Event Archive

2015

March

• The Art History Seminar Together with Flim Studies

  04 March 2015, 16:15 - 17:30

  This term’s third meeting of the Art History Seminar, jointly sponsored with Film Studies and Visual Culture, and the Aberdeen Centre for Russian and East European History, will take place in KCG7 on Wednesday, 4 March 2015 at 4.15 pm Dr Amy Bryzgel (Department of History of Art) will give a...

February

• William Elphinstone and Scotland's first books

  26 February 2015, 18:00 - 19:00

  Lower Ground Floor Seminar Room, Special Collections Centre, The Sir Duncan Rice Library A talk by Professor Jane Stevenson, Regius Chair of Humanity. This talk begins by asking 'what is an early Scottish book'? After a brief look at the history of books in Scotland, Professor Stevenson will turn to a consideration...

• Between Metaphysics, Theology and Aesthetics: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Early Modern Religious Thought

  20 February 2015, 13:30 - 16:30

  Hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies Friday 20 February 2015, 1.30-4.30 Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 1 (7th floor)   1.15 Lunch and Coffee/Tea 2.00-2.45 Dr Giovanni Gellera (University of Glasgow) “Hoc est corpus meum”: there is not more than what meets the eyes. The origins of natural law thinking in Protestant...

2014

October

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  Director's Cut with Thomas Weber and Niki Stein

  13 October 2014, 18:00 - 20:00

  Join us for the launch of Series 8 Director's Cut. The event will be in-conversation with Dr Alan Marcus.

September

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  Unbound Feet: The Changing Status of Chinese Women, c. 1890-1950

  26 September 2014, 13:00 - 14:00

  For almost one thousand years, 90 per cent of Chinese women had their feet bound to achieve an artificial smallness that corresponded to an ideal of beauty, but restricted movement and caused immense pain and suffering.