Event listings

Unsettled Objects: Post-colonial perceptions of belonging, exile and home

Date: Tuesday 28 September 2021 - Thursday 30 September 2021
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences, Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Alexandra Alberda (Manchester Museum), Noorah Al-Gailani (Glasgow Museums), Khadijeh Baseri (National Museum of Iran), Katie Bruce (Glasgow Museums),

Global virtual forum on objects in collections, where they come from, where they below, how we care for and engage with them. This event is jointly organised by The Unesco Chair (University of Glasgow) and Glasgow Museums.

Building Back Better. Making the Case for Health and Work

Date: Tuesday 28 September 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online
Speaker: Steve Bell

Steve Bell will be the second speaker in our series of Responsible Management Talks, which will take place between August and November 2021. Steve will draw on extensive experience to discuss the importance of good health and wellbeing in the workplace and why it has become increasingly relevant.

Choral Contemplations I: How can I keep from singing?

Date: Tuesday 28 September 2021
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: University of Glasgow Chapel Choir

Chapel Choir's first in-person performance since March 2020. A concert on the theme of singing including music by Howells, Law, Harwood and McEwen. The concert will also be streamed live.

Erratic Drift

Date: Saturday 12 June 2021 - Wednesday 01 December 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Social events, COP26 Physical
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: Thursday 12 August 2021 - Wednesday 01 December 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Social events, COP26 Physical
Venue: in person, West End of Glasgow

In collaboration with Glasgow-based postgraduates, 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 free audio files onto your mobile device or stream from the website.

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?

From Time to Time

Date: Monday 13 September 2021 - Friday 15 October 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University Memorial Chapel, West Quadrangle, Main Building

A Temporary art installation by Gardner & Gardner (www.gardnerandgardner.co.uk)

Bright Edge Deep | Online Exhibition

Date: Monday 20 September 2021 - Monday 03 January 2022
Time: 10:00
Categories: Exhibitions, COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Bright Edge Deep: peatlands in history, cultural heritage, and climate | Online Exhibition

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!

ÚNA Podcast

Date: Friday 24 September 2021 - Sunday 24 October 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

ÚNA Festival presents a podcast series featuring artists, creatives and representatives of Indigenous and BME communities to nurture our knowledge of sustainability and community.

Law Fair

Date: Wednesday 29 September 2021
Time: 11:00 - 15:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: Online

If you are looking for a career in the legal profession, this event is for you. The Law Fair will help you get prepared and research the graduate and summer work opportunities available to you.

Connect with Climate Change: Sharing ideas, inspiring actions - ‘Carbon free commuting and connection: travel in our new normal'

Date: Wednesday 29 September 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:15
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

Scottish Power, together with the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde, are hosting Connect with Climate Change Events, a virtual exchange series which is taking place throughout 2021 in the run up to COP26. The Connect with Climate Change series aims to offer a platform to engage with academics, students, public and businesses sharing ideas and views on a range of climate change topics. In advance of COP26 coming to Glasgow, these events will focus on “real time” discussions around the different climate issues.

The Big Brave Q&A with Policy Officer, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Nina Tavakkoli

Date: Wednesday 29 September 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Categories: Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Nina Tavakkoli

Are you looking for career inspiration or hoping to build your confidence before you start applying for jobs? Well, we have invited alumnus Nina Tavakkoli, Policy Officer, German Federal Ministry for the Environment, to chat honestly about her career and help inspire you.

Terrestrial Archaeology Seminar Series: Archaeology for a Changing Planet

Date: Wednesday 29 September 2021 - Wednesday 08 December 2021
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, COP 26 Online
Venue: Seminars will be held on Zoom. Register on eventbrite for your free ticket to attend.

In November 2021 the COP26 Meeting will be held in Glasgow. This year the University of Glasgow Archaeology seminar series highlights the diverse contributions of archaeological and heritage researchers through their work relevant to the central concerns of COP26 including: impacts of climate change, human – environment interactions, landscape change, social responses to environmental and climate change, activist scholarship to promote sustainability, and an overarching commitment to social justice. This seminar series aims to engage a broad research and public community with this work.

Listen! Students Leading Teachers for Sustainability – A Practice Workshop

Date: Friday 01 October 2021
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Categories: Academic events, Staff workshops and seminars, COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

On Friday October 1st at 12noon - 1:30pm, come and listen to what our University's students want to say to us - and let them know that we care. The UofG Sustainability in Learning & Teaching Community of Practice invites teachers, teaching administrators, leaders, and managers across our campuses to this upcoming Practice Workshop, which will be led by a group of brilliant student activists with a passion for sustainability.

Creative Conversations: Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Date: Monday 04 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Fiston Mwanza Mujila in Conversation for Creative Conversations

Cross Cultural Communication

Date: Tuesday 05 October 2021
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Public lectures
Venue: Eventbrite Seminar
Speaker: Pheona and Micheal Matovu, Radiant and Brighter

This is the first talk that will explore communication traits from different cultures including non-verbal communication, understanding own communication behaviours, how they shape our expectations of each other and their impact on businesses and organisations. The event is open to the whole of the university and participants can join one or both talks

The Hunterian Black History Month Talk Series

Date: Tuesday 05 October 2021 - Tuesday 26 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 13:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Hunterian Curators

Join Hunterian curators every Tuesday at 1.00pm this October for a special series of talks. Each will explore The Hunterian collection's cultural legacy from a different area of expertise, investigating Scotland's complicity in slavery and colonialism to reveal a more truthful rendering of the past.

An Anti-Racism Talk

Date: Tuesday 05 October 2021
Time: 14:00 - 15:30
Categories: Public lectures, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Eventbrite Seminar
Speaker: Pheona and Micheal Matovu, Radiant and Brighter

The second of two talks which will give participants a better understanding of how to apply and embed anti-racism practice as a core value within the workplace in order to attract and sustaining diversity. It will also explore discrimination and racism, inclusive practice, inappropriate and appropriate language, equality and equal opportunities and addressing discrimination in the Scotland and workplace. This talk is open to the whole of the university and participants can join one or both talks.

The Big Brave Q&A with Co-Founder and CTO, Current Health, Stewart Whiting

Date: Wednesday 06 October 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Categories: Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Stewart Whiting

Are you looking for career inspiration or hoping to build your confidence before you start applying for jobs? Well, we have invited alumnus Co-Founder and CTO, Current Health, Stewart Whiting to chat honestly about her career and help inspire you.

Minding the Gap: Understanding & Closing the Attainment Gap in HE

Date: Wednesday 06 October 2021
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Eventbrite Seminar
Speaker: Dr Lisa Greenhill, Senior Director for Institutional Research and Diversity, AAVMC

Dr Lisa Greenhill will discuss her wealth of knowledge and experience working with underrepresented and marginalized communities in their quest to attain admission to higher education institutes. The talk is open to all University students and staff.

Creative Conversations: Denise Mina

Date: Monday 11 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Denise Mina

Denise Mina in conversation with Professor Louise Welsh

Higher Education, Knowledge Democracy and Sustainability

Date: Monday 11 October 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

The webinar is a joint initiative between the UNESCO Chair in Community-based Research and Social Responsibility, the Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (University of Glasgow) and the Low and Middle Income Countries Research Network (University of Glasgow). Based on the book Socially Responsible Higher Education: International Perspectives on Knowledge Democracy, the discussion will focus on two themes: knowledge democracy and place-based learning.

Circular Ceramics in the Round

Date: Tuesday 12 October 2021
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Exhibitions, COP 26 Online
Venue: online

An online "handling event" using the Wolfvision visualiser at the Hunterian Museum with Fife Contemporary's curator, Mella Shaw, and artists Sara Howard and Carol Sinclair exploring the Circular Economy.

Black Sporting Histories

Date: Thursday 14 October 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Andy Mitchell; Anima Adjepong; Nicola Hay; representatives from United Glasgow

A Black History Month event reflecting on the role of Black athletes in sporting history, on sport's significance for antiracism.

Prof Olivette Otele - James McCune Smith Memorial Lecture

Date: Thursday 14 October 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Speaker: Prof Olivette Otele

Inaugurated in 2015, an annual lecture honouring James McCune Smith, who studied for three degrees at Glasgow, becoming the first African American to receive a medical degree. This year, it is delivered, online, by Olivette Otele, PhD, FRHistS. Prof Otele is a Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of Enslavement at the University of Bristol.

Round the World in Knitted Textiles

Date: Friday 15 October 2021
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: via zoom

Join us for a virtual colloquium where curators and collectors from around the world will introduce knitted objects from their collections.

Dunedin Consort

Date: Saturday 16 October 2021
Time: 18:30 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, COP26 Physical
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

The award-winning Scottish ensemble the Dunedin Consort will explore music’s relationship with nature and look at how the arts can both reflect and inspire environmental concerns.

Creative Conversations: Alasdair C Whyte

Date: Monday 18 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Alasdair C Whyte

Alasdair C Whyte in conversation for Creative Conversations

The Path to Net Zero: data, evidence and policy

Date: Monday 18 October 2021
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures, Alumni events, COP 26 Online
Venue: On-line
Speaker: Chris Stark and Keith Bell, UK Climate Change Committee

The Climate Change Committee (CCC) is a high profile body which was established by Government to provide independent advice on how to reach 'net zero'. In this public lecture, two members of the CCC will review what needs to be done and progress so far in achieving this. High quality data and clear quantitative thinking lie at the heart of the issues.

The Big Brave Q&A with Electrical and Electronic Engineer, Kenya Electricity Transmission Company, Carol Ofafa

Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Categories: Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Carol Ofafa

Are you looking for career inspiration or hoping to build your confidence before you start applying for jobs? Well, we have invited alumnus Electrical and Electronic Engineer, Kenya Electricity Transmission Company, Carol Ofafa to chat honestly about her career and help inspire you.

Sensation of Blackness

Date: Wednesday 20 October 2021
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Tawona Sitholé, Ropafadzo Zinyuke, Bella Matambanadzo, Jamal Lee and Shanon Bobinger

Discussion about blackness with Tawona Sitholé, Ropafadzo Zinyuke, Bella Matambanadzo, Jamal Lee and Shanon Bobinger for Black History Month

A’ Chailleach – The Cailleach

Date: Thursday 21 October 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:15
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Visual-artist Judith Parrott and singer-songwriter Gillebride MacMillan collaborate to present a creative response to A' Chailleach – The Cailleach - goddess of the weather, creator of Scotland and maker of mountains.

Times Higher Education Leadership & Management Summit 2021

Date: Monday 25 October 2021 - Wednesday 27 October 2021
Time: 09:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: online

Restore, reset, rebuild: an online conference. Over three days, we will challenge the current practices of university leadership.

Creative Conversations: Jane Goldman

Date: Monday 25 October 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Oran Mor Auditorium
Speaker: Jane Goldman

Jane Goldman in Conversation for Creative Conversations

Programmable Nature: Conversations with Artists

Date: Tuesday 26 October 2021
Time: 10:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: online

A series of video interviews presented by the Digital Departures Lab profiling the work of three of the most exciting artists working at the cross section of art, science and technology, exploring the condition of ‘programmable nature’.

COP26 Organ Recital

Date: Wednesday 27 October 2021
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, COP26 Physical
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Kevin Bowyer

University organist Kevin Bowyer will perform Charles Camilleri's Missa Mundi (Mass of the World) in full, as part of COP26.

Global Environmental History and Climate Change

Date: Wednesday 27 October 2021
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures, COP 26 Online
Venue: online

Two panels of leading experts in global environment history will introduce their work how historical research is important to the struggle against climate change.

The Big Brave Q&A with WWF UK, Polar Oceans Specialist, Rhona Kent

Date: Wednesday 27 October 2021
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Categories: Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Rhona Kent

Are you looking for career inspiration or hoping to build your confidence before you start applying for jobs? Well, we have invited alumnus Rhona Kent, Polar Oceans Specialist, WWF to chat honestly about her career and help inspire you.

Creative Conversations: Vanessa Onwuemezi

Date: Thursday 28 October 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online Event
Speaker: Vanessa Onwuemezi

Vanessa Onwuemezi in Conversation for Creative Conversations

Lomond Brass

Date: Thursday 28 October 2021
Time: 13:30 - 14:20
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

The brightest, best and boldest brass from Scotland! 5 of Scotland's top brass players take a break from their day jobs (with the RSNO, BBC SSO and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera no less) to combine together for the first time in a chamber music setting.

The James Wood Lecture 2021: Free Speech and Hate Speech

Date: Thursday 28 October 2021
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Professor Adam Tomkins

The 34th annual James Wood Lecture will be delivered by Adam Tomkins, John Millar Professor of Law, on the topic “Free Speech and Hate Speech”.

Anar, with translators Hari Rajaledchumy and Fran Lock

Date: Thursday 28 October 2021
Time: 18:30 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online Event
Speaker: Anar

Poet Anar in conversation with translators Hari Rajaledchumy and Fran Lock, in association with Poetry Translation Centre

Growing Glasgow

Date: Friday 29 October 2021
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Films and theatre, COP26 Physical
Venue: Gilmorehill Halls Cinema

Screening of two films which stress the issues of our current food system by presenting the efforts of workers, activists and academics to increase the quality, accessibility and sustainability of food in the city of Glasgow.

Net zero & the economic future of cities

Date: Tuesday 02 November 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: COP 26 Online
Venue: Online
Speaker: Jim Coleman

Jim Coleman will explore how far Net Zero pathways and low carbon transitions can be utilised as mechanisms for inclusive economic development in cities and can this be sustained for the whole cross section of urban communities into the future?

Creative Conversations: Frances Poet

Date: Monday 08 November 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Frances Poet

Frances Poet in conversation for Creative Conversations

Young Civic Engagement with Climate Change: Developing research-practice partnerships between Scotland and Chile

Date: Wednesday 10 November 2021
Time: 09:00 - 12:00
Categories: COP26 Physical
Venue: Fore Hall

By creating an international dialogue on climate change between young people from Chile and Scotland, our goal was to bring children’s voices into policy discussions on environment and support youth action for change at neighbourhood level. In this mini-conference, we present on our process and findings with the help of youth partners in Scotland and Chile. Come and join us!

Built Environment and Net Zero Conference

Date: Thursday 11 November 2021
Time: 08:30 - 16:45
Categories: Conferences, Academic events, COP 26 Online
Venue: Online

Centre for Sustainable Solutions Built Environment and Net Zero Conference, including UofG colleagues from across all Colleges, and external partners such as Glasgow City Council. Will coincide with the Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day at COP26 itself.

Water Music: Source to Sea

Date: Thursday 11 November 2021
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, COP26 Physical, COP 26 Online
Venue: University of Glasgow Concert Hall
Speaker: Sequoia Duo

Sequoia Duo presents Water Music: Source to Sea, a musical imagining of the journey taken by a raindrop as it travels along Scotland’s waterways, presented as part of Music in the University and The Dear Green Bothy.

Creative Conversations: Gerrie Fellows

Date: Monday 15 November 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Gerrie Fellows

Poet Gerrie Fellows in conversation for Creative Conversations

Creative Conversations: Samantha Walton

Date: Sunday 21 November 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Samantha Walton

Samantha Walton in Conversation for Creative Conversations

Creative Conversations: Apphia Campbell

Date: Monday 22 November 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Apphia Campbell

Apphia Campbell in conversation for Creative Conversations

Creative Conversations: Peter Ross

Date: Monday 29 November 2021
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Peter Ross

Peter Ross in Conversation for Creative Conversations

22nd Holocaust Memorial Lecture

Date: Tuesday 18 January 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building, Main Campus
Speaker: TBC

The 22nd Holocaust Memorial Lecture will take place on Tuesday, 18 January 2022. The speaker will be announced soon along with the date for registration.

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.