Event Archive

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

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...

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

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

'Scottish Judges and Convict Transportation in the Eighteenth Century'

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

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

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

Edward Corp is emeritus Professor of British History at the University of Toulouse. He is the world’s leading expert on the Stuart Court in exile, and on portraits of the exiled Stuart dynasty. He has written the definitive history of the Stuart Court in exile in France and Italy, 1689-1766,...

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...

"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)

Join us to celebrate the launch of Dr Emma Percy’s exciting new book presenting a pastoral theology around reproductive choices. Emma will reflect on the book and the wider discussion of reproductive justice, along with: • Dr Sarah-Jane Page (Nottingham University) • Prof Emily Reimer-Barry (University of San Diego) •...

'Translating the Saga of the Earls of Orkney'

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The Montefiore Testimonial (1842-3) and Anglo-Jewish Imperial Identities

The Incarnation as God's First Intention Retelling the Biblical Narrative in a Supralapsarian Christological Key

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'In being in the fashion and in variety of fashions': Elite Women's Sartorial Networks and Knowledge Exchange in Late Seventeenth-Century England, 1660-1700'

Join Geddes-Harrower Chair of Greek Art and Archaeology, Professor Glenn Most, for this series of fascinating lectures.

Faith, Hope, and Autism: Biblical Models of Neurodiversity

The inaugural University of Aberdeen Philosophy Postgraduate Conference will take place at the University of Aberdeen, Sir Duncan Library, Meeting Room 1, from February 10-11, 2026. The theme of the conference is imagination, fiction, and extended reality.  Keynote Speakers: - Stacie Friend (University of Edinburgh) - Neil McDonell (University of Glasgow) The conference programme...

Title: Methods for Ecocritical Art History

Professor Timothy Snyder holds the inaugural Chair in Modern European History, supported by the Temerty Endowment for Ukrainian Studies, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. He is also a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the head of the...

Christine de Pizan and the City of Ladies Master: Colour and Power in the Epistre Othea

In 1152/53 the Icelander Nikolas Bergsson travelled from Iceland to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage, and had a short itinerary written about his journey. Together with numismatist Svein Gullbekk, Prof. Orning has followed in his footsteps with bicycle to Rome, resulting in the book En reise til Roma (A journey to Rome, translation...

In 1152/53 the Icelander Nikolas Bergsson travelled from Iceland to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage, and had a short itinerary written about his journey. Together with numismatist Svein Gullbekk, Prof. Orning has followed in his footsteps with bicycle to Rome, resulting in the book En reise til Roma (A journey to Rome, translation...

Scandinavian Studies seminar: A Past that Never Was: Examining Vikings in the Late Medieval Dane Saga of Breda

Reframing King James VI & I in a Heritage Context and Beyond

The recently established Centre for Images and Texts in Antiquity at the University of Aberdeen invites you to its inaugural event on the anthropology of images and of figuration on Thursday, 20 November 2025.   The event will feature Professor Philippe Descola (Collège de France),one of the leading anthropologists in the world today. He will...

Join the Centre for Scandinavian Studies and 150,000 people across the Nordic region to hear ‘Dog, Cat and Mouse’ by Bárður Oskarsson read aloud in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, English and Doric! We will also read some myths in Old Norse (viking language).

The Centre for Autism and Theology is organising this three-day online conference in November.

Visualising the Tar Sands: Aesthetics, Relationality and Repair

Round table participants: Prof. Matthew Smith (UCL), Dr Jesús Sanjurjo-Ramos (Strathclyde), Dr William Hepburn (UoA), Dr Jen Walklate (UoA), James Costin (University Collections) Moderation: Prof. Jackson Armstrong Possible Topics: Report on the Project led by Jesús Sanjurjo-Ramos and Lloyd Belton (Glasgow), on the uses of Gen-AI tools and analysis of historical data in...

Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories

"Demands for change are ringing in our ears and will not be silenced." - Dr Alberta Whittle, 2022

Selling Socialism: Market Prices and the Collapse of the Polish People's Republic.

Dear all    We're pleased to announce that registration for the inaugural Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference is currently open. The theme for this two-day hybrid conference is ‘Reading the Marginal in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds’. The conference brings together an international programme of postgraduate and early career scholars from...

Please join us for the next George Washington Wilson Centre for Art and Visual Culture workshop:   Through the Generations: Art History and its Disconformities    Wednesday 28 May Lunch at 12.30pm for a 1.30pm start in CB009   This workshop aims to reassess the notion of "generations" and their relevance for systematizing and structuring the production...

‘Where every truth is felt as well as seen’: Reconstructing Charles Lyell’s early intellectual development, 1816-1827   Felicity MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh  Wednesday 21 May 2025 4-6 pm (NK14) and via Teams Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Aberdeen  Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is largely remembered as an influential geologist...

Wednesday 21st May 10am-6pm  Join us for a day of events exploring Experiential Learning in the Arts, Heritage, and Environmental Humanities here at the University of Aberdeen. There is a long-established tradition of Experiential Learning in the Performing Arts, Business and STEM subjects. However, this kind of Experiential Learning is less...

Singed by the Flame of Ambition: St. Paul and Scheler on Striving for Superiority

The Centre for Multilingual Research at the University of Aberdeen is delighted to invite students and staff to a special panel discussion on Monday 19th May. The roundtable will bring together experts on urban spaces and built environments in contexts from across Europe.

The Earth Embraced: Dostoevsky and Genesis on Unconditional Love for the World

Nietzsche's Universal Affirmation and Limited Love

Guilia Champion (University of Southampton) "Visualising the deep"

Odium Mundi: Schopenhauer on Suffering and the Will to Nothingness

"Unchained from its Sun": Amor Mundi between Atheism and Theism

Gordon Graham’s David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)Print_flyer.pdf

9.15 am Welcome and Introductions  9.30 -10 Bradford Bow Beattie and the Aberdeen Philosophical Society  10-10.30 Tamas Demeter Beattie and Common Sense  10.30-11 Douglas McDermid Beattie and Scepticism  Coffee  11.15-11.45 Gordon Graham Beattie and Memory  11. 45- 12.15 Botond Csuka Beattie and Belle-Lettres  12.15-1.15 Lunch  1.30 – 2 Michael Brown Beattie and Politics  2-2.30 Fred Ablondi Beattie and Religion  2.30-3...

RIISS Beattie Lecture (8 May, 4-5.30pm) ‘Humean Chemistry’   James Beattie advised against extending the language of natural philosophy to the study of mind. For Beattie, such extension makes us prone to “mistake verbal analogies for real ones” and tempts us “to apply the laws of matter to the operations of mind”. By...

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Join researchers for a panel event discussing the complex issues surrounding the female category in sport

This multi-disciplinary conference aims to connect academics and practitioners to share insights and ideas across a range of topics, periods and perspectives relating to death and Scotland.

Biblical Studies Research Seminar Baptism and Scriptural Hermeneutics in the Early Church

Dr Mateusz Drozdowski (University of the National Education Commission, Kraków) is visiting Aberdeen as part of our staff and student exchange agreement from 22-26 April 2025.

Fictionalised Atrocity? The Complex Question of Types in Sturlunga saga

Seren Nolan (independent researcher)  "Feeling antiquity: women, classicism and sentement"

Biblical Studies Research Seminar Silence and Eloquence on the Tribe of Ephraim in the First Three Christian Centuries

For further details please contact: Dr Eilidh Beaton eilidhbeaton.com

Guest speaker: Prof. Celia Deane-Drummond, Campion Hall, Oxford. Title TBA. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team in Microsoft Teams. You will already be a member of the Team if you have shown interest in the past. For new attendees, in Microsoft Teams, join the...

Nordic Legal Libraries: How Quantitative Analyses of Law Manuscripts Provide New Information on the Distribution and Storage of Legal Texts in the Medieval North

The One and the Many has been one of the great themes of theology, philosophy and mysticism, across a huge and very diverse range of cultures and traditions. The search for an ultimate unity – effected through a single unifying material, idea or agent – behind a world of phenomena...

Sarah Bromage (University of Stirling) "Curating conversations: the role of art in university life"

Biblical Studies Research Seminar The Monstrous, the Bible and Capitalism in the Video Games The Last of Us and Cyberpunk 2077

Iryna Klymenko is a historian of early modern Europe at Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. She has broad interests in interreligious and interethnic practices, history of corporeality, and interdisciplinary methods of historical research. Currently, she is completing her second book project, dedicated to the religious history of food and attire in the...

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 7 ‘Eucharist, Racism, and Some Bodies’ & Epilogue Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team in Microsoft Teams. You...

14 March 2025, 12.30-16.30 Symposium: Entanglements and Disentanglements: Towards A Transnational History of East Central Europe, Speakers: Dr Derrick McClure, Dr Paul Hulsenboom and Dr Izabela Curyłło-Klag

Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025

Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025

How Editing Transforms a Text: The Case of Medieval Icelandic Law

Biblical Studies Research Seminar Not an Echo but a Reverb: Transformative Dynamics and Aesthetic Figural Interpretation through the Allusive Reuse of the Akedah

Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 6 ‘Enfleshing Struggle’ Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team in Microsoft Teams. You will already be a member...

Chapter workshop

"The Rules of Rescue: Core Ideas"

Biblical Studies Research Seminar New Testament echoes in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 5, ‘Turning the Subject’ Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team in Microsoft Teams. You will already be a...

Please join us for a special lunchtime seminar with Kayleigh MacLeod (Abertay) and William Kavanagh (Abertay). Kayleigh and William will demonstrate their Waulking Simulator, and give a talk on the project which has brought it about, exploring games and cultural heritage, with particular reference to minority languages. All welcome! 

Biblical Studies Research Seminar Enslavement in the Divine Economy: A Functional Analysis of Paul's Captivity for the Gentiles in Ephesians.

26 February 2025, at 1 pm, Research Seminar: Dr Riccarda Suitner (LMU Munich): Venice and the Radical Reformation: an Italian Republic in European Context Taylor A36 and online (for the link please contact k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk)

Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Valerie Wallace (St Andrews) William Macao and the Politics of British Subjecthood in the Courts

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 4 ‘Marking the Body of Jesus, the Body of Christ (Part II)’ Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team...

Key to understanding autism are the senses. At the same time, church services are highly sensory experiences. What happens if we consider together autism, worship and liturgy, and the senses? Based on three years of interdisciplinary research on sensory aspects of worship, with a focus on autism, the research team...

Education, Education, Education: Danish Clergy and a French immigrant in 12th -century Denmark

Art in Retail: Managing a Commercial Art Gallery

Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Penny Fielding (Edinburgh) Scott, Hogg and Espionage

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 3 ‘Marking the Body of Jesus, the Body of Christ (Part I)’ Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team...

Prof. Lia Costiner History of Art (Digital Art History) Computational Explorations of Heritage and  Culture : Lessons from the Field

Swedish Crash Course!

Biblical Studies Research Seminar The Gospel of John: Philosophy and Creed

Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Lucy Cogan (UCD) ‘The Drunken Irishman’: Defining a Nation in Early-Nineteenth Century Literature

Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 2 ‘Enfleshing Freedom’

Workshop: Conferences 

Biblical Studies Research Seminar

Enfleshing Freedom, Preface, Introduction, ch. 1 ‘Body, Race, and Being’                                 You may also like to watch this video lecture by Prof. Copeland from 2016.

‘Urban Nature in City Utopias 1600-1750’ Mirjam Hähnle is a researcher at the German Historical Institute which she joined in April 2022. She is interested in early modern concepts of human-environment relations and debates about writing history in times of climate crisis. After studying History and German Studies in Freiburg (Germany), she...

Tartan and Beyond: Fashioning Identities in Historical Research and Museum Curation Dr Mhairi Maxwell (Curator, National Museums of Scotland) in conversation with Dr Cecilia Brioni (Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen) 

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Rebecca Mellor (Science Museum): "Seeing Things Queerly" Rebecca Mellor is Curator of Art and Visual Culture at the Science Museum, London. Her research focuses on classical reception, sexual history in visual arts, digital humanities, and museum censorship. She is the founder and chair of the Science Museum Group's Gender & Sexuality...

Dr Madison Pierce (Western Theological Seminary)