Our COP26 online events

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Adam Smith 300 Global Reading Group - The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Date: Tuesday 05 March 2024 - Sunday 02 June 2024
Time: 09:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Zoom

A reading group for academics, alumni, students, and the public to join together as a global community. Discuss Smith's ideas in The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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"Walking" Book Launch Event

Date: Wednesday 24 April 2024
Time: 13:00 - 19:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Tom Jeffreys

Join us to celebrate the launch of Walking, the latest addition to the Documents of Contemporary Art series, published by the Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press.
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Book launch: Digital Contention in a Divided Society

Date: Wednesday 24 April 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow

Join Paul Reilly (University of Glasgow) and host, Dave Scott (Nil by Mouth), to celebrate the paperback launch of Paul’s book, Digital contention in a divided society: Social media, parades and protests in Northern Ireland.
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India's record-breaking election and the rise of the non-aligned powers

Date: Friday 26 April 2024
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events
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

Date: Friday 26 April 2024
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Categories: Academic events
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

Date: Monday 29 April 2024
Time: 11:30 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
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.

Constructing large-scale 3D building models via LiDAR point clouds

Date: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online (Zoom)

This UBDC webinar explores using classified airborne LiDAR point clouds to model 3D urban areas.
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Viral Communication: Workshop

Date: Friday 03 May 2024
Time: 9:00 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

A one-day workshop that will explore the influence of infection across visual culture, social dynamics, and medicine. 
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The time has come? The future of European defence and security.

Date: Sunday 12 May 2024
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Categories: Academic events
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)

Date: Tuesday 14 May 2024 - Thursday 23 May 2024
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
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

Date: Wednesday 15 May 2024
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events
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

Date: Tuesday 28 May 2024
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Academic events
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