Event Archive

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...