmental resistance across the African continent, with a focus on the vital work and activism of women.

Gotta Grow em’ All: Let’s Play Pokémon Environments

Date: Saturday 21 August 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Categories: Social events, Academic events, Student events, COP26
Venue: online

‘We all live in a Pokémon world’, but just what environmental impact(s) do we as humans have on it? As part of Pokémon’s 25th anniversary year, join a virtual field trip inside a playthrough of a Pokémon game. Drawing on research into how we play games, this event will celebrate the rich gaming and environmental history of Pokémon, while exploring the ways in which we encounter and shape the environments of ‘game worlds’ through our play. In parallel, such experiences may also let us re-interpret how we view ecosystems in our own world. 

September Open Day for College of Arts and College of Social Sciences

Date: Wednesday 01 September 2021
Time: 14:00 - 19:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Union Spaces

If you are interested in studying a subject from College of Arts or College of Social Sciences then join us on Wednesday, September 1 from 2pm – 7pm (BST). A full running order will be made available soon!

September Open Day for College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences and College of Science and Engineering

Date: Thursday 02 September 2021
Time: 15:00 - 19:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Union Spaces

If you are interested in studying a subject from College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences or College of Science and Engineering then join us on Thursday, September 2 from 3pm – 7pm (BST). A full running order will be made available soon!

ICD-X: Interatomic Coulombic Decay in External Environments

Date: Monday 20 September 2021 - Tuesday 21 September 2021
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences, Academic events
Venue: Online + in-person in the Senate Room

In-person and online hybrid workshop, welcoming contributed talks on interatomic Coulombic decay (and more general energy transfer processes), subject to external fields or influences.

Music in the University Concert Series 2021-22

Date: Thursday 23 September 2021 - Wednesday 30 March 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: Glasgow University Concert Hall

Our Music in the University concerts will be back again in 2021-22 whether we'll be recording, streaming or hopefully inviting you back in person as part of a socially-distanced audience. We have performers booked in ready to go, so please check back here for details in due course. We look forward to sharing live music with you once again in the autumn!

Once and Future Fantasies Conference

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.