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ALT A group of people, viewed from behind, sitting in rows, with two people at a table at the front, one delivering a conference paper. A large screen behind the speaker includes a picture and the text 'The limits of Liberty in La Rochelle'. Part of the Society for Early Modern French Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow in July 2026.
ALT A group of people, sitting in rows, talking to one another. Part of the Society for Early Modern French Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow in July 2026.
ALT A group of people, standing, holding teas and coffees, talking to one another. Part of the Society for Early Modern French Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow in July 2026.
ALT A group of people, viewed from behind, sitting in rows, with two people at a table at the front, one delivering a conference paper. A large screen behind the speaker includes a picture and the text ‘What did Liberté mean in Revolutionary Saint-Dominigue?’. Part of the Society for Early Modern French Studies Conference at the University of Glasgow in July 2026.
ALT Operation Crossroads Baker (wide) nuclear weapons test, 25 July 1946, Public Domain. From the US Department of Defense. Black and white photograph. Historical wide shot. A hollow column of water erupts from a lagoon, surrounded by a fast-moving, hemispheric white condensation cloud (Wilson cloud effect) hovering above the shockwave-disturbed water surface, with target warships faintly visible near the base. In the foreground, a beach and trees, part of the island where the camera is located.
ALT A photo of people from behind or side-on, inside the Advanced Research Centre (ARC), with a glass screen wall in the background, listening to Dr Tim Peacock, as Director of UofGGamesLab, conducting a tour of the ARC.
ALT A group of people inside the ARC-XR Extended Reality Suite, standing with their backs to the camera, listening to XR Lab Manager Dr Alan Matthews discussing about the research in the Suite. The room itself has open spaces with green screen curtains and markings on the wall and floors to support virtual reality experiments.
ALT A group of people sitting around different tables in a room, discussing. There are maps and flags on the tables and on a screen on the wall, part of a Nuclear Diplomacy Serious Game.
ALT A group of people seen from behind or the side, standing in a room, with a digital screen at the front displaying a slide with the University of Glasgow and text on it. At the front, two people - Madeleine Johnston and Jacob Harber, researchers at UofGGamesLab, are discussing the work of University of Glasgow's Games and Gaming Lab.
ALT Logo including text of the organisation titles for the Imperial War Museums (IWM), University of Glasgow, and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
ALT Profile image for Tim Peacock
ALT A flyer advertising the event described in the post, HOPE AGE, with the added detail of it being in Salle 2 of Geneva CICG. The image on the right is of a dove with a black and white chess board/checkerboard pattern on it and clutching a King chess piece in its beak, symbolising the combination of strategy and Serious Gaming with humanitarian operations. There is also a small insert image of Dr Tim Peacock.
ALT Lego Santa, elves and robot rover, standing in front of a Lego house, surrounded by snow.
ALT Banner reading "Rising Star - Celebrating Archivements in Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Award Winner" #UofGPeopleExcellence
ALT "ABBA in AVRO's TopPop (Dutch television show) in 1974" "ABBA in 1974; from left: Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog, and Björn Ulvaeus" by AVRO - FTA001019454_012 from Beeld & Geluid under Creative Commons License CC BY-SA 3.0 NL. Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABBA#/media/File:ABBA_-_TopPop_1974_5.png and https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en
ALT Prospective students and families around the Open Day stall for the History Subject at Glasgow University.
ALT A (friendly) T-Rex dinosaur 'speaking' with a socially-intelligent AI robot, appearing as a digitally-formed human face and robotic head/neck sitting on a table.