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Lost Glasgow: Lost Buildings

17 Sep

Date: Wednesday 17 September 2025
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Kelvin Hall
Speaker: Joseph Sharples, Norry Wilson and Liam Paterson

Join us at Kelvin Hall for a talk and screening looking at the lost buildings of Glasgow as part of Doors Open Day and Glasgow 850.

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Creative Conversations: Isabel Stilwell

19 Sep

Date: Friday 19 September 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Isabel Stilwell

Historical novelist and journalist Isabel Stilwell in conversation in an event co-hosted by Portuguese Studies and Creative Conversations.

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Language Taster: Traditional Flavours & Recipes in Catalonia, Spain & Italy

20 Sep

Date: Saturday 20 September 2025
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join us for an interactive workshop to discover the origin & traditions around popular dishes enjoyed in Catalonia, Spain & Italy.

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Explorathon at Doors Open Day

20 Sep

Date: Saturday 20 September 2025 - Sunday 21 September 2025
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

From cutting-edge engineering to arts and humanities, dip into the fantastic research happening on your doorstep, with family-friendly activities and exhibits as part of the Scotland-wide “Explorathon” festival, in partnership with Glasgow Doors Open Days. Free, drop-in.

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Superhero Science

21 Sep

Date: Sunday 21 September 2025
Time: 11:00 - 12:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

Join our Agents of Awesome for Superhero Science to explore the amazing science behind superhuman abilities!

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Byres Community Hub - Hub Monday Glasgow 850

22 Sep

Date: Monday 22 September 2025
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Byres Community Hub, Clarice Pears building

Visit Byres Community Hub to see our public spaces, try our interactive exhibits, and meet volunteers, researchers and community groups.

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Creative Conversations: Catherine Mayer

22 Sep

Date: Monday 22 September 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Catherine Mayer

Author Catherine Mayer in conversation as part of Creative Writing's flagship event series Creative Conversations

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Public Lecture: How the bacteria in your mouth can cause havoc elsewhere in your body

22 Sep

Date: Monday 22 September 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow – Advanced Research Centre (ARC), Room 237ABC
Speaker: Professor Jan Potempa

Gum disease is one of the most common long-term health problems worldwide. While it often causes tooth loss, research shows its impact can go much further, linking harmful oral bacteria to conditions such as pneumonia, arthritis, oesophageal cancer and even Alzheimer’s disease. At this free public lecture, Professor Jan Potempa — an internationally recognised researcher in oral microbiology — will explain how bacteria from the mouth may contribute to serious illnesses elsewhere in the body. His pioneering work has shed light on how these microbes act, and why tackling gum disease may play a role in protecting overall health.

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Race, Gender and Misogynoir Stereotypes within the Constructions of Digital Women Footballers​​

23 Sep

Date: Tuesday 23 September 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Anika Leslie-Walker (Nottingham Trent University), Paul Ian Campbell (University of Leicester), and Marcus Maloney (Coventry University)

In this talk, Anika Leslie-Walker, Paul Ian Campbell and Marcus Maloney will discuss their recent Identities article, ‘The intersections of race and gendered stereotypes within the constructions of digital women footballers in video games’. They will explore the ways in which the numerical values which constitute FIFA22’s ‘Top 100’ Black and White digital women footballers reflect or challenge the wider social and sporting discourses that shape the experiences of Black and White female sporting athletes in the offline world.

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Professor David Garland Book Talk

24 Sep

Date: Wednesday 24 September 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Professor David Garland, New York University

Professor David Garland will talk about his new book, 'Law and Order Leviathan: America’s Extraordinary Regime of Policing and Punishment'.

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Creative Conversations: Sumayya Usmani

29 Sep

Date: Monday 29 September 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Sumayya Usmani

Author Sumayya Usmani in conversation.

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Bowman Lecture 2025: How much should we worry about inequality?

29 Sep

Date: Monday 29 September 2025
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Paul Johnson

Issues of inequality sit at the forefront of much public and policy debate. As the Director of the UK’s leading independent economics research institute, the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson is uniquely placed to speak to these issues. He will draw on the IFS Deaton review of inequalities to help understand why public concern about inequality is higher than ever, and will also look at the sorts of areas - beyond tax and welfare - that policymakers ought to be exploring.

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Professor Steven Reid’s inaugural lecture

01 Oct

Date: Wednesday 01 October 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Professor Steven Reid

The Last King of Scots: Re-assessing the Personal Reign of James VI in Scotland, c. 1585-1603.

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A State of Passion

01 Oct

Date: Wednesday 01 October 2025
Time: 18:30 - 21:15
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls 9 University Avenue
Speaker: Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Thinking Culture and the Scottish Palestinian Health Partnership present a special screening of "A State of Passion" with Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah.

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How lessons from frogs help mend a broken heart

01 Oct

Date: Wednesday 01 October 2025
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building LT 201
Speaker: Professor Sir Jim Smith, Crick Inst & Zoological Society of London

Jim Smith is a developmental biologist who served as Director of the Medical Research Council’s National Institute for Medical Research, where he helped establish the Francis Crick Institute. He has been Director of Research Programmes at The Wellcome Trust and is now President of the Zoological Society of London. He identified signals that trigger the development of specialised cell types during development and will discuss the significance of this work to the emerging field of regenerative medicine. All are welcome to attend.

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Gangs in the Global South: Future lessons from Haiti?

06 Oct

Date: Monday 06 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Irvin Kinnes, University of Cape Town

Are organised armed gangs in Haiti capable and ideologically committed to overthrowing the state and challenging for political power?

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Capital, Privilege and Political Participation

08 Oct

Date: Wednesday 08 October 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Bower Building, Unviersity Avenue, Glasgow | Room 248
Speaker: Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau, Professor Christopher Carman, Dr Elli Loose, Dr Stefanie Reher, Professor Tom Scotto

The John Smith Centre invites you to join us for the launch of Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau’s new book, Capital, Privilege and Political Participation.

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Paul Ramírez Jonas - Artist Talk

17 Oct

Date: Friday 17 October 2025
Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Paul Ramírez Jonas

Join us for an artist talk with acclaimed New York–based artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, presented by Take Me Somewhere and Thinking Culture.

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From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness

21 Oct

Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Jamella N. Gow

​In this talk, Dr Jamella N. Gow will examine how global racial hierarchies rooted in histories of racialized Black labour under capitalism define Caribbean nations as Black. Tracing the global historical processes of colonialism, imperialist underdevelopment, and neoliberalism in the Caribbean, she will show how these processes then inform racist policies that target nations and their migrants by relying on tropes of both Black criminality and exploitability now reproduced on a global scale.

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Professor Michael Given’s inaugural lecture

22 Oct

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Professor Michael Given

Professor Michael Given’s inaugural lecture - Rock and river, soil and forest, herd and home: landscape and conviviality in Scotland and Cyprus

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Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture 2025

24 Oct

Date: Friday 24 October 2025
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: McCall Lecture Theatre, Garscube Campus
Speaker: Professor Andrea Nolan

The 2025 Weipers Memorial Lecture, ‘Clinics to campus: a veterinary tale of pain, pleasure and progress’, will be delivered by Professor Andrea Nolan. After four decades as a veterinary surgeon during periods of immense change, Andrea will reflect on the different but surprisingly complementary threads of her learning from work as a researcher in animal pain and a university leader to offer insights for the future.

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Lunchtime Concert: GLEAM Takeover

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University Concert Hall

Lunchtime listening: Glasgow Electronic and Audiovisual Media Festival (GLEAM) guest programmes this slot in the Lunchtime Concert Series. This event is free of charge and open to all!

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Professor Sarah Cook’s inaugural lecture

12 Nov

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Professor Sarah Cook

Professor Sarah Cook’s inaugural lecture - Curating art and technology from the Internet to AI.

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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: Public lectures
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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Humanities Lecture Series 2025-26: Dr Sim Innes

11 Feb

Date: Wednesday 11 February 2026
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Yudowitz Lecture Theatre, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Dr Sim Innes

Dr Sim Innes - Gaelic song poetry and British Empire conflicts 1874-1930.

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