The Alexander Souter Colloquium and Lecture

University of Aberdeen, 19 April, 2006

COLLOQUIUM (SEMINAR ROOM, HUMANITY MANSE, COLLEGE BOUNDS)

10.00  'Alexander Souter, life and achievement:  an introduction'
       David Dumville (Aberdeen)

10.30  'Humanity in Scotland'
  Jane Stevenson  (Aberdeen)

11.00  'The social and intellectual culture of the University of Aberdeen, 1897-1937'
       Jennifer Carter (Aberdeen)

11.30  'Life in Humanity Manse and Old Aberdeen, 1938-50'
       Peter Noble (Reading)

12.15  Lunch in Zeste Restaurant

2.30   'Souter and textual criticism'

Giovanni Orlandi (Milano)

3.00   'Pelagius's nationality'

Simon Young (Firenze)

3.30   'Pelagius and the Celtic world:  some questions'

David Dumville (Aberdeen)

4.00   End of colloquium

LECTURE  (New King's 10)

5.00   Introduction by the Principal, Professor C. Duncan Rice
The Inaugural Alexander Souter Memorial Lecture on Late Antiquity
by Professor Winrich Loehr (Hamburg)

'Pelagius – portrait of a Christian teacher in late Antiquity'

All welcome!

6.00   Drinks-reception to which all attending the lecture are invited