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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...
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History of Art Undergraduate Prize Winners 2016
Congratulations to the following undergraduate students, who have won prizes for their work in History of Art for the 2015-16 academic year: Kinga Peszko was awarded the Felicia Murray Lefebvre Prize. This annual prize is given for the best essay submitted by any Level 2 student in History of Art as part...
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University's 'hidden treasures' showcased in new book
A newly published book will highlight some of the University of Aberdeen's 'hidden treasures' that are part of one of the University's Library's most significant collections of books gifted to the institution more than 400 years ago
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Aberdeen Philosophy Climbs University League Tables
Aberdeen Philosophy ranks 2nd in Scotland and 12th in the UK in the Guardian's 2017 University League Tables!
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BBC TV Appearance for History of Art's Fern Insh
Dr Fern Insh, Research Fellow in History of Art, will feature on the final episode of Scotland: The Promised Land – a three-part series exploring Scotland's social and political changes in the years following World War One. Fern will discuss the impact of war on the art of the Montrose-born sculptor...