Events
Find out what’s happening around campus and in the local community.
Film Screening: Four Our Rights
StACCS to host Sámi guests, Johannes Vang and Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi
9 June, 18:30pm, Galgael, Glasgow (15 Fairlay St)
11 June, 19:00pm, Broadford Village Hall, Isle of Skye
StACCS will be hosting two screenings of Vang’s doumentary For Our Rights in Scotland next month, organised by Dr Michael Simpson (School of Geography and Sustainable Development). Each event will be followed by a discussion with Vang and elected member of the Sámi Parliament of Norway, Elle Rávdná Näkkäläjärvi, who will update us on the current situation and ongoing struggles for Sámi rights. The first of these events will be held at Glasgow on Tuesday, 9 June (18:30) at the Galgael community space (15 Fairlay St). The second of the two events will be hostedThursday 11 June at the Broadford Village Hall (19:00) on the Isle of Skye, co-hosted with two local groups that are actively organising in opposition to seven wind farm developments currently proposed on the island.
Trans-Oceanic Webinar Series
Trans-Oceanic Webinar Series: Growing climate resilience and regeneration through intergenerational and transnational traditional ecological knowledge and skills exchange
19 June, 08:00–10:00am (please register by 11 June at 5pm).
29 June, 4:00–7:00pm (please register by 27 June at 5pm)
Microsoft Teams, please register via the links above
Join us for this series of two trans-oceanic webinars which aim to facilitate the exchange and revitalisation of traditional plant knowledge across generations and borders, strengthen youth leadership, revitalise traditional knowledge, enhance biodiversity, and promote community-led nature-based solutions. Led by Professor Karen Brown and Dr Victoria McMillan in association with the Shared Island Stories (UKRI reference EP/X023036/1) and Roots and Shoots projects.
Elemental Ecologies
Elemental Ecologies: Art Histories of Situatedness and Drift from the Great Acceleration28 to 30 October 2026Bibliotheca Herziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome
StACCS will be co‑hosting ‘Elemental Ecologies: Art Histories of Situatedness and Drift from the Great Acceleration’, a seminar at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome organised by Dr Edward Christie, our Research and Engagement Fellow, in collaboration with Dr Alistair Rider (School of Art History) and Dr Elisabetta Rattalino (Bibliotheca Hertziana).
