Current and Upcoming Events

Aberdeen Artwords - The Linklater Collection

CEMS Research Seminar: Dr Lucy Dean (Head of Centre for History, Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland and Europe, UHI)

"Than springis rutis of resone": Exploring Coming of Age and the Journey to Manhood of a King "as yeit in tendyr age" (aka James V of Scotland)

Harris / Forbes Lecture 2026: Reverend Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch

Join us for an evening with award-winning author Professor Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch. Religion and sex are inextricably tangled in politics across our contemporary world, often in toxic ways, and the long history of that tangle in the Christian world has frequently been fatally simplified and misunderstood. Diarmaid MacCulloch, drawing on his...

Workshop: Ethics and Epistemology of AI

Schedule as follows 9.30 - 9.45: Welcome 9.45 - 11.15: Emily Sullivan 11.15 - 11.30: Tea/Coffee 11.30 - 13.00: Glenn Anderau 13.00 - 13.30: Catered Lunch 13.30 - 15.00: Matt Jope 15.00 - 15.15: Tea/Coffee 15.15 - 16.45: Anandi Hattiangadi

CEMS Research Seminar: Dr Shazia Jagot (University of York)

Chaucer's 'loveris maladye /Of Hereos', Avicenna's Risāla fī al-'ishq (Treatise on Love) and an Arabic-Islamic Metaphysics of Love

The Road to Culloden

Join Dr Clare Loughlin on Thursday 16 April from 4pm-5.15pm (BST) as she discusses The Battle of Culloden on its 280th anniversary.

CEMS Research Seminar: Dr Frederik Pedersen (em., Aberdeen, History)

Firm rules, flexible time: revisiting Romeo and Juliet of Stonegate (York Cause Paper E 248, 1345-1346)

The First Covenant: understanding the role of the Hebrew Bible in Victorian art

The First Covenant: understanding the role of the Hebrew Bible in Victorian artCo-hosted with Divinity

Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective (1-Day Workshop)

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen is delighted to be hosting the upcoming workshop, “Migration and Asylum in Scotland: A Philosophical Perspective”. This one-day workshop will explore how a distinctively philosophical voice might be added to the existing scholarly literature on migration and asylum in Scotland in...

CEMS Research Seminar: Dr Helen Lynch (School of LLMVC, University of Aberdeen)

'Fires in the House-top: Early Modern Women Writers, Milton & the Manosphere'

Many Norths

Co-hosted by The Centre for the North & George Washington Wilson Centre. *Venue & Time TBC 

Anthropocene Mobilities in Contemporary Art

Details TBC