Event Archive

2017

March

• Philosophy Colloquium

  22 March 2017, 15:00 - 16:00

  Philosophy Colloquium w/ Stephan Leuenberger (Glasgow)Title: Scrutability and the Problem of Cross-Family QuantificationAbstract: In Constructing the World, David Chalmers aims to defend strong reductionist claims he calls "scrutability theses". One such thesis says, roughly speaking, that every truth about the world could, in principle, be "read off" a complete list...

• One-day Symposium: Between East and West: Ukraine, Identity and Memory

  22 March 2017, 11:00 - 15:30

  Participants:Professor Christoph Mick (University of Wawick)Remembrance in Ukraine and Lviv’s ‘divided memories’ Dr Olenka Pevny (University of Cambridge) Revizualizing the medieval and early-modern past in contemporary Ukraine Robert Frost (University of Aberdeen)Mykhailo Hrushevsky construction of the Ukrainian past

• Religious Studies Research Seminar

  21 March 2017, 16:00 - 17:30

  (co-sponsored with CISRUL) Dr Naomi Haynes (Edinburgh), “The Benefit of the Doubt: On the Relationship Between Doubt and Power”  

• Research Seminar in Systematic Theology

  20 March 2017, 15:15 - 16:45

  This seminar offers an opportunity for sustained reading of and engagement with one of the most important figures in the Lutheran Reformation and with one of the earliest systematic works in the Lutheran tradition – Philip Melanchthon’s Loci Communes of 1521. Text: Philip Melanchthon, Commonplaces (Loci Communes 1521), Translated by Christian...

• History Department Work in Progress Lunchtime Seminar

  15 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:30

  Discussion with Dr Heidi Mehrkens of her article “Heroic Heirs. Monarchical Succession and the Role of the Military in Restoration Spain and France”, on which she has been working with Dr Richard Meyer Forsting (St Andrews), which was first presented at the conference The Price of Peace. Modernising the Ancien...

• Joint Research Seminar for Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics

  13 March 2017, 15:15 - 16:45

  This seminar will take place on Monday from 3.15 pm to 4.45 pm in the Divinity Library in King’s College. All are welcome, and it is expected that Masters and PhD students in Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics will attend regularly. 13th March: Chris Brittain, ‘Partnership not Dialogue: Lent...

• Religious Studies Research Seminar

  07 March 2017, 16:00 - 17:30

  Prof Kecia Ali (Boston), "Contesting Muhammad"   Following her research into how the biography of Muhammad has developed as a genre since the seventh century to current times, Prof Ali concludes that “In the twenty-first century, it makes no sense to speak of Muslim views of Muhammad in opposition to Western or Christian...

• Research Seminar in Systematic Theology

  06 March 2017, 15:15 - 16:45

  This seminar offers an opportunity for sustained reading of and engagement with one of the most important figures in the Lutheran Reformation and with one of the earliest systematic works in the Lutheran tradition – Philip Melanchthon’s Loci Communes of 1521. Text: Philip Melanchthon, Commonplaces (Loci Communes 1521), Translated by Christian...

• Postgraduate Research Talk

  01 March 2017, 15:00 - 16:00

  Mr Davide Monaco (Aberdeen) Title: "A new account of the objective-formal distinction in Spinoza’s parallelism theory"

February

• Religious Studies Research Seminar

  28 February 2017, 16:00 - 17:30

  Dr Seyed Mustafa Azmayesh (the Nematollahi-Gonabadi Sufi order)