Event Archive

2016

October

• 'Equal by Design': a film about Spinoza and the UK housing crisis

  12 October 2016, 13:00 - 14:00

  “Equal by Design”: a film about Spinoza and the UK housing crisis Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen, Philosophy) Venue: NK7 

• Old tunes with new words: Scots Neo-Latin literary culture and the Hidden Revolution

  05 October 2016, 13:00 - 14:00

  Old tunes with new words: Scots Neo-Latin literary culture and the Hidden Revolution David McOmish (Glasgow)   

September

• Identity Doubtful: The Supposed Polish Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie

  29 September 2016, 18:00 - 20:00

  This paper offers the rationale for identifying a new portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie.

May

• Political Community in Historical Perspectives - medieval and early modern

  27 May 2016, 09:00 - 18:00

  An all-day workshop highlighting the historical developments and implications of political community.

March

• Sacred history, the Gentiles, and the early formation of society in the thought of Giambattista Vico.

  23 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:30

  Professor John Robertson, Clare College Cambridge: Sacred History and Political Thought

• The Sobieski-Stuart marriage: what did the Stuarts gain?

  10 March 2016, 16:00 - 17:30

  Paper by Mindaugas Sapoka

• Defining and Representing the City and the Periphery in Early Modern Florence

  09 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:30

  Dr Sandra Cardarelli (Honoray Research Fellow, History of Art/CEMS)

• Dr Tom Rist : Revenge/Religion: Renaissance Re-enactments from Mary Queen of Scots to the Present

  02 March 2016, 13:00 - 14:15

  Dr Tom Rist from the English Department will present paper on Revenge/Religion: Renaissance Re-enactments from Mary Queen of Scots to the Present.

February

• Seventeenth-Century English Organ Music: a Reappraisal

  24 February 2016, 13:00 - 14:30

  24 February 2016 Professor David Smith (Aberdeen), Music: Seventeenth-Century English Organ Music: a Reappraisal

January

• Subversions of Classical Learning

  15 - 17 January 2016

  Conference at the Grierson Centre, in association with the Centre for Early Modern Studies, and the Centre for Celtic & Anglo-Saxon Studies, 15-17 January 2016