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2017
October
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Event & Exhibition: Scottish PEN at 90 - defending the freedom of writers
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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
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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
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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
March
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Music Research Seminar Series: Between Here and Nowhere
-Jamie Lawson University of Aberdeen
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Beyond Horizons (2017), Screening and Discussion
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Beyond Horizons is a programme of short films by artists questioning the governance of natural resources in Northern Norway and the High North. Approaching a range of issues from different and unfamiliar viewpoints, they tackle conflict over rights to the land and the sea, as well as climate change and...
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Music Research Seminar Series: Mapping the History of Performance Art in Eastern Europe
-Dr. Amy Bryzgel University of Aberdeen