All University Events

All University Events


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Revisiting consumption for a climate friendly future. In conversation with Professor Tim Jackson

Date: Wednesday 18 August 2021 - Thursday 18 August 2022
Time: 09:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Available on Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Anchor, Pocketcasts, Radio Public and Youtube
Speaker: Professor Tim Jackson

Join Deirdre Shaw, Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainable Solutions and Professor of Marketing and Consumer Research, University of Glasgow as she discusses this important topic with Tim Jackson*, Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity and Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey.. Over three “bite-size” Podcasts they will explore key questions, including: How can we transform current consumption behaviours? What do climate friendly consumption lifestyles look like? How can we support and embed behavioural transformation?
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The LGBTQ+ Fabric of the University - Monthly Lunchtime Drop-Ins

Date: Wednesday 30 March 2022 - Wednesday 25 January 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: The Hunterian Museum (Main Building)

Drop in to one or many of our monthly gatherings seeking to share stories & weave more LGBTQ+ stories into the University Collections.
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Demon Drink

Date: Friday 20 May 2022 - Sunday 18 September 2022
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This fascinating new exhibition explores the theme of alcohol in art and the contradiction of the positive and negative consequences of the ‘demon drink’.
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Alasdair Gray's Lanark: A Life Made on Paper

Date: Friday 10 June 2022 - Sunday 02 October 2022
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This new Hunterian exhibition is dedicated to the work of renowned Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray (1934–2019).
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Charlie Hammond: Workaround

Date: Friday 24 June 2022 - Sunday 16 October 2022
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

'Workaround' is a solo exhibition featuring new and existing work by Glasgow-based artist Charlie Hammond.
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ESSAM 2022

Date: Sunday 26 June 2022 - Saturday 09 July 2022
Time: 09:00 - 17:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: University of Glasgow Garscube Campus and Dumfries Campus

European Summer School for Advanced Management is a two-week residential summer school at the Adam Smith Business School, open to MBA students from around the world
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Colouring Adult Eczema: sculpture, engagement, and living with adult eczema

Date: Thursday 07 July 2022
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Social events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Sinéad Langan (Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, LSTHM) and Julia Vogl (artist)

Join us on Thursday 7 July 2022 to mark the opening of a two-week public display at the Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow.
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UofG Alumni Book Club: Professor Louise Welsh in Conversation with Chris Brookmyre

Date: Monday 11 July 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Louise Welsh and Chris Brookmyre

Join Professor Louise Welsh in conversation with best-selling author and alumnus Chris Brookmyre.
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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.
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Bothy Conversations

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.
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The promised land of AI for Healthcare and lessons learned wandering the desert

Date: Wednesday 20 July 2022
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Hybrid Event: 422-423 Sir Alwyn Williams Building & zoom link: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsfuitqzwtEtf_c5140jNmeIrbglKgNKYd
Speaker: Dr Simone Stumpf

Dr Simone Stumpf has been recently appointed head of the Glasgow Interactive Systems Section at the School of Computer Science at University of Glasgow. In this seminar, she is going to discuss her experience and vision on devising effective computing technologies for healthcare that use AI.

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Introduction to R Workshops

Date: Tuesday 09 August 2022 - Thursday 18 August 2022
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Boyd Orr, room 517
Speaker: Emily Nordmann, School of Psychology and Neuroscience

In this workshop you will learn how use R and RStudio to summarise and visualise data. The session runs over two days with the second session building on learning from session 1. Attendees will need to commit to attending both sessions (9 and 18 August).
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August Undergraduate Open Day

Date: Wednesday 31 August 2022
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Main Campus

The University of Glasgow's Undergraduate Open Day taking place on Wednesday 31 August.
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The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots

Date: Friday 14 October 2022 - Sunday 05 February 2023
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This major new exhibition explores the legend of Mary Queen of Scots and her cultural afterlife.

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October Undergraduate Open Day

Date: Saturday 22 October 2022
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Main Campus

The University of Glasgow's Undergraduate Open Day taking place on Wednesday 31 August 2022.