Event listings

Explorathon: Native Oysters! Valuing Scotland’s coastal environments through place-names, stories and songs

23 Sep

Date: Saturday 23 September 2023
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre , University of Glasgow11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, Glasgow, G11 6EW

Join us and explore the value of coastal environments within Scotland, both to ecosystems and people!

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Creative Conversations: Routes/Roots

25 Sep

Date: Monday 25 September 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Sean Wai Keung, Katie Goh, Candice Chung, Tae Song, Jing Ye, Pim Wangtechawat

Co-hosted with West End Festival to Celebrate East and Southeast Asian Heritage Month

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Creative Conversations Video Art and Health: John Quin

25 Sep

Date: Monday 25 September 2023
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Adam Smith Business School PGT 587
Speaker: John. Quin

John Quin in conversation about his book Video Art and Health

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Ryan Young: Fiddle & David Foley: Guitar

28 Sep

Date: Thursday 28 September 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Exciting fiddle player Ryan Young is joined by David Foley for a highly entertaining lunchtime recital of tunes from Scotland and Ireland.

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Permacrisis – A Plan to Fix a Fractured World

29 Sep

Date: Friday 29 September 2023
Time: 12:15 - 13:15
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Bute Hall
Speaker: Gordon Brown and Michael Spence

Join former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Nobel Laureate Michael Spence as they discuss their provocative plan to prevent crises and set the world on a better, fairer course.

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Creative Conversations: JR Carpenter

02 Oct

Date: Monday 02 October 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: J R Carpenter

Writer and Artist J R Carpenter in Conversation

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‘What future for arts and culture?’

04 Oct

Date: Wednesday 04 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: ARC
Speaker: Dr Bridget McConnell

Reflections on Culture Lecture series with Dr Bridget McConnell, ‘What future for arts and culture?’

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Shahriyar Jamshidi: Kamanche

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Illustrious Kurdish Kamānche player and composer Shahriyar Jamshidi reverberates the sounds of mountains in his musical journey “Pomegranate Seeds”.

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BBC and Black Britain South Asians at the BBC 1930S-1940S

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre Room 103 82 Hillhead Street Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Dr Kaul

This talk is based on new research from Dr Kaul's forthcoming book, The BBC and India. The BBC played an important role in broadcasting about, and to, India, especially during the Second World War, and the British Raj was keen to utilise the BBC in its imperial strategies. A number of Indians came to work for the BBC in London during the war as well as in the subcontinent. Many stayed on after the war, whilst some returned to help further develop broadcasting in India and Pakistan after Independence in 1947.

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Stirling Maxwell Centre Autumn 2023 Seminar Series

05 Oct

Date: Thursday 05 October 2023 - Thursday 02 November 2023
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Various
Speaker: Various (see below)

The seminar series is a learned group of regular public seminars and workshops. We host speakers and world-renowned experts on subjects pertinent to the Centre’s remit, from the Medieval period to the twenty-first century. The Autumn 2023 Series covers subjects from emblems and Goya, comic storytelling of C. L. R. James and slavery, and Early Modern diplomacy in the visual culture of French festivals culture. Our programme of events and activities reflects our research culture and our international reach; they are open to scholars, students, and to general public alike.

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Creative Conversations: Lesley Harrison

09 Oct

Date: Monday 09 October 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Lesley Harrison

Poet Lesley Harrison in Conversation (Collaboration with UPenn Modern Poetry)

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Industry Stakeholder Workshop on Green Technology Critical Metal Recycling

11 Oct

Date: Wednesday 11 October 2023 - Thursday 12 October 2023
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre (ARC), 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW

Please join us for an industry-focused stakeholder event, where we will demonstrate novel developments in our technologies, identify key areas of impactful future research and development, and to promote networking in our field with key stakeholders.

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Roo Geddes Trio

12 Oct

Date: Thursday 12 October 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Roo Geddes - fiddle, Neil Sutcliffe - accordion and Sodhi - tabla bring a stunning collaboration of Scottish trad, jazz and Indian classical

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Creative Conversations: Iphgenia Baal

16 Oct

Date: Monday 16 October 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Iphgenia Baal

Writer Iphgenia Baal in conversation

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Willshire Piano Duo

19 Oct

Date: Thursday 19 October 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Exceptional pianists James Willshire and Phillippa Harrison make up the Willshire Piano who bring us Holst's Planets for 4 handed piano.

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Black Sporting Histories: race, class and local league football (with Dr. Paul Ian Campbell (University of Leicester)

19 Oct

Date: Thursday 19 October 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Seminar Room, Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Dr Paul Ian Campbell

All are warmly invited to this free public lecture and discussion with Dr. Paul Ian Campbell, a sociologist based at the University of Leicester. Dr. Campbell has written extensively on sport, race and class.

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Thyssen Lecture, Professor Fred Cooper: Understanding power relations in a colonial context: top-down, bottom-up, in-between

24 Oct

Date: Tuesday 24 October 2023
Time: 17:30 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Seminar Room (253) Wolfson Medical School, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Professor Fred Cooper

Frederick Cooper is Professor Emeritus of History at New York University. His research has focused on twentieth-century Africa, empires, colonization and decolonisation, and citizenship. In this talk he will approach the study of power, inspired by categories developed by the Senegalese politician, poet, and political thinker Léopold Sédar Senghor.

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Andrea Baker with Albert Horne: Sing Sistah Sing!

26 Oct

Date: Thursday 26 October 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Stunning mezzo Andrea Baker and pianist Albert Horne perform their acclaimed Sing Sistah Sing! programme for Black History Month.

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Andrea Baker with Albert Horne: GOSPEL WORKSHOP

26 Oct

Date: Thursday 26 October 2023
Time: 16:30 - 17:45
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Stunning mezzo Andrea Baker and specialist chorus master - pianist Albert Horne curate a gospel workshop for Black History Month, join us!

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Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture 2023

27 Oct

Date: Friday 27 October 2023
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: McCall Lecture Theatre, Garscube Campus
Speaker: Professor Sarah Cleaveland VetMB MRCVS FMedSci FRSE FRS

The biennial Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture will be delivered on Friday 27 October 2023 at 6:00pm. The lecture, ‘One Health: A Call to Action’, will be delivered by Professor Sarah Cleaveland VetMB MRCVS FMedSci FRSE FRS. The Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture series was instigated in 1976 in recognition of the role that Sir William Weipers played in the establishment and development of veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow.

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Creative Conversations: Angie Spoto

30 Oct

Date: Monday 30 October 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Angie Spoto

Writer Angie Spoto in Conversation

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Paul Towndrow Trio

02 Nov

Date: Thursday 02 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Internationally renowned saxophonist Paul Towndrow brings his trio supergroup with Alyn Cosker (drums) and Pete Johnstone (hammond organ).

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Creative Conversations: Rebecca Smith

06 Nov

Date: Monday 06 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Rebecca Smith

Writer Rebecca Smith in Conversation

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Satwinder Pal Singh: Sarangi

09 Nov

Date: Thursday 09 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Punjab sarangi player Satwinder Pal Singh and Glasgow's own tabla expert Sodhi perform a recital of captivating Indian classical music.

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Life aboard the last Clyde-built transatlantic liners

10 Nov

Date: Friday 10 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 16:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Fairfield Heritage,
Speaker: Jackie and Chris Lee (Artemis Scotland)

Join us for an event at Fairfield Heritage community museum with Artemis Scotland, specialists in costumed interpretation. See the maritime and shipbuilding displays afresh through the eyes of "Muriel" and "Jasper", who are attending the launch of Canadian Pacific's Empress of Britain in 1955 and plan to travel on the maiden voyage. Part of the Being Human Festival.

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Creative Conversations: Andrew McMillan

13 Nov

Date: Monday 13 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Andrew McMillan

Poet and novelist Andrew McMillan in Conversation

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Aaron Azunda Akugbo: Trumpet & Zeynep Özsuca: Piano

16 Nov

Date: Thursday 16 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Decorated Nigerian-Scottish trumpet player Aaron Azunda Akugbo performs a lunchtime recital with outstanding Turkish pianist Zeynep Özsuca.

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Creative Conversations: Catriona Lexy Campbell

20 Nov

Date: Monday 20 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Catriona Lexy Campbell

Writer Catriona Lexy Campbell in Conversation

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How To Raise The Wind: Chamber Music Scotland

23 Nov

Date: Thursday 23 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Chamber Music Scotland presents How To Raise The Wind, where traditional and experimental sounds unite in the music of Scotland and Norway.

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What Sociologists Learn from Music: Identity, Music-making and the Sociological Imagination

27 Nov

Date: Monday 27 November 2023
Time: 11:00 - 13:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: St Cecilia's Music Museum and Concert Hall, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG
Speaker: Les Back

Sociologists often have extra-curricular lives as musicians. This talk explores the relationship between musical life and sociological identities. Through a range of examples from Howard Becker’s grounding in field research as a pianist in the Chicago jazz clubs and his theories of deviance to the connection between Emma Jackson’s life as a bass player in Brit pop band Kenickie and her feminist punk sociology an argument is developed about the things sociologists learn from music. Based on twenty-seven life history interviews with contemporary sociologists this talk show how sociologists learn to understand society through their engagement with music.

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Creative Conversations: Zoë Strachan

27 Nov

Date: Monday 27 November 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Zoë Strachan

Writer Zoë Strachan in Conversation

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Scottish Opera Emerging Artists: Opera

30 Nov

Date: Thursday 30 November 2023
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

We finish 2023 with a visit from the wonderful Scottish Opera Emerging Artists, 4 singers and 1 pianist, performing opera scenes and arias.

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Creative Conversations: Kathleen Jamie

04 Dec

Date: Monday 04 December 2023
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Kathleen Jamie

Poet and Makar Kathleen Jamie in Conversation

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