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Welcome to the University of St Andrews Open Association 4 2019-2020 Anniversaries
Welcome to the University of St Andrews Open Association as we present our 7 Friday Evening Lecture series
programme for the academic year 2019-2010 from the Open Association’s new home at 13 Retirement is Opportunity
the Byre Theatre.
18 Music Appreciation
The Open Association at the Byre enables the University to offer a better experience for 19 Health, Wellbeing and Hobbies
our members with on site enquiries, easier bookings and the Byre Café’s array of home- 22 Communication, Memory and Behaviour
baking to very much enhance your experience. 1
23 Medicine, Science and Discovery
We are pleased to be able to offer a wide range of lectures, talks and classes on a variety 24 International Relations and Current Affairs
of subjects and we very much hope that they will be of interest.
26 Social Anthropology
For our Friday Evening Lecture Series, we are delighted to be able to welcome speakers 27 Literature and Theatre
from the University here at St Andrews and from further afield to present a fascinating 36 Art History and Architecture
series of lectures on topics as diverse as ‘Controlling Firearms in Early Modern Scotland’,
‘Evolution Before Darwin’, ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’, ‘The Amritsar 37 History
Massacre, and ‘The Chaplain Who Could Make Anyone Fight’. 45 StAnza
Our Retirement is Opportunity talks also have a varied range of topics from ‘Brexit and
What it Means for Europe and the UK’, ‘The Kilted Scottish Soldier’, ‘Great War Writings 47 Enrolment, Fees and Funding
from the Palestine and Syrian Fronts’, ‘Gavin Hamilton: A Scottish Painter and Dealer in
47 Contact
the Eighteenth Century’, and ‘Trekking to Everest Base Camp’.
49 Teaching Locations
Alongside the popular short courses such as ‘American History’, ‘Listening to Music’,
‘Creative Writing’, and ‘Shakespeare’, we are introducing a variety of new courses, which
we hope you enjoy, including ‘New Perspectives on British History’, ‘Jacobitism and the
State – 1689-1746’, ‘Women in Scotland’, ‘The Secret Life of Statistics’, ‘Current Politics
and International Affairs’, and many more.
New for 2019-2020
Due to the success of the Year of the Woman talks last year we are delighted to
announce a new series of talks celebrating key anniversary dates. These will include the
2 2019-2020 Anniversaries 37 Forgotten Fronts: Scottish Experiences of
50th anniversary of the Apollo 12 Mission to the moon, 75th anniversary of VE Day and
D Day, and 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower and of the slave trade. 23 Astrophysics Explained by Animation the First World War, 1914-1919
24 Modern War and Strategy 38 Late Medieval St Andrews
We do hope that you will find something which appeals to you and we extend a very
warm welcome to you to participate in this year’s programme and to enjoy the Open 24 Discussing Issues of Interrnational 39 Becoming “British”: New Perspectives on
Association at the Byre. Relations British History
The University would like to take this opportunity to wish Ian Taylor good wishes in 25 Current Politics and International Affairs 40 Religion & the Crisis of Faith in Britain:
his retirement from his position of tutor to our well-established opera class. Ian has 25 Contemporary Debates on War and c.1789-c.1914
been teaching the opera group since 1974 and will be very much missed by the Open
Political Violence 40 Travelling Scotland Between 1700 – 1900
Association and his students. We would like to thank Ian for all his hard work over the
years, and his commitment to the Open Association. 28 The Bible as Literature 41 “Darns her men, but not her sox”, Women
28 The Book of Genesis: Sources, Influence, in Scotland 1860s-1930s
Dr Katie Stevenson
Assistant Vice-Principal Collections and Digital Content and Afterlives 41 Scotland at the Great War, 1914 to 1919
32 Creative Writing Level 2: Writing Poetry 41 Emigration and Empire: Scotland c.1860 to
33 Creative Writing Level 3: Writers’ Workshop the 1920s
34 Poetry Choice 41 The Secret Life of Statistics: The Foundations
34 Sonnets of the Modern State, c. 1650 – c.1800
37 ‘To Restore our Rightful Sovereign’: 42 Environmental History ‘En Plein Air’
Jacobitism and the State, 1689-1746 42 The History of Afghanistan
Alphabetical
Course Lists
Wednesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Thursday
Saturday
Saturday
Monday
Monday
Tuesday
Tuesday
Friday
Friday
Semester 1 – 2019 Semester 2 – 2020
2019-2020 Anniversaries p4 Anthropological Connections p26
Astrophysics Explained by Animation p23 p23 Becoming “British”: New Perspectives on British History p39
Around the World in Eight Weeks p26 Birds in Fife p21
2 Becoming “British”: New Perspectives on British History p39 Contemporary Debates on War and Political Violence p25 3
Creative Writing Level 1: Introduction to Creative Writing p31 Creative Writing Summer Day Schools p35
Creative Writing Level 2: Writing Short Stories p32 Creative Writing Level 1: Introduction to Writing Fiction p31
Creative Writing Level 3: Writers’ Workshop p33 Creative Writing Level 2: Writing Poetry p32
Current Politics and International Affairs p25 Creative Writing Level 3: Writers’ Workshop p33
“Darns her men, but not her sox” Women in Scotland 1860s-1930s p41 Current Politics and International Affairs p25
Discussing Issues of International Relations p24 Discussing Issues of International Relations p24
Enjoying Geology – The Restless Earth p23 p23 Emigration and Empire: Scotland c.1860 to the 1920s p41
Environmental History En Plein Air p42 Enjoying Geology – The Restless Earth p23
Friday Evening Lecture Series p7 Forgotten Fronts: Scottish Experiences of the First World War, 1914-1918 p37
Introduction to Sign Language p22 Friday Evening Lecture Series p7
Listening to Music p18 Introduction to Sign Language p22
Literary Representations of “The Kingdom of Fife” p29 Labours of Love: Vocations and Obsessions in Literature p30
Medieval Movies p43 Late Medieval St Andrews p38
Michelangelo and his Art p36 Listening to Music p18
Modern War and Strategy p24 Medieval Movies p43
Pilates for Seniors p19 p19 “Mise en abyme” or the Craft of Telling Stories Within Stories p29
Poetry Choice p34 Painting in the Golden Age of Venice p36
Religion & the Crisis of Faith in Britain: c.1789–c.1914 p40 Pilates for Seniors p19 p19
Retirement is Opportunity p13 Retirement is Opportunity p13
Scotland at the Great War, 1914 to 1919 p41 Scottish History Through Scottish Fiction p35
Scottish History Through Scottish Fiction p35 Shakespeare’s Roman Plays p27
Shakespeare’s History Plays p27 Short Stories Through History p34
Short Stories Through History p34 Sonnets p34
Sun, Trellises and Minerals – The Craft of Viticulture p20 The Book of Genesis: Sources, Influence, and Afterlives p28
The Bible as Literature p28 Understanding America: American History Through the Ages p38/9
The History of Afghanistan p42 Wines of the Mediterranean p20
The Human Environment p21
The Secret Life of Statistics: The Foundations of the Modern State,
c.1650 – c.1800 p42
‘To Restore our Rightful Sovereign’: Jacobitism and the State, 1689-1746 p37
Travelling Scotland Between 1700 – 1900 p40
Understanding America: American History Through the Ages p38/9
What is it Good for? Literature about War and its Consequences p30
2019-2020 Anniversaries
A series of eight fascinating talks celebrating key significant historical
anniversaries. These talks allow 15 minutes for tea/coffee, and 15 minutes
for the opportunity for questions and discussion.
Fridays, 2.00pm-4.15pm
Venue: Byre Theatre
Semester 1: 8 talks beginning on Friday 4 October 2019
No class on 18 October and 22 November 2019
4 £60 for the full series or choose 3 talks for £25 or 1 talk for £9 5
4 October 2019 11 October 2019 25 October 2019 1 November 2019
‘A Great day for the World, for Scotland, and for The Mayflower and the White Lion: Sounds Like Utopia?: Been There, Done That: The Illogic of the Apollo
St Andrews’: VE Day from a Local Perspective Two Ships Arrive in America in 1619 Woodstock and Glastonbury 12 Mission to the Moon
Dr Derek J. Patrick Dr Emma Hart Dr Rafael Torrubia Professor Jerry De Groot
The 6 June 2019 and 8 May 2020 will mark the This year is the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Fifty years ago, the Woodstock festival, created by four Almost everyone of a certain age can remember the
seventy-fifth anniversaries of D-Day and VE Day, the Mayflower, the boat that famously delivered the Pilgrim ambitious young men, heard by over four hundred landing of Apollo 11 on the moon on 20 July 1969. They
latter signalling the end of the Second World War in Fathers to America. In the same year another vessel, the thousand spectators, and billed as “Three days of can easily recall the names of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
Europe made possible by the Normandy Landings. In White Lion, also arrived on the shores of the continent. peace and love” allegedly changed the American and – perhaps – Michael Collins. But how many can
St Andrews the news was ‘celebrated with restraint Although this boat is much less celebrated as a turning music scene forever. Less than a year later, playing to remember Apollo 12, which landed on 19 November that
and dignity as well as with general rejoicings’, with the point in the history of America, its cargo would have a crowd of just fifteen hundred, the first Glastonbury same year? If the whole point of the Apollo program was
Town Hall packed for a ‘Victory Dance’. This lecture will major implications for the development of the nation- festival attempted to inject hippie culture into the to beat the Russians to the moon, why was it necessary
consider the closing stages of the war in Europe, its to-be, for it brought the first enslaved Africans to fields of a dairy farm in rural England. This talk will to repeat that feat at various intervals over the next
impact on the local area, and reactions to Germany’s Virginia. This lecture will consider the arrival of these examine the controversies and legacy of America’s three years? This talk, which marks the 50th anniversary
unconditional surrender. two ships to understand the chief forces shaping most iconic music festival from a transatlantic of the Apollo 12 mission, explores the fundamental
England’s American colonies in the seventeenth perspective, to explore why Woodstock retains its contradiction inherent in the American lunar programme,
century, but also to reveal the reasons why one has place in American memory as a cultural touchstone, namely the conflict between a political race to the moon
been remembered, while the other has often been and the symbol of a dying decade. and a genuine effort at space exploration. Professor
forgotten. Gerard DeGroot, author of Dark Side of the Moon, shows
Using the music of the period and voices of the time, how the competition between political and scientific
the talk will examine the transnational music culture goals placed unfortunate limits on what the Apollo
of the late 1960s, and the potent cocktail of politics, program could achieve and has continued to confuse
personalities and propaganda that sought to use the American perceptions about what to do in space.
sounds of the era to build a new Utopia, on both sides
of the Atlantic.
8 November 2019
War and Peace: Scotland at the Time of the
Treaty of Versailles June 1919
Dr William Kenefick
This talk will investigate the state of the Scottish nation
in the anniversary year and at the time of the signing
of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. As negotiations
continued apace at the peace conference in Paris during
1919 the people of Scotland and Britain were preparing
to mark the official end of the Great War and celebrate
peace. This talk will begin with a brief outline of the Treaty
of Versailles before turning the focus to an examination of
aspects of political, economic and social change in post
war Scotland during 1919.
15 November 2019 Friday Evening
Mahatma Gandhi at 150:
The Man and his Message Lecture Series
Dr Chandrika Kaul
M K Gandhi, arguably the greatest politician and
Commencing Friday 4 October 2019
peacemaker/philosopher of the 20th century, was born
Lecture Theatre B, School of Physics & Astronomy, North Haugh
150 years ago this year (2 October). Who was this man?
Friday 6 March 2020, the lecture will be held in the Mathematics & Statistics building, Theatre D.
What were his political and philosophical tenants? How
did he wage the nationalist battles against the British
The lectures begin at 8pm and last until approximately 9pm, followed immediately by the opportunity for
Raj? What is his legacy?
questions and discussion for a further 15 minutes.
6 7
29 November 2019
Course fee for the academic year:
£75 for the full series of lectures in both semesters or a mixture of 6 lectures for £30 from either semester or
The Mandela Effect?: The Legacies of Nelson a mixture of 3 lectures for £20 from either semester or 1 lecture for £8 from either semester.
Mandela in the ‘new’ South Africa
Matt Graham To book for the full series of lectures please contact the Byre box office on 01334 475000
All other choices can be booked online at www.byretheatre.com
On the 27 April 2019, South Africa commemorated
twenty-five years of multiracial governance, when it
celebrated the nation’s first democratic election. The
victory of the African National Congress (ANC) two
and half decades ago signalled the end of legalised Semester 1 – 2019
racial oppression, began the process of dismantling
the vestiges of apartheid, and started the process 4 October 11 October 18 October 25 October 1 November
of creating a more inclusive South Africa. It was an Statistics, the Kashmir and the Fantastic Beasts A week of News Queen of Science:
extraordinary, if not a miraculous moment given the Universe and Politics of Peace and Where to Find from Around 100 Mary Somerville in
nation’s turbulent history. Now commemorated each Everything Them Years ago Today! the Age of Wonder
year as Freedom Day, South Africa has much to be 1780-1872
proud of. The country has come a long way since April 6 December 2019
1994. 8 November 15 November 22 November 29 November 6 December
‘Beyond the Bounds of Reason’: General Douglas Cold War Europe’s ’For God, Queen The Great Palace The End of the
A key figure within this process toward achieving
The Centenary of American Prohibition Haig and Reverend Largest Ethnic and Country: the of the Byzantine British Raj?: the
democracy was Nelson Mandela. A remarkable and
Dr Rafael Torrubia George Duncan in Cleansing and Church of England Emperors and Amritsar Massacre
courageous leader, who became a living embodiment
the Great War the End of and British Politics’ the St Andrews in India, 13 April
of reconciliation and non-racialism.
On 17 January 1920, the United States passed the Communism in Connection 1919
Volstead Act, enforcing the 18th Amendment to the US Bulgaria
This talk will evaluate the impact that Mandela had over
the process of achieving democracy in South Africa Constitution, prohibiting the production, importation
twenty-five years ago, and his enduring legacies in the and sale of alcohol within the United States. For the
next thirteen years, Americans developed a strange and
Semester 2 – 2020
post-apartheid era. I will explore various dimensions
of his leadership, symbolism and impact on South illicit new relationship to their favourite pastime. This
17 January 24 January 31 January 7 February 14 February
Africa, while reassessing the subsequent successes and talk will explore the impetus for this strange national
penitence, from fears of immigration to anti-German The Black Watch Gender Identity Dr Ben McConville From populism The Book of
failures. Moreover, contemporary issues such as who
sentiment, and panics over dangerous driving. We will and Kitchener’s Variance: A Global Reporting America to Fascism and Genesis: Sources,
‘owns’ his legacy, and the ongoing and vocal critiques
also examine the repercussions of this unprecedented New Army, Perspective a Conversation Influence, and
citing that Mandela ‘sold out’ will be examined to
decision, its implication for government intervention 1914-1915 About the Afterlives
provide a more nuanced and rounded assessment of
into private life, and its lasting legacies today. On the Difference
him.
centenary of the eighteenth amendment, we will stop
for a while in smoky Manhattan speakeasies that defied 21 February 28 February 6 March 13 March 20 March
social convention, Californian vineyards that expanded Food Security: The Film, Propaganda Evolution Before Controlling A Life in
out into “holy” wine, rum-running New England fishing Opportunities and and the End of the Darwin: The Firearms in Early Neurosurgery
towns, and the persistently inebriated Hall of Congress Threats British Empire Transmutation of Modern Scotland
where prohibition was defied on a daily basis. By Species in Post-
examining how America understood vice and virtue Enlightenment
in the 1920s, the talk will bring us a little closer to Edinburgh
understanding the shape of American concerns today.
Semester 1 1 November 2019 15 November 2019
Queen of Science: Mary Somerville in the Cold War Europe’s Largest Ethnic Cleansing
4 October 2019 18 October 2019 Age of Wonder 1780-1872 and the End of Communism in Bulgaria
Ruth Boreham Tomasz Kamusella
Statistics, the Universe and Everything: A Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them:
History of an Emerging Science from the Mid Researching the Whereabouts of Whales in the “I was annoyed that my turn for reading was so much Bulgaria’s repressed Turks and Muslims created the
disapproved of, and thought it unjust that women communist country’s sole mass dissident movement. In
Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century Atlantic
should have been given a desire for knowledge if it late May 1989 they staged protests and hunger strikes,
Adam Dunn Claire Lacey were wrong to acquire it.” Mary Somerville lived during which involved 60,000 people. In reply, communist
a period that is sometimes called the ‘Age of Wonder’, Bulgaria’s dictator of 35 years decided to bolster the
What would be called modern statistics today can be With mounting pressures on many of the oceans though as a woman, she was not expected to fully take legitimacy of his faltering regime by expelling the
traced back to the seventeenth century and has come species there is a growing need for information on the part in it. Yet, through self-education and perseverance, country’s officially ‘non-existent’ Turks (and Muslims).
8 on a long evolution. This talk will focus on the early distribution and abundance of these species as well as against the wishes of her family and her first husband, Almost 4 percent of the population, or 370,000 people, 9
evolution of statistics – from the 1650s and the first the factors that drive them. This whistle-stop tour will Mary carved out a scientific career for herself. When she were rounded up and forced to leave for Turkey in the
iterations of Political Arithmetic in England, to the early take you on a tour of “whale-counting”, covering the died at the age of 92, obituaries called her “Queen of summer of 1989. Subsequently, the Bulgarian economy
1840s with the development of the London Statistical “why” and “where”, the results and of course a look at Science”. But since her death, she has faded from public nearly collapsed, the country’s international relations
Society and the first works of the Belgian statistician “how” you go about counting a group of animals which memory – in large part because she never invented frayed, and a third world war between the Soviet bloc
Adolph Quetelet. Its aim is to trace the evolution of spend most of their lives underwater. anything. So why should we remember her? Why does and NATO was perilously close. To avert the imminent
statistical thought in the political, economic and social/ she deserve to be on the Royal Bank of Scotland’s £10 disaster, the dictator’s colleagues from the Bulgarian
cultural realm, illustrating how modern statistics had note? And what does orange marmalade have to do Communist Party deposed him in November, and on
begun to form throughout Europe. The talk will analyse 25 October 2019 with anything?! 29 December 1989 promised to give back human and
how statistics formed a close-knit relationship with civil rights to the country’s Turks (and Muslims). This
the state and became one of the foundations of the That was the Week that was – A week of News
promise facilitated the ongoing return of expellees.
modern world. from Around 100 Years ago Today! 8 November 2019 As a result, massive backlash of Bulgarian nationalists
Dr William Kenefick rocked the country in 1990. An ethnic civil war was
‘The Chaplain Who Could Make Anyone Fight’: narrowly avoided, and in 1991 the first non-communist
11 October 2019 This hour-long lecture will look back to what the papers General Douglas Haig and Reverend George was formed in Bulgaria. Without remembering about
were reporting in a ‘that was the week that was’ style this strangely forgotten 1989 ethnic cleansing, it is
Kashmir and the Politics of Peace from 100 years ago. In post war Scotland and over
Duncan in the Great War
Professor Gerard De Groot impossible to explain the end of communism in the
Sneha Reddy the months that followed the signing of the Versailles Balkans, or the initial acceptance of ethnic cleansing
Peace Treaty in June 1919 – bringing the First World as an instrument of warfare during the first half of the
‘We lament too much over death’, wrote General Haig
The conflict in Kashmir has outlived many wars, War to its official end – what was being reported by the 1990s in the course of the wars of Yugoslav succession.
in his diary in 1917. ‘We should consider it a welcome
including the Cold War which brought down the Scottish press and what issues were of most interest
change to another room.’ Is that a comforting idea,
Soviet Union and created a new Eastern Europe. to the newspaper reading public in Scotland? In this
or a dangerous delusion for a man who controlled
While the dynamics in Kashmir hugely influenced one-week snap-shot of press headlines from titles 22 November 2019
the fate of millions? Haig had always been a very
the foreign relations of Pakistan and India, conditions produced and published in Dundee this presentation
religious man, but became even more devout after
inside the state oscillated between dormant unrest will consider what stories were being reported and ‘For God, Queen and Country: the Church of
meeting the young Scots padre George Duncan in
and active insurgency with serious intergenerational what was of interest to the general newspaper reading England and British Politics’
1916. Duncan, who would later become a professor
consequences since 1947. Rarely in contemporary public in Scotland at this time.
of Divinity at St Andrews, became Haig’s personal Professor John Anderson
history has peace been this elusive.
chaplain at General Headquarters and encouraged him
to believe that he had been chosen by God to lead This lecture will explore the changing relationship of
The first part of the lecture is about the social and
British forces to victory. Duncan provided Haig with the established church with the political order during
economic history of Jammu, Kashmir and Leh-Ladakh.
the assurance that the enormous sacrifices his battles the ‘second Elizabethan era’. Drawing heavily on Church
It also throws light on the relatively less known region
entailed would not be in vain. Yet Duncan was himself a of England archives, the church press and interviews
of Gilgit-Baltistan. The second part of the lecture
deeply sensitive man who personally agonized over the with church officials, it will suggest that establishment
engages with Kashmir’s lethal politics. It identifies the
enormous losses on the Western Front. Did he convey remains embedded in the English political order even
various components of the political problem and seeks
inappropriate biblical messages to Haig, or did Haig as religious participation declines and church leaders
to deconstruct the notion of sovereignty which has
conveniently misinterpret the meaning of his sermons? have to find different sorts of arguments to advance
long been the centrepiece of this debate. The core
Professor Gerard DeGroot, biographer of Haig and their case. Examples will be provided from the last 65
question here is whether Kashmir can be untangled
editor of Duncan’s diaries, will explore the extraordinary years to illustrate the church’s contribution to a range
from the fixation on sovereignty. It also explores an
relationship between two very different individuals of debates on subjects as diverse as the Suez crisis and
interesting moment in Kashmiri politics that the
who both had ties to St Andrews and will examine the immigration, to pay-day lenders and gay marriage. On
Scottish Referendum created in 2014.
use and abuse of religion in wartime. the way we shall find a range of characters with strong
views on how the church should, or should not, engage
More broadly, this week of the lecture series asks: what
with politics, with Harold Macmillan, the Duke of
does Kashmir tell us about the nature of protracted
Edinburgh and Margaret Thatcher amongst those with
conflict?
particularly strong views.
29 November 2019 Semester 2 7 February 2020 28 February 2020
The Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors Europe’s Far-Right: From populism to Fascism Film, Propaganda and the End of the
and the St Andrews Connection 17 January 2020
and a Conversation About the Difference British Empire
Lenia Kouneni Dr Jeffrey Murrer Tom Rice
‘Probably at no time in its history has
the popularity of the regiment been so
The Great Palace of the Byzantine Emperors was for Since the financial crash of last decade political forces In this illustrated talk, featuring rarely seen films from
many centuries the heart of the Byzantine Empire. emphatically demonstrated’: The Black Watch
variously described as illiberal, populist, and even across the globe, we examine the integral role of film in
When Constantine I moved the Roman capital to and Kitchener’s New Army, 1914-1915 fascist have gathered support, won significant electoral managing and maintaining a rapidly changing Empire.
Constantinople in 330, he planned out a palace for Dr Derek J. Patrick victories, and engaged in violence in Europe’s streets. The talk will introduce the work of the Colonial Film
himself and his heirs, located in the south-eastern But what is the difference between these political and Unit, which from its formation at the outbreak of war
corner of the peninsula, between the Hippodrome The lecture will explore the formation of the 8th, 9th social movements, and what are their commonalities? in 1939 to its disbandment on the cusp of widespread
and Hagia Sophia. It served as the main royal residence and 10th (Service) battalions of The Black Watch and This talk explores the history of Europe’s far-right independence in 1955, produced, distributed and
10 of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine emperors from consider the men who served in the New Army units 11
political movements and the contemporary challenges exhibited more than 200 educational and instructional
330 to the eleventh century, the centre of imperial of the regiment. Based on contemporary records it will they pose for democracy and the future of politics on films across the British Empire. These films, which
administration and the symbolic nerve centre of the cover the geographic spread of recruiting, the origins the continent and in Britain. ranged from short films of British life to comedies
empire. According to contemporary descriptions it was of the volunteers, and how each battalion was officered about tax collection or house building in Ghana, played
a site of wealth and marvels, but only a few remnants and led. It will also reflect on how regimental identity through a fleet of mobile cinema vans and formed a
and fragments of its foundations have survived into the helped forge these battalions into effective units, and 14 February 2020 significant part of government propaganda. The work
present day. how each performed in the early stages of the Great was taken on by local units – from Ghana to Jamaica,
War. The Book of Genesis: Sources, Influence, from Nigeria to Malaysia – providing a fresh insight into
In the 1930s, under the auspices of the Walker Trust of both the last days of the British Empire and also the
and Afterlives
the University of St Andrews, a group of archaeologists emergence and development of film across the globe.
uncovered part of a peristyle building that belonged 24 January 2020 John Gallaghger
to the Great Palace and discovered a spectacular series
of wall and floor mosaics which feature hunting and The Book of Genesis is the first book of the Hebrew
Gender Identity Variance: A Global Perspective 6 March 2020
pastoral scenes combined with figures from mythology. Bible/Old Testament and arguably one of the most
Georgia A.G. Williams influential texts for Western civilisation. In this lecture
This lecture introduces the history and architecture Evolution Before Darwin: The Transmutation of
of the palatial complex and discusses the St Andrews we will examine the origins of the Book of Genesis
This class will focus on gender identity variance from and place it within its context of near-eastern origin Species in Post-Enlightenment Edinburgh
connection referring to the people responsible for this an interdisciplinary perspective – exploring differing
discovery. narratives. After charting its origins, composition, Dr Bill Jenkins
gender systems around the world, the history of gender and canonisation as scripture, we will move on to
identity variance and the biological and psychological examining the place of the book within Late Antique Darwin is often understood to have developed his
facets of that variance. Topics also explored will include and medieval scientific understandings of the universe. theory of evolution more or less from scratch, based
6 December 2019 mental health within the gender variant population, The behemoth influence this text has exerted over only on his own observations. In fact, this is very far
discrimination and marginality pertaining to that literature will be sketched broadly before considering from being the truth. The origin and evolution of
The End of the British Raj?: the Amritsar population and practical interventions and strategies the role of the Book of Genesis today, as both literature species was a hotly debated topic in and around the
Massacre in India, 13 April 1919 that allies of a gender variant community can utilise to and scripture. From Milton’s Paradise Lost to modern- University of Edinburgh in the 1820s and 1830s at the
Dr Chandrika Kaul help safeguard and support these individuals. day Flood theme parks, this lecture hopes to convey very time when Darwin was a medical student there,
the pivotal role this biblical text has played in the long before the publication of On the Origin of Species in
100 years ago, on a bright sunny day on 13 April, development of Western culture, art, science, and faith. 1859. This lecture will introduce some of the key figures
General Dyer ordered his predominantly Indian troops 31 January 2020 who took part in this debate, how they were influenced
to fire on unarmed Indian men, women and children by the ideas of earlier European thinkers, and how they
who had gathered to hear a speech in the Jallianwallah Dr Ben McConville: Reporting America 21 February 2020 developed their own novel understandings of the living
Bagh, a walled garden, in the city of Amritsar, in Punjab, Dr Ben McConville world.
Northern India. The shooting only stopped when the
Food Security: The Opportunities and Threats
troops ran out of ammunition. Nearly 400 died and Ben was New York Correspondent for The Scotsman
thousands of others were critically injured in what and Scotland on Sunday and then Scotland Dr Kate Smith
became the largest massacre in the history of the Correspondent for Associated Press. Drawing on his
British Empire. Why did this happen and with what experiences Reporting America to Scotland and then Food security is essential to our well being and there
consequences? What are the afterlives of this event in Reporting Scotland to America, Ben outlines the are opportunities to organise and distribute food across
contemporary Britain? differences in reporting conventions and news values. the globe more effectively than ever before. Yet the
threats to food security are also ratcheting up. Think
of climate change, conflicts and land grabs by large
corporations. So what are some of the solutions? This
talk by Food Security expert Kate Smith sets out some
of the possible remedies and asks if it is time for a World
Food Council.
13 March 2020 20 March 2020 Retirement is
Controlling Firearms in Early Modern Scotland
Dr Bess Rhodes
A Life in Neurosurgery
David Mowle Opportunity
Since the 1990s the UK has had some of the strictest David Mowle is shortly to retire after an over 30-year
firearms legislation in the world. Yet in Scotland career in medicine. He has been a consultant
government concern about firearms is nothing new. neurosurgeon at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School
This lecture traces the evolution of Scottish attitudes to, Dundee for 20 years and looks back on the triumphs This programme offers the opportunity to explore a variety of interesting subjects and make new
and restrictions on, the ownership and use of firearms and tribulations both clinical and non-clinical of life as friends. This Tuesday morning class meets at 10 am. There is a tea and coffee break at 11 am and is
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It a neurosurgeon, senior medical manager, teacher and followed by a short question and answer session and discussion before finishing at 12 noon.
explores how the relatively positive attitudes of the trainer. He will also reflect on the value and strengths
1530s (when James V encouraged Scottish landowners of the National Health Service and the challenges and Tuesdays, 10.00 am to 12 noon: Byre Theatre
12 to acquire hackbuts and culverins) transitioned into a risks that it faces. 13
much more restrictive and regulated approach. Over
the course of the sixteenth century, fears about the use 9
week
Semester 1: 9 weeks beginning on 1 October 2019
No classes on 15 October and 19 November 2019
of hand-guns in assassinations, and concerns about series Semester 2: 9 weeks beginning on 21 January 2020
the damage to wildlife from gunpowder weapons,
caused Scottish authorities to introduce draconian Course fees for one semester: £50
firearms legislation. As early as the 1550s illegally using
firearms to kill deer and birds could be punishable
by death. This lecture will argue that, while much of
the early legislation surrounding firearms in Scotland
was crafted in response to the specific circumstances
of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these
initial restrictions are part of a wider journey towards
regarding lethal weapons (and especially ones capable
Semester 1 – 2019
of large-scale destruction) as the preserve of the state – 1 October 8 October 22 October 29 October 5 November
a convention which shapes British society to this day.
The Life and Times Great War Writings The Massacre at Journalism in the Walking from
of Sir John Sinclair from the Palestine Thiaroye UK Today Urbanisation to
(1754-1835) and Syrian Fronts Digitisation
1917-1923
12 November 26 November 3 December 10 December
Language, Brexit and What it How Pictures Tuberculosis:
Nationalism and Means for the UK Function as From Mummies to
Ethnic Cleansing and for the EU Memory Objects, Maggots
in 20th Century Sites of Belonging,
Central and and can Incite
Eastern Europe Violence
Semester 2 – 2020
21 January 28 January 4 February 11 February 18 February
Press, Public Travelling Intelligence in the Wild Food Gavin Hamilton:
Propaganda and Scotland Between Contemporary A Scottish Painter
the Influence Enlightenment and World and Dealer in
of the Dundee Industrialisation, Eighteenth-
Provincial Press, 1750-1850 century Italy
c.1914-1919
25 February 3 March 10 March 17 March
Carl Van Vechten, Freethinkers, The Ladies from Trekking to Everest
Langston Hughes Sceptics & Infidels Hell: The Kilted Base Camp and
and the Harlem in Nineteenth- Soldier and Things Learnt
Renaissance ‘ Century Scotland: Empire Along the way
A Crisis of Faith
Semester 1 period, city living was considered unhealthy, spiritually 3 December 2019
oppressive, and unduly rapid. Correspondingly, people
went to the countryside with a mindset that rural Social Images: How Pictures Function as
1 October 2019 22 October 2019
walking had remedial benefits, generated spiritual Memory Objects, Sites of Belonging, and can
rejuvenation, and provided an escape from rapidity. Incite Violence
The Life and Times of Sir John Sinclair The Massacre at Thiaroye Transferring these reasons to the twenty-first century Dr Jeffrey Murrer
provides insight on the importance walking has for our
(1754-1835): The Underappreciated Scottish Sarah Frank
tech-dominated present and future. By contemplating In 1986 Gerard Jan van Bladeren walked into
Enlightenment Man the ways in which an over-indulgence in digital
Adam Dunn On 1 December 1944, French colonial soldiers, many of Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum and with a knife
technology produces unhealthy, spiritually oppressed, attacked Barnett Newman’s painting “Who is Afraid of
whom were former prisoners, revolted at the Thiaroye and unduly rapid lifestyles, we find that we have many
The Scottish MP and agriculturalist Sir John Sinclair barracks, near Dakar, Senegal. This group of soldiers Red, Blue, and Yellow 3”, slashing it repeatedly. How
reasons for countryside walks today. is it that a painting can be so powerful as to inspire
is little remembered these days. There are those that had been growing more and more frustrated at their
know his Statistical Account of Scotland but associate it conditions, and general treatment since leaving such violence? This talk explores the social aspects of
14 images that create common collective imaginaries, 15
more with local history or there are those who connect France. “They had a long list of complaints including 12 November 2019
his name to agriculture and the initiation of the county payments being delayed, issues with treatment, delays which can both act to unite and to divide. Further,
surveys. However, Sinclair deserves more than this. He returning home etc. After attempts by the French to it will examine how images are reproduced in these
Language, Nationalism and Ethnic Cleansing in
was a true Enlightenment man whose interests were reimpose order, without conceding on the payment, social imaginaries creating common reference points,
20th Century Central and Eastern Europe often demanding shared emotional responses. Beyond
widespread and whose influence is underestimated the protestors took a French officer hostage. In
Tomasz Kamusella individual emotional experiences social images create
and underappreciated. This talk will explore the life, response, the French fired on their colonial soldiers,
times and influence of Sir John in Scotland and abroad, killing approximately 30 men.” The protest and violent collective identifications which may induce members
Unlike in western Europe or North America, it is not of the community to express their desire for inclusion
placing him firmly within the Enlightenment context of aftermath of what is known as the Thiaroye Massacre
the state that makes the nation in central and eastern through violent acts or the repudiation and exclusion
the eighteenth century. It will highlight his importance immediately sent shock waves throughout the French
Europe, but language. Speakers of a single language are of others. The talk will explore how such images travel
in the development of statistical and agricultural and British colonies and remains controversial in the
seen as the nation for whom a nation-state should be with communities both as visual objects and as shared
thought in Britain, America and Europe. scholarship.
built. In such a nation-state speakers of other languages emotional experiences.
are seen as ‘foreigners,’ who need to be removed for
securing the ‘purity’ (homogeneity) of the national
8 October 2019 29 October 2019
polity. Between 1912 and 1989, this widely accepted 10 December 2019
Humour, Satire and Censorship: Great War Journalism in the UK Today ideological compulsion of ethnolinguistic homogeneity
led to the expulsion of around 80 million people and Tuberculosis: From Mummies to Maggots
Writings from the Palestine and Syrian Fronts Dr Kate Smith
the extermination of over 10 million people in the Francis Entwistle
1917-1923 region with about 250 million inhabitants.
Sneha Reddy Dr Kate Smith is a Nieman Foundation of Journalism
Tuberculosis (TB), described in 1680 as “Captain of
Fellow at Harvard University and worked as a columnist
the Men of Death”, is an infection which has blighted
Soldiers in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, that and a news and features journalist. This talk looks at the 26 November 2019 humanity for millennia. From the truly mysterious cures
fought the Ottomans in Palestine and Syria during roles journalism plays in democracies. Discussing the
prescribed by the ancient Greeks, to the fear of the
the First World War, came from across the French and role of war reporters such as Ernest Hemingway, Martha Brexit and What it Means for the UK and undead in 19th century New England, the history of
British Empires in their thousands. This talk looks at the Gellhorn and, more recently, Marie Colvin, the talk then for the EU TB truly tracks our changing attitudes to medicine and
writings of some of the soldiers, from Australia, Britain examines recent political reporting in the UK. What
Erika Brady illness. Here we will follow TB and the bacterium which
and France, as a means to exploring attributes unique conclusions can be drawn about the current state of
causes it from archaeological records all the way to
to the war on the Middle East front. play in the field and craft of journalism?
This session will take a look at Brexit, from the Remain/ modern times, where TB still infects billions of humans
Leave campaign of early 2016 up to the current and causes millions of deaths each year.
In Horace Walpole’s words, ‘This world is a comedy to
situation (at the time of the session). We will look at the
those that think, a tragedy to those that feel’. While 5 November 2019
UK’s relationship with the EU over the years, and try to Some slides in this lecture may include images of
soldiers often used poetry and paintings to challenge
Walking from Urbanisation to Digitisation understand the complex issues which were reflected surgery and dissection.
official narratives, satire marked their letters and
in the referendum decision, as well as the challenges
memoirs. The everyday challenges on the warfront Jamie Hinrichs
which were exposed throughout the negotiations.
ironically created room for humour. Government
Finally, we will explore the post-Brexit landscape to see
imposed censorship added a further nuance to the Britain became ‘urban’ in 1851, with a larger percentage
what positives and negatives can be gleaned from this
writings as an obstacle to, and a fuel for, creativity. The of the population living in urban, rather than rural,
momentous event.
lecture thus investigates the impact censorship had environments for the first time in the nation’s history.
on wartime writing as well as the perspectives of the Despite the continued migration to cities, the
censor officers themselves. population continued to walk in the countryside during
leisure hours. Such walking was no longer an organic, or
This is a moment to consider what position such literary required, part of their lives, so why did they do so? This
sources have come to hold in military history, what presentation considers the reasons why people walked
they reveal, albeit selectively, and why it is, nonetheless, in rural landscapes during the first hundred years that
important to preserve them. Britain was an ‘urban’ nation (c.1850-1950). During this
Semester 2 04 February 2020 25 February 2020 10 March 2020
Intelligence in the Contemporary World “Longing to be Misunderstood”: The Ladies from Hell:
21 January 2020 John Hart Carl Van Vechten, Langston Hughes and The Kilted Soldier and Empire
the Harlem Renaissance Dr Derek J. Patrick
Press, Public Propaganda and the Influence of This talk explores the role of intelligence in international Dr Rafael Torrubia
the Dundee Provincial Press, c.1914-1919 politics and government decision making in the The kilted Scottish soldier is an iconic figure that has
Dr William Kenefick 21st century world. Using British, US and worldwide Few moments in American history are as complex become synonymous with Empire and Britain’s military
examples, we will look at the establishment and and thrilling as the Harlem Renaissance, an artistic, achievement. This session will consider Scottish soldiers’
According to Catriona Macdonald Scottish development of intelligence agencies and critically intellectual and cultural explosion that filled Harlem, role in the British imperial project, focusing on their
newspapers exerted a phenomenal influence ‘over the analyse the contemporary uses of intelligence. This talk New York in the 1920s. contribution to campaigns in Egypt and the Sudan,
framing and interpretation of war news’ and – with will also discuss future trends in intelligence capabilities India, South Africa and the First World War. Using
circulation growing significantly over the course of and their effect on international relations, government Exploring the Renaissance through the lens of its most contemporary reports and considering the many visual
16 the war – it was the weekly titles ‘rather than the more policies and domestic law. The role of intelligence will celebrated photographer, Carl Van Vechten, and the representations of the Scottish soldier (particularly 17
famous dailies’ that better reflected and informed also be contextualised by discussion of key concepts writing of one of its most passionate voices, the poet portraits, statues and memorials), it will focus on how
public opinion over these years. These claims can be and debates in intelligence and also by looking at Langston Hughes, this talk will use the correspondence the Scottish soldier is characterised in popular culture
tested through a brief examination of the Dundee intelligence successes and failures. between these two unconventional friends to bring to and whether this iconic figure was more image than
press and a more focused exploration of the popular life one of the most vibrant and controversial periods in reality.
weekly the Dundee ‘People’s Journal’. We will assess American history, ranging through the nightspots, the
the influence and impact of readers’ letters, local 11 February 2020 music, the glamour, the politics and the drama of 1920s
poetry, cartoons and caricatures, anti-alien and anti- New York. 17 March 2020
German sentiment, alongside advertisement and Wild Food
editorial campaigns exploiting popular iconic imagery Tony Wilson Using exquisite archival photos, the talk will examine Classrooms in the Clouds: Trekking to Everest
and the use of local dialect, to generate and maintain Van Vechten’s contested relationship with Harlem and
support for the war and patriotic home front activity Until relatively recently people used the natural food
Base Camp and Things Learnt Along the way
its people, from Zora Neale Hurston to Harry Belafonte.
during and immediately after the ending of the Great sources found around us to provide a substantial part Ruth Boreham
An avid aficionado of black American culture, Van
War, 1914-1919. of our diet. The growth of agriculture, global supply Vechten’s work gave the Harlem Renaissance its shape,
links and supermarkets has led to a huge decrease in Between 20 February and 7 March 2020 I will be
but viewed its participants through a white lens.
the need for this knowledge. Over the last decade or so trekking to Everest Base Camp. Nepal is a country that
The talk will explore the tensions and controversies
28 January 220 it has once again come to fore as television chefs and I love and have visited twice before – once before the
Van Vechten produced, asking why the city’s most
foragers have become popular. This talk will explore earthquake and once afterwards. This talk, which takes
controversial celebrity had such a profound “longing to
Travelling Scotland Between Enlightenment what is available to us locally, what our ancestors ate be misunderstood.”
place 10 days after I return from this trip, will show you
and Industrialisation, 1750-1850 and what might kill us. Take a culinary journey from the Nepal that I love, how the Nepalese people are
Sophie Dunn coast to forest and find out what tasty treats are to be coping with the devastation and loss that occurred
found in our countryside. after the earthquake struck on 25 April 2015, and the
3 March 2020
charity that I volunteer for, who do everything they can
Scotland has long been a fascinating destination for
Freethinkers, Sceptics & Infidels in to ensure that as many children as possible in the Solo-
travellers from near and far. Some came in search
18 February 2020 Khumba region are able to get an education.
for Ossian, others thought the wilderness of the Nineteenth-Century Scotland: A Crisis of Faith
Highlands the last European frontier. This lecture Dr Felicity Loughlin
will trace travel in Scotland between 1750 and 1850, Gavin Hamilton: A Scottish Painter and Dealer
before commercialised tourism. It will introduce a in Eighteenth-century Italy Religion was a central feature of nineteenth-century
wide range of travellers and their reasons for exploring Lenia Kouneni Scottish life. Yet this period also witnessed a sharp
Scotland, ranging from philosophy and poetry to increase in the number of individuals abandoning
engineering and natural sciences. Their observations Gavin Hamilton was one of the most active art dealers, Christianity, the dominant religion of the day, in favour
were as diverse as their destinations: from Edinburgh archaeologists and painters in eighteenth-century of scepticism, deism or atheism. This talk will explore
and Fife to the Highlands and Islands. Many of these Rome. He was born in North Lanarkshire in 1723 and after this dramatic transformation of the Scottish religious
travellers published travel writings which will be studying at Glasgow University, he decided to travel to landscape. It will consider the ideas and activities of
the basis for our discovery of Scotland through the Rome and become an apprentice to a painter. He spent the freethinking societies of Edinburgh and Glasgow,
travellers’ eyes. most of his life and career working in Rome, making a which attracted large numbers of the lower classes, and
name mainly as an archaeologist and dealer. He created the heated religious debates over geology, science and
a vast network of patrons and was a friend and guide to comparative religion that animated Scotland’s elite. In
many visiting artists and Grand Tour aristocrats. He also doing so, it will address four central questions: What led
became a leading member of the Neoclassical circle of individuals to abandon Christianity? How widespread
Winckelmann and Mengs. As an artist he concentrated was this phenomenon? How did Scottish legal
on history paintings and his huge neoclassical canvases authorities and Christian communities respond? And
exploring Homeric themes were of fundamental what was the long-term legacy of these controversies
important to the development of European art. for Scottish religious life?
This talk will explore Gavin Hamilton’s art and career and
examine what made him an arbiter of neoclassical taste.Music Appreciation Health, Wellbeing
Listening to Music
and Hobbies
Gillian Craig
This long-standing and ever-popular course aims to Pilates for Seniors Tuesdays, 9.00 am -10.00 am
teach you how to listen to music (and not just hear Suzy Cheong Venue: TBC
it) by explaining what to listen for. University Music
Consultant, Gillian Craig, takes you through recorded We all hope to maintain quality of life as we grow older, Semester 1: 12 classes
examples, including detailed study of major works and it is important that we can perform our daily tasks, beginning on Tuesday 1 October 2019
of the classical repertoire, as well as more unusual enjoy our recreational activities and care for ourselves. If Semester 2: 12 classes
18 examples for short study. Sessions may also include you have some physical limitations, you would want to beginning on Tuesday 7 January 2020 19
live performances from guest musicians. Chosen works halt or maybe even improve your condition. We do not Summer: 10 classes
include those which can be heard live in St Andrews, have to accept frailty as we age! beginning on Tuesday 21 April 2020
particularly on the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s
programmes. No specialist musical knowledge required; Pilates is a unique approach to exercise that develops OR
you do not need to be able to read musical notation... body awareness, improving and changing the body’s
just have a love of listening to classical music. postural and alignment habits whilst increasing Fridays, 9.00am-10.00am
flexibility and ease of movement. It is this holistic Venue: TBC
Fridays, 10.00am-12noon approach that sets the Method apart from many other
Venue: First 4 weeks, Conference Room, forms of exercise. Indeed, osteopaths, physiotherapists Semester 1: 12 classes
Younger Hall, North St (Further 4 weeks TBC) and general practitioners are now recommending beginning on Friday 4 October 2019
Semester 2: TBC Pilates as one of the safest and beneficial forms of Semester 2: 12 classes
exercise today. beginning on Friday 10 January 2020
Semester 1: 8 week course Summer: 10 classes
beginning on Friday 4 October 2019 With the experience of teaching Pilates with the Open beginning on Friday 24 April 2020
Association over the past 6 years, I feel it is important
Semester 2: 8 week course to extend the number of classes per semester. This will Course fees for Semester 1 and 2:
beginning on Friday 24 January 2020 enable each student to maximise their potential within Standard £102, Concessions £96
each class over the year. Summer: Standard £85, Concessions £80
Course fees for one semester:
Standard £65, Concessions £60 Please bring your own mat and small towel.Sun, Trellises and Minerals Wines of the Mediterranean The Human Environment Birds in Fife
– The Craft of Viticulture Daniel Farrell Tony Wilson Tony Wilson
Daniel Farrell
This tasting class will look in detail at the wines (still, For the last 8,000 years people have influenced, Fife is blessed with an abundance of different habitats
This tasting class is intended for anyone who wants to sparkling, fortified) of the countries that border the adapted and created habitats to suit their needs. for birds. The relatively small area around St Andrews
improve their knowledge of how grapes are grown and Mediterranean Sea. We will learn about the history of This has influenced the wildlife that has shared our has coast, woodlands, inland waters, estuaries and
prepared for fermentation. Our aim is to learn about Mediterranean vineyards and the grape varieties that landscape with us. It a series of walks we will explore farmland; each with its own specialist bird species. This
viticultural methods and techniques that can help have been successfully exported. We will learn about the local area and look at how our activities have series of walks will look at the diversity of our feathered
us to identify and appreciate qualitative differences international and national wine-making techniques and created opportunities for some wildlife and problems friends, how they are adapted to their habitats and
in wines. We will begin with basic knowledge about discuss when and why these differ. In our comparisons for others. From the urban landscape of St Andrews to where the best places to see them locally are.
wine production before moving on to discuss in some we will learn how wine-making practices change the the forests of Tentsmuir we will see how human activity
detail the craft of viticulture from vine growing to character of the wine that is produced. We will taste has modified Fife and how our neighbours have taken 18 May Introductory talk, St Katharine’s
grape harvesting. We will study all significant aspects wines from many of the major Mediterranean wine advantage of the changes. West, 16 The Scores
20 of vineyard management including the regulatory regions using a systematic approach to tasting. We will 25 May Ladebraes Walk, St Andrews 21
frameworks that might govern varietal selection. We also read a variety of wine reviews and compare wine 12 August Introductory talk, St Katharine’s 1 June Morton Lochs
will learn about rootstocks, soil, climate, irrigation, menus. Throughout the semester we will look at wine West, 16 The Scores 8 June Melville Woods
trellising, ripening, disease, botrytis, and general canopy regulation and improve our understanding of the wine 19 August Craigtoun Park car park 15 June Eden Estuary
management. We will discover what science has proven industry. This class should be of interest to those who 26 August West Sands, St Andrews 22 June Fife Ness
to work well and where experimentation is still ongoing. want to expand their knowledge about wine in general 2 September Tentsmuir Forest
We will taste wines from many of the major world wine and wish to do so in a lively environment. There will 9 September Guardbridge hide The order of the walks may change due to the tide times
regions using a systematic approach to tasting. Most be opportunities for blind tasting on most evenings as 16 September Balgove Course, St Andrews being unavailable at time of going to press.
nights will include a blind tasting as a review of the we build on our knowledge during the semester. We
previous week. We will taste at least 30 wines including will taste at least 30 wines. Glasses will be provided. The order of the walks may change due to the tide times Mondays, 5.30pm-7.30pm
still, sparkling and fortified. Glasses will be provided. Participants take it in turn to provide cheeses and being unavailable at time of going to press. Venue: As above
Participants take it in turn to provide cheeses and biscuits for the classes. At the end of the eight weeks
biscuits for the classes. At the end of the eight weeks of teaching we will organise a dinner at the University Mondays, 5.30pm-7.30pm Semester 2: 6 week course
we will organise a dinner at the University where we will where we will match wines with foods. Venue: As above beginning on Monday 18 May 2020
match wines with foods.
Thursdays, 6.15pm-8.15pm Semester 1: 6 week course Course fees: Standard £55, Concessions £50
Thursdays, 6.15pm-8.15pm Venue: Old Burgh School, Abbey Walk beginning on Monday 12 August 2019
Venue: Old Burgh School, Abbey Walk
Semester 2: 8 week course Course fees: Standard £55, Concessions £50
Semester 1: 8 week course beginning on Thursday 23 January 2020
beginning on Thursday 17 October 2019
Course fees for one semester:
Course fees for one semester: Standard £95, Concessions £90
Standard £95, Concessions £90
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