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2025
November
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Reframing King James VI & I in a Heritage Context and Beyond
-26 November 2025 exceptionally at 5.15-7 pm, in CB009 Dr Kate Anderson (Senior Curator, Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh): Reframing King James VI & I in a Heritage Context and Beyond We shall join our colleagues in Art History fo this seminar.
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Contested jurisdictions?: two-kingdom theology in early modern Scotland
-12 November 2025 Prof. Scott Spurlock (University of Glasgow): Contested jurisdictions?: two-kingdom theology in early modern Scotland
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Donatello's Mary Magdalen and Prostitution in Early Renaissance Florence
-5 November 2025 Dr Joanne Anderson (Art History, Aberdeen): Donatello's Mary Magdalen and Prostitution in Early Renaissance Florence
October
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From French moralists to the Scottish Enlightenment: debates on the 'selfish hypothesis'
-The Scottish Enlightenment strongly criticizes what Hume calls the ‘selfish hypothesis’, which is a central issue in moral philosophy since the end of the 17th century and throughout the 18th century. The paper 1) outlines the main points of this European debate and the issues at stake; and 2) revisits...
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An Incoherent Whig? Abolition and the Peculiar Case of James Beattie's Political Thought.
-CEMS Research Seminars Autumn Term 2025 All welcome. Time: Wednesdays, 1-2 pm. The venue is usually Taylor A36, unless otherwise indicated. 8 October 2025 Prof. Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen, History and RIISS) An Incoherent Whig? Abolition and the Peculiar Case of James Beattie's Political Thought.
March
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Research Seminar: Dr Iryna Klymenko (Historisches Kolleg and LMU Munich), Food intolerance in the early modern period, online
-Room Taylor A36 (online only)
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Symposium: Entanglements and Disentanglements: Towards A Transnational History of East Central Europe, Speakers: Dr Derrick McClure, Dr Paul Hulsenboom and Dr Izabela Curyłło-Klag
-In cooperation between the Research Centres for Early Modern Studies and for Polish-Lithuanian Studies, University of Aberdeen, with the Zakład Antropologii Historycznej i Teorii Historii Instytutu Historii Jagiellonian University, Kraków. This symposium brings together three scholars, from Nijmegen, from Krakow and from Aberdeen, to discuss the cultural and international entanglement of...