Event Archive

New Technologies for Achieving Low Carbon Economies: Opportunities for Aberdeen and the North East of Scotland

To celebrate the official launch of the Centre for Energy Transition, the University of Aberdeen is delighted to host this online panel discussion on the opportunities that energy transition present for Aberdeen and the North East of Scotland.

Little Lecture: Sustainability transitions in tourism: the case of the Isle of Eigg, Scotland

Dr Piotr Niewiadomski Director of MSc Sustainability Transitions will host a sample lecture.

Little Lecture: The North Sea and net zero: How Geoscientists can contribute to the Energy Transition

Dr. Rachel Brackenridge, the Programme Director of the MSc Integrated Petroleum Geoscience will host a sample lecture.

Breaking the Ice Ceiling

This Earth Day (22 April), we are celebrating women in STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) with an online event featuring Dr Clare Bond, Dr Harriet Teare and Dr Stephanie Ordonez, who will speak about their participation in a global leadership programme which culminates in a voyage to Antarctica...

NARSS: Gesa Mackenthun

This event was cancelled

An academic polymath Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock) will speak on a topic that will touch upon the past and the present, North America, heritage and the world. 

NARSS: Linus Girdland Flink.

This event was cancelled

Aberdeen's own Linus Girdland Flink, new lecturer in Ancient Biomolocules will speak. 

NARSS: Jennifer Jones, 'Surviving the Ice Age: Adaptability, Resilience and Environmental buffering in a LGM Spanish refugium'

Jennifer Jones (Santander) says "It's about reconstructing Last Glacial maximum environmental conditions in the Cantabrian Refugium, to explore how it helped people and animals to survive there, and why it was so heavily occupied. It's isotope heavy, so definitely a crowd pleaser."

NARSS: Chris Fowler, 'Interpreting change and diversity in the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices of northeast England'

This event was cancelled

Chris Fowler (Newcastle) will speak on osteoarchaeology and perhaps Neolithic tombs. 

NARSS: Kate Franklin, 'Living the Silk Road everyday: archaeological research in medieval Armenia'

How do we live global cultures in the everyday? This talk will look briefly at my research in Armenia and explore how the everyday and the global were co-constructed in the middle ages (12th to 15th centuries  AD). I will lay out the question of a ‘Silk Road archaeology’ as...

NARSS: Elisabeth Niklasson,'Parallel pasts: archaeology and heritage policy in the EU'

The story of how the European Union, thrust into being without a past of its own, set out to create one, and how it went slightly awry.