Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism
What support do we need to stay alive? Who gets this support, and who is left in the cold?
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Re-imagining Local Film Histories through Critical and Creative Practice: 1300 SHOTS (Mark Lyken, 2020)
‘Re-imagining Local Film Histories through Critical and Creative Practice’ provides an innovative, creative response to local cinema history and memory.
Forces in Translation
Making Lines… basketry : anthropology : mathematics Forces in Translation online event: Wednesday 23rd and 30th June Making and thinking about the material and mathematical qualities of lines. Week 1 Focuses on twists…
Woven Communities: interweaving basketry, memory, and mind
The project Woven Communities, led by Dr Stephanie Bunn of the Department of Social Anthropology, has expanded awareness of Scottish social history and heritage through a focus on its basket-weaving, while showing how…
Celebrating Brazilian Favelas
Maré from the Inside / Maré de Dentro is an interactive visual and textual exhibit developed through the collaboration of Brazilian and Global North-based artists, activists, and academics, including Dr Nicholas Barnes…
Active citizenship: then and now
Women fighting for change Dr Sarah Marsden, from the School of International Relations, and colleagues from Lancaster University, engage with activists, academics, artists, heritage, and community organisations to…
Illegal fishing in Nigeria
The scale and costs of illegal fishing are enormous and difficult to calculate. Recently, the Nigerian House of Representatives expressed concerns over the $70 million lost annually to illegal fishing. In comparison,…
Peru facing rural Covid-19 disaster
A disaster is looming in Peru caused by Covid-19 as thousands return to their rural homes where there are limited resources and facilities, according to research carried out at the University of St Andrews. When…
ENERGY ETHICS 2020
How can our use of energy help us create a better future for all? Global energy demand continues to rise. To meet this demand energy producers are increasingly relying on innovative methods of harvesting energy from…
Watching the Lava dome: Volcano monitoring radar handover to Montserrat
Dr David Macfarlane is a Senior Research Fellow who has been working on high resolution radar projects in the School of Physics and Astronomy at St Andrews since 2002. Last year he travelled to the volcanic island of…