All University Events

All University Events


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Iain Maloney: Novelist and Poet

Date: Monday 30 March 2020
Time: 16:00: - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Iain Maloney

In a rare UK visit, poet and novelist Iain Maloney returns to Glasgow University for our Creative Conversations series. Originally from Aberdee, Iain now lives and works in Japan and the country has influenced his writing in all its forms and in fascinating ways. Come and listen in - free and all welcome!
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Call and Response: The University of Glasgow and Slavery

Date: Monday 26 August 2019 - Tuesday 31 March 2020
Time: 09:00 - 17.00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Inspired by African and Scottish storytelling, this exhibition invites reactions and responses to the histories of enslaved people and their role in the university’s story. The archives, books and objects collected by previous generations illustrate how staff and students changed the world. What we decided to keep reflects where we have come from. How can we reinterpret our collections to tell a more inclusive story? Visit the exhibition and your response to be part of this difficult but necessary conversation.
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Offer Holders Day

Date: Tuesday 31 March 2020
Time: 09:30 - 15:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow

This event has been cancelled.

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Tartan Day

Date: Saturday 04 April 2020
Time: 14:00 - 18:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Maggie's

This event has been postponed.
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Public lecture: How we divide ourselves up to vote, and why it matters

Date: Tuesday 07 April 2020
Time: 19:00 - 20:00
Categories: Conferences, Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Bute Hall
Speaker: Prof Moon Duchin

This Public Lecture will be aimed at a general audience and will address electoral redistricting. Every single voter around the globe is affected electoral boundaries, this talk will give the opportunity for people to understand how this important aspect of democracy works and affects the outcome of our elections and votes.

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Mahara for Work Placement

Date: Monday 20 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: John Maguire

Meaningful dialogue between students and staff is central to enhancing learning. In the College of Arts the use of the Mahara e-portfolio system is allowing staff to regularly assess the progress of students on work placement, and provide a means to encourage student to staff as well as student to student exchange, allowing the formative feedback to enhance the learning.
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PowerPoint vs Camtasia: Tools for recording lectures and flipping the classroom

Date: Wednesday 22 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: John Maguire

Subjects in the College of Arts are using recording tools for online delivery and exploring a flipped classroom approach. This session will look at differences in, and how to get creative with, each piece of software as well as discussing our first steps towards a flipped class approach.
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Linking Up Assessments to Make Feedback Meaningful: An Introduction to Assessment Blueprinting

Date: Wednesday 22 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Sykes and a Senior Dental School member

Students spend a lot of time creating work to be assessed, and academics spend a lot of time marking that work and creating feedback to help each student learn. This workshop will introduce you to assessment blueprinting, which enables you to link assessments across a Programme and make the feedback you provide meaningful for the next relevant assessment. Through this linkage, you show your students how the assessments support learning and that the feedback is relevant and useful.
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Designing more accessible slides / electronic handouts

Date: Thursday 23 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 12:45
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: Scott Ramsay, Greg Walters

This short demonstration will showcase some of the tools in Microsoft Office software that will help you improve the accessibility of your materials. We will cover accessibility from a legibility and comprehension perspective, which make things easier for *any* student, as well as specific features of Microsoft Office that are designed to work with screen reader technology.
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Editing techniques for creating short videos with Camtasia

Date: Wednesday 29 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: John Maguire

Staff in the College of Arts undertook some basic training in video editing which has allowed them to create their own short informative videos, on location, at important sites students can’t access easily. This session will look how training in the basic principles of video editing software can enable individuals to produce their own quality videos. Come see some examples of the work and try it out for yourself.
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Love Me Tender: Kim Noble and the Politics of Tenderness

Date: Thursday 30 April 2020
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: Gilmorehill Halls, University of Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Anna Harpin, University of Warwick

Offering a counter argument to regular interpretations of Kim Noble’s work as reckless glimpses into the mind of a mad man, Anna Harpin presents the dynamics of intimacy, exposure, and care that are at play in his theatre work. Rejecting a pathologising and anti-intellectual gaze, Harpin explores the relationship between tenderness and cruelty excavating questions about what it means to be person, to have a life, and to live with difficult feelings.
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Will Harris: Poet

Date: Monday 04 May 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Will Harris

Will Harris is our guest for Creative Conversations this week. A prize-winning and widely published poet, we will be able to hear poems from his forthcoming collection 'Rendang' (Granta, 2020) as well as learn more about his poetic practice. Free and all welcome
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San Francisco Alumni Reception

Date: Wednesday 06 May 2020
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Novela San Francisco

This event has been postponed,
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Pasadena Alumni Garden Party

Date: Saturday 09 May 2020
Time: 15:00 - 17:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Pasadena, Los Angeles

This event has been postponed.

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Dean Atta: Poet and Drag Artist

Date: Monday 11 May 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Dean Atta

We are very excited to be welcoming poet and drag artist Dean Atta to Creative Conversations. His debut verse novel 'The Black Flamingo' has been describe as "a fresh and enriching perspective on what it means to be seen as different at the level of race, culture, identity, heritage and gender" (Malika Booker). Dean is one of the leading poets in the UK right now, with work of power and connection. Come along and enjoy: Free and all welcome!
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Leadership in HE

Date: Wednesday 20 May 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Professor Fiona Denney, Brunel University London

A full description will follow shortly.
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European & International Society of Hypertension

Date: Friday 29 May 2020 - Monday 01 June 2020
Time: 11:00 - 14:30
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Scottish Events Campus (SEC)

The Joint Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and International Society of Hypertension (ISH) will develop an outstanding scientific programme that will include multiple State-of-the-Art Lectures, Debates and Round Tables on issues of major current interest and controversy.
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Glasgow Chamber Orchestra - Conductor, Robert Baxter

Date: Sunday 31 May 2020
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Bute Hall, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

GCO presents a colourful programme of French music to include Ibert's Flute Concerto with soloist Katherine Bryan. Full details including tickets at www.gco.org.uk
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*Cancelled* Outlander Conference

Date: Tuesday 02 June 2020 - Saturday 06 June 2020
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences, Academic events
Venue: Gilmorehill Campus

The Outlander Conference Glasgow 2020 is an international interdisciplinary conference that will study and celebrate the cultural impact and legacy of the Outlander books and TV series. It is organised by the University of Glasgow, where it will take place from 2 to 6 June 2020.
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*POSTPONED* - Commemoration Day 2020

Date: Wednesday 17 June 2020
Time: 09:45 - 15:00
Categories: Ceremonial events
Venue: University Cathedral/ Bute Hall

Commemoration Day 2020 has been postponed until Wednesday 16 June 2021

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June Open Day

Date: Thursday 18 June 2020
Time: 09:30 - 15:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow

Registration will open 6 weeks before the event.
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Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Symposium

Date: Sunday 19 July 2020 - Friday 24 July 2020
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Bute Hall

The Symposium will be formally opened at a complimentary welcome event in the University of Glasgow's Hunterian Museum on Sunday 19th July. The Symposium will then run from 9am on Monday 20th till 5pm on Friday 24th July in the Bute Hall with the conference dinner taking place mid-week at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum.
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International Conference on Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals

Date: Monday 27 July 2020 - Friday 31 July 2020
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Scottish Events Campus (SEC)

ICSM is the largest conference devoted to the field of organic electronics and has showcased many of the most important developments in the field over the last 40 years.
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International Congress of Behavioural Medicine

Date: Wednesday 19 August 2020 - Saturday 22 August 2020
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Scottish Events Campus (SEC)

The Congress aims to bring together leading academics, researchers and practitioners to share their research and experiences on all aspects of behavioural medicine. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the field of behavioural medicine.
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2020 European Conference on Computer Vision

Date: Sunday 23 August 2020 - Friday 28 August 2020
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Scottish Events Campus (SEC)

ECCV 2020 will be a four day single-track conference, with additional activities: over 1000 posters, workshops, tutorials, and an industrial exhibition. The conference will present high quality previously unpublished research on many aspects of computer vision.
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European Conference on Educational Research 2020

Date: Monday 24 August 2020 - Friday 28 August 2020
Time: 9:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Gilmorehill Campus

The ECER 2020 in Glasgow intends to interrogate the capacity of educational research to address the complexity of the challenges that are encountered in connecting and reconnecting communities in contemporary Europe.
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September Open Day

Date: Wednesday 02 September 2020
Time: 09:30 - 15:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow

Registration will open 6 weeks before event.
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October Open Day

Date: Wednesday 02 September 2020
Time: 09:30 - 15:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow

Registration will open 6 weeks before the event.