Event listings

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.

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.

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, ‘Hail, the Dark Lioness’

Date: Saturday 01 October 2022 - Sunday 06 November 2022
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University of Glasgow East Quad

This outdoor exhibition features 17 striking self-portraits by celebrated visual activist Zanele Muholi (South African, b. 1972).

Go Abroad Fair

Date: Wednesday 05 October 2022
Time: 11:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events, Student events
Venue: Glasgow University Union

Come along to the Go Abroad Fair to find out how you can use your degree to see the world whilst gaining valuable skills and experience you can add to your CV!

Organ Recital by Colin Mark Andrews (USA)

Date: Wednesday 05 October 2022
Time: 13:10 - 13:50
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

The first in the university chapel's 2022-2023 series of lunchtime organ concerts. Every Wednesday, 13.10-13.50. Admission free, all welcome.

Race Science: A Myth Made Real

Date: Wednesday 05 October 2022
Time: 16:00 - 17:15
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Eventbrite Seminar
Speaker: Angela Saini, Science Journalist and Author

Award winning British journalist and author will discuss the myth of race as a biological attribute from its origins to the present day. Open to all University of Glasgow staff and students. Please register using your UofG email address.

The Carrolup Exhibition

Date: Thursday 06 October 2022 - Thursday 10 November 2022
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

The Carrolup Exhibition features works of art produced during the 1940s and 1950s by young Aboriginal people in Western Australia, Noongar children forcibly removed from their families and communities and detained in the Carrolup Native Settlement. It reprises a tour of their work in the early 1950s

A Woman’s Work is Never Done: Multiple Low-paid Employment, Time and Poverty

Date: Thursday 06 October 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online

The project team will share early findings from their study 'Women in Multiple Low-paid Employment, Pathways Between Work, Care and Health' funded by the Nuffield Foundation (2021-2024). This study is the first to explore the nature and extent of women’s multiple low-paid employment (MLPE) in the UK using mixed methods. The webinar is of importance and relevance to anyone interested in challenging poverty, women’s rights, women’s employment, low-paid work, social security, and unpaid care work.

Baba Yaga: Music for Saxophone and Harp

Date: Thursday 06 October 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

Baba Yaga are an unusual duo for harp and saxophone, exploring the fascinating sound colours that the instruments create together. Award-winning professional musicians, they perform original compositions, transcriptions from Bach to Debussy and Mussorgsky.

Experiencing Japanese tradition through food and the spirit of tea

Date: Thursday 06 October 2022
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Ground floor room, 4 The Square, Theology & Religious Studies

How do you normally experience food? Do you draw on all five senses? In the first part of the programme, Professor Shinagawa will discuss the importance of food consciousness in Japanese tradition and illustrate it through activities that aim to cultivate an attitude towards food. He will be followed by Tea Master Nakazawa who will present the Way of Tea (Sado, so-called Japanese tea ceremony).

Creative Conversations: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

Date: Monday 10 October 2022
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Yara Rodrigues Fowler

Novelist Yara Rodrigues Fowler in Conversation about her work

Diversity Critical Perspectives: Researching Racial Inequality in the UK Film Industry

Date: Monday 10 October 2022
Time: 15:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Boyd Orr Building, room 507
Speaker: Dr Clive Nwonka and Professor Sarita Malik

The growth of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs) over the past 20 years has coincided with an increased awareness of and research on prevalent racial inequalities in the sector. This has included studies on how Black and ethnic minority people are included in, represented by and experience the UK film industry in particular.

Getting Social

Date: Tuesday 11 October 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Jamie Gallagher

Getting your work on social media may be easy - but making it popular is more challenging. This workshop takes you through the main social media channels and looks at how to create share-worthy content messages. Discover how to use social media to foster meaningful interactions and share your work with as many people as possible. Form tweets to live streams this session is packed with ideas of how to maximise your use of social media.

Choral Contemplations

Date: Tuesday 11 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: FREE

The first Choral Contemplations of the series sees a concert of choral and organ music on the eve of Vaughan Williams 150th birthday. Including Three Shakespeare Songs.

Inclusive Worldbuilding in SFF Media

Date: Wednesday 12 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Hal Duncan, James T. Harding, Etienne Kubwabo, and Rachel Plummer

We are delighted to invite you to the first event of the AHRC-funded "Future Voices of Scottish Science Fiction and Fantasy Network". Join us and four amazing science fiction and fantasy creatives for a roundtable on the subject of inclusive worldbuilding across media!

The impact of brain injury on vision: what does this teach us about how our minds see?

Date: Wednesday 12 October 2022
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Charles Wilson Building, Lecture Theatre 201
Speaker: Professor Gordon Dutton

Public lecture - see web site for details. .Free to Society members and students ; non members are requested to make a small donation.

David Bristow Quintet: Jazz

Date: Thursday 13 October 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

The Dave Bristow Quintet is a multinational supergroup of musicians based in Paris for which pianist Dave Bristow is the principal composer.  They perform high octane, cutting edge improvisational jazz music that is both colourful and uniquely original. They are a veritable tour de force and are not to be missed! 

Anti-Racism and Educational Leadership: Changing education?

Date: Thursday 13 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: tbc
Speaker: Professor Paul Miller

Racism is real, and it is a reality experienced daily by staff and students of racially diverse heritage in educational institutions in the UK. This presentation will look at education as a site of racism and whiteness. It will also look at the experiences of racially diverse staff and students in educational institutions. It will end by looking at how some leaders are engaging with and trying to tackle racism to improve conditions for both staff and students.

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.

Singapore Alumni Social Night

Date: Saturday 15 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: RedDot BrewHouse, Dempsey Hill, 25A Dempsey Road, #01-01 Singapore 27691

Team UofG are returning to Singapore and would love to see you there! The Singapore Alumni Association Committee will introduce themselves and host a mini quiz with opportunities to win UofG prizes, as well as a business card draw. Alumni will have the chance to share ideas for future events and activities too. In attendance will be Fran Shepherd, Director, Development and Alumni and Rosie Simm, Alumni Officer (Groups and Networks), who will share news and updates from Glasgow over some drinks and light snacks.

Creative Conversations: Amanda Thomson

Date: Monday 17 October 2022
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Amanda Thomson

Writer and artist Amanda Thomson in conversation with Professor Louise Welsh

The Marian Consort: Choral

Date: Monday 17 October 2022
Time: 19:30 - 20:30
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: TICKETED

The Marian Consort is a professional vocal ensemble that presents bold and thrilling performances for audiences across the UK, Europe and North America. Led by founder and director, Rory McCleery.

Symbiotic Autoethnography

Date: Thursday 20 October 2022
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Liana Beattie, Edge Hill University

This session will introduce you to this innovative approach to an autoethnographic inquiry and offer the best ways of applying it to a research project as well as suggesting a number of potential solutions to some of its polemical aspects. The session will be of interest to both experienced and novice scholars and researchers from a wide range of professional backgrounds.

Jenn Butterworth & Will Pound: Folk

Date: Thursday 20 October 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

Two of the finest instrumentalists in traditional music combine for a breathtaking performance, from a project which first started in lockdown with a video that was an international internet sensation.

The Percussions Claviers de Lyon

Date: Friday 21 October 2022
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Films and theatre, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: TICKETED

The Percussions Claviers de Lyon bring us a magical performance, with live music and film: The Red Balloon, with a score by Darius Milhaud set to the Oscar winning film ‘Le Balon Rouge’ The Red Balloon by Albert Lamorisse.

What’s in your area? The 20 minute neighbourhood

Date: Saturday 22 October 2022 - Saturday 12 November 2022
Time: 01:00 - 23:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures
Venue: online

Participation event for 11 to 18 year olds to rate facilities in their local 20-minute neighbourhoods.

October Undergraduate Open Day

Date: Saturday 22 October 2022
Time: 09:00 - 16:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: University of Glasgow, Main Campus

The University of Glasgow's Undergraduate Open Day taking place on Saturday 22 October 2022.

Puppetry and emotional wellbeing

Date: Saturday 22 October 2022
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Scottish Youth Theatre

How to use puppets and storytelling to promote positive relationships, empathy and boost social-emotional competency in children.

Let’s talk about Games

Date: Saturday 22 October 2022
Time: 12:00 - 16:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Scottish Youth Theatre

Come and join university researchers developing games that explore some of societies tricky problems!  Play some games and tell them what you think.

How Do We Reform Adult Social Care to be Equitable & Resilient?

Date: Monday 24 October 2022
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Kelvin Gallery, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Tressa Burke, Fiona McQueen, Jeane Freeman OBE, Prof Michael Russell and Prof Sir Anton Muscatelli

This event is part of the Future Global Shocks series. Each event will consider what more we must do as a society to prepare our systems and networks, as well as policy and system relationships, to respond with resilience to the major global challenges we face: from economic crises and an aging population; to future health pandemics and protecting human rights.

Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse Trio Live

Date: Monday 24 October 2022
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse

Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse use music to bring healing and highlight one of the most beautiful and rare languages on the planet; the Noongar language of the southern corner of Western Australia. Tickets available via Eventbrite

Writing for the Learning and Teaching Conference

Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch, Academic & Digital Development

In this session we will look at what makes a good L&T conference submission. Taking the call to the 2023 conference as our starting point, we will consider how we might start to frame an abstract: from choosing a topic, aligning it to the conference themes, and writing an appealing title. We will take some of the successful submissions from previous years and, by using the review rubric for the 2023 conference, evaluate them together. By the end of this session attendees should be in a position to write their own abstract for the 2023 session.

Mary Queen of Scots evening event for all University of Glasgow staff

Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022
Time: 16:00 - 20:00
Categories: Social events
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

All University of Glasgow staff and their families are invited to celebrate the opening of our major new exhibition, 'The Afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots'. Enjoy some live Scottish music from the Royal Conservatoire and plenty of drinks and snacks. Illustrator Emma will be delivering drawing sessions and arts and crafts activities for wee ones and you'll get the chance to meet 'Mary' herself in person! Admission is free and all staff and their families/friends are welcome.

Sharing My Life Transformation to Radical Blackness and Renegade Scholarship

Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: tbc
Speaker: Barbara Becnel

PhD candidate, social justice activist, and author Barbara Becnel has more than 20 years of experience working for prison reform in the state of California, while writing nine award-winning non-fiction books on street gang culture, as well as over one-hundred journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. This talk will explore the ’in between’ of Barbara's life journey.

Housing, home and our local communities

Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Details coming soon
Speaker: UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)

Get insights into research by CaCHE and its impact on communities, housing policy and housing academia, and help set priorities for future work.

Making a materials difference to Green Energy (batteries included)

Date: Wednesday 26 October 2022
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Charles Wilson Building, lecture Theatre 201
Speaker: Professor Sailful Islam, Oxford University

Public Lecture. See RSPG web site for details. Free to Society members and students ; non members are requested to make a small donation.

Playing with wildfire: A photo exhibition

Date: Thursday 27 October 2022 - Sunday 13 November 2022
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Creative Stirling - check website for opening times.

Explore the impact the economies and lives of people in vulnerable rural communities through a combination of portraits, theatrical scenes, landscape images and audio-visual documentation.

Andrea Baker: Sing Sistah Sing! A joyful soulful celebration of the African American female voice

Date: Thursday 27 October 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

Internationally renowned mezzo soprano Andrea Baker brings her Sing Sistah Sing! empowerment show to UofG for Black History Month. She will perform A joyful soulful celebration of the African American female voice.

Gospel Workshop with Andrea Baker

Date: Thursday 27 October 2022
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Courses, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University of Glasgow, room TBC
Speaker: Andrea Baker, mezzo soprano

Renowned Scotland-based mezzo soprano Andrea Baker facilitates a dynamic workshop on gospel music. Join in to develop your gospel skills!

Professor James McCall Memorial Lecture

Date: Friday 28 October 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures, Social events, Alumni events
Venue: McCall Lecture Theatre, Garscube Campus
Speaker: Professor Quintin McKellar

The biennial Professor James McCall Memorial Lecture will be delivered on Friday 28 October at 6:00pm. The lecture, ‘Universities in the crosshairs’, will be delivered by Professor Quintin McKellar, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Hertfordshire.

Thinking local via global: a participatory zine-making workshop on sustainability and sustainable futures

Date: Tuesday 01 November 2022
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Hybrid: in person and online

Join a two-hour zine-making workshop where you can explore artefacts, stories, and findings from research projects on sustainability and make connections to your life.

Launch event: Scottish Hub of the Sustainable Futures Global Network

Date: Tuesday 01 November 2022
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Details coming soon

Flash talks on communicating sustainability using the power of the story-making and story-telling.  

Saviet / Houston Duo: Contemporary Classical

Date: Thursday 03 November 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

Brought together by a shared desire to perform challenging, relevant, and wide-ranging programs, the Saviet/Houston Duo presents uncompromising performances that generate immersive and intense listening experiences. They will perform a programme of Debussy, Messiaen, Saunders (1996) and Miller (2013).

Jessie Lloyd / Carollup

Date: Thursday 03 November 2022
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Categories: Ceremonial events, Concerts and music, Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Join us in the University’s Memorial Chapel for a unique concert of Mission Songs with Aboriginal musician Jessie Lloyd, and Carrolup an exhibition of Aboriginal children’s art.

Alexandra Bircken: The Doctor

Date: Friday 04 November 2022 - Sunday 05 February 2023
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This major work by Alexandra Bircken was acquired for the The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, through the Valeria Napoleone XX Contemporary Art Society (VNXXCAS) initiative.

What if there was no water?

Date: Saturday 05 November 2022
Time: 11:00 - 16:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow

Through creative writing and talking, this interactive event for 7-14 years and their parents will explore how daily life is shaped by access to water.

Mental Health Deterioration during the Covid-19 pandemic

Date: Monday 07 November 2022
Time: 13:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Details coming soon

Sharing research insights on inequal mental health experiences through COVID-19 and chance to consider what this might mean for policies and the work of professionals, policymakers and academics working on mental health issues.

‘Visions of Peace’: Arts-based Workshop for Youth and Community Members

Date: Tuesday 08 November 2022
Time: 12:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Govan, Glasgow. Exact details to be confirmed

A two-hour interactive arts-based workshop for young people and community members to explore concepts of peace and justice through drawing and storytelling.

Choral Contemplations II

Date: Tuesday 08 November 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: FREE

Choral Contemplations II. A selection of choral and organ music from University of Glasgow Chapel Choir.

‘Visions of Peace’: Arts-based Workshop for Youth and Community Members

Date: Wednesday 09 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Details coming soon

A two-hour interactive arts-based workshop for young people and community members to explore concepts of peace and justice through drawing and storytelling.

Rookh Horn Quartet: Classical

Date: Thursday 10 November 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall

Glasgow-based ensemble the Rookh Horn Quartet is made up of four professional French horn players who aim to expand horn quartet repertoire, working with composers to commission new works. They will be performing works by our own Professor Louise Harris (premiere) and Dr Drew Hammond amongst other pieces.

Speed friendship anyone?

Date: Thursday 10 November 2022
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Details coming soon

Join us to share snacks provided by the Suissi vegan restaurant and engage with people interested in exploring food, our environment, and ways to communicate across different food perspectives.  

Working together for children with disabilities and their families: collaborating across disciplines in Malawi

Date: Friday 11 November 2022
Time: 17:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Details coming soon

What are the positive effects of inclusion and participation at school on the learning and the emotional psycho-social wellbeing of children with disabilities? A short film and panel discussion. 

Firelight Trio: Folk

Date: Thursday 17 November 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall

Firelight Trio play European folk music that is evocative, inventive, and endlessly exciting. Driving fiddle and stately nyckelharpa meet deep accordion grooves in a rich tapestry of lively Swedish polskas and Scottish reels, lilting French waltzes, toe-tapping klezmer and dazzling original tunes.

Tom Bell: Organ

Date: Friday 18 November 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: FREE

World renowned organist Tom Bell performs Messiaen's Livre du Saint-Sacrament.

University Choral Society: Winter Performance

Date: Saturday 19 November 2022
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: TICKETED

A welcome return to our longstanding University Choral Society who will perform Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Finzi’s Et In Terra Pax amongst other gems for their winter performance.

The Kelvin Ensemble: Classical

Date: Sunday 20 November 2022
Time: 14:30 - 17:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Bute Hall
Speaker: TICKETED

Our accomplished university orchestra, The Kelvin Ensemble and conductor John Grant return for their autumn programme.

Choral Contemplations III

Date: Tuesday 22 November 2022
Time: 20:00 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: FREE

Music for the Night Time. A special late night choral concert with music of dreamscapes and lullabies including music by Velijo Tarmi's (1930 – 2017).

Palisander: Early Music

Date: Thursday 24 November 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

Palisander prides itself on presenting imaginative, historical programmes with a wide range of repertoire; performing largely from memory, on recorders up to 6 feet tall. Described as “Early Music’s very own Spice Girls”, the award-winning recorder quartet is making waves in the industry.

Choral Contemplations IV

Date: Tuesday 29 November 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: FREE

The Advent of Winter. Choral music on the theme of winter.

Scottish Opera Emerging Artists: Opera

Date: Thursday 01 December 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

Scottish Opera are back! We are delighted to showcase the prestigious 2022-23 Emerging Artists of Scottish Opera in their annual Scottish Opera Lunchtime Recital.

Glasgow University Music Club: Autumn Showcase

Date: Friday 02 December 2022
Time: 19:30 - 22:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Bute Hall
Speaker: TICKETED

Support our many talented student-led ensembles in the autumn showcase of Glasgow University Music Club.

Nine Lessons & Carols: Choral

Date: Sunday 04 December 2022
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Ceremonial events, Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: FREE

Nine Lessons & Carols. A traditional service, with readers from the University community, sung by the University Chapel Choir with Dr Kevin Bowyer, University Organist. Organ music from 5.30pm.

Glasgow Madrigirls Advent I: Folk acapella

Date: Sunday 04 December 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: TICKETED

Glasgow Madrigirls return with their much-loved annual concert of music and readings for Advent. Including acapella folk and sacred music. This year's concert is being performed twice, at 6pm and at 8pm. ALL PROCEEDS TO SHELTER!

Glasgow Madrigirls Advent II: Folk acapella

Date: Sunday 04 December 2022
Time: 20:00 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: TICKETED

Glasgow Madrigirls return with their much-loved annual concert of music and readings for Advent. Including acapella folk and sacred music. Due to exceptional demand, this year's concert is being performed twice, at 6pm and at 8pm.  ALL PROCEEDS TO SHELTER!

How can we make our economy more resilient? Lessons from the Pandemic

Date: Monday 05 December 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Prof Richard Davies, Jeane Freeman OBE, Prof Sir Anton Muscatelli, Prof Graeme Roy, Prof Michael Russell, Prof Linda Yueh

This event is part of the Future Global Shocks series. Each event will consider what more we must do as a society to prepare our systems and networks, as well as policy and system relationships, to respond with resilience to the major global challenges we face: from economic crises and an aging population; to future health pandemics and protecting human rights.

Representation of Change and the Future in SFF Worlds and Narratives

Date: Wednesday 07 December 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Jon McKellan, Kirsty Logan, Tanya Roberts, Lorraine Wilson, and Post Coal Prom Queen

We are delighted to invite you to the second event of the AHRC-funded "Future Voices of Scottish Science Fiction and Fantasy Network". Join us and five amazing science fiction and fantasy creatives for a roundtable on the representation of change and the future in SFF!

The All Sorts: Acapella

Date: Thursday 08 December 2022
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

One part Canadian, two parts British, one part American, and All Sorts of music: the perfect recipe for an acapella Christmas. Four professional touring opera singers, The All Sorts, bring their acclaimed stylish Christmas programme to get you in the festive mood in our last Thursday Lunchtime concert for 2022.

Carols in the Cloisters

Date: Tuesday 13 December 2022
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Social events, Student events, Alumni events, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: University Cloisters
Speaker: FREE

Carols in the Cloisters. Join us for carols in the beautiful fairy-lit cloisters! Suitable for all ages.

Kim Carnie: Gaelic Song

Date: Thursday 19 January 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

Songwriter and musician Kim Carnie was named Gaelic Singer of the Year in 2021 and released her star-studded debut album in summer 2022. Raised in Oban with strong links to Perthshire’s Glen Lyon, Kim is one of the most exciting Scottish song masters of her generation.

Tom Campbell Trio: Burns Concert

Date: Thursday 26 January 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music, Public lectures, Social events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: University Concert Hall
Speaker: FREE

Glasgow musicians collective the Tom Campbell Trio present our 2023 Burns Concert. Their music is immersed in the Scottish and Irish traditions and has stormed the Glasgow trad scene, winning Battle of the Folk Bands in 2021.

Blackout Poetry as a Tool for Teaching and Learning in HE

Date: Wednesday 15 February 2023
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Academic & Digital Development/Aimee Merridew, Keele University

This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to blackout poetry as a teaching and learning tool in higher education. The workshop will introduce you to the facilitators' uses of blackout poetry as an arts-based method that supports academic practices across disciplines, before enabling you to create your own blackout poems from a selection of academic sources.

The Representation of Social Issues in SFF Worlds and Narratives

Date: Wednesday 15 February 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Nina Allan, Luci Holland, Ellen Kushner, Dana Little and Gordon from Post Coal Prom Queen

We are delighted to invite you to the third event of the AHRC-funded "Future Voices of Scottish Science Fiction and Fantasy Network". Join us and five amazing science fiction and fantasy creatives for a roundtable on the representation of social issues in SFF!

Challenging the Past (Canon and History) in SFF Narratives

Date: Wednesday 19 April 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures, Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Iain Clark, Amal El-Mohtar, Harry Josephine Giles, and T. L. Huchu.

We are delighted to invite you to the final event of the AHRC-funded "Future Voices of Scottish Science Fiction and Fantasy Network". Join us and four amazing science fiction and fantasy creatives for a roundtable on challenging the past in SFF!