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3rd Annual Adam Smith Lecture

This year's Adam Smith Lecture will be given on 30 May by Wolfgang Streeck.

Professor Streeck is one of the leading sociologists in Europe, emeritus director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, and a prominent public intellectual: https://wolfgangstreeck.com/

He will talk at the University of Glasgow on the highly topical question of The Size of Nations and the Politics of Political Scale.

The lecture will take place at 4pm on Wednesday 30 May in the Senate Room.

All welcome!

Lecture Poster (pdf)

Marketeers get THELMA nomination

Congratulations to the marketing and communications staff in the University's External Relations and Communications and Public Affairs teams who have been nominated for this year’s Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards - The THELMAS.  The nomination comes under the "Outstanding Marketing/Communications Team" category. The entry focused on the continued integration of what was previously two marketing teams, the web redevelopment, the Glasgow Research Beacons and the student recruitment and conversion campaigns associated with #TeamUofG. Rachel Sandison, Executive Director, External Relations, said: “Being nominated for this award is a fantastic recognition for us and I’m extremely proud of the integrated team. 

"I’m excited about our continued efforts to raise the University’s profile, working both as a service and in collaboration with our #TeamUofG community."

The UofG nominees face competition from Brunel University London, Keele University, Loughborough University, University of Salford, University of Stirling, University of Suffolk and UCFB.

The 2018 THELMAs ceremony will take place on the evening of Thursday 21 June 2018, at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London. 

First-time Mums wanted

Are you a first-time mother (6-12 months postnatal) or mum-to-be? Do you have a BMI of 25 or more?

We are looking for women to take part in an interview about their experience of managing their lifestyle and weight. We're interested in the way their social networks support or do not support them with this. 

For full details please visit https://goo.gl/owbCD5 or contact the researcher Bernardette Bonello on b.bonello.1@research.gla.ac.uk or 0141 353 7536.

UNESCO role for PhD student Richy

Richy Carey, a composer and sound artist based in Glasgow and a PhD Student in the College of Arts, has been appointed as the first Glasgow UNESCO City of Music Artist in Residence. 

Working with a range of community groups and choirs across the city, and supported by Glasgow Life’s Arts and Music teams, Richy will create a new film and choral work, Accents, investigating the idea of accents in Glasgow today. 

He will also develop ways in which the finished work can be shared internationally, creating new connections through the UNESCO Cities of Music network, which includes Salvador, Brazil; Katowice, Poland; Adelaide, Australia; Sevilla, Spain; and Chennai, India. 

As an artist, Richy is interested in how whose voices are amplified by the architecture of a space. The new choral work will actively encourage the different rhythms, inflections and sonorities of multiple accents to bend and shift around each other, exploring the patterns of difference that makes. 

It will be composed in a form that can be easily adapted for performance by choirs in other UNESCO Cities of Music to present the unique identity and accents of their own city. 

The work will be premiered in a public performance at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in March 2019, when all the choirs and participants will come together to perform the score live alongside the film. 

This residency is funded via the Scottish Graduate School and Richy is undertaking his PhD in the College of Arts at the University of Glasgow.

Learn Chinese at the Confucius Institute

Chinese language classes commencing in late April at the Confucius Institute of the University of Glasgow are now open for enrolment.

Our classes cater for all levels of Chinese language, with content ranging from basic greetings for beginners to the reading of newspapers for advanced students.

Enrolment forms with details of the classes are available on the website of the Confucius Institute. The Confucius Institute has three blocks of Chinese classes each year starting from January, April and September. We also have intensive classes over the summer.

Enrolment forms (Word)

Confucius Institute

Diversity Book Group - 18 April

The Diversity Book Group is open to all and is for those who want to learn about the wide variety of cultures and traditions on our campus by discussing books at lunchtime. These are informal and social sessions for those with open minds and an enthusiasm for reading.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 18 for a session exploring The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. The session will be led by Laura Guthrie.

The session will take place from 1.15pm - 2pm in the Library's Lounge Lab.

Diversity Book Group web page

Dr Bike at Gilmorehill

The Dr Bike service is a mobile repair workshop including a van packed full of tools, lubricants and small spare parts hopefully to help you stay on the road. Dr Bike is a regular visitor to the University of Glasgow campuses. the mobile workshop service is well evolved and has been in operation for more than five years.

19/04/2018 Dr Bike will be at Gilmorehill, Wolfson Medical School, 11am – 2pm.

 

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First published: 16 April 2018