Event Archive

2015

January

• Classics & Patristics Reading Group

  22 January - 28 May 2015

  Reading Sophocles’s Antigone During the Spring term the Classics & Patristics Reading Group will be reading and translating part of the Greek text of Sophocles’s Antigone.  The group will meet on Thursdays, 1.00-2.00 p.m., in HMG1, the seminar room on the ground floor of Humanity Manse.  The first meeting will be...

2014

December

• Doctrine and Ethics I: The Challenge of Bonhoeffer's Theology

  12 - 13 December 2014

  A two day conference supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the University of Aberdeen Department of Divinity and Religious Studies.

November

• The Art History Seminar

  26 November 2014, 16:15 - 17:30

  Lindsey Vyse of the Deparment of History of Art will give a paper entitled “Firmness, Commodity and Delight: Four Case Studies of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres”. All are welcome.   

• Philosophy PhD Work in Progress Seminar

  26 November 2014, 13:00 - 17:00

  Balint Kekedi will give a talk entitled “The linguistic model of perceptual cognition in Cartesian Natural automatons” as part of the Philosophy PhD Work in Progress seminar series.

• Philosophy Colloquium Seminar

  19 November 2014, 15:00 - 17:00

  Knox Peden will give a talk entitled “The History of Spinozism as a Philosophical Problem” as part of the Philosophy Colloquium seminar series.    

• Poles Apart? A model for Polish community integration in Scotland

  17 November 2014, 19:00 - 21:00

  Part of the BEING HUMAN FESTIVAL organised by the University of Aberdeen

• Philosophy PhD Work in Progress Seminar

  12 November 2014, 15:00 - 17:00

  Current PhD student Andreas Fjellstad will give a talk entitled "How to harmonize disharmonious terms" as part of the Philosophy department's 'PhD Work in Progress' Seminar series.  All welcome.

• Philosophy PostDoc Work in Progress Seminar

  05 November 2014, 15:00 - 17:00

  Casper Hansen will give a talk entitled “The Two Envelopes Paradox” as part of the Philosophy Work in Progress seminar series.

October

• The Freedom of a Christian Ethicist: The Future of a Reformation Legacy

  24 - 25 October 2014

  A Christian Ethics conference taking place from October 24th - October 25th. Sponsored by the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics and the Department of Divinity and Religious Studies.

• The Director's Cut: Thomas Weber and Niki Stein in conversation with Alan Marcus

  13 October 2014, 18:00 - 23:59

  In this Director's Cut event, Professor Alan Marcus will discuss the genre of historical dramatisations with Weber and Stein, focusing in particular on WWI films.