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2017
October
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Friends Event Series: King James VI and the Beheading Game
-In this talk, Professor Limon shares his research into an intriguing historical episode that links early modern Aberdeen and Gdansk.
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The WORD Centre for Creative Writing hosts Claire Keegan
-Internationally renowned author, Claire Keegan, will be reading from and discussing her work.
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Event & Exhibition: Scottish PEN at 90 - Defending the freedom of writers
-A Pop-Up Exhibition and Opening event to celebrate 90 years of Scottish PEN The Sir Duncan Rice Library Monday 23rd October 5.30pm - 7pm
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Event & Exhibition: Scottish PEN at 90 - defending the freedom of writers
-A Pop-Up Exhibition and Opening event to celebrate 90 years of Scottish PEN The Sir Duncan Rice Library Monday 23rd October 5.30pm - 7pm
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The Societalization of Social Problems: Financial Crisis, and Media Phone Hacking
-Public lecture by Professor Jeffrey Alexander of Yale University.
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Friends Event Series: Dickens & the Marshalsea
-In this guest lecture at the University of Aberdeen, the eminent historian Jerry White explores the place of the Marshalsea in the life and fiction of the writer Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens’s life and writings were indelibly marked by his father’s indebtedness and eventual imprisonment in the Marshalsea Prison in the...
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From 9/11 to the border wall: premiere for new documentary from University filmmaker
-A documentary film exploring the issues behind America's planned border wall with Mexico and featuring an interview with a key figure behind the response to 9/11 will be premiered at the University of Aberdeen next week. ‘The New Colossus’ is the latest research film by Professor Alan Marcus, Chair in Film...
June
April
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Centre for the Novel Annual Lecture: William March's Company K - History, Memory, and Metafiction
-On the centenary of the day on which the United States of America formally joined the First World War by declaring war on Germany, this lecture explores the most daring and shocking novel about the war written by a serving American soldier.
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The Fictional First World War: Imagination and Memory Since 1914
-An International Conference at the Centre for the Novel