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Beyond Caravaggio: John Gash to speak at the National Gallery, London
This month John Gash, Senior Lecturer in History of Art, will be speaking at two events being held at the National Gallery in London, in association with its current major exhibition, Beyond Caravaggio. On 17 November, John will present a paper, "Caravaggesque Paintings in Britain and Ireland: Curiosities and Conundrums", as...
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Professor Joachim Schaper elected IOSOT President 2016-2019
The School of Divinity, History and Philosophy is pleased to announce that Professor Joachim Schaper (Established Chair of Hebrew and Semitic Languages) has been elected to serve as President of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT) from 2016 to 2019. This appointment was confirmed during the business...
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University of Aberdeen awarded £1.2 million to support divinity research
We are pleased to announce that the University of Aberdeen has been awarded a £1.2 million endowment by the Kirby Laing Foundation to fund postdoctoral research in New Testament Studies. This grant will allow the University to offer a recurrent three-year postdoctoral research fellowship for talented emerging scholars to advance and...
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John Swinton's book Dementia: Living in the Memories of God wins Michael Ramsey Prize
We are pleased to announce that Professor John Swinton has been awarded the 2016 Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing for his book Dementia: Living in the Memories of God. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, presented the award to Professor Swinton at a ceremony during the Greenbelt festival on the 28th of August 2016....
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Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving for The Revd Canon Professor John Webster
I am writing to notify you of the date, time and location of the Service of Remembrance and Thanksgiving for The Revd Canon Professor John Webster: it is to be held on Saturday, August 27th, at 11:00 a.m., at Holy Trinity Church, South Street, St Andrews. Dr Rowan Williams will...
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Prestigious Carnegie PhD Scholarship for History of Art graduate Wendy McGlashan
Wendy recently graduated from the University of Aberdeen with a first class honours degree in History of Art. She will be returning to us in September to begin her doctoral research project, "Enlightenment Society Observed", which will examine the life and career of the Edinburgh artist and barber-surgeon, John Kay...
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Aberdeen alumnus appointed to leading seminary role
A University of Aberdeen alumnus has been appointed to a prestigious role with a prominent US theological institution. Joel Green, who was a postgraduate student at the University’s School of Divinity in the 1980s, has been appointed Provost of Fuller Seminary in California. Professor Green was awarded a PhD in...
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New Publication in History of Art
"Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in the Dioceses of Aberdeen and Moray", edited by History of Art's Professor Jane Geddes, is the latest volume of conference transactions published for the British Archaeological Association (BAA). Drawing on papers presented at the BAA's Annual Conference in 2014, held at the University of...
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PhD Success for Art Historian Michelle Foot
Congratulations to History of Art's Michelle Foot, for successfully defending her PhD thesis on "Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art between 1860 and 1940". Supervised by Professor John Morrison, Michelle's research emphasises the direct cultural impact which the Modern Spiritualist movement had upon Scottish art and artists of the late nineteenth...
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Leverhulme Success!
The Leverhulme Trust will fund a 3-year international research network entitled "What's So Special about First-Person Thought?" led by Dr Stephan Torre. The University of Aberdeen will serve as the lead institution in a research network that also includes ConceptLab at the University of Oslo (lead: Prof Herman Cappelen), Institut...