All University Events

All University Events


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Team-Based Learning: Optimising Active and Collaborative Learning

Date: Tuesday 10 December 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Simon Tweddell, University of Bradford

This short workshop aims to introduce participants to Team-Based Learning (TBL) by experiencing it as a student would. TBL is a student-centred ‘flipped’ learning and teaching strategy designed to engage students through a process of preparation, assessment and application of knowledge. It shifts the focus of classroom time from conveying course concepts by the teacher to the application of course concepts by student learning teams.
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Deciding where to publish your research

Date: Tuesday 10 December 2019
Time: 12:15 - 12:45
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Zoom webinar

There are qualitative and quantitative factors to consider when choosing a journal in which to publish your latest research. This webinar will unpick some of the quantitative factors in your decision-making process by exploring a range of journal indicators and how journal impact can be measured beyond citations.
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University Family Carol Service with Chapel Choir & Kevin Bowyer, organ

Date: Tuesday 10 December 2019
Time: 18:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel, The Square, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

All welcome to join us for the University's annual Family Carol Service.

Call and Response: The University of Glasgow and Slavery

Date: Monday 26 August 2019 - Friday 31 January 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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GUGA: Slighe gu Gàidhlig / Exploring Gaelic Identities

Date: Friday 11 October 2019 - Sunday 02 February 2020
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This new exhibition considers what Gaelic identity means in 21st century Scotland and presents objects, books and manuscripts associated with Gaelic language and culture.
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A Gift to Glasgow from New York: The Phillip A. Bruno Collection

Date: Friday 18 October 2019 - Sunday 12 January 2020
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This new display is the result of a generous gift of over 70 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints from the collection of distinguished American art collector and gallery director Phillip A. Bruno, formed in New York over a period of 70 years.

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Alex Impey -Gnostic Cautery

Date: Friday 15 November 2019 - Sunday 23 February 2020
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

Alex Impey is a Glasgow-based artist whose practice ranges from drawing to sculpture and writing. For this solo exhibition at The Hunterian, Impey has made new work in sculpture and video. These works extend an interest in themes of biology and technology that is a consistent feature of his practice.
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Using research impact data in grant applications

Date: Wednesday 11 December 2019
Time: 12:15 - 12:45
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Zoom webinar

Research funders are increasingly looking for the economic and societal impact of research, but how do you demonstrate this impact in a grant application? Using several tools, this webinar will help you track interest in your work beyond bibliometric citations.
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Conference: Picturing Sound: The Static Visual Paratexts of Music

Date: Thursday 12 December 2019
Time: 09:00 - 18:00
Categories: Conferences, Exhibitions, Academic events
Venue: Special Collections (Library Level 12)
Speaker: Prof Asbjørn Grønstad

Picturing Sound is a one-day interdisciplinary conference bringing together scholars and experts from across the globe to discuss the multitude of ways in which images influence our perception of music. The day’s events comprise a keynote address by Prof Asbjørn Grønstad of University of Bergen, Norway, followed by three panels on LPs, Comic Art and Intermediality. The inclusion of multimedia exhibitions and performances by our very own Postgraduate Music students means that ‘Picturing Sound’ will appeal not just to scholars interested in audiovisual aesthetics, but also lovers and aficionados of music culture more generally.
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Identifying collaboration opportunities

Date: Thursday 12 December 2019
Time: 12:15 - 12:45
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Zoom webinar

Who is working in your discipline and would they make a good collaborator? Do you know who is citing your work? This webinar will help you investigate some of the quantitative and qualitative factors behind collaboration, whether those be existing or potential new collaborators, in academia or beyond.

College of Arts Staff Book Group

Date: Thursday 12 December 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Social events
Venue: The Samuels Room, 207, 12 University Gardens
Speaker: Book: Laszlo Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance

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Decadence and Translation

Date: Friday 13 December 2019
Time: 09:30 - 18:00
Categories: Conferences, Academic events, Student events
Venue: School of Critical Studies

A day of talks, readings and workshops to explore the relationship between Decadence and Translation from the late nineteenth century to today.
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ORCID, Enlighten and Research Identifiers

Date: Friday 13 December 2019
Time: 12:15 - 12:45
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Zoom webinar

An ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) identifier allows you to be uniquely identified and connected with your research activities. An ORCID or other research identifier will follow you throughout your career and can be linked to your outputs, research funding and other research activities.
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EAP in the North - 'Speaking & Oracy in the Academy'

Date: Friday 13 December 2019
Time: 14:15 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences, Social events
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 718 Bute Gardens, G12 8RS

This free event hosted by English for Academic Study (UofG) creates a space for those involved in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to discuss experiences and issues around speaking in academic settings. Instructors, students and all interested parties welcome.

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Hellenic Alumni Association of the University of Glasgow Festive Lunch

Date: Saturday 14 December 2019
Time: 13:30
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Noel Restaurant Bar

Hellenic Alumni Association of the University of Glasgow Annual Festive Lunch 2019
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The Forgotten: Short Film Screening + Q&A

Date: Wednesday 18 December 2019
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Categories: Films and theatre, Social events
Venue: The Deep End, Govanhill Baths Community Trust, 21 Nithsdale St, Glasgow G41 2PZ

'Everyone has their own ghost story.' Join us for the first public screening of 'The Forgotten', a short film by Lindsey Kennedy (MLitt Playwriting & Dramaturgy) exploring the people and places of Glasgow who refuse to be forgotten.
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Exploration: From Deep Time to Outer Space

Date: Friday 20 December 2019 - Sunday 15 March 2020
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Museum

Many of the most interesting and scientifically valuable natural sciences collections are the legacy of amazing expeditions. This exhibition reveals fascinating tales of expedition triumph and tragedy.

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London Burns Supper

Date: Friday 10 January 2020
Time: 18:30 - 23:30
Categories: Alumni events, Social events
Venue: The Caledonian Club
Speaker: Dr. Clark McGinn

Our London Burns Supper is now sold out.
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66th Kolkata Annual Reunion Dinner

Date: Saturday 11 January 2020
Time: 19:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: The Calcutta Club, Kolkata

The 66th Annual Reunion Dinner of Glasgow Auld Students (Kolkata Alumni Network of the University of Glasgow)

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Making Your Lectures More Accessible to Students Using English as a Second Language

Date: Monday 13 January 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid

This session will consider the challenges students using English as a second language face when listening to extended speech. We will cover the listening skills students are likely to have on arrival, the specific challenges they face, strategies they use to cope, and techniques you can use to make your lecture and seminar content more accessible.
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Val McDermid: Crime Writer

Date: Monday 13 January 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Val McDermid

Opening Semester 2 of our Creative Conversations, we welcome Val McDermid, Britain’s Queen of Crime Fiction, with more than 30 books to her name and 16 million worldwide sales. Come and hear her talk with Louise Welsh about her many book series and projects. Free and all welcome!
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Rubrics to the rescue? How the Use of Rubrics Can Enhance Assessment of Student Learning and Provision of Feedback

Date: Tuesday 14 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder, Prof Scott Roy

This session will look at how the use of rubrics can help enhance the student learning experience. It will provide an overview of how to create sustainable rubrics and how rubrics can be used to help create meaningful, criterion based assessment, and provide more focused feedback to students. You will also get the chance to see examples of rubrics from colleagues on campus, and ask them about their experience.
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Music in the University Lunchtime Series: Scottish Opera Emerging Artists

Date: Thursday 16 January 2020
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Another lunchtime treat of opera highlights to start the new year! Funded by the Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket and subject to seating capacity.
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Writing across Cultures: Supporting PG Students whose First Language is not English to Develop Their Discipline-Specific Academic Literacy

Date: Friday 17 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Karen Ottewell, University of Cambridge

Kaplan noted in 1966 that just because you can write an essay in your L1 does not necessarily mean you can write one in an L2 and with it he founded the theory of contrastive rhetoric, which 50 years on, despite significant research in this area, still lacks a pedagogical framework. In this session I will present an overview of the theoretical principles which underpin this approach, followed by a discussion of practical strategies to support students to develop their written academic literacy.

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Planning for MOOCS (the course design process)

Date: Monday 20 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: John Kerr, Vicki Dale

In this session, participants will gain a deeper understanding into the important role that MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) play at Glasgow. We'll explore the current direction of MOOCs, degrees on FutureLearn, and open courses on Coursera. We'll focus on the processes of announcing, designing and running a MOOC, and investigate the impact they've had on our face-to-face learners along with how they support our distance programmes. Drawing on examples from all four colleges, this workshop will appeal to teachers and teaching support staff from any discipline.
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Helen McClory: Short Story Writer and Novelist

Date: Monday 20 January 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Helen McClory

We welcome Glasgow graduate Helen McClory back to campus for this session of Creative Conversations. Subjects may include her two flash fiction / short story collections, an obsession with Jeff Goldblum, and walking Lou Reed's dog. Free and all welcome!

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Exploring the role of academic practice in student wellbeing

Date: Tuesday 21 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Nicole Kipar

This session introduces recent research into the important role of academic practice in student wellbeing, the role of self-efficacy, and the strong correlation between mental wellbeing and student academic performance. We will be investigating our own localised and institution-wide situation through technology-aided nominal group technique, aiming for concrete actions.
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Dunedin Consort Lunchtime Concert - John Butt, Director

Date: Tuesday 21 January 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Brandenburg Concerti no.4 and no.5 alongside other works by Bach and Telemann. Tickets from www.dunedinconsort.eventbrite.com or call 0141 353 4000
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Music in the University: Chapel Choir Choral Contemplations VI

Date: Tuesday 21 January 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Programme details at www.chapelchoir.org
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20th Holocaust Memorial Lecture

Date: Tuesday 21 January 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Bute Hall
Speaker: Professor Ulrich Herbert

For the 20th Holocaust Memorial Lecture we are delighted to welcome Professor Ulrich Herbert to the University of Glasgow to present his lecture entitled Final Solution. New answers to old questions.
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Practical strategies for including all learners: in and beyond disabilities

Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr El Spaeth, Dr Margaret Sutherland

There are many barriers that can affect students’ learning. Some relate to disabilities or lifelong illness; others are a result of poverty, gender and ethnicity; others still are related to the learning environment. This session focuses on issues of disability and hidden disability in order to make learning better for all.
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Getting Students Talking: Lessons from Second Language Acquisition Literature

Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid

Interaction is a key driver of second language acquisition. This workshop will look at the techniques that language specialists in Academic English use to maximise incentives and opportunities for students to engage in discussions. We will give you practical suggestions for how you can apply these techniques to your HE teaching context to create a richer, more engaging learning experience for all.
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Music in the University Lunchtime Concert Series: A Burns Concert

Date: Thursday 23 January 2020
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

In collaboration with the Centre for Robert Burns Studies - Alastair Savage (fiddle), Alice Allen (cello), John Shedden (reader) feature some of the fiddle tunes that inspired Burns across his life. Funded by the Ferguson Bequest.
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Kate Charlesworth: Illustrator and Writer

Date: Monday 27 January 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Kate Charlesworth

Illustrator and writer Kate Charlesworth is this week's guest at Creative Conversations. She has created comic strips for everyone from City Limits to Gay News, the Pink Paper to the Guardian and New Scientist and has also spent the last four years working on her latest book, the graphic novel, Sensible Footwear. Come and join us for some remarkable conversations! Free and all welcome.
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Methods: conducting interviews

Date: Tuesday 28 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Pate, Dr Janis Davidson

In publishing scholarship of teaching and learning, interviews allow you to get deeper responses than surveys, and also to follow up based on initial answers. This workshop is aimed at anyone undertaking research interviews for the first time. We'll examine aspects such as preparing good interview questions, choosing effective interview environments, having relevant documentation, and approaches to recording interviews.
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Linguistic and cultural diversity, and inclusive assessment

Date: Wednesday 29 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Angela Gayton

How can staff awareness be raised of the fundamental role that language plays in ensuring inclusive assessment practice? In responding to this question, this session identifies common communicative issues and obstacles in assessment practices in HE, within the wider context of increasing linguistic and cultural diversity among student cohorts.
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Music in the University Lunchtime Concert Series: Ruth Morley (flute), Scott Mitchell (piano)

Date: Thursday 30 January 2020
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Funded by the Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket and subject to seating capacity.
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Boston Burns Supper 2020

Date: Friday 31 January 2020
Time: 18:30 - 23:30
Categories: Social events, Alumni events
Venue: Hilton Boston Back Bay
Speaker: Dr. Clark McGinn

Book here: http://www.alumni.gla.ac.uk/2020-Boston-Burns-Supper This evening will be hosted by senior University staff and Dr. Clark McGinn, graduate and Burns Scholar (MA 1983, PhD), who will deliver his enthralling Address to the Haggis and Toast to the Immortal Memory. Tickets are £80 per person for alumni and guests. We have a special discount for alumni from the last 10 years (graduating in 2009 and onwards) where tickets are £40 per head. Tickets include a drinks reception, a four-course meal and ceilidh.

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Washington D.C. Burns Supper 2020

Date: Saturday 01 February 2020
Time: 18:30 - 23:30
Categories: Social events, Alumni events
Venue: University Club of Washington D.C.
Speaker: Dr. Clark McGinn

The evening will be hosted by senior University staff and Dr. Clark McGinn, graduate and Burns Scholar (MA 1983, PhD), who will deliver his enthralling Address to the Haggis and Toast to the Immortal Memory. Tickets are £80 per person for alumni and guests. We have a special discount for alumni from the last 10 years (graduating in 2009 and onwards) where tickets are £40 per head. Tickets include a drinks reception, a four-course meal and ceilidh. Book here: http://www.alumni.gla.ac.uk/2020-washington-d.c-burns-supper-
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Nicky Melville: Poet and Artist

Date: Monday 03 February 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Nick-e Melville

Nick-e Melville is our guest for Creative Conversations this week. Experimenting with and interrogating the imperatives of language, his work bridges visual and concrete poetics. Since 2010 he has had ten publications released, including a poster poem and a badge; his most recent book is ABBODIES (sad press 2017) and he was anthologised in the international collection of visual poetry The New Concrete (Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2015). Free and all welcome.
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The Big Brave with Formula 1 Engineer

Date: Tuesday 04 February 2020
Time: 14:30 - 15:30
Categories: Student events, Sports events
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building, 201 LT
Speaker: Peter Prodromou

Peter Prodromou is a Formula 1 Engineer and has worked for some of the biggest teams in the sport having spent many years with both McLaren Racing and Redbull. He first started at McLaren in 1991 as a junior Aerodynamicist and worked his way up to Chief Aerodynamicist. Between 1991 and 2006 he was part of the McLaren team that won championships in 1991, 1998 and 1999. In between two spells with McLaren he spent 8 years as a Chief Aerodynamicist for Redbull Racing F1 team where they won 4 championships in 2010, 2011, 2012 & 2013.
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Reading Academic Texts: Addressing Challenges Second Language Readers Face

Date: Wednesday 05 February 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid

This session will consider approaches to helping students using English as a second language deal with reading complex academic texts. We will outline the challenges academic reading pose, strategies that can facilitate more effective reading, and provide practical examples of approaches we have embedded on PGT courses in English for Academic Study.
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Assessing your Assessment: Creating Inclusive Assessment Tasks

Date: Thursday 06 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder

This session will allow participants to evaluate their assessment tasks and think about enhancements that could make these assessments more inclusive. This session will include some quick tips and easy enhancements, as well as a focus on what it means to create manageable and sustainable assessment and feedback practices that are inclusive, responsive, and are supported by academic policies and processes.
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Music in the University Lunchtime Concert Series: Fergus McCreadie Trio

Date: Thursday 06 February 2020
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

The Fergus McCreadie Trio play an innovative blend of jazz and Scottish traditional music. Improvisational freedom clashes with the rugged beauty of Scottish landscape to create a space where an audience can languish in the vivid imagery of Scotland's scenery. Admission free without ticket, and subject to seating capacity. Funded by the Ferguson Bequest.
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2020 St Petersburg Florida Alumni Gathering

Date: Saturday 08 February 2020
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Social events, Alumni events
Venue: St. Petersburg Yacht Club,11 Central Ave, Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701

Join #TeamUofG at St Petersburg Yacht Club for a relaxed Alumni gathering.

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Niall O’Gallagher: Glasgow’s Gaelic Makar / Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu

Date: Monday 10 February 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Niall O’Gallagher

In this bi-lingual event, Glasgow's Bàrd Baile (Gaelic Makar) Niall O'Gallagher comes to campus to talk poetry, translation, and using classical Gaelic poetic forms in new, vital ways. Join us for this exciting journey into multiple languages and contemporary Gaelic literature. Free and all welcome.
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Chapel Choir Choral Contemplations VII

Date: Tuesday 11 February 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Programme details at www.chapelchoir.org
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Music in the University Lunchtime Concert Series: The Wallace Collection

Date: Thursday 13 February 2020
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

The Wallace Collection play jazz-inspired brass music by the inimitable Andre Previn and Jim Parker, with a dash of Hans Werner Henze added to the heady mix of brass high jinks. Funded by the Ferguson Bequest. Admission free without ticket, and subject to seating capacity.
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Embedding LGBT Equality in the Classroom

Date: Tuesday 18 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Amanda Sykes, Nicole Kipar

We know that students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) feel more able to learn if their classrooms are welcoming and inclusive. We also know that lots of people want to make their classrooms inclusive, but don’t know how to do so, or what to say. This workshop provides an opportunity to start to understand why making your classroom inclusive is important, and suggests simple changes you can make that could make a big difference. Please know that you are not expected to know anything about LGBT ‘issues’ or the ‘right’ language before you come.
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Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations VIII

Date: Tuesday 18 February 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Programme details at www.chapelchoir.org
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Safe & Supported: Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Mental Health & Neurodivergence

Date: Wednesday 19 February 2020
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr El Spaeth, Dr Margaret Sutherland

We all have a role to play in providing a safe environment where people feel supported, but how do you do this in practice? This session will introduce you to some elements of mental health and neurodivergence and how these might manifest in the classroom. We’ll help you to examine current practice in your classes and how you might adapt your learning and teaching practice to support these students. You will leave the session with practical examples of how to create spaces that should leave students feeling safe and supported.
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Music in the University Lunchtime Concert Series: Duo Arnicans (cello and piano)

Date: Thursday 20 February 2020
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Pieces for cello and piano by Juon and Grieg. Funded by the Ferguson Bequest. Admission free without ticket, and subject to seating capacity.
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The dos and don'ts of Creating Online Video

Date: Monday 24 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Media & Digital Development team

The Media & Digital Development experts in LEADS will take you through the basics of practical videography and explore the best use of software and equipment available for creating your own content. They'll also give you an introduction on how to prepare and work with our team on developing professional videos.

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Dean Atta: Poet and Drag Artist

Date: Monday 24 February 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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Methods: facilitating focus groups

Date: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Pate

Focus groups let you examine your participants' experience of a teaching situation in more depth than a survey, and with more data sources than a one-on-one interview. This introduction to how and why to use focus groups for data collection covers how to prepare for facilitating them, and includes some of the key issues to consider in focus group design, such as sampling and planning issues, as well as anticipating problems.
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Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations IX

Date: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Programme details at www.chapelchoir.org
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Flipped, Blended and Mashed - Integrating Moodle and Mahara into Learning and Teaching

Date: Thursday 27 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Gordon MacLeod

An overview of how the Vet School VLE has gone from a lecture dump to an integrated blended learning experience.
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Music in the University Lunchtime Concert Series: SIAN

Date: Thursday 27 February 2020
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Funded by the Ferguson Bequest & UofGGàidhlig. Three of Scotland’s finest Gaelic singers join forces to create the sound of SIAN, a project originally developed by Fèisean nan Gàidheal for Blas 2016. Focussing on songs by female Gaelic bards, and showcasing the strength and beauty of Gaelic song, Eilidh Cormack, Ellen MacDonald and Ceitlin Lilidh are joined by accompanist Innes White to create a powerful collective sound, representing their wealth of individual experience.
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Glasgow Clinical Trials Forum

Date: Friday 28 February 2020
Time: 13:30 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: ICE Building, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4TF
Speaker: Various

The Forum provides an opportunity for those interested in clinical trials to come together and understand how the Glasgow CTUs can support your research.
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Improving the Look and Appeal of your Moodle Courses

Date: Monday 02 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: Elina Koristashevskaya, Stuart Purcell

In this short demonstration, you’ll learn about a few of the more advanced ways to improve the visual appearance of your Moodle courses using the HTML editor. A basic knowledge of HTML would be useful, but is not crucial.
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Spielberg in the Classroom: Incorporating Rich Media in Active Learning

Date: Monday 02 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Media & Digital Development team

This session is aimed at anyone planning for blended or online learning, and who want to create videos as part of these resources. There will be a showcase of a variety of resources from Glasgow's MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and courses sponsodered by BOLD funding (Blended and OnLine Delivery - an internal funding initiative spread over the past several years).

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Will Harris: Poet

Date: Monday 02 March 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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Approaches: Introduction to (Constructivist) Grounded Theory

Date: Tuesday 03 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Nicole Kipar

This session outlines what Grounded Theory - a type of research methodology for questions that don't begin from a hypothesis - is and isn’t, and gives a short overview of classic Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss) and its developments (Strauss & Corbin). It introduces the principles of Constructivist Grounded Theory (Charmaz). We will discuss CGT in relation to educational scholarship, and how Grounded Theory methods may be applied to Scholarship of Learning & Teaching.
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Designing Conference Posters: Going Beyond the Standard Template

Date: Wednesday 04 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: Dr Scott Ramsay

If you're thinking of presenting your scholarship at a conference poster session but don't have much experience of actually creating a poster, this session will give you a chance to see some good examples and consider what makes them effective. You'll also get an insight into the design thought processes of a member of staff who produces University communications, and learn how to make the best use of some of the design tools available to you on standard University software.

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The Big Brave with Deputy Chief Executive, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society

Date: Wednesday 04 March 2020
Time: 13:30 - 14:30
Categories: Student events
Venue: Boyd Orr 513
Speaker: Lyndsey Jackson

Lyndsey Jackson is a senior arts administrator and live event producer, currently the Deputy Chief Executive of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world, and the greatest platform for artists and creatives to develop and showcase their talents on an international stage.
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Splitting Infinitives - Going Boldly with Mahara

Date: Thursday 05 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Gordon MacLeod

An overview of how the Vet School has developed Mahara Portfolio as a resource bank to extend and enhance Moodle, and an introduction to SmartEvidence frameworks to map portfolio evidence to learning outcomes and competencies.
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Music in the University Lunchtime Concert Series: McEwen Chamber Concert 2019-20

Date: Thursday 05 March 2020
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

Featuring newly commissioned work for piano trio by David Horne, along with Beethoven Sonata Op.1 no.1. Funded by the McEwen & Ferguson Bequests. Admission free without ticket, and subject to seating capacity.
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Music in the University: Kelvin Ensemble Concert - Conductor: John Grant

Date: Saturday 07 March 2020
Time: 19:30 - 21:30
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Bute Hall

Programme to include Dvorak Symphony no.9 'New World'. Tickets: £10 (£5 conc on door with ID) and in advance from www.kelvin-ensemble.co.uk
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Iain Maloney: Novelist and Poet

Date: Monday 09 March 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
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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Inspiring Your Undergraduates to Work and Research with Integrity

Date: Tuesday 10 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Sam Oakley

This session will explore expectations of students’ academic integrity and whether we can encourage them by situating their work in the wider context of research integrity. We will cover student and staff responsibilities relating to academic integrity (e.g. regarding plagiarism, handling data, ethics, supervision etc.). Then we will explore further how to encourage critical thinking and critical literacy with relation to research findings and public trust. Useful resources & ideas for teaching will be shared.
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Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations X

Date: Tuesday 10 March 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel

Programme details from www.chapelchoir.org
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Inclusivity vs Accessibility: What is the Difference, and Why Should We Care?

Date: Wednesday 11 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan, Dr Linnea Soler

The University of Glasgow is committed to ensuring that all students can equally participate in every aspect of the learning and teaching process by mainstreaming adjustments in teaching practice. We aim for our learning environment to be as inclusive as possible, so that individual interventions are the exception and not the rule. This session will explore accessibility versus inclusivity to provoke enhancements to your teaching practice at the point of design.
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Music in the University Lunchtime Concert Series: Maximiliano Martin (clarinet), Christian Elliot (cello), Julian Milford (piano)

Date: Thursday 12 March 2020
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Concert Hall

The Trio will play Beethoven's Septet Op.38 in the trio version arrangement by Beethoven. Funded by the Ferguson Bequest. Admission free without ticket, and subject to seating capacity.
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The psychology of receiving feedback, and why (and how) we should equip students to do it better

Date: Friday 13 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr R. A. Nash, Aston University

Why do our students, despite the considerable time and effort we invest in preparing feedback for them, often nevertheless fail to engage with this feedback? I will begin this workshop with an introduction to some interesting psychological literature on why people react badly to feedback.
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University Choral Society & Chapel Choir with McOpera Ensemble - Conductor, Leon Reimer

Date: Saturday 14 March 2020
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, The Square, Off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Dvorak Stabat Mater with soloists Nia Coleman (soprano), Penelope Cousland (mezzo), Seumas Begg (tenor), Andy McTaggart (bass).

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Jemma Nelville: Human Rights Researcher and Writer

Date: Monday 16 March 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Jemma Nelville

Jemma Nelville is a writer committed to illuminating the times and places in which we live. Her debut book 'Constitution Street', part memoir, part social history and a call to action, focuses on real-life stories of the people living on the same street, bringing the social and political together. Join us for some very #CreativeConversations!
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Motivating your Students to Read More

Date: Tuesday 17 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Sam Oakley

Is your reading list fulfilling its purpose? Are your students enthusiastic readers? We will use some studies on students' reading habits at UK universities to reflect on the challenges of getting students to read even the essential readings. We will suggest some strategies to encourage them to go beyond their lecture notes and become more independent learners.
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Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations XI

Date: Tuesday 17 March 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Programme details at www.chapelchoir.org
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Designing meaningful assessment to promote academic integrity and prevent plagiarism

Date: Wednesday 18 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Matthew Williamson, Dr Amanda Sykes

We'll discuss ideas of meaningful assessment and provide examples of what we mean by this. We'll then address meaningful assessment in the context of your own teaching, and help you to consider how you might make the assessments you use throughout a course and/or programme authentic, meaningful and relevant.
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Methods: Quantitative Data Analysis in Learning & Teaching Scholarship

Date: Thursday 19 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Charalampos Chanialidis , Dr Mitchum Bock, Dr Michael McEwan

A majority of scholarship projects use qualitative data whereas quantitative data is often overlooked, perhaps due to the diversity of disciplinary backgrounds of those conducting teaching and learning research. This session will try to demystify data analysis methods that are often intimidating to non-statisticians.
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Sound Thought/New Music Scotland Event

Date: Friday 20 March 2020 - Monday 23 March 2020
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow

A programme of discussions, performances, workshops, and creative thinking to examine new music's role in modern society. Join us to explore themes including environmental responsibility, education, and diversity, all from the perspective of Scotland's new music world. Details will become available at www.soundthought.co.uk
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Tessa Hadley: Novelist and Short Story Writer

Date: Monday 23 March 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Tessa Hadley

For the last Creative Conversations of the year, we welcome Tessa Hadley, novelist and short story writer. A lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, she is the author of six novels: Accidents in the Home (2002); Everything Will Be All Right (2003); The Master Bedroom (2007); The London Train (2011), Clever Girl (2014) and, most recently, Late in the Day (2019). Free and all welcome!
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How to Create an Online Reading List – Reading Lists @ Glasgow

Date: Tuesday 24 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: Harry Panagiotakopoulos

This hands-on session will provide an opportunity to create an online reading list using the University system Talis Aspire. To aid student learning, you will learn how to create list structures, add resources (books, articles, webpages, audio and visual resources) and use the system to advise students on reading requirements and the importance level of course materials.
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Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations XII

Date: Tuesday 24 March 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Programme details at www.chapelchoir.org
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Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations XII

Date: Tuesday 24 March 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Programme details at www.chapelchoir.org
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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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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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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