Byre World
Byre World is an annual series of talks, workshops, and performances bringing the School of Modern Languages' global cultural studies research to the local community.
Running since 2015 in collaboration with the Byre Theatre in St Andrews, all Byre World events are open to all members of the University and the general public.
Events range from curated film screenings to poetry readings, from debates and interviews, to interactive arts-based activities and performances. Most events are delivered in collaboration with creative practitioners or other partners.
Byre World 2026-27
Byre World events this academic year.
Learn about the artistic expression and linguistic rituals of Catalan, Basque, and Galician and their complex relationships to politics, society, and identity.
In the space between history and fiction archival research blends with creative writing to access the voices of women previously consigned to history's margins.
Learn how literary translation allows readers to see the world in terms of non-hierarchical relations between the reader’s ‘here’ and the text's ‘there’.