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The School of Art History and University Collections welcomes artist and researcher Sylvia Grace Borda to St Andrews to talk about her work.
Borda's major project EK Modernism (begun in 2005) is held in the Photographic Collection and is available for viewing. EK Modernism addressed how new towns like East Kilbride in Scotland were conceived as a one-stop solution for urban rejuvenation in the early 1950s. These centres were driven by modernist concepts in urban development and social planning. EK Modernism was designed to result both in the creation of an image archive of this New Modernist Town landscape as well as a conceptual photo series and a photobook.
Booking required.
For more information, and to book, visit: https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/sylvia-grace-borda-ek-modernism-and-pacific-tides/
02 Nov 2026
Julia Smith, Questions of Authenticity: What makes a relic?
18 November 2026
School III, St Salvator's Quad: 4:00pm
All welcome
This paper explores the procedures which turn material objects into relics in the western Christian tradition. Emphasising the importance attached to methods of validating them, I shall outline the slow and gradual development of those procedures, primarily in the course of the Middle Ages. My argument will be accompanied by a selection of case studies drawn from the 7th to the 21st centuries.
Julia Smith retired from the Chichele Professorship of Medieval History at the University of Oxford in 2025. She has spent much of the last two decades rethinking the origins and growth of relic cults in late antique and early medieval Christian practice. She also works with palaeographers and materials scientists to explore the practices of writing, wrapping and labelling associated with the curation of relics in the medieval Latin West.
30 Oct 2026
How can medieval Islamic art and history come alive beyond museums and universities?
Join us for a special event exploring the intersection of medieval Islamic art history and digital games, with a focus on Assassin’s Creed Mirage.
Wednesday 4 November, 4pm, School 3.
This workshop aims to discuss how medieval Islamic art can travel beyond museums and universities, with focus on the case study of Assassin’s Creed: Mirage. It will feature a talk given by Dr. Glaire Anderson (Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh), whose recent historical visualization work has helped shape the game’s rich setting and cultural detail and shortlisted by the University of Edinburgh as an exemplary impact case study.
A discussion will follow, bringing medieval Islamic art history into dialogue with digital and game-based methodologies and asking what this might mean for the field’s public engagement. Participants include Dr Kirill Dmitriev (Arabic, St Andrews), Dr Emily Savage (St Andrews), Dr Billy Rough (St Andrews), and Dr Gonul Bozoglu (St Andrews).
You are recommended to try out The Discovery Tour App: Medieval Baghdad: a free mobile experience that immerses players in 9th century Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate. Using the recreation of Baghdad from Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the Discovery Tour App allows users to explore this lost city, a capital for political, scientific, cultural, and commercial advances through Codex entries, engaging interactions, and mini games.
https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/news/1el9bJb62hBMjVQInIb2iS/play-the-discovery-tour-app-medieval-baghdad
Support for this event provided the School of Art History Research Impact Fund.
30 Oct 2026
Join us @universityofyork for a two day international conference concluding our Research Season Adrian Stokes, Inside Out.
On Friday 20 & Saturday 21 November 2026, Stokes' Objects will bring together historians of Renaissance art, sculptural practice and critical thought to engage with key objects of Adrian Stokes’ criticism.
The conference examines Stokes’ career-long fascination with the sculptural practices of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy and its afterlives, from Agostino di Duccio’s carvings for the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini to the late work of Michelangelo and beyond, to Mickey Mouse and the Russian ballet.
We've got a great line-up of speakers including:
- François Blanchetière, Musée D’Orsay
- Caterina Caputo, Università Iuav di Venezia
- Laura Chase, V&A
- Ruth Ezra, University of St Andrews
- Stephen Feeke, independent
- Henrike Christian Lange, University of California, Berkeley
- Jeremy Melius, University of York
- Alex Potts, University of Michigan
- Jessica Richardson, University of York
- Alistair Rider, University of St Andrews
- Sam Rose, University of St Andrews
- David Russell, University of California, Los Angeles
- Harmon Siegel, Harvard University
- Baptiste Tochon-Donguy, I Tatti
- Alison Wright, UCL
Tickets are free and can be booked via the link in our bio, or go straight to henry-moore.org/stokes-objects
The Research Season Adrian Stokes: Inside Out and has been conceived and organised in collaboration with Dr Ruth Ezra (University of St Andrews) and Dr Jeremy Melius (University of York) and this conference is generously supported by a Lila Wallace – Reader’s Digest Grant from @villaitatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
Image: Agostino di Ducci, Madonna and Child with Angels in the Museo del Bargello
01 Jan 1970
To mark 130 years since the Cretan scholar Antonios Jannaris was employed to teach modern Greek at St Andrews in 1896, the first post of its kind in Britain, the St Andrews Greek Week (24-27 November 2026) will stage a series of events to celebrate Greek Studies at the University and beyond. Join us for:
Tues 24 Nov: Poetry recital of 'Direct Orient' by Eleni Kefala (St Andrews Modern Languages) and Peter Constantine (Swallowgate S4, 5-6:30pm).
Weds 25 Nov: Documentary screening of 'Life After Life: Greeks of Istanbul', exploring how people make their peace from a community memory of loss and persecution. Introduced by the director Gönül Bozoğlu (St Andrews Heritage Studies). (Swallowgate S4, 5-6:30pm).
Thurs 26 Nov: Performance of Angelos Sikelianos' 1942 play 'Daedalus in Crete', turning to ancient myth to reckon with the Axis Occupation of Greece (Younger Hall, 6-8pm).
Fri 27 Nov: 'Reading Hellenic Relations Workshop' (9-4pm, Lapworth Room), followed by a keynote by Yannis Hamilakis '(Re)Making the Acropolis: Modernity’s Racialized Dreamwork’. (School II, 4-6pm)
Follow the link in the bio to sign-up to the play and workshop and find out more about the full programme of events!
29 Oct 2026
Dead of the Dead Program
Thursday 28 October
4-6 pm. Buchanan Building Room 216. Decorations and poetry workshop.
You can choose either to learn how to do colourful paper flowers and banners (papel picado) or how to create your own special poem for the Day of the Dead (calavera literaria). Or you can do both! You can pop-in at any time between 4 and 6.
6-7 pm. Foyer of the Buchanan Building. Altar de muertos.
Help us setting the Altar de muertos to honour the dead and have some rewarding home-made Mexican hot chocolate and a slide of sweet bread (pan de muerto).
This year the Altar is dedicated to women artists and writers around the world, so if you have any favourite, please bring her picture to add it to the Altar.
The Altar de Muertos will be displayed from 38th October to the 4th of November. During this time, you are welcome to add any photographs of any family members or dear ones. The Altar de muertos is a collective work for remembering all important people in our lives that have left this world. It is a believe in Mexico that every year on the first hours of the 2nd of November our dear dead ones come and visit us and this is why we prepare the Altar as an homage to them.
We wish to continue sharing this ancient and beautiful tradition with all of you, so please take care of the Altar while it is displayed and join us in the activities 🙂
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27 Oct 2026
Alistair Rider, along with Edward Christie from the St Andrews Centre for Critical Sustainabilities and Elisabetta Rattalino from the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max Planck Institute for Art History (@bhmpi) are organising a seminar in Rome next week on the theme of "Elemental Ecologies: Art Histories of Situatedness and Drift from the Great Acceleration".
For a full list of participants and all relevant details, see: https://www.biblhertz.it/events/46813/2631954
The seminar will be live streamed.
19 Oct 2026
From the Committee:
Thank you all so much for an incredible 2026 Postgraduate Symposium!
We want to express our sincere gratitude to all of our speakers and to the School of Art History, the EDI Fund, and the Researcher Development Fund for their support of this project.
'Revisiting the Canon' was an amazing showcase of postgraduate and early career research and we are so excited next year's Symposium!
-2026 Symposium Committee
16 Oct 2026
Thank you all for an incredible Postgraduate Symposium of Art and Culture; Revisiting the Canon!
Please be sure to head over to our website's digital poster display to check out the incredible research displayed.
We encourage those who attended to please fill out the feedback form to help us keep improving for 2027.
16 Oct 2026
Interested in some short online art history courses? Then we've got you covered!
Open now for January 2027 enrolment!
💻 @vadundee History of Scottish Design in Six Objects
💻 @artukdotorg Island Artistry: Papua New Guinean Treasures in UK Museum Collections
💻 The Modernist Artist: From Europe to Latin America
💻 Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
For more information, check the link in our bio!
📸 @uniofstandrews
15 Oct 2026
Wednesday 28 October, 4pm, School 3.
'Rethinking the "East": A History of the Khanenko Museum's Islamic and Asian Collections'
Dr Hanna Rudyk (Curator of Islamic art, The Khanenko Museum, Kyiv)
The presentation will trace the history of the Islamic and Asian collections of the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv—a museum housing Ukraine’s major holdings of world art. It will follow the formation of Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko’s “Eastern” collection, its transformation into a public museum collection, significant losses and acquisitions during the Soviet period, and its subsequent development, culminating in the permanent gallery presented between 2006 and 2022. It will also address the colonial and Soviet frameworks through which the “East” was collected, classified, and displayed, and consider how museums might rethink the relationship between European and non-European heritage today.
Hanna Rudyk (PhD in Art History, 2022) is a heritage historian and Deputy Director of the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts (the Khanenko Museum) in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she has researched and curated the Islamic art collection since 2002. She was the curator of the museum’s most recent permanent Islamic art gallery (2006–2022), as well as a dozen temporary exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. Her current research focuses on decolonial transformations in European and Ukrainian museums, with particular attention to dismantling colonial legacies in the display and public mediation of non-European art.
15 Oct 2026
Join us in Edinburgh on Friday 16 October for a conversation with @celiatupinamba and @olinda_tupinamba — DISRUPTING THE COLONIAL ARCHIVE.
Both artists turn encounters with archives, collections and institutional histories into artistic and political interventions. Their work opens space for Indigenous self-representation and for new relationships between institutions and the peoples whose histories and heritage they hold.
After last night’s news, we see this as a moment to gather ourselves and continue building these bridges for better futures.
Presented with @uniofstandrews and @edinburghuniversity @imhs.standrews — Chaired by @jamillepinheirodias and @bbrulon — organised w @ponte.projects @emmalathamphillips
🗓 Fri 16 Oct, 3.15–5.15pm
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute, Room 1.55
Free entry, no ticket needed
14 Oct 2026
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