Event Archive

2023

May

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  CHPSTM on-line Research Seminar: Silvia Casini (University of Aberdeen)

  10 May 2023, 11:00 - 12:00

  In search of a format: The strange case of the International Festival of Scientific-Didactic Film 1956-1975

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  The Art History Research Seminar

  03 May 2023, 17:15 - 18:30

  Reimagining the 'Thin Ideal': An Alternative Materiality of the Fashionable Silhouette c.1880-1930: Abigail Jubb (University of York)

• Nation-building and Society in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century East Central Europe

  03 May 2023, 13:30 - 17:30

    Nation-building and Society in Nineteenth - and Twentieth-century East Central Europe, Wednesday 3 May 2023, 13:30–17:30 New Kings 14 and Online, Speakers: Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek (Cracow), Dr Natalia Gromakova, Dr Larysa Buryak (both Aberdeen) and Dr Nataliya Kibita (Glasgow).For online link please contact k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk

• Radical Women Seminar

  02 May 2023, 14:00 - 15:30

  Using the occasion of our last staff exchange under the Erasmus scheme in History, we welcome Dr Wiktoria Kudela-Świątek from the Pedagogical University in Cracow.  Dr Natasha Danilova, Dr Elizabeth Anderson and Dr Alessandra Cecolin (chairing) will contribute to what will be an interdisciplinary event. 

April

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  CHPSTM on-line Research Seminar: Donald Gray (University of Aberdeen)

  26 April 2023, 11:00 - 12:00

  J W Goethe - The Scientist

March

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  CHPSTM on-line Research Seminar: Rachel Dishington (University of Nottingham)

  29 March 2023, 11:00 - 12:00

  'In the office... in the field... and at College': The Geographies of Engineering Training in Nineteenth Century Scotland

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  The Geddes-Harrower Lectures 2023 - Professor Milette Gaifman (Yale University)

  15 - 22 March 2023

  We are delighted to welcome Professor Milette Gaifman (Yale University) to Aberdeen, to deliver the Geddes-Harrower-Lectures 2023. Over four free, public lectures, taking place on the University’s Old Aberdeen campus, Professor Gaifman will speak about:   Classification and the History of Greek Art and Architecture How do classifications inform our understanding of artworks...

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  The Art History Research Seminar

  08 March 2023, 17:15 - 18:45

  David Hockney and the Early 60s Rediscovery of Representation: Dr Sam Rose (St Andrews)

• Mona Simion, Glasgow

  01 March 2023

  In person.   For more information, please contact Gerry Hough (g.hough@abdn.ac.uk)

February

• Below the Line: Forgotten Feminist Film Practices - En Kongelig Affære (A Royal Affair) (2012, Denmark, Manon Rasmussen)

  23 February 2023, 18:00 - 20:00

  From 23 February to 30 March, join CineClub in New Kings NK1, in a student-led film festival exploring film through a feminist lens. It has three themes focusing on overlooked aspects: Costume design by women in period dramas; francophone contemporary cinema by women; and experimental women's filmmaking. For more information,...