Seminars are normally held on Tuesday afternoons. If you are interested in offering a paper, please contact the Centre Director, Karen Salt.
Archived Seminars
PROGRAMME FOR 2010-11
- 5 October 2010, 4.15pm: Dr Erica Wald, London School of Economics: 'Forging a New Indian materia medica: Professional Societies and the Formalisation of European Medical Practice, 1822-1854'. Venue: MacRobert 250.
- 8 November 2010 (NB: MONDAY), 4.15pm. Dr John Morrison, University of Aberdeen: 'Skeumorphic Harvesters. Images of Rural Labour in the Mechanical Age'. Venue: MacRobert 314
- Monday 13 December 2010, 4.15pm. Nick Fisher, University of Aberdeen: ‘The Cultural History MA at the University of Aberdeen, 1986-2011: A Personal Reflection’, followed by response from Peter McCaffery and Cultural History Christmas Party. Venue: Humanity Manse Seminar Room.
At this event Peter McCaffery was presented with a Festschrift, Explorations in Cultural History: Essays for Peter Gabriel McCaffery, ed. David F. Smith and Hushang Philsooph. For more information on this book see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ch/cultural-history-studies.shtml
2011
- Tuesday 8 March 2011, 4.15pm. David Watts, University of Aberdeen: ‘Developments in Visual Marketing Technology: British Railway Advertising Posters, ca. 1900-1939’. Venue: KCF22.
- Tuesday 22 March 2011, 4.15pm. Helen Lynch, University of Aberdeen: ‘Oratory and the Politics of Public Speech: Milton and Civil War Polemic’. Venue: KCF22.
- Tuesday 26 April 2011, 4.15pm. Aileen Fyfe, University of St Andrews: ‘Natural History and the Victorian Tourist’. Venue: Zoology ZB18 (in association with Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine).
- Monday 30 May 2011, 4.15pm. Jennifer Downes, University of Aberdeen: ‘Printing the Moon: Using Telescopes to Map the Lunar Surface in Johannes Hevelius’s Selenographia (1647)’. Venue: Taylor A37 (in association with Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine).
- Friday 20 May 2011, 5pm. Robert J. Richards, University of Chicago: ‘Moral Judgment of Historical Figures: The Role of Darwin’s Theory in Nazi Biology’. Venue: St Mary’s G15.
- Saturday 28 May 2011, 9am to 3pm. Workshop on ‘Mediaeval Irish Sagas and the Classical Tradition’, organized by Ralph O’Connor and co-hosted with the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (for more information see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/events/medirishsagas.shtml). Venue: Humanity Manse.
Speakers and respondents: Abigail Burnyeat (Edinburgh), Michael Clarke (Galway), Rob Crampton (Cambridge), Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Cambridge), Ralph O’Connor (Aberdeen), Brent Miles (Cork), Geraldine Parsons (Glasgow).
- Tuesday 22 November 2011, 5.15pm. Elizabeth Macknight, University of Aberdeen: 'Catholic Parenting and Education in France, 1850-1905'. Venue: MacRobert 314.
- Tuesday 13 December 2011, 5.15pm. CASS Undergraduates and Postgraduates, University of Aberdeen: 'Research Presentations'. Venue: MacRobert 314.
