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Marischal College in its Global & International Context, c. 1600-1860
-Professor William Naphy will discuss the global and institutional history of Marischal College from its founding to the union of 1860. Open to students and offer holders. Online Event.
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'Women's' and 'Men's' Sports Categories: Are They Ethically Justified?
-In this talk Dr Federico Luzzi will examine some of the moral issues arising from sex segregation in athletic competitions. Open to students and offer holders. Online Event.
March
2020
December
November
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University of Aberdeen History of Art Department Autumn 2020 Research Seminar Series
-Virtual Veronese: Immersive Storytelling at the National Gallery
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Aberdeen Global Conversations on Leadership Series
-Centre for Global Security and Governance
September
May
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'Northern Peripheries' Digital Conference
-Online conference to celebrate the launch of the CfSS's new student-led journal, Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies.
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series
-This event was cancelled
Cameron Stewart: “Not so Neutral Nordics: Scandinavia, Neutrality and the First World War”
April
March
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-This event was cancelled
Allan Macinnes (University of Strathclyde): ‘Globalisation happened on Loch Craignish in 1720’
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series
-This event was cancelled
Matt Lee: “The Transatlantic World of William Shand: The Epistolary Networks of Slavery”
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-This event was cancelled
Sarah Roddy (University of Manchester): ‘Pray for the donor: Money and the material in the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921'
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-This event was cancelled
‘Northern Peripheries’: Apardjón launch conference Programme to be circulated separately
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Conference: Northern Peripheries
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Launch of Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies, the CfSS's new open-access student-led journal.
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
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Dr Hannah Burrows (Aberdeen) Showered with Praise: Weatherscapes in Late Tenth-Century Skaldic Verse
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-This event was cancelled
Catherine Cox (University College Dublin): ‘“Tending to unsettle the Belief of a Catholic Prisoner”: Caplains, Prison Regimes, and the Mind in Mid Nineteenth-Century Ireland’
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series
-Marko Kerr: “Wartime propaganda collaboration between the SS and the Associated Press”
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-Jane Rendall (University of York): ‘Correspondence and Community: Maria Edgeworth's Scottish Friends'
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-Tom Barlett (University of Aberdeen): ‘1798 Rebellion: Three contexts and a possible solution’
February
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Dr Triin Laidoner ‘Wetting’ the Mothers’ Mounds in Egils saga Skallagrímssonar? A Study of kumbla brjótr in Egill’s lausavísa (no. 4) Abstract: Dísir are accepted by many scholars to represent dead foremothers who were widely known and celebrated in Scandinavia. It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that the activities revolving around them were at least initially...
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick (Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University): ‘There was no harm about her if she were not married’: Bad Bridget and deviant Irish motherhood in North America, 1838-1918’
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-Gerry Carruthers (University of Glasgow): ‘Kirk and Nation in Robert Burns’
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Prof Lesley Abrams (Balliol College, Oxford) The Religious Life of Viking Armies
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School information session on work placement or volunteering
Calling all Divinity, History, History of Art and Philosophy students at Level 3... Have you already secured, or are you planning to secure an internship, work placement or volunteering position over the summer? Would you like to receive academic credit for completing your summer opportunity? There is a short session on...
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-Samantha Walton (Bath Spa University): 'The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought'
January
2019
November
October
September
May
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar Series
-Summer 2019
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar Series
-Summer 2019
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar Series
-Summer 2019
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February
2018
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November
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History PG Seminar Series
-Title: Literary Engineers, 1750-1900 Speaker: Ellen Packham
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History PG Seminar Series
-Title: Scottish Political Exile, 1400-1500 Speaker: Douglas Smith
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Centre for Scandinavian Studies Seminar Series
-The next paper in the Centre for Scandinavian Studies seminar series will take place on Tuesday, 20 November, 4pm, in CB203, when Dr Dale Kedwards (University of Southern Denmark) will talk about 'Vikings and the Medieval Future of Space Exploration'. As ever, all are very welcome to attend, and if...
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History PG Seminar Series
-Title: Job Hunting in Academia Speaker: Professor Robert Frost
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History PG Seminar Series
-Title: Using Archives Speaker: Dr Lisa Collinson
October
June
May
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Hay of Seaton Memorial Talk
-As part of the May Festival, Dr Beth Lord will deliver an illustrated talk on ‘Spinoza’ with a focus on the ideas that derive from the Jewish tradition of thought. She will introduce Spinoza’s life and work, and discuss how his concept of economic equality derives from the Hebrew concept...
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
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North East of Scotland Postgraduate History Conference
-This one day conference will feature a wide range of postgraduate research and will take place at the magnificent Hopsitalfield House in Arbroath. The event is completely FREE to all PG students. Catered lunch, dinner, and a wine reception are all included. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage...
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
April
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Dissertation and Beyond: Roundtable with PhD, Masters Students and Faculty.
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ACREEH Symposium
-Revolution and Peace in Eastern Europe - Marking the Centenary of the end of the First World War
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Please join the History PG Seminar Series as we welcome Dr Colin Barr for a paper titled “Ireland’s Spiritual Empire”. Dr Barr will be discussing his current research project which considers how the Irish Catholic clergy around the globe used religion as a means of social control over Irish Diasporic...
March
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CISRUL talk: Alejandra Mancilla
-On Wednesday, March 28th, at 2pm in the Old Senate Room, CISRUL will be hosting Alejandra Mancilla of the University of Oslo to talk about her recent work, The Right of Necessity. This work draws on accounts of justice by thinkers such as Aquinas, canon lawyers, and early modern rights...
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
February
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Professor Stefan Brink will be talking about “The Use and Mis-Use of Uppsala” (in i.a. History and Politics).
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
January
2017
December
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
November
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
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Ross Sinclair In Conversation with John Morrison
-This free event is during the final week of the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery's current exhibition featuring Landseer’s ‘Monarch of the Glen’ and a contemporary response from artist Ross Sinclair. Sinclair will be in conversation with Professor John Morrison to discuss his own work in relation the wider context of...
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Martin Luther: Manhood and Pugilism
-Please register via Eventbrite: Professor Roper's recent book on Martin Luther provides a critical reassessment of the German Reformer during the anniversary of his alleged 'posting of the 95 theses' on a church door in Wittenberg. Luther, not the 'deus ex machina', and not the benign reformer, but a manipulative and...
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Commemorating the Anniversary of the Russian October Revolution
-ACREEH in Cooperation with the Friends of the Library Wed 8 November 2017, 19.30-21.00 in the Seminar Room of the Special Collection Centre, Sir Duncan Rice Library, Lower floor Professor Tony Heywood: Leith, Gallipoli and the Russian Revolution Professor Paul Dukes: Aberdeen and the Russian Revolution Followed by a TV mini-documentary: Russia under Soviet Power...
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
October
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018
-Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)
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The Art History Seminar
-Liz Louis, Curator of Fine Art, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums 'Stay Light on Your Feet! An Aberdeen Graduate's Story So Far'
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The World Knew - Jan Karski's Mission for Humanity
-Exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen 16th October - 5th November 2017
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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
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History Department Work in Progress Lunchtime Seminar
-Discussion with Dr Heidi Mehrkens of her article “Heroic Heirs. Monarchical Succession and the Role of the Military in Restoration Spain and France”, on which she has been working with Dr Richard Meyer Forsting (St Andrews), which was first presented at the conference The Price of Peace. Modernising the Ancien...
2016
November
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History Department Work in Progress Lunchtime Seminar
-Discussion of Dr Jackson Armstrong chapter “Earth and Stone”, from the monograph England’s Northern Frontier.
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Art History Seminar
-Dr. Suzanne Fraser, University of Melbourne, will give a paper entitled:Displays of Union: Scottish Art and British Identity in Australia It will broadly illustrate the role of Scottish visual culture in forming an enduring Britishness in Australian society – which also contributed to Indigenous dispossession. A L L W E L...
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Centre for Early Modern Studies Seminar
-Literacy 'under the Lock': Education, Spirituality and Enclosure in Dominican Reform Convents Marie Luise Ehrenschwendtner (University of Aberdeen, Divinity/Church History)
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Public Roundtable "Still Home Abroad? Polish Migration to Scotland after Brexit"
-How does the EU referendum result affect the Polish community in Scotland, and what are people’s responses? Integration of Poles has been a success story, and Scotland’s economy has benefited from migration. People born in Poland have overtaken all other foreign nationalities in the UK for the first time. Academics...
October
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Art History Seminar
-The first meeting of the Art History Seminar this term will be at 4.15 pm on Wednesday 26 October 2016 in room CB 203, 50 College Bounds. Dr Sandra Cardarelli, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art, will give a paper related to the forthcoming book which...
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History Department Work in Progress Lunchtime Seminar
-Discussion of Prof. Karin Friedrich’s chapter “Citizenship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, in: Dialogue with Europe. A hermeneutics of values, vol. 3, Political Values: The Commonwealth of Two Nations, red. J. Axer, A. Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz, (forthcoming in Polish, in print, Warsaw)
September
2015
October
September
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The Alexander Souter Memorial Lecture on Late Antiquity
-THE ALEXANDER SOUTER MEMORIAL LECTURE ON LATE ANTIQUITYSchool of Divinity, History & Philosophy, University of Aberdeen2015/16"Saint Perpetua of Carthage, Early Christian Martyr"by Professor Francis Newton, Duke University, North Carolina, USA Friday, 25 September, 2015, 4 p.m.Lower Ground Floor Seminar RoomThe Sir Duncan Rice Library This lecture will be of interest to students...
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Art History Seminar
-Dr Malcolm Jones (University of Sheffield) will present a paper entitled "German Students' Friendship Books: Sampling a Wealth of Neglected Early Modern Imagery", on Wednesday 23 September, in College Bounds CB203, from 4.15pm. Dr Jones's work on Alba Amicorum (friendship albums) produced by German students of the sixteenth and seventeenth...
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Germans in Britain - Lunchtime Talk
-To round off the 'Germans in Britain' exhibition, there will be two German-themed talks in the Event Space of the Sir Duncan Rice Library on Wednesday 23rd September, 1-2pm. Professor Karin Friedrich will be presenting an overview of the long history of German-British contacts at Aberdeen, a city closely connected...
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Postgraduate Taught Induction
-All new Postgraduate Research students within DHP are invited to this informative induction event.
May
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Centre for Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Professor Clunies Ross is going to talk about:Autography in late medieval Icelandic sagasDate: Thursday 21st of MayTime: 4 pmVenue: CB 009All are welcome.
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar Series
-Stefan Brink will be presenting a paper on "Prohibitions of pagan cult and rituals in medieval Scandinavian Laws", which is based on an article he is writing for one of the volumes of the forthcoming Pre-Christian Religion of The North (3 vols), which is meant to replace Jan de Vries, "Altgermanische Religionsgeschicte"...
April
March
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CEMS Research Seminar
-Joint seminar with RIISS Helen Pierce, ‘Union and Identity in the English Portraiture of James VI and I’
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Postgraduate History Seminar Series
-The final seminar for the Postgraduate History Seminar Series before the Easter vacation will take place on Monday 23rd March at 5pm in CB202. Our speaker will be Joshua Carroll of the University of Aberdeen, who will be presenting a paper titled: Philo and the Gymnasium of Alexandria, an institution of Greco-Roman Paideia.The talk will be followed by a...
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CEMS Research Seminar
-Guy Rowlands (St Andrews), ‘The Sinews of War, the Sun King, and the Financial Burdens and Perils of being a Superpower’
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CEMS Research Seminar
-Rachel McGregor (Robert Gordon), ‘What’s in a nomen?: Readers’ marks and Humanist Identity Formation in Lily’s Grammar’
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Postgraduate History Seminar Series
-Our speaker is Mary Hardy of the University of Aberdeen, who will be presenting a paper titled: 'A Love of Piety Wherever it is Found’: The seventeenth-century reception of Francis de Sales. The talk will be followed by a brief Q & A session and our customary trip to the Machar.
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G. O. Sayles Memorial Lecture on Mediaeval History, 2015
-Professor Stefan Brink (Director, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen) will be presenting a paper entitled The Concept (and Denial) of the Early Mediaeval Germanic Free Peasant.