Event Archive

2025

September

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  Royal Historical Society Visit: Lecture by Professor Matthew Smith, UCL

  17 September 2025, 17:30 - 23:59

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

July

• Framing the past, imagining the future: Adjusting material legacies

  03 July 2025, 13:30 - 20:00

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

June

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

  26 June 2025, 16:30 - 23:59

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

May

• Inaugural Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference

  31 May - 01 June 2025

  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...

• George Washington Wilson Centre for Art and Visual Culture Through the Generations: Art History and its Disconformities

  28 May 2025

  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

  21 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00

  ‘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

  21 May 2025, 10:00 - 18:00

  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...

• 2025 Gifford Lectures

  20 May 2025

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

• Panel Discussion: The Politics of Space, Planning and Urban Experience

  19 May 2025, 11:00 - 12:30

  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.

• 2025 Gifford Lectures

  19 May 2025

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