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2025
December
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Christine de Pizan and the City of Ladies Master: Colour and Power in the Epistre Othea
-Christine de Pizan and the City of Ladies Master: Colour and Power in the Epistre Othea
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A Scandinavian Pilgrim in the Mediterranean World in 1153
-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...
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A Scandinavian Pilgrim in the Mediterranean World in 1153
-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...
November
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Scandinavian Studies seminar: A Past that Never Was: Examining Vikings in the Late Medieval Dane Saga of Breda
-Scandinavian Studies seminar: A Past that Never Was: Examining Vikings in the Late Medieval Dane Saga of Breda
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Reframing King James VI & I in a Heritage Context and Beyond
Reframing King James VI & I in a Heritage Context and Beyond
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World-Making: An Anthropology of the Visible
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...
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Nordic Read-Aloud Nordic Fellowship
-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).
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Faith on the Margins Conference
-The Centre for Autism and Theology is organising this three-day online conference in November.
October
September
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Royal Historical Society Visit: History and Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Digital Humanities
-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...
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Royal Historical Society Visit: Lecture by Professor Matthew Smith, UCL
-Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories
July
June
May
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Inaugural Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference
-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...
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George Washington Wilson Centre for Art and Visual Culture Through the Generations: Art History and its Disconformities
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...
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'Where every truth is felt as well as seen': Reconstructing Charles Lyell's early intellectual development, 1816-1827
-‘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...
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Experiential Learning: Arts, Heritage, & the Environmental Humanities
-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...
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2025 Gifford Lectures
Singed by the Flame of Ambition: St. Paul and Scheler on Striving for Superiority
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Panel Discussion: The Politics of Space, Planning and Urban Experience
-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.
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2025 Gifford Lectures
The Earth Embraced: Dostoevsky and Genesis on Unconditional Love for the World
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2025 Gifford Lectures
Nietzsche's Universal Affirmation and Limited Love
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Art History Research Seminar: Giulia Champion
-Guilia Champion (University of Southampton) "Visualising the deep"
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2025 Gifford Lectures
Odium Mundi: Schopenhauer on Suffering and the Will to Nothingness
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2025 Gifford Lectures
"Unchained from its Sun": Amor Mundi between Atheism and Theism
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RIISS Book Launch
-Gordon Graham’s David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)Print_flyer.pdf
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RIISS Workshop on the Philosophy of James Beattie
-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...
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RIISS Beattie Lecture
-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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Cafe Sci - The Female Category in Sport
-This event was fully booked
Join researchers for a panel event discussing the complex issues surrounding the female category in sport
April
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New Insights into Scottish Deathways
-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.
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Baptism and Scriptural Hermeneutics in the Early Church
-Biblical Studies Research Seminar Baptism and Scriptural Hermeneutics in the Early Church
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Dr Mateusz Drozdowski (University of the National Education Commission, Kraków)
-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.
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Fictionalised Atrocity? The Complex Question of Types in Sturlunga saga
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Art History Research Seminar: Seren Nolan
-Seren Nolan (independent researcher) "Feeling antiquity: women, classicism and sentement"
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Silence and Eloquence on the Tribe of Ephraim in the First Three Christian Centuries
-Biblical Studies Research Seminar Silence and Eloquence on the Tribe of Ephraim in the First Three Christian Centuries
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Philosophy Colloquium Series: Fenrong Liu
For further details please contact: Dr Eilidh Beaton eilidhbeaton.com
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Guest speaker: Prof. Celia Deane-Drummond
-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...
March
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Nordic Legal Libraries: How Quantitative Analyses of Law Manuscripts Provide New Information on the Distribution and Storage of Legal Texts in the Medieval North
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The One and the Many Conference
-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...
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Art History Research Seminar: Sarah Bromage
-Sarah Bromage (University of Stirling) "Curating conversations: the role of art in university life"
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The Monstrous, the Bible and Capitalism in the Video Games The Last of Us and Cyberpunk 2077
-Biblical Studies Research Seminar The Monstrous, the Bible and Capitalism in the Video Games The Last of Us and Cyberpunk 2077
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CEMS research seminar: Dr Iryna Klymenko
-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...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
-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...
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CEMS Seminars Spring Term 2024 Dr Derrick McClure, Dr Paul Hulsenboom and Dr Izabela Curyłło-Klag
-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
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Applied History Roundtable Talks, Part 2
-Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025
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Café Sci: 'The World Wars of Disinformation', Aberdeen Art Gallery
-Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-How Editing Transforms a Text: The Case of Medieval Icelandic Law
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Not an Echo but a Reverb: Transformative Dynamics and Aesthetic Figural Interpretation through the Allusive Reuse of the Akedah
-Biblical Studies Research Seminar Not an Echo but a Reverb: Transformative Dynamics and Aesthetic Figural Interpretation through the Allusive Reuse of the Akedah
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Applied History Roundtable Talks, Part 1
-Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
-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...
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar (Internal Members Only)
-Chapter workshop
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New Testament echoes in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
-Biblical Studies Research Seminar New Testament echoes in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
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Philosophy Colloquium Series: Theron Pummer
-"The Rules of Rescue: Core Ideas"
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
-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...
February
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Playing With Heritage - A' Cluich Le Dualchas / Game demo & talk by Kayleigh MacLeod and William Kavanagh
-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!
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Enslavement in the Divine Economy: A Functional Analysis of Paul's Captivity for the Gentiles in Ephesians.
-Biblical Studies Research Seminar Enslavement in the Divine Economy: A Functional Analysis of Paul's Captivity for the Gentiles in Ephesians.
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CEMS research seminar: Dr Riccarda Suitner
-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)
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Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series William Macao and the Politics of British Subjecthood in the Courts
-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
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
-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...
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Centre for Autism and Theology Resourcing Christian Communities
-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...
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Education, Education, Education: Danish Clergy and a French immigrant in 12th -century Denmark
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Art History Research Seminar: Beth Welburn (Art of Protest Gallery)
-Art in Retail: Managing a Commercial Art Gallery
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Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Scott, Hogg and Espionage
-Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Penny Fielding (Edinburgh) Scott, Hogg and Espionage
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
-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...
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Computational Explorations of Heritage and Culture : Lessons from the Field
-Prof. Lia Costiner History of Art (Digital Art History) Computational Explorations of Heritage and Culture : Lessons from the Field
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Swedish Crash Course!
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The Gospel of John: Philosophy and Creed
-Biblical Studies Research Seminar The Gospel of John: Philosophy and Creed
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'The Drunken Irishman': Defining a Nation in Early-Nineteenth Century Literature
-Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Lucy Cogan (UCD) ‘The Drunken Irishman’: Defining a Nation in Early-Nineteenth Century Literature
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
-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’
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Workshop: Conferences
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Benjamin Harshav's Theories of Metaphor: With Examples from the Bible
-Biblical Studies Research Seminar
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being
-Enfleshing Freedom, Preface, Introduction, ch. 1 ‘Body, Race, and Being’ You may also like to watch this video lecture by Prof. Copeland from 2016.
January
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CEMS research seminar: Dr Mirjam Hähnle
-‘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...
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Tartan and Beyond: Fashioning Identities in Historical Research and Museum Curation
-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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Art History Research Seminar: Rebecca Mellor
-This event was cancelled
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...
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Biblical Studies Research Seminar
-Dr Madison Pierce (Western Theological Seminary)
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Christianity and democracy: repairing the intellectual deficit : Dr Jonathan Chaplin (Cambridge)
-Dr Jonathan Chaplin (Cambridge) is a well-known British political theologian who will be in Aberdeen this coming Wednesday 22 January at 2-3.30 in the Court Room to present a paper on the role of Christian nationalism in undermining Christian support for democracy. In more detail: Christianity and democracy: repairing the intellectual...
2024
December
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Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session Five
-A panel featuring Michael Brown on 'The 1707 Union as an Act of Revolution', Clare Loughlin on 'Highland policy in Church and State after 1715', Brad Bow on 'Rethinking the Aberdeen Wise Club', and Sarah Sharp on 'Blackwood's Tory vision of Cultural Nationalism’, representing the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
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Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 12
-Text selection: V, P17-P42
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Practical Theology Research Seminar: Christmas Creativity
-Dr Lucinda Murphy (Durham University) will lead us in a discussion about her PhD – The Varieties of Christmas Magic: An ethnography of festivity, identity and worldview in British life - which used creative methodologies. Hosted online, contact Dr Jennie Riley – jennifer.riley@abdn.ac.uk.
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Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 11
-Text selection: Part V, Preface-P16
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CFSS Annual Glöggfest
-Join us in person for the Centre for Scandinavian Studies annual Glöggfest
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Oh Holy Night: Performing the Nativity Scene in Late Medieval Art
-Online Event
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Scots Philosophical Association Conference
-New Waves in Scottish Philosophy Conference and Annual General Meeting Scots Philosophical Association 2024 Old Senate Room, King’s College, University of Aberdeen https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/campus/maps/view/181/ Thursday, 5th December 1:00 - 2:30 Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem Eilidh Beaton (Aberdeen) 2:30 - 2:45 Coffee 2:45 - 4:15 Motion(less) Pictures and Temporal Appearances Jack Shardlow (Edinburgh) Friday,...
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The Art History Research Seminar: Hans C. Hönes (Aberdeen)
-Formalism, Disciplinarity and the Future of Art History
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Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session Four
-Marcel Garbos and Cameron Flint, PhD Training event
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Philosophy Colloquium: Poppy Mankowitz
-Title and abstract to follow.
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CEMS research seminar: Dr Michal Nowakowski
-‘Enlightenment Travelogues’ Michal Nowakowski studied at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Department of Early Modern Polish Literature) and just finished his PhD. It appeared in 2023 in print under the title Ambassador at the Crossroads. The World of Values in the Diplomatic Manuals of Poland-Lithuania and their European Context.
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EDI and Research
-In conversation with Owen Walsh (DHPA Race Equality Champion), Neil Curtis (Museums and Special Collections) will offer a discussion concerning research resources and collections. Refreshments will be available at the DHPA events. Venue: CB202
November
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Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 10
-Text selection: IV, P38-Appendix
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The Christianization of Scandinavia: Three Possible Ways of Approaching a Complex Theme
-Join Dr Lukas Gabriel Grzybowski (Londrina) for a talk on the Christianization of Scandinavia
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Practical Theology Research Seminar: What makes a good ethics application?
-Members of the university Research Ethics team and the DHPA Ethics Committee will be joining us to provide an overview of ethics applications at Aberdeen, and explore what makes a good ethics application. Hosted online, contact Dr Jennie Riley – jennifer.riley@abdn.ac.uk.
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History Research Series: Dr Owen Walsh
-'Internationalism, Americanism and Anti-racist Solidarity during the 1930s'
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CEMS research seminar: Dr Brandi Adams
-'More than Milton's Holinshed: The Phoenix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection' This talk will address the founding of the Arizona Book History Group and some of the material in The Pheonix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection, 2300 rare books, many of which were published between 1300-1700. This collection has formed the...
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Classical Association Scotland
-Fiona Hobden (Open University) will offer a talk on Growing old in ancient Greece: Care, connections and community. Throughout October there are range of resources and events in celebration of Black History Month Venue: CB009 and Online. Contact s.newington@abdn.ac.uk for the link.
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Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 9
-Text selection: Part IV, Preface-P37
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Convictions and Suspicions in Early Modernity: A Symposium in Honour of Professor William G. Naphy
-In light of the significance of the work of Professor Bill Naphy, retiring in 2024 after nearly three decades at Aberdeen, Convictions and Suspicions in Early Modernity: A Symposium in Honour of Professor William G. Naphy, will be held in Aberdeen in the Sir Duncan Rice Library (Craig Suite) on...
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Centre for Autism and Theology December Webinar
'Resourcing Christian Communities'
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Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session Three
-Marcel Garbos, representing the Centre for Polish-Lithuanian Studies
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Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine: Rebecca Hamilton
-'Moral Management and the Silencing of the Feminine in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Asylums and The Woman in White (1860)'
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CEMS research seminar: Dr Sara Pennell
-'Rewriting the early modern women's conduct book: Hannah Wolley's A Guide to Ladies (1668)’ In 1668 Hannah Wolley published her first (and, it turns out, only) non-recipe book: A Guide to Ladies and Gentlewomen. This book survives in but one physical copy (in the Folger Shakespeare Library), and its rediscovery in...