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2017
May
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Joy & Prosperity Interdisciplinary Workshop
-Contemporary marketing narratives tell us that we need more in order to be happy while the prosperity gospel tells us that God will reward us with wealth for our faithfulness. On the other extreme, overly spiritualized theological treatments of joy may minimize the role played by material provision in human...
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Lecture series delivered by Professor William E. Connolly
-Presented by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society & the Rule of Law (CISRUL) Mon, 8 May Tues, 9 May Wed, 10 May Thur, 11 May 1-3pm 1-3pm 6-8pm 1-3 pm New Kings 14 New Kings 14 New Kings 10 Taylor C11 Sophocles, Spirituality and the Planetary Seminar: Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming PUBLIC LECTURE: Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled...
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Conference: 'Luther and the Political'
-Tuesday, May 2nd Session 113:30--‐15:00 “Sovereignty and Submission: The Violence of Christian Metaphysics”Prof Marius Mjaaland (University of Oslo)Session 215:30--‐17:00 “The End of the Two Realms? Christian--‐Muslim Dialogue from a Lutheran Perspective”Dr. Eva Harasta (Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin)Wednesday, May 3rdSession 39:30--‐11:00 “Mystical Foundations of Politics? Luther on God’s Presence and the Place...
April
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Thomas Reid's 307th Birthday Party!
26 April, 7th Floor of the Sir Duncan Rice Library - Thomas Reid's 307th Birthday Party! Schedule for the day: 10:30 - 11:30 "Reid on Identity: Nazis, Memory, and Personhood" by Tom Flint and James McHardy, The Wise Club (Aberdeen) 11:30 - 11:45 Tea and Coffee break 11:45 - 12:45...
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Gifford Lecture Series with Professor David Novak
-Athens and Jerusalem: God, Humans, and Nature.
March
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Seminar Conversation with Members of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches
-Seminar Conversation with Members of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, hosted by The Very Revd Prof. Iain Torrance (Pro-Chancellor of the University). This event brings together leading theologians and ecumenists from around the world to Aberdeen to discuss the current work of the World Council...
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Centre for the Study of Myth: Visting speaker
-Speaker: Dr Sara Kuehn Affiliation: University of Vienna Title: “Animal-Human Hybrids in Visual and Textual Representation” Abstract: Conceptions of hybrid creatures continue to intrigue, and to challenge our understanding of representations of the divine. Where depicted or described, they are often morphologically anomalous and specifically composite, comprising a combination of human and/or various...
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Philosophy Colloquium w/ Stephan Leuenberger (Glasgow)Title: Scrutability and the Problem of Cross-Family QuantificationAbstract: In Constructing the World, David Chalmers aims to defend strong reductionist claims he calls "scrutability theses". One such thesis says, roughly speaking, that every truth about the world could, in principle, be "read off" a complete list...
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One-day Symposium: Between East and West: Ukraine, Identity and Memory
-Participants:Professor Christoph Mick (University of Wawick)Remembrance in Ukraine and Lviv’s ‘divided memories’ Dr Olenka Pevny (University of Cambridge) Revizualizing the medieval and early-modern past in contemporary Ukraine Robert Frost (University of Aberdeen)Mykhailo Hrushevsky construction of the Ukrainian past