Event Archive

2024

October

• New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies

  29 October 2024, 16:00 - 18:00

  The New Voices series seeks to support and highlight the work of early career scholars in Irish and Scottish Studies. The webinars are aimed at scholars and postgraduate students at Aberdeen and further afield.

• CEMS Postgraduate Masterclass: Professor Alexandra Walsham

  25 October 2024, 09:30 - 11:30

  'Unravelling the Renaissance' This is a great opportunity to meet and work with a well-known and successful historian who will run a masterclass in cooperation with RIISS and History. Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Modern History. She served as Chair of the Faculty of History between 2019 and 2022. She was...

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  The Dr Joan MacCormack Lecture 2024

  24 October 2024, 17:45 - 18:45

  'Intimate Religion: Devotional Jewellery and the Reformation of Touch in Early Modern England'

• Book launch: The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970-1330: Their Lives, Power, and Legacy

  24 October 2024, 17:00 - 18:30

  Dr Caroline Wilhelmsson’s Book launch: The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970–1330: Their Lives, Power, and Legacy

• Centre for Autism and Theology October Webinar

  24 October 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

  The Centre for Autism and Theology are pleased to share that their next webinar will take place on the 24th October, 4-5:30pm (BST). Elizabeth Cochran will be presenting on 'Autistic Ethics: Moral community, empathy, and virtue.'  

• Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session One

  23 October 2024, 17:00 - 23:59

  Between Home and Hel: Paranormal Evocations of Horror in Old Norse Literature

• Practical Theology Research Seminar: Self-Care and Sensitive Research

  23 October 2024, 15:00 - 16:30

  Research can be isolating, hard work, and dangerous, and might involve managing sensitive subjects on a regular basis and in intimate ways. How can we care for ourselves well while undertaking such research? Encouraged reading (NB - Content warnings for death & suicide): Ben Fincham, Jonathan Scourfield & Susanne Langer (2008)...

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  Are We There Yet? A Future for the Digital Humanities

  23 October 2024, 10:00 - 12:00

  This workshop builds on themes from the lecture and demonstrates practical approaches to computational research in the digital humanities. Dr. Miller C. Prosser will demonstrate various tools and methods for recording, integrating, analyzing, and publishing digital research data using the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE) and will illustrate...

• Digital Humanities Lecture and Workshop: Dr. Miller Prosser (U. of Chicago)

  22 October 2024, 17:00 - 18:00

  Dr Nathaniel Greene (Divinity) and Dr Karl Kinsella (Art History) invite you to the second of four lecture/workshop events as a part of our British Academy Talent Development project: Digitising Pre-Modern Material Cultures.  Dr. Miller Prosser (U. of Chicago, Director of Online Publications, Forum for Digital Culture) will be joining us...

• New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies

  22 October 2024, 12:00 - 14:00

  The New Voices series seeks to support and highlight the work of early career scholars in Irish and Scottish Studies. The webinars are aimed at scholars and postgraduate students at Aberdeen and further afield.