Public events

A Sense of Place

Explore a small exhibition of artworks in the Iris Murdoch Building, organised by the Art Collection and chosen from the University’s permanent collection.

University of Stirling Parkrun

A free, fun, and friendly weekly 5k community event. Walk, jog, run, volunteer or spectate – it's up to you! Every Saturday at 9:30am.

Part of the Be Connected series.

Memoria

Developed over the course of Audrey Grant's year-long residency, Memoria explores the visible and invisible traces left on the historic Airthrey Estate landscape.

The Divine Sky - Sekai Machache

Sekai Machache (she/they) is a Zimbabwean-Scottish visual artist and curator based in Glasgow. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self and she is interested in the relationship between spirituality, imagination and the role of the artist in disseminating symbolic imagery to provide a space for healing.

Remembering Together: Collective Creative Responses to the Pandemic

This exhibition explores how two separate projects chose to make sense of the pandemic, reflecting on how we as a society remember and honour traumatic times.

Margaret Mitchell: Six Works

This series of six works, acquired by the University’s Art Collection in 2023, focus on Margaret Mitchell's nephew Steven, offering an insight into his life’s trajectory.

Seven Women: Ken Currie

In 2023 the University Art Collection was delighted to be gifted seven works by renowned artist Ken Currie and we are pleased to display Seven Women together in this exhibition.

This Fragile Earth: Pioneer Scottish Artists who anticipated the climate crisis

This exhibition focusses on a group of pioneering Scottish artists who as early as the 1970s and 1980s were responding to the threat of climate change.

Centre of Environment, Heritage and Policy Seminar series

Join our regular seminar series and learn about some of the biggest and latest ideas in the area of Environment, Heritage and Policy.

Curator’s Tour: University of Stirling Collections

Join the Art Collection for a tour and explore the Human Experience exhibition series.

Education, the Arts and Climate Change

This in-person event, hosted by the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making and Stirling University’s Art Collection, will explore the challenges and affordances of education that respond to the affective dimensions of living on a Fragile Earth.

Challenges and the Future of Minority and Indigenous Rights Protection Conference

This conference will reflect on the rights of indigenous peoples and ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, and the need to fundamentally rethink and recommit to their protection.