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The personal reign of James VI in Scotland (1585-1603), politics and the court
-Professor Steven Reid (University of Glasgow) 30 September 2026 (in person and online) The personal reign of James VI in Scotland (1585-1603), politics and the court
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The Latin Language of Architecture: Britain 1150-1350
-Dr Karl Kinsella (Art History, Aberdeen) 14 October 2026 The Latin Language of Architecture: Britain 1150-1350
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Dr Joan MacCormack Lecture Series
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The Dr Joan MacCormack Lecture Series commemorates the legacy of Dr Joan MacCormack; an esteemed scholar celebrated for her interdisciplinary approach to education. Throughout her distinguished career, she brought literature into dialogue with a wide range of disciplines, deepening our understanding of the forces that have shaped modern society. Join...
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Testimonial knowledge in Islamic philosophy
-Dr Fedor Benevich (Philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 28 October 2026 (in person and online) Testimonial knowledge in Islamic philosophy
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Jeanne de Jussie (1503-1561) and Reformation in Geneva
-Dr Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner (DHPA, Aberdeen) 4 November 2026 (in person and online) Jeanne de Jussie (1503-1561) and Reformation in Geneva
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Fires in the House-top: Early Modern Women Writers, Milton & the Manosphere
-Dr Helen Lynch (Aberdeen, LLMVC, in person and online) 11 November 2026 Fires in the House-top: Early Modern Women Writers, Milton & the Manosphere
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'Liquid Empire': France Writes the River, 1530-1700
-Prof. Katherine Ibbett (Trinity College, Oxford) exceptionally Friday 19 February 2027, 1-2 pm, in Taylor A36 (in person and online) 'Liquid Empire': France Writes the River, 1530-1700
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Dr Frederik Pedersen (University of Aberdeen, em.),
-This talk challenges the assumption that medieval and early modern European courts routinely subjected animals to criminal trials. I argue that E. P. Evans’s The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals (1906) inherited a nineteenth-century historiographical construction created by French and German scholars who conflated fundamentally different evidence. Roman...
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Thomas Jones, an 18th-century Welsh landscape artist in Rome and Naples
-Professor Melissa Calaresu (Neil McKendrick Lecturer in History, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge) 24 March 2027 Thomas Jones, an 18th-century Welsh landscape artist in Rome and Naples
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Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri (Medieval literature, University of Edinburgh) 14 April 2027
-Topic tba Kate Ash-Irisarri works on memory, history of emotions and female reproduction in the late Middle Age and early Reformation period. Her book Rewriting the Past in Scottish Literature, 1350-1550 (Boydell and Brewer, 2025), explores how late–medieval writers drew on the memory of the wars to articulate a collective identity;...