Public lectures

Public lectures


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India's record-breaking election and the rise of the non-aligned powers

26 Apr

Date: Friday 26 April 2024
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Law School, Old College, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: Ashok Malik - Partner and Chair of India practice, The Asia Group. Professor Wilfried Swenden - Professor of South Asian and Comparative Politics, Un

What do the biggest of all 2024 elections mean for India, Indians abroad, the region, and the increasingly important non-aligned states in a troubled world?

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Socialist Materialist Feminist Theatre in post-colonial spaces (India) - Interactions and Intersectionality: Professor Bishnupriya Dutt

26 Apr

Date: Friday 26 April 2024
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Professor Bishnupriya Dutt

Theatre Studies at Glasgow is delighted to welcome Visiting Leverhulme Professor Bishnupriya Dutt (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi) to campus for the latest installment of the Glasgow Theatre Seminar series.

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Reimagining Haiti: Decolonial Visions

29 Apr

Date: Monday 29 April 2024
Time: 11:30 - 13:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online (Zoom link to be emailed to registered attendees)
Speaker: Dr Rachel Douglas, University of Glasgow

Rewriting or rasanblaj (gathering/re-assembling in Haitian Kreyòl) is a fundamental process at the heart of Haitian-style culture and rebuilding. The book on which this talk is based reorients Haitian studies around rasanblaj, testing its value as a methodological tool for interpreting Haitian culture and other cultures of the Global South. Rewriting in postcolonial contexts is often viewed as ‘writing back’ to metropolitan literary classics; here we turn instead to Haitians’ self-rewriting.

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Donald Dewar Memorial Lecture with Mary McAleese

29 Apr

Date: Monday 29 April 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Room 745, James McCune Smith Building, Building University of Glasgow
Speaker: Prof Mary McAleese and Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli

On Monday 29th April, the University of Glasgow will welcome Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland.

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The Gaitherin: Tackling Systemic Barriers to Scale Women’s Entrepreneurship in Scotland and Abroad

09 May

Date: Thursday 09 May 2024
Time: 10:00 - 12:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Hothouse, Adam Smith Building, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Professor Eleanor Shaw OBE, Ana Stewart, Caren Holzman, John Anderson, Gillian Fleming

Join us to discuss how to tackle systemic barriers hindering women entrepreneurs' growth in Scotland and globally.

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The time has come? The future of European defence and security.

12 May

Date: Sunday 12 May 2024
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Summerhall, Edinburgh Newington, EH9 1PL
Speaker: Professor Peter Jackson, Chair in Global Security, University of Glasgow; Executive Director, SCGA

An expert seminar as part of the Talking Europe weekend, organised by the Scottish Council on Global Affairs.

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UNESCO RILA Spring School 2024: The Arts of Integrating (WORD SPRINGS)

14 May

Date: Tuesday 14 May 2024 - Thursday 23 May 2024
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Clarice Pears building
Speaker: More than 50 speakers from all over the world

UNESCO RILA's annual knowledge exchange and networking conference, looking at creative and multilingual ways of integration, this year with a focus on words and language. It is a collection of language taster sessions, discussions, workshops, presentations and performances. Free and open to all!

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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity

15 May

Date: Wednesday 15 May 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Lecture Theatre 438, James McCune Smith Learning Hub
Speaker: Daron Acemoglu

We are delighted to welcome Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who will present this year’s lecture which will focus on his new book titled "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity".

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The Divine Economy with Paul Seabright

28 May

Date: Tuesday 28 May 2024
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW
Speaker: Paul Seabright

Paul Seabright, Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics, and former Director of the interdisciplinary Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, discusses his new book – “The Divine Economy

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