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Festival of Social Science- "Our working Lives"

18 Oct

Date: Saturday 18 October 2025 - Saturday 08 November 2025
Categories: Alumni events, Exhibitions, Films and theatre, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Multiple venues across campus

The 23rd ESRC Festival of Social Science will run from 18 October to 8th November. This year’s central theme is "Our Working Lives", exploring how digital technology is reshaping the way we work and interact.

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Using AI ethically in research (AIFest)

27 Oct

Date: Monday 27 October 2025
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events
Venue: 237B, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow, G11 6EW

This event will discuss the opportunities and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the conduct of research.

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52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life (Opening Panel and Exhibition)

27 Oct

Date: Monday 27 October 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: James McCune Smith Learning Hub Foyer, University Avenue Glasgow, G12 8QW
Speaker: Bilge Serin; Alison McCandlish, Funda Mengilli

52 Squares: Diversity in Everyday Life is an exhibition on diversity in urban life and questions how the same moments can be interpreted in different ways by different individuals. The exhibition showcases a selection of photographs capturing mundane moments in everyday life, along with their interpretations by the illustrator. Full project portfolio can be seen: https://www.instagram.com/52squares

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Online UNESCO RIELA Spring School: The Arts of Integration (May Peace Prevail)

27 Oct

Date: Monday 27 October 2025 - Friday 31 October 2025
Time: 8:00 - 19:00
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures, Conferences
Venue: Online
Speaker: Alison Phipps, Naomi Head, Bilgin Ayata, Luigi Toscano, Matt Rabagliati, Shira Klein, Ramon Ayres and many more

Discussions, workshops, presentations, quiet space and performances on the theme of peacebuilding and integration through education, languages and arts - led by the UNESCO Chair team at the University of Glasgow

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The Political Economy of AI: Opportunities and Challenges for Politics, Society, and the Economy (AIFest)

28 Oct

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Time: 09:00 - 12:30
Categories: Staff workshops and seminars, Academic events
Venue: 237B, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane, University of Glasgow, G11 6EW

This interactive panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for politics, society, and the economy.

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CREATe Public Lecture by Monica Westin

28 Oct

Date: Tuesday 28 October 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Academic events, Public lectures, Student events
Venue: Seminar Suite 237 ABC, Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Monica Westin

This talk by Monica Westin - Director of Open Policy Development at Cambridge University Press - explores copyright as infrastructure in the age of AI: the shared, networked, and interoperable systems that lower transaction costs, enable scale, shape participation, and, following Chachra, embody “material expressions of shared commitments.” From this perspective, the lecture will illuminate copyright infrastructure failure modes central to the scholarly knowledge economy, and advance practical remedies grounded in the principles of infrastructural maintenance.

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ARC Conversations – Debate: ‘AI in academia: embrace or resist?’

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: •Ana Basiri - Professor of Geospatial Data Science and Director of Centre for Data Science and AI - School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, •David Lo

Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to accelerate research, personalise learning and ease administrative burden, yet it also raises important questions about academic integrity, equity and the role of human expertise. Join us for this critical discussion as we explore these opportunities and challenges across research, teaching and academic practice. After the debate stay for a chat over drinks.

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Annual James Wood Lecture: Constitutional Rights with a Privy Council Twist

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Senate Room, Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Lady Rose, Justice of the UK Supreme Court

Join us for this year's Annual James Wood Lecture on 30 October, which will be delivered by Lady Rose, Justice of the UK Supreme Court. Lady Rose will speak to the topic of 'Constitutional Rights with a Privy Council Twist'.

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Reflections on 26 years of devolution in the Scottish Parliament

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Alumni events, Student events, Academic events, Social events, Public lectures
Venue: Humanities Lecture Theatre, The Gilbert Scott Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Online
Speaker: David McGill, Clerk and Chief Executive of the Scottish Parliament

David McGill, Clerk and Chief Executive of the Scottish Parliament, reflects on its past and looks ahead to the election in May 2026.

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Working 9-5: How does childcare fit?

07 Nov

Date: Friday 07 November 2025
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Join the UofG Centre for Public Policy and Pregnant Then Screwed, for a public event showcasing new research on the challenges and opportunities in early learning and childcare provision, bringing together academics, policymakers, practitioners, and advocates to reflect on the role of childcare policy in shaping socio-economic outcomes for families and communities.

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Eastern Europe’s ‘Peripheral Whiteness’: Class and Gender Racialization among Polish Migrants and Returnees

19 Nov

Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Student events, Academic events, Public lectures, Staff workshops and seminars
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek and Dr Sylwia Urbańska

In this talk, Dr Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek and Dr Sylwia Urbańska will develop the concept of peripheral Whiteness in the context of Eastern Europeans, arguing that their position is characterized by conditional access to the privileges associated with Whiteness. Focusing on the example of Polish migrants in Western European labour markets and Polish returnees at Poland’s eastern borders, the talk will demonstrate how processes of racialization are deeply intertwined with dimensions of class and gender.

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