Event Archive

2015

March

• CEMS Research Seminar

  26 March 2015, 17:15 - 19:00

  Joint seminar with RIISS Helen Pierce, ‘Union and Identity in the English Portraiture of James VI and I’

• Postgraduate History Seminar Series

  23 March 2015, 17:00 - 19:00

  The final seminar for the Postgraduate History Seminar Series before the Easter vacation will take place on Monday 23rd March at 5pm in CB202. Our speaker will be Joshua Carroll of the University of Aberdeen, who will be presenting a paper titled: Philo and the Gymnasium of Alexandria, an institution of Greco-Roman Paideia.The talk will be followed by a...

• Systematics Seminar

  19 March 2015, 14:15 - 15:15

  Dr Justin Stratis of Trinity College, Bristol will be giving a paper entitled: ‘A Person’s a Person, No Matter how Divine? The Question of Univocity and Personhood in Richard of St. Victor’s De Trinitate’ The session will start at 2.15 pm in the Humanity Manse, and all are warmly welcome.

• Fallen Animals: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

  19 - 20 March 2015

  Following the success of the Fall Narratives project in 2014, this workshop will explore the theme of fallen animals.

• CEMS Research Seminar

  18 March 2015, 13:00 - 14:30

  Guy Rowlands (St Andrews), ‘The Sinews of War, the Sun King, and the Financial Burdens and Perils of being a Superpower’

• Religious Studies Research Seminar

  16 March 2015, 16:00 - 17:30

  Dr Martin Mills (University of Aberdeen) will discuss:  “Time, Millenarianism and Kingly Authority in Tibetan Myth: Rethinking the Longue Duree” All are welcome!

• Aberdeenshire Theological Club Annual Open Lecture

  16 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:30

  The 2015 Open Lecture of the Theological Club will be given by Dr Helen Bond of New College, Edinburgh. Helen Bond is Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in the society and culture...

• CEMS Research Seminar

  11 March 2015, 13:00 - 14:30

  Rachel McGregor (Robert Gordon), ‘What’s in a nomen?: Readers’ marks and Humanist Identity Formation in Lily’s Grammar’

• Postgraduate History Seminar Series

  09 March 2015, 17:00 - 18:30

  Our speaker is Mary Hardy of the University of Aberdeen, who will be presenting a paper titled: 'A Love of Piety Wherever it is Found’: The seventeenth-century reception of Francis de Sales. The talk will be followed by a brief Q & A session and our customary trip to the Machar.

• G. O. Sayles Memorial Lecture on Mediaeval History, 2015

  09 March 2015, 17:00 - 18:00

  Professor Stefan Brink (Director, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen) will be presenting a paper entitled The Concept (and Denial) of the Early Mediaeval Germanic Free Peasant.