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Previous Events We are happy to announce the programme of the CEMS Research Seminar for this half session.
The seminar is open to staff and research students in all departments.
Wednesday 23rd February (week 4)
'The Conspiratorial World of John Toland'
Michael Brown (History)
1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
Wednesday 2nd March (week 5)
'Analysing Early Modern English Language in the 1641 Depositions'
Barbara Fennell (Linguistics)
1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
Wednesday 23rd March (week 8)
'On Unions'
Robert Frost (History)
1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
Wednesday 4th May (week 11)
‘Notions of Citizenship and the Rule of Law in East Central Europe: the cases of Poland-Lithuania and Brandenburg-Prussia’
Karin Friedrich (History)
1 pm, MacRobert Room 310.
This seminar is held jointly with The Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and the Rule of Law.
Wednesday 11th May (week 12)
'An early English manuscript translation of Alciato's emblems'
Alison Saunders (French)
1 pm, MacRobert Room 304
Tuesday 8 March 2011 - English Research Seminar
'What Southey Did Not Write Next', with guest speaker Lynda Pratt, University of Nottingham
3pm in Macrobert MR252
All welcome. For further information please contact: David Duff, d.a.s.duff@abdn.ac.uk
'Cosmopolitanism in the Landscape of Modernity' with guest speaker Galin Tihanov, University of Manchester
5.15pm, Venue Humanities Manse HMG1
For further information please contact: David Duff, d.a.s.duff@abdn.ac.uk
This event is hosted by the Edinburgh University SWINC initiative (Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century) and is co-hosted by SWINC and the Walter Scott Research Centre.
This event will take place at the University of Aberdeen. Location TBC.
Places at this event are limited. Please contact a.lumsden@abdn.ac.uk
'Byron's Manuscripts', with guest speaker Jane Stabler, University of St Andrews
3pm in Macrobert MR252
All welcome. For further information please contact: David Duff, d.a.s.duff@abdn.ac.uk
A one-day seminar celebrating Jane Austen’s entry into print, with guest speakers:
Jan Todd (University of Aberdeen and Cambridge) will be chairing this event.
This event will take place at the Linklater Rooms, King’s College, from 11am to 5pm.
The registration fee of £25 (£10 for students) covers coffee and a sandwich lunch. To reserve a place, pleased contact Emma Fowlie (e.fowlie@abdn.ac.uk) by 1st March 2011.
This is the second of three textual editing workshops funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland as part of a preliminary investigation into a critical edition of Walter Scott’s poetry. These events are held in conjunction with the Robert Burns edition, located at Glasgow University and the Robert Louis Stevenson edition, located at The University of Edinburgh. This workshop will focus on the theme of electronic editing tools and web-sites to accompany editions.
This event will be held at the University of Edinburgh. Places are free but limited. For more information contact a.lumsden@abdn.ac.uk
Linguistics - Dr Robert Millar
The 43rd BAAL Annual Conference, Applied Linguistics: Global and Local, will be held at the University of Aberdeen from the 9th-11th September.
Plenary Speakers include:
Bonny Norton (University of British Columbia)
Tove Skuttnabb-Kangas (University of Roskilde)
William McLeod (University of Edinburgh)
Alaistair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney)
Programme TBC
For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/baal2010/
All sessions will take place 1 pm on Thursdays, Taylor Building B02. For further information contact: nerea.arruti@abdn.ac.uk
All welcome
All sessions will be held on Thursdays at 2 pm in Committee Room 2, except the Welcoming Party and Visiting Lecture which will be same location but on Friday 3 pm:
September 16th Reading group led by Greg Herman, Jorge Semprun, "The Cattle Truck"
October 1st Welcoming reception for new postgraduate students
October 7th Work-in- progress, Nerea Arruti "1968 as Event in Spanish Life-writing: a Journey from San Sebastian to Paris via Barcelona"
October 22nd Visiting Lecture, Bart Moore-Gilbert (Professor of Postcolonial Studies and English, Goldsmiths London), "On the Politics of Postcolonial Life-writing"
November 11th Reading group led by Greg Herman Jorge Semprun, "The Cattle Truck"
November 25th Michael Syrotinski, "The Place of the Literary in Contemporary African Literature"
December 9th Work-in-progress Chris Heppell, "On Halldor Laxness's 'The Atom Station'"
Gaelic and Celtic Studies - Rob Dunbar
The Rannsachadh Na Gaidhlig Conference 2010 will be held at King’s College from 23rd-26th August.
Plenary Speakers include:
Professor Thomas Clancy, University of Glasgow
Dr Sheila Kidd, University of Glasgow
Michael Ó Mainnin
Virginia Blankenhorn
For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/rng2010
Centre for Scandinavian Studies - Dr. Tarrin Wills
The Centre for Scandinavian Studies will be hosting the 6th Skaldic Project Symposium in NK1 on Monday 28th June.
CMT – Dr Matthew Wickman
Decades-long trends toward interdisciplinarity have begun pushing literary scholarship toward the brave new world of mathematics. Of course, some of the field’s most innovative and influential theorists might argue that literature and mathematics have long born a dynamic relationship to one another. This conference will explore current pathways connecting these disciplines while also inquiring into the implications of interdisciplinary research for the future of literary studies.
For further information please go to: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/modernthought/
This event will be held in the Linklater Rooms.
English – Dr Ali Lumsden
An exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Walter Scott’s The Lady of the Lake will be held from 8 May until 4 June.
The exhibition, called ‘The Lady of the Lake: Imaging the Highlands’, has been curated by the Walter Scott Research Centre and Special Libraries and Archives.
The Exhibition will be held at the Old Town House
Centre for Modern Thought/Film & Visual Culture – Dr Nerea Arruti
Dr Geoffrey Kantaris will deliver a lecture on “The primal (mise en) scène of capital”: Argentine, Colombian and Brazilian urban film
The lecture will take place on Tuesday 25th May, at 5pm in Taylor A31.
Geoffrey Kantaris is the director of the Centre of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. His research currently focuses on contemporary urban cinema from Latin America, particularly Argentine, Columbian and Mexican cinema.
English – Dr Adrienne Janus
The Scottish Modernists Network workshop will take place from 12.30pm - 6pm in MR265 on Saturday 29th of May
Guest speakers include:
If interested in attending, RSVP to adrienne.janus@abdn.ac.uk
Film & Visual Culture/Centre for Modern Thought - Dr Katherine Groo
What does the future hold for capitalist societies as they are forced to contend with potentially insuperable limits to economic growth, in the form of climate change and resource depletion? How might it be possible for a political system based on expansion, whether geopolitical or economic, to cope with the dilemmas posed by scarcity? The recent proliferation of post apocalyptic narratives in film and literature engage widespread fears that the way of life based on prosperity and abundance is no longer sustainable. But such narratives, which often portray the breakdown of modern civilization and the eruption of the Hobbesian state of nature, evade what is truly traumatic about such a change. Instead, it is narratives of an explicitly speculative character that most effectively convey the momentous and shattering character of the problem of scarcity in capitalism. These speculative narratives register what remains beyond the grasp of the political imagination in the present time by portraying a fictional reality in which some aspect of everyday life has been removed.
In the film Children of Men, as well as in the novel on which it is based, human beings have for some unexplained reason ceased to bear children, with no new children having come into the world for the past eighteen years. In José Saramago’s novel Blindness, a mysterious epidemic robs people of their sight, and eventually nearly the whole of humanity is struck blind. Both narratives show the breakdown of the mechanisms of government, as the state becomes overwhelmed by a cascading series of problems that it cannot handle. Yet, they also explore the grounds for the rebirth of a new kind of society, the rebuilding of trust and the renewal of social bonds, by placing its characters in situations in which they made vulnerable as well as open to the acts and purposes of others. It is the apocalypse of the missed encounter that most productively explores the contemporary paradox in which knowledge fails to bind us to the necessity of saving ourselves.
Paik is an associate professor in the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research intersects with political philosophy, world cinema, science fiction, and the graphic novel. His most recent publication is From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe (Minnesota, 2010).
This talk is part of the Film and Capitalism Series, and will be held in Taylor A36 at 4pm on Monday 31st May.
English - Jan Todd
Guest Speaker Janice Galloway
The lecture will take place on Tuesday April 20 at 5.15pm in the Linklater Rooms, King’s College University of Aberdeen. Entry is free and booking is not required.
Hispanic Studies – Professor Teresa Vilaros
The Spanish Consul will be visiting the University of Aberdeen on the 22nd of April and will be holding a session in MR051 from 2pm.
Accompanying the Spanish Consul will be a theatre troupe which will be putting on a play in the Arts Lecture Theatre from 6pm onwards on the 22nd of April. - THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO THE ONGOING TRAVEL PROBLEMS CAUSED BY VOLVANIC ASH. WE ARE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENICE CAUSED.
A workshop on cultural responses to the energy controversy will be held in Edward Wright F61 from 9-5pm on Saturday 24th April.
Hispanic Studies - Professor Teresa Vilaros
Several workshops will be held on the 3rd and 4th of May with guest photographers Toni Cantany, Joan Fontecuberta and Leopoldo Pomes. - THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO THE ONGOING TRAVEL PROBLEMS CAUSED BY VOLVANIC ASH. WE ARE SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENICE CAUSED.
Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy 2010
RIISS - Professor Cairns Craig
In March 2010 a week-long event in recognition of Thomas Reid will be held at the two universities where he taught: the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Glasgow. The conference will be devoted to all aspects of Reid's work and its context
Call for papers: Thomas Reid (1710-96) taught at King's College, Aberdeen, and at Glasgow University. To celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of his birth the universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow are jointly hosting a major international conference on his work, its contemporary relevance and its historical influence. Plenary speakers include James Harris, Laurent Jaffro, Paul Wood and Galen Strawson.
Papers are invited on any aspect of Reid's thought in terms of its historical or its contemporary relevance, its relationship with his contemporaries in the Scottish Englightenment, and on any aspect of his influence on philosophical thinking in Britain, Europe, North America or any other part of the world where he has been studied.
Proposals (of not more than 500 words) for papers (which will be of 20 minutes in length) should be submitted to the event's administrative co-ordinator: Jon Cameron: jon.cameron@abdn.ac.uk
Deadline for submissions is 30 September 2009
For further programme and registration details; please see: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/rei d2010.shtml
School event with CMT support - Dr Syrithe Pugh
Guest Speaker - - Julian Lethbridge, University of Tubingen
This event will take place from 12-2pm , in KCG5, King's College
Hispanic Studies - Nerea Arruti
The Belmont Cinema will be hosting the Spanish and Latin American film festival from the 13th-19th of March. This film festival is supported by the University of Aberdeen's Cultural Engagement Programme.
For full screening details please visit the Belmont Picturehouse website: http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/new_cinema_home_date.aspx?venueId=bmnt
English - Dr Syrithe Pugh
Guest Speaker - Julian Lethbridge, University of Tubingen
Julian Lethbridge from the University of Tubingen will be visiting the University in March for a month long visit and will be giving the following lectures:
Monday 1st March - "Understanding the World As In Itself It Really Is: History” This event will take place at 5-7pm in St Marys G3 (Audio presentation available)
Monday 8th March - "Understanding the World Transformed: Theology” This event will take place at 5-7pm in St Marys G3
Monday 15th March - "Understanding the World Valued: Literary Criticism” This event will take place at 5-7pm in St Marys G3 (Audio presentation available)
Monday 22nd March - "Understanding the Word Understood: The Humanities” This event will take place at 5-7pm in St Marys G3
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