2 October: Campbell Macknight (Professor Emeritus, University of Tasmania and Visiting Fellow, Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University) ‘An equatorial Scotland? Rambles in South Sulawesi's past'
9 October: Lorraine Macknight, 'Beyond their native soil: Catherine Winkworth's hymns in Australia' Cultural History Seminar (F61, Edward Wright Building)
11 October: NB THURSDAY: extra seminar: Anne Eriksen, University of Oslo, ‘On whales, potholes and antiquarians’ (Board Room, Powis Gate)
16 October: Dee Hoole (PhD student, history, University of Aberdeen): ‘Stanley Hall : A place to live and let die?’ MacRobert Building MR 903
23 October: Sandra Cardarelli (PhD student, history of art, University of Aberdeen): ‘The Opera of S. Maria of Grosseto: How Religious and Civic Patronage Shaped the History of a Cathedral’. MacRobert Building MR 310
30 October: Mario Biagioli (Professor of Modern Thought, History of Science and Law, University of Aberdeen): ‘To witness or not to witness: Kepler and Galileo on the use of testimony’ MacRobert Building MR 310
6 November: Roland Robertson (Professor of Sociology and Global Society, School of Social Sciences, University of Aberdeen): ‘The Problematic Status of the Concept of Secularization in Cultural History’ Taylor C16. Chair Peter McCaffery
13 November: Frances Robertson (Lecturer, Department of Historical & Critical Studies, Glasgow School of Art): ‘Art or Industry? The development of technical drawing in early 19th-century Britain’ Taylor C16. Chair: Ben Marsden
20 November: Paul Tierney (PhD student, School of Education, University of Aberdeen): 'Three Recent Compositions: comparisons with the Sequenzas of Luciano Berio (1925-2003)' Taylor C16 Chair: Pete Stollery
27 November: Ralph O'Connor, 'Fossils and the Persistence of Wonder in Nineteenth-Century Britain' Chair: Ben Marsden.
4 December: Oonagh Walsh (Senior Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen):
'Cure or custody?: the nineteenth-century asylum dilemma'
Taylor C16. Chair: Dee Hoole. PLEASE ALSO NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR WILL START AT 4.00 PM
11 December: Ingeborg P. Bodzioch (University of Aberdeen) ‘The Gift of Presence’ Taylor C16. Chair: Nikolay Lubecker (followed by a party) For further details of Ingeborg P. Bodzioch, see http://www.ingeborgbodzioch.co.uk/index.htm
Second Half Session
Thursday 24 January - JOINT SEMINAR WITH BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES -
MR252:
: Abigail Woods (Lecturer in History of Medicine, Imperial College, London) ' "A source of danger to the stock of this country": The Pirbright laboratory and the history of foot and mouth disease research in Britain'. Chair: Norval Strachan
29 January - KCG5: David J. Smith (Senior Lecturer in Music, Aberdeen University) 'Keyboard Music in Seventeenth-Century Scotland: Genre, Gender and Context' Chair: Karin Friedrich
5 February - St Mary's B27: James Leach (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Aberdeen University) 'Freedom Imagined: Ethics and Aesthetics in Open Source Software Design' Chair: Mario Biagioli
12 February - JOINT SEMINAR WITH CENTRE FOR EARLY MODERN STUDIES: St Mary's B27: Anders Ingram, University of Durham, 'Readers and Responses to George Sandy's 'Relation of a Journey begun anno dominus 1610': travel and literature in the seventeenth century' Chair: Andrew Gordon
19 February - KCG5(Please note change of venue from that previously advertised): Andrew Moskowitz (Senior Lecturer, Department of Mental Health, University of Aberdeen)
'Carl Jung and the history of the concept of schizophrenia: Cultural and conceptual associations and dissociations' Chair: Robert Segal
26 February - MR251: Marius Kwint, University of Oxford: 'Horses and the Art and Science of the Circus in England, c. 1770-1860' Chair: Rhoda Wilkie
4 March - Old Senate Room (Note change of venue): Alex Bamji, University of Glasgow: 'Towards a cultural history of death in early modern Venice' Chair: William Naphy
11 March - MR251 (Note change of venue): Duncan Wilson, University of Manchester,
'Driven to Destruction: Animal Suicide and the Human Condition in c19 Britain' Chair:
Richie Nimmo
18 March - MR251 (Note change of venue): Discussion of Anna Green, Cultural History (Theory and History) Palgrave, 2007 See: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=265351 (available from Amazon £14.99) NB 5 copies currently on order for QML. Introduced by: Ben Marsden.
15 April, MR303:
Catherine Ng, School of Law, University of Aberdeen:
'Some Cultural Narrative Themes and Variations in the Common Law' Chair: Alison Brown
22 April - MR909 (Note change of venue):: David Dumville,University of Aberdeen,
'Revolution before revolution? Reformation before the Reformation? A reconsideration of mediaeval reform from an Anglo-Saxon standpoint'
29 April - MR303: Fiona-Jane Brown, University of Aberdeen, 'Master, the Tempest is Raging: Faith, Fear and Folk Narrative in Scottish Fishing Communities' Chair: Ian Russell
MONDAY 5 MAY: Macrobert MR 268, 1 - 3 pm (EXTRA SEMINAR, JOINT WITH SOCIOLOGY): Dean MacCannel, University of California, Davis, 'An Ethics of the Tourist Imaginary' For details of Dean MacCannel, click here. For the rest of the Sociology seminar series click here
6 May - MR303: Patrícia Soley-Beltran, University Ramon Llull, Spain: 'High Exposure. A Cultural History of Fashion Models'
Patricia is graduate from Aberdeen University's Cultural History programme, and futher details of her biography and activities may be found at www.patriciasoley.net
13 May
- MR303: Francisca Sanchez Ortiz, University of Aberdeen, POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT SESSION
20 May - MR303:4.00 pm Anna Green, University of Exeter,
'Can memory be collective?'
27 May - MR302: 3.30 pm: Helen Blackman, University of Exeter,
'Between zoology and medical education: The Cambridge School of Animal Morphology, 1875-1910
' For an abstract click here.
