Event Archive

2021

January

• New Testament Research Seminar

  27 January - 31 March 2021

  Select Wednesdays, 3:30–4:45pm (UK Time), MS Teams 27 January Prof. John Collins (Yale University) “Reflections on Apocalyptic and Apocalypticism 40 Years on from Semeia 14” 10 February Rachel Danley (University of Aberdeen) “Reworking Spatial Metaphors of Temple in Second Temple Judaism” Larissa Rosendale (University of Aberdeen) “Characterisation, Cosmology and Crystals: Gemstones in the...

• Philosophy Visiting Speaker Series

  27 January 2021, 15:00 - 16:30

  Wednesday Jan 27th, 3-4.30pm.  Sarah Broadie, St Andrews ‘Virtue and the non-moral goods: an ancient perspective’  Abstract to follow.  For information, contact Federico Luzzi: f.luzzi@abdn.ac.uk

• Theological Ethics Research Seminar

  25 January - 05 April 2021

  The Theological Ethics Research Seminar for this term is "A Troubled Inheritance: Desire, Power and Theology Abused". The seminar will ask if—or how—we should read the works of a theologian tainted by moral failure, and will focus on the sexual scandals associated with Karl Barth, John Howard Yoder and Jean Vanier. This...

• Practical Theology Research Seminar

  20 January - 31 March 2021

  Our seminar text is The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin by Lauren Winner (Yale University Press, 2018). The text is available through Primo here. Seminars will be held on alternate Wednesdays, from 4.00-6.00pm UK time. As with last term, all sessions will take place online on...

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  PhD Divinity Information Session

  19 January 2021, 16:30 - 17:30

  Interested in a PhD in Divinity at Aberdeen? Join several of our staff for an information session and Q&A on Tuesday, 19 January, 4:30–5:30p (UK Time). Register here.

2020

December

• History of Art Seminar

  02 December 2020, 16:30 - 18:00

  Eleanore Neumann: Maria Graham, and her Landscapes Following the 1822 Chilean Earthquake

November

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  University of Aberdeen History of Art Department Autumn 2020 Research Seminar Series

  25 November 2020, 16:00 - 17:30

  Virtual Veronese: Immersive Storytelling at the National Gallery

• Aberdeen Global Conversations on Leadership Series

  02 November 2020, 20:00 - 21:15

  Centre for Global Security and Governance

October

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  Systematic Theology Research Seminar

  06 October - 01 December 2020

  In this somewhat unusual season, the seminar will run as a concise discussion of working papers circulated in advance by faculty and research students in the department. Papers will be made available roughly one week before each session. Sessions themselves will take place in the Divinity Library for those able...

September

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  Practical Theology Research Seminar

  30 September - 09 December 2020

  Seminar text: Ghost Ship, A.D.A. France-Williams All welcome. All Practical Theology PhD students, (on-campus and distance) are expected to attend seminars regularly. Please see attached flyer for seminar dates and more information.