Event listings

Explorathon: Robots and Dinosaurs Storytelling Session

22 Sep

Date: Friday 22 September 2023
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Categories: Social events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre , University of Glasgow11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, Glasgow, G11 6EW

It's here, the brand new One Button Benny picture book, One Button Benny and the Dinosaur Dilemma. Trapped underground with a hungry dinosaur on the loose, can Benny save the day and get everyone hope in time for the Friday dance party?

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London Alumni Association - Ceilidh Club Night

22 Sep

Date: Friday 22 September 2023
Time: 19:00 - 23:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, NW1 7AY

The London Alumni Association have partnered with the London Ceilidh Club to offer UofG alumni a 10% discount on full price tickets for the Ceilidh night on Friday 22 September 2023.

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Unravelling Times

12 May

Date: Friday 12 May 2023 - Sunday 15 October 2023
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This new contemporary art exhibition features works by pioneering experimental filmmaker Lis Rhodes, which have recently been acquired for The Hunterian collection through a Freelands Art Fund Acquisition award.

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Ruth Ewan: A JUKEBOX of People Trying to Change the World

28 Aug

Date: Monday 28 August 2023 - Wednesday 10 January 2024
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions
Venue: Queen Margaret Union

Ruth Ewan’s ‘A Jukebox of People Trying to Change the World’ will be installed for six months in the QMU’s bar. The jukebox contains 2,000 tracks which address a broad range of social and political issues. Tracks are organised into themes including feminism, land rights, poverty, civil rights and ecology. Presented by Thinking Culture and The Dear Green Bothy.

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Bordered Miles

23 Sep

Date: Saturday 23 September 2023
Time: 08:00 - 19:30
Categories: Exhibitions, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Glasgow
Speaker: n/a

Join us for 'Bordered Miles', a day-long group walk from the University of Glasgow to Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre with artist Iman Tajik. 'Bordered Miles' stresses the need for resistance towards barriers and boundaries and invites participants to think about political and social systems that favour some but not all.

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Explorathon: Native Oysters! Valuing Scotland’s coastal environments through place-names, stories and songs

23 Sep

Date: Saturday 23 September 2023
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre , University of Glasgow11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, Glasgow, G11 6EW

Join us and explore the value of coastal environments within Scotland, both to ecosystems and people!

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Creative Conversations: Routes/Roots

25 Sep

Date: Monday 25 September 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Sean Wai Keung, Katie Goh, Candice Chung, Tae Song, Jing Ye, Pim Wangtechawat

Co-hosted with West End Festival to Celebrate East and Southeast Asian Heritage Month

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Creative Conversations Video Art and Health: John Quin

25 Sep

Date: Monday 25 September 2023
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Adam Smith Business School PGT 587
Speaker: John. Quin

John Quin in conversation about his book Video Art and Health

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Taizé Prayers and Music

26 Sep

Date: Tuesday 26 September 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Concerts and music, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

An inclusive, ecumenical service modelled on the practice of the Taizé Community in France. Led by the Rev Carolyn Kelly (University Chaplain) and the Chapel Choir.

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Precision Medicine Scotland - Innovation Centre 10-year Anniversary Conference

28 Sep

Date: Thursday 28 September 2023
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Technology and Innovation Centre, Strathclyde University
Speaker: Various

As Precision Medicine Scotland celebrates its 10th anniversary, we’re delighted to bring our project partners, collaborators and and colleagues from across the sector together for an all day conference in Glasgow.

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Ryan Young: Fiddle & David Foley: Guitar

28 Sep

Date: Thursday 28 September 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Exciting fiddle player Ryan Young is joined by David Foley for a highly entertaining lunchtime recital of tunes from Scotland and Ireland.

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Free Open Session with Ryan Young & David Foley - Registration Required!

28 Sep

Date: Thursday 28 September 2023
Time: 17:15 - 18:45
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Courses, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Sign up to come and play in a session with two of Scotland's leading folk musicians: Ryan Young and David Foley

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Permacrisis – A Plan to Fix a Fractured World

29 Sep

Date: Friday 29 September 2023
Time: 12:15 - 13:15
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Bute Hall
Speaker: Gordon Brown and Michael Spence

Join former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Nobel Laureate Michael Spence as they discuss their provocative plan to prevent crises and set the world on a better, fairer course.

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She Works Hard for the Money Listening Party

29 Sep

Date: Friday 29 September 2023
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events
Venue: Queen Margaret Union
Speaker: Ruth Ewan + Debbie Armour

Artist Ruth Ewan will host a launch event of song and lyrical story telling, ‘She Works Hard for the Money’, with singer Debbie Armour. They’ll draw upon tracks from the Jukebox which explore ongoing work-related struggles such as precarity, discrimination, reproductive labour and the fight for equal pay. Presented by Thinking Culture and The Dear Green Bothy.

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European Semiconductor Laser Workshop 2023

30 Sep

Date: Saturday 30 September 2023
Categories: Conferences
Venue: University of Glasgow, Sir Charles Wilson Building

ESLW intends to provide an opportunity to learn about recent advances in physics and applications of semiconductor lasers through invited talks given by renowned scholars and industrial companies and through contributed presentations by active researchers in this field. Furthermore, this workshop is known to create an environment for extensive discussion and potential collaboration between researchers and industry worldwide. More information will follow soon.

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Visions of the Haitian Revolution's Rebel Women and Men

01 Oct

Date: Sunday 01 October 2023
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Social events
Venue: The Studio, Gallery of Modern Art Royal Exchange SquareGlasgow, Scotland, G1 3AH
Speaker: François Cauvin and Dr Rachel Douglas

In conversation with acclaimed Haitian artist François Cauvin and University of Glasgow researcher Dr Rachel Douglas. They will discuss the iconic portraiture of Haiti’s rebel women and men and the visual aftershocks of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) in contemporary Haitian art. Cauvin will explore how his family history intersects with Haitian history and sites of memory including some of the Haitian Revolution’s main battlefields. Cauvin will discuss his and other Haitian families’ migration to Montreal, Canada during the dictatorship of François “Papa Doc” and Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier (1957-1986) and its long aftermath.

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Creative Conversations: JR Carpenter

02 Oct

Date: Monday 02 October 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: J R Carpenter

Writer and Artist J R Carpenter in Conversation

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Adzuna Online Workshop: Job Skills and Location

03 Oct

Date: Tuesday 03 October 2023
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online (Zoom)

This UBDC Adzuna workshop brings together licensed users and focuses on job skills and location.

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A Fair and Sustainable Scotland - How fair is fair?

03 Oct

Date: Tuesday 03 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Conferences
Venue: The Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP
Speaker: Graeme Roy, Satwat Rehman, Graeme Armstrong

Scotland has clear ambitions: eradicating child poverty, becoming a net zero country, and developing an entrepreneurial and inclusive economy. This event will consider how we want Scotland to change over the next 20 years. Complete equality of outcome is impossible, so what does success look like? How will we tell when we have a fair country? And what should we be doing now to build it? Join our expert panel to consider different futures for Scotland.

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Choral Evensong

03 Oct

Date: Tuesday 03 October 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A traditional service of Choral Evensong led by the Honorary Anglican Chaplains and the Chapel Choir. Including music by Anthony Baldwin and T. Tertius Noble. All welcome.

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Law Fair 2023

04 Oct

Date: Wednesday 04 October 2023
Time: 11:00 - 15:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: Glasgow Grosvenor Hotel

The world of law offers a diverse range of opportunities with firms—big and small—and other impactful organisations. Explore what this fascinating sector can offer you and learn how to launch your career at the Law Fair, open to all students.

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‘What future for arts and culture?’

04 Oct

Date: Wednesday 04 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: ARC
Speaker: Dr Bridget McConnell

Reflections on Culture Lecture series with Dr Bridget McConnell, ‘What future for arts and culture?’

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Decolonising Healthcare: Can we repair the divisions?

04 Oct

Date: Wednesday 04 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre G59
Speaker: Dr Annabel Sowemimo

Dr Annabel Sowemimo author of 'Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why we Need to Decolonise Healthcare' will outline recent approaches to decolonising and anti-racism work within healthcare and medicine, and explore how decolonising frameworks may be applied to healthcare.

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Shahriyar Jamshidi: Kamanche

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Illustrious Kurdish Kamānche player and composer Shahriyar Jamshidi reverberates the sounds of mountains in his musical journey “Pomegranate Seeds”.

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BBC and Black Britain South Asians at the BBC 1930S-1940S

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre Room 103 82 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Dr Kaul

This talk is based on new research from Dr Kaul's forthcoming book, The BBC and India. The BBC played an important role in broadcasting about, and to, India, especially during the Second World War, and the British Raj was keen to utilise the BBC in its imperial strategies. A number of Indians came to work for the BBC in London during the war as well as in the subcontinent. Many stayed on after the war, whilst some returned to help further develop broadcasting in India and Pakistan after Independence in 1947.

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Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2023 Seminar Series

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023 - Thursday 02 November 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Various
Speaker: Various (see below)

The seminar series is a learned group of regular public seminars and workshops. We host speakers and world-renowned experts on subjects pertinent to the Centre’s remit, from the Medieval period to the twenty-first century. The Autumn 2023 Series covers subjects from emblems and Goya, comic storytelling of C. L. R. James and slavery, and Early Modern diplomacy in the visual culture of French festivals culture. Our programme of events and activities reflects our research culture and our international reach; they are open to scholars, students, and to general public alike.

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Framing Fantasy: Brian Attebery and Matthew Sangster discuss the affordances of Fantasy

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Online, via Zoom webinar
Speaker: Professor Brian Attebery and Professor Matthew Sangster

To celebrate the publication of Matthew Sangster's An Introduction to Fantasy (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Brian Attebery's Fantasy: How it Works (Oxford University Press, 2022) receiving the 2023 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies, Glasgow's Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic invites you to an online conversation between the two authors, exploring how we can make compelling cases for Fantasy's particular qualities and values. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session.

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Mary Barnes: A Creative Revolution in Mental Healthcare

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Categories: Exhibitions, Social events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Launching the 'Rebirth and Revolution' exhibition, this interactive discussion brings together experts from psychology, social geography, fine art and medicine to consider and discuss the artwork and legacy of Mary Barnes.

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London Alumni Association Pub Quiz

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: The Old Bank of England 194 Fleet Street London EC4A 2LT

Join us for a fun-filled evening at our Giving Day Pub Quiz, where you can test your knowledge against fellow alumni and UofG Students.

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Dining with the Ancestors: A culinary trip from Caribbean slavery to Creole cuisine

06 Oct

Date: Friday 06 October 2023
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Social events
Venue: Boilerhouse at the Hidden Gardens via Tramway 25A Albert DriveGlasgow, Scotland, G41 2PE
Speaker: Dr Peggy Brunache

Academic and food historian Dr Peggy Brunache leads a celebratory cooking event that charts the evolution of ‘slave cuisine’ to Creole cuisines and discusses what can be learned about the lives of enslaved people in the Caribbean as joy, pride, resilience, and resistance through the food they cooked and still enjoyed by their descendants today. Audiences will also have an opportunity to taste the food created at the event.

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Glasgow's Slavery Audit: Implications for Reparatory Justice and Anti-racism in Scotland

06 Oct

Date: Friday 06 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Social events
Venue: Satinwood Suite, Glasgow City Chambers Glasgow G2 6LL

Updates will be given on the work of Glasgow City Council Slavery and Colonial Legacy Working Group, the present progress of public consultation and hear from University of Glasgow on the latest research and the new Reparatory Justice MSc course at the university jointly organised with the University of the West Indies.

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Faith in Scotland’s Constitutional Future Conference

07 Oct

Date: Saturday 07 October 2023
Time: 10:00 - 15:30
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Partick Trinity Church, 20 Lawrence Street, Glasgow, G11 5HG

The Faith in Scotland’s Constitutional Future project will be launched with a one-day conference in Glasgow'.

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Common Salt

09 Oct

Date: Monday 09 October 2023
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Hunterian Museum University Avenue Main Building Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer

Common Salt is a performance around a table – a ‘show and tell’. It explores the colonial, geographical history of England and India from the first Enclosure Act and the start of the East India Company in the 1600s, to 21st century narratives of trade, empire and culture.

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Creative Conversations: Lesley Harrison

09 Oct

Date: Monday 09 October 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Lesley Harrison

Poet Lesley Harrison in Conversation (Collaboration with UPenn Modern Poetry)

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Choral Contemplations I: Songs of singing

10 Oct

Date: Tuesday 10 October 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Chapel Choir present a programme of choral and organ music celebrating the joy of singing.

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Industry Stakeholder Workshop on Green Technology Critical Metal Recycling

11 Oct

Date: Wednesday 11 October 2023 - Thursday 12 October 2023
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre (ARC), 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW

Please join us for an industry-focused stakeholder event, where we will demonstrate novel developments in our technologies, identify key areas of impactful future research and development, and to promote networking in our field with key stakeholders.

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Creating positive images and combating negative stereotypes

11 Oct

Date: Wednesday 11 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre G59
Speaker: Dr Saima Salehjee and Prof Mike Watts

Join Dr Saima Salehjee and Prof Mike Watts as they discuss their new book ‘Learning to Succeed in Science: Stories of south Asian Women in Britain’ which featuring over sixty stories of UK-based south Asian women’s stories of successes in science.

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Hong Kong Alumni Social Night

11 Oct

Date: Wednesday 11 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Soho House Hong Kong 33 Des Voeux Road West Hong Kong, HKI Hong Kong

Join Kate Carlin, Alumni Manager, for a relaxed alumni get together.

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Roo Geddes Trio

12 Oct

Date: Thursday 12 October 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Roo Geddes - fiddle, Neil Sutcliffe - accordion and Sodhi - tabla bring a stunning collaboration of Scottish trad, jazz and Indian classical

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Common Salt: The Symposium

13 Oct

Date: Friday 13 October 2023
Time: 14:30 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: James Artnott Theatre, Gilmorehill Halls Unversity of Glasgow, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Sheila Ghelani and Sue Palmer

The Common Salt symposium is an interdisciplinary research event intended to celebrate Sheila and Sue week-long residency of performances and workshops in the College of Arts and at The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow. To mark the residency, a number of researchers in the College of Arts have been invited to respond to the themes of Common Salt and to mix their research with Sheila and Sue’s own research into Imperialism, Colonial Economics, Environmentalism, Natural History, Curating and Material Cultures.

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Singapore Alumni Brunch

15 Oct

Date: Sunday 15 October 2023
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: SO France Claymore, Claymore Road Singapore, 229594 Singapore
Speaker: Rachel Sandison, UofG Deputy Vice Chancellor

Join Rachel Sandison, UofG Deputy Vice Chancellor, for a relaxed alumni brunch.

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Creative Conversations: Iphgenia Baal

16 Oct

Date: Monday 16 October 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Iphgenia Baal

Writer Iphgenia Baal in conversation

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After Abolition: Scottish Enslavers and the Persistence of Unfree Labour

17 Oct

Date: Tuesday 17 October 2023
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: The Gallery of Modern Art Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow, Scotland, G1 3AH
Speaker: Dr Shantel George

This presentation by Dr. Shantel George (University of Glasgow) examines the indentureship system and how Scottish investors and enslavers continued to profit from unfree forms of labour after 1834, allowing for a more capacious understanding of Scotland’s imperial past.

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Choral Eucharist (Ignatius of Antioch)

17 Oct

Date: Tuesday 17 October 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Traditional service of Choral Eucharist for the Feast of Ignatius of Antioch, led by the Honorary Anglican Chaplains and the Chapel Choir. All welcome.

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Willshire Piano Duo

19 Oct

Date: Thursday 19 October 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Exceptional pianists James Willshire and Phillippa Harrison make up the Willshire Piano who bring us Holst's Planets for 4 handed piano.

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Black Sporting Histories: race, class and local league football (with Dr. Paul Ian Campbell (University of Leicester)

19 Oct

Date: Thursday 19 October 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Dr Paul Ian Campbell

All are warmly invited to this free public lecture and discussion with Dr. Paul Ian Campbell, a sociologist based at the University of Leicester. Dr. Campbell has written extensively on sport, race and class.

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Undergraduate October Open Day

21 Oct

Date: Saturday 21 October 2023
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Gilmorehill, Main Campus

The University of Glasgow's undergraduate October Open Day takes place on Thursday 15 June between 9am and 4pm.

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Thyssen Lecture, Professor Fred Cooper: Understanding power relations in a colonial context: top-down, bottom-up, in-between

24 Oct

Date: Tuesday 24 October 2023
Time: 17:30 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Seminar Room (253) Wolfson Medical School, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Professor Fred Cooper

Frederick Cooper is Professor Emeritus of History at New York University. His research has focused on twentieth-century Africa, empires, colonization and decolonisation, and citizenship. In this talk he will approach the study of power, inspired by categories developed by the Senegalese politician, poet, and political thinker Léopold Sédar Senghor.

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Pro-slavery Glasgow: Campaigns against the abolition of the slave trade and plantation slavery, 1775-1838

24 Oct

Date: Tuesday 24 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Moir-Dyer Room (ground floor), Mitchell Library North Street, Glasgow G3 7DN
Speaker: Dr Stephen Mullen

Dr Stephen Mullen will tell the story of Glasgow’s opposition to the abolition of slavery. Dr Mullen is the author of Glasgow City Council’s Slavery Audit. He recently published ‘The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838’.

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Taizé Prayers and Music

24 Oct

Date: Tuesday 24 October 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

An inclusive, ecumenical service modelled on the practice of the Taizé Community in France. Led by the Rev Carolyn Kelly (University Chaplain) and the Chapel Choir.

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The world's first black sporting superstars? Celebrating Andrew Watson and Major Tyler on Film

25 Oct

Date: Wednesday 25 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle StreetGlasgow, Scotland, G3 8AW

Join us for this double bill celebrating the lives of two Black sporting superstars of the late nineteenth century.

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Andrea Baker with Albert Horne: Sing Sistah Sing!

26 Oct

Date: Thursday 26 October 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Stunning mezzo Andrea Baker and pianist Albert Horne perform their acclaimed Sing Sistah Sing! programme for Black History Month.

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Andrea Baker with Albert Horne: GOSPEL WORKSHOP

26 Oct

Date: Thursday 26 October 2023
Time: 16:30 - 17:45
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Courses, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Stunning mezzo Andrea Baker and specialist chorus master - pianist Albert Horne curate a gospel workshop for Black History Month, join us!

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CinemARC: Donnie Darko and the Horrors of Sleep

26 Oct

Date: Thursday 26 October 2023
Time: 19:00 - 22:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

A special Halloween screening of the cult-classic 'Donnie Darko'. Join researchers as we invite you to think about the darker side of sleep, where dreams turn into nightmares and illusions turn into hallucinations.

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Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture 2023

27 Oct

Date: Friday 27 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: McCall Lecture Theatre, Garscube Campus
Speaker: Professor Sarah Cleaveland VetMB MRCVS FMedSci FRSE FRS

The biennial Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture will be delivered on Friday 27 October 2023 at 6:00pm. The lecture, ‘One Health: A Call to Action’, will be delivered by Professor Sarah Cleaveland VetMB MRCVS FMedSci FRSE FRS. The Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture series was instigated in 1976 in recognition of the role that Sir William Weipers played in the establishment and development of veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow.

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Creative Conversations: Angie Spoto

30 Oct

Date: Monday 30 October 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Angie Spoto

Writer Angie Spoto in Conversation

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Choral Contemplations II: Egon Altdorf

31 Oct

Date: Tuesday 31 October 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Music inspired by the exhibition in the Memorial Chapel of work by Egon Altdorf, including music by Hugo Distler (1908–1942) and Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650). Performed by the Chapel Choir and university organists.

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Paul Towndrow Trio

02 Nov

Date: Thursday 02 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Internationally renowned saxophonist Paul Towndrow brings his trio supergroup with Alyn Cosker (drums) and Pete Johnstone (hammond organ).

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Creative Conversations: Rebecca Smith

06 Nov

Date: Monday 06 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Rebecca Smith

Writer Rebecca Smith in Conversation

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Postgraduate Online Event

07 Nov

Date: Tuesday 07 November 2023
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Online Event Platform

Chat to staff, students and academics to find out all about life as a postgraduate student at UofG! Join us online for sessions from university service teams and academic information sessions.

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Choral Evensong – Egon Altdorf

07 Nov

Date: Tuesday 07 November 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A traditional service of Choral Evensong led by the Honorary Anglican Chaplains and Chapel Choir. This service celebrates the work of artist Egon Altdorf. Including the first performance of a specially composed anthem by John LeGrove.

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Postgraduate On-Campus Finance & Funding Event

08 Nov

Date: Wednesday 08 November 2023
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre (ARC)

Prospective postgraduate students are invited to attend information sessions about finance and funding, speak with university service teams and tour the campus.

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Satwinder Pal Singh: Sarangi

09 Nov

Date: Thursday 09 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Punjab sarangi player Satwinder Pal Singh and Glasgow's own tabla expert Sodhi perform a recital of captivating Indian classical music.

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Life aboard the last Clyde-built transatlantic liners

10 Nov

Date: Friday 10 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 16:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures
Venue: Fairfield Heritage,
Speaker: Jackie and Chris Lee (Artemis Scotland)

Join us for an event at Fairfield Heritage community museum with Artemis Scotland, specialists in costumed interpretation. See the maritime and shipbuilding displays afresh through the eyes of "Muriel" and "Jasper", who are attending the launch of Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britain in 1955 and plan to travel on the maiden voyage. Part of the Being Human Festival.

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Creative Conversations: Andrew McMillan

13 Nov

Date: Monday 13 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Andrew McMillan

Poet and novelist Andrew McMillan in Conversation

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Choral Contemplations III: The approach of Advent

14 Nov

Date: Tuesday 14 November 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

A concert of new works for choir by RCS students and Chapel Choir members Kenneth Tay and Seyoung Oh.

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Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound

15 Nov

Date: Wednesday 15 November 2023 - Thursday 16 November 2023
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

An opportunity to experience 'Floating Worlds: Erraid Sound', a short film by the renowned Scottish theatre director Graham Eatough, and the Dutch visual artist Andre Dekker, known for his public art with Observatorium.

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Aaron Azunda Akugbo: Trumpet & Zeynep Özsuca: Piano

16 Nov

Date: Thursday 16 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Decorated Nigerian-Scottish trumpet player Aaron Azunda Akugbo performs a lunchtime recital with outstanding Turkish pianist Zeynep Özsuca.

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CinemARC: Journey to the Isles

16 Nov

Date: Thursday 16 November 2023
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Categories: Concerts and music, Films and theatre
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

In collaboration with The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival, join us on an enchanting Journey to the Isles with a special screening of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’s silent films of 1920s Hebridean life, with storytelling and musical accompaniment from Marion Kenny and Mairi Campbell.

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Creative Conversations: Catriona Lexy Campbell

20 Nov

Date: Monday 20 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Catriona Lexy Campbell

Writer Catriona Lexy Campbell in Conversation

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How To Raise The Wind: Chamber Music Scotland

23 Nov

Date: Thursday 23 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

Chamber Music Scotland presents How To Raise The Wind, where traditional and experimental sounds unite in the music of Scotland and Norway.

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What Sociologists Learn from Music: Identity, Music-making and the Sociological Imagination

27 Nov

Date: Monday 27 November 2023
Time: 11:00 - 13:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: St Cecilia's Music Museum and Concert Hall, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG
Speaker: Les Back

Sociologists often have extra-curricular lives as musicians. This talk explores the relationship between musical life and sociological identities. Through a range of examples from Howard Becker’s grounding in field research as a pianist in the Chicago jazz clubs and his theories of deviance to the connection between Emma Jackson’s life as a bass player in Brit pop band Kenickie and her feminist punk sociology an argument is developed about the things sociologists learn from music. Based on twenty-seven life history interviews with contemporary sociologists this talk show how sociologists learn to understand society through their engagement with music.

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Creative Conversations: Zoë Strachan

27 Nov

Date: Monday 27 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Zoë Strachan

Writer Zoë Strachan in Conversation

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Taizé Prayers and Music

28 Nov

Date: Tuesday 28 November 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Ceremonial events, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

An inclusive, ecumenical service modelled on the practice of the Taizé Community in France. Led by the Rev Carolyn Kelly (University Chaplain) and the Chapel Choir.

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Taizé Prayers and Music

28 Nov

Date: Tuesday 28 November 2023
Time: 18:10 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

An inclusive, ecumenical service modelled on the practice of the Taizé Community in France. Led by the Rev Carolyn Kelly (University Chaplain) and the Chapel Choir.

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SYMBIOSIS: Healthcare Biosensing and Bioimaging Exchange

29 Nov

Date: Wednesday 29 November 2023
Time: 09:30 - 16:00
Categories: Conferences, Exhibitions, Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW

SYMBIOSIS is a one-day knowledge exchange event focused on biosensing and bioimaging for healthcare applications. The goal of the event is to open a dialogue between industry, academia, and frontline clinicians in the biosensing and bioimaging space, and to identify opportunities for cross-sector collaboration. This will comprise a series of short talks from participants, where they can choose to discuss stories of research, product development, or key challenges and open questions within the field. Facilitated round table-discussions will be held on key themes, and a networking and exhibition session will provide participants with a platform to showcase products and research.

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Scottish Opera Emerging Artists: Opera

30 Nov

Date: Thursday 30 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Concert Hall

We finish 2023 with a visit from the wonderful Scottish Opera Emerging Artists, 4 singers and 1 pianist, performing opera scenes and arias.

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Madrigirls Advent Service - 6pm

03 Dec

Date: Sunday 03 December 2023
Time: 18:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Madrigirls' much-loved annual concert of music and readings for Advent, featuring a cappella sacred and folk music from around the world.

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Madrigirls Advent Service - 6pm

03 Dec

Date: Sunday 03 December 2023
Time: 20:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Madrigirls' much-loved annual concert of music and readings for Advent, featuring a cappella sacred and folk music from around the world.

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Creative Conversations: Kathleen Jamie

04 Dec

Date: Monday 04 December 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Kathleen Jamie

Poet and Makar Kathleen Jamie in Conversation

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Advent Carol Service

05 Dec

Date: Tuesday 05 December 2023
Time: 18:10
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

New for 2023, the Honorary Anglican Chaplains and Chapel Choir lead an advent service of lessons and music.

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University of Service of Nine Lessons and Carols

10 Dec

Date: Sunday 10 December 2023
Time: 18:00
Categories: Ceremonial events, Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

The annual University Service of Nine Lessons and Carols.

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