All University Events

All University Events


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Telling the Story of HIV and AIDs in Scotland, with Waverley Care

Date: Monday 27 June 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online

Join the LGBTQ+ Staff Network to find out more about the history of HIV/AIDS in Scotland in this workshop with Waverley Care

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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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The People's Global Summit Keynote Live Panel and Mini-workshops

Date: Wednesday 29 June 2022
Time: 08:00 - 16:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC)
Speaker: Prof Alison Phipps, Dr Hyab Yohannes, Dr Piki Diamond, Tawona Sithole

Join us in the new Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC) for The People’s Global Summit: Co-Building a New EcoSocial World leaving no one behind on 29 June! Enjoy a live-stream of Summit sessions and take part in live discussions and workshops at our Summit satellite hub. The People’s Global Summit brings together individuals and communities, people of lived experiences, along with global organisations to co-build a Global Values Declaration for a new eco-social world that will be delivered to the United Nations High-Level Political Forum and will create a catalyst for further global action.
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Combining the Incompatible Identities: Study of Feminist and LGBTQ+ Believers in Ukraine (2021-2022)

Date: Wednesday 29 June 2022
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Iryna Kaplan

Special lecture of the Religion, Challenge and Change seminar series

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Research & Policy Partnerships for Global Development: Why it matters, how it works and what to do

Date: Thursday 30 June 2022
Time: 15:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online

Webinar to promote collaborations and partnerships between academics, policymakers and practitioners with a focus on the Global South.
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Hunterian Museum evening event for all University staff

Date: Thursday 30 June 2022
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Social events
Venue: Hunterian Museum
Speaker: n/a

All University of Glasgow staff and their families are invited to this evening event in the Hunterian Museum to enjoy our new 'Curating Discomfort' exhibits. For the past six months we have been working to change over the central displays in the Museum, opening up to wider perspectives and critically assessing our collections. Join us for this special after-hours event to see our new interventions. There will be drinks, nibbles, live music and craft activities available for children. Admission is free and all staff and their families/friends are welcome.
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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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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.