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2022
October
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George Washington Wilson Centre- Next research seminar: Jon Blackwood (Gray's School of Art)
Join us for our next research seminar: Jon Blackwood (Gray's) will speak on "Cultural Ecologies & Curatorial Practices: Art from the Western Balkans, 2012-22".
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George Washington Wilson Centre- Reading Group Autumn 2022: 'Practice-based Research'
-Please join us for this semester's reading group, where we discuss recent research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. All welcome!
April
March
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Powis Gateway: Slavery and Memory in Old Aberdeen
-As part the University of Aberdeen’s ongoing work to recognise the legacies of historic slavery, please join us on the 30th of March for the online event Powis Gate: Slavery and Memory in Old Aberdeen. Powis Gate, located on Aberdeen’s King’s College campus, is the most tangible link between the University...
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Philosophy CEKAS Seminar: Prof Kathrin Glüer-Pagin (Stockholm)
-‘Reflections on Knowledge Resistance, Fact Polarization, and Motivated Reasoning’ Date- 30th March 2022, 3-4.30pm Talk about knowledge or fact resistance and polarization is everywhere in public debate. Such talk often remains loose and metaphorical, yet aims at capturing something important and potentially dangerous. In this talk, I shall reflect on how to...
January
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Practical Theology Research Seminar
-The Practical Theology Research Seminar begins this week on Wednesday 19th January, 4.00-6.00pm (UK time). Meetings will take place on MS Teams on alternate Wednesdays thereafter. Please see the attached poster for full details and dates. Note that our first session will feature our very own Prof John Swinton! He...
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Systematic Theology Research Seminar Spring 2022
-Seminars will be held on Thursdays in term-time from 2.30pm to 4.00pm. There are two distinct elements to our Research Seminar this seminar: a regular online discussion of the work of Eberhard. All students and all faculty are welcome. It is expected that PhD and MTh students in Systematic Theology will attend...
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Seminar: Dr Marie Guillot (Essex)
-Dr Marie Guillot (Essex) ‘Dishonesty and Bullshit’ Date- 16 February 2022, 3-4:30pm
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CEKAS Seminar: Prof Lisa Eckenwiler (George Mason University)
-This seminar was cancelled
Prof Lisa Eckenwiler (George Mason University) Date- 2 March 2022, 3-4.30pm
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: The Theology and Ethics of the Christian Relation to Animals
-Time and venue 2-4 PM, Mondays, Divinity Library, King’s College Seminar text David L. Clough, On Animals: Vol. 1, Systematic Theology (London: T&T Clark, 2012) and David L. Clough, On Animals: Vol. 2, Theological Ethics (London: T&T Clark, 2019) Schedule 24 Jan., On Animals Vol 1, Intro and ch 1 31 Jan., On Animals Vol 1, Chs...
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CEKAS Seminar: Dr Natalie Ashton (Stirling)
-Dr Natalie Ashton (Stirling) ‘Productive Online Environments: Why Twitter Is (Epistemically) Better Than Facebook’ Encountering viewpoints that we disagree with can be difficult, but it can also, in the right circumstances, be productive; this idea is neatly captured by Jose Medina's term epistemic friction. But what are 'the right circumstances'? Especially in...
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CEKAS Seminar: Prof Chris Fraser (Toronto)
-Prof Chris Fraser (Toronto) ‘Finding a Way Together: Interpersonal Ethics in the Zhuāngzǐ’ The various threads of discourse preserved in the Zhuāngzǐ (3rd century BC) present a radical challenge to prevailing ways of thinking about ethics, whether in the texts’ own day or our own. The dominant stance in the Zhuāngzǐ is...
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Biblical Studies Research Seminar
-The spring 2022 Biblical Studies Research Seminar series will meet on Wednesdays, 15:30–17:00. Please see the attached schedule for all details. This seminar brings together researchers in Old Testament / Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and New Testament. Our schedule includes invited papers and a series of discussions around readings that...
2021
December
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Seminar: Samir Okasha
-Prof Samir Okasha (Bristol) ‘Scepticism, Evidential Holism and the Logic of Demonic Deception’ Abstract Sceptical arguments in epistemology typically employ sceptical hypotheses, which are rivals to our everyday beliefs so constructed that they fit exactly the evidence on which those beliefs are based. There are two ways of using a sceptical hypothesis to undermine...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
November
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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CEKAS Seminar: Tom Carson
-Prof Tom Carson (Loyola) ‘How Misplaced Trust and Distrust Create Misinformation and Enable Lying and Deception in Politics and Public Policy’ Abstract "A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both" (James Madison) “Everyone is entitled to his...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Seminar: Maria Rosa Antognazza
-Prof Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College, London) ‘The Distinction in Kind Between Knowledge and Belief’ Abstract Drawing inspiration from a well-attested historical tradition, I propose an account of cognition according to which knowledge is not only prior to belief; it is also, and crucially, not a kind of belief. Believing, in turn, is...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
October
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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CEKAS Seminar: Dominic Smith
-Dr Dominic Smith (Dundee) ‘Disastrous Communication: Walter Benjamin's “The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Forth”’ Abstract - February 1932, Berlin/ March 1932, Frankfurt: Walter Benjamin presents a live broadcast of a twenty-minute radio piece, ‘The Railway Disaster at the Firth of Tay’ (Die Eisenbahnkatastrophe vom Firth of Tay). - May 2018, Dundee: A...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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SOPHIA (DRS Women's Network): Events this term
-Sophia is a supportive space for women staff and students of all levels who are connected with theology/divinity/religious studies. We have amazing guest speakers from all over the world, we support your studies with workshops and learning events, and we run socials to connect you with other women in Aberdeen...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
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CEKAS Seminar: Sandra Leonie Field
-Dr Sandra Leonie Field (Yale-NUS) ‘Marx, Spinoza and True Democracy’ Abstract It is common to assimilate Marx's and Spinoza's conceptions of democracy. Indeed, Marx appears to have drawn his ideas of the naturalness of democracy and of the people's concrete power fairly directly from his study of Spinoza. In this paper, to the...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
September
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Practical Theology Research Seminar
-The theme for the Practical Theology Research Seminar this year is embodiment, and our meetings will take place on alternate Wednesdays, 4.00-6.00pm (UK time), beginning on 29th September. Please see the attached poster for full details. This term we will meet on MS Teams. For access to our virtual meeting space, please...
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Biblical Studies Research Seminar
-The autumn 2021 Biblical Studies Research Seminar series will meet on Wednesdays, 15:30–17:00. Please see the attached schedule for all details. This seminar brings together researchers in Old Testament / Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and New Testament. Our schedule includes invited papers and a series of discussions around readings that...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times
April
March
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Art History Department Spring 2021 Research Seminar Series
-Mary Magdalene in the Museum (Lieke Wijnia, Museum Catharijneconvent, The Netherlands)
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Centre for Knowledge and Society Seminar
-Heather Widdows (Birmingham) ‘My Body, My Self?' Abstract: That our bodies have become our very selves in a visual and virtual culture is one of the main arguments of Perfect Me. This is so widely believed that we often don’t recognise either that it is true (until it is pointed...
February
January
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Philosophy of Religion PG/Faculty Seminar
-The seminar will run as a weekly discussion of selected texts among faculty and research students within the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy. The theme for this session is ‘conscience’, as a locus for studying certain interrelations between biblical theology, natural religion, and the history of moral philosophy. Readings will...
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New Testament Research Seminar
-Select Wednesdays, 3:30–4:45pm (UK Time), MS Teams 27 January Prof. John Collins (Yale University) “Reflections on Apocalyptic and Apocalypticism 40 Years on from Semeia 14” 10 February Rachel Danley (University of Aberdeen) “Reworking Spatial Metaphors of Temple in Second Temple Judaism” Larissa Rosendale (University of Aberdeen) “Characterisation, Cosmology and Crystals: Gemstones in the...
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-The Theological Ethics Research Seminar for this term is "A Troubled Inheritance: Desire, Power and Theology Abused". The seminar will ask if—or how—we should read the works of a theologian tainted by moral failure, and will focus on the sexual scandals associated with Karl Barth, John Howard Yoder and Jean Vanier. This...
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Practical Theology Research Seminar
-Our seminar text is The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin by Lauren Winner (Yale University Press, 2018). The text is available through Primo here. Seminars will be held on alternate Wednesdays, from 4.00-6.00pm UK time. As with last term, all sessions will take place online on...
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
October
September
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Practical Theology Research Seminar
-Seminar text: Ghost Ship, A.D.A. France-Williams All welcome. All Practical Theology PhD students, (on-campus and distance) are expected to attend seminars regularly. Please see attached flyer for seminar dates and more information.
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New Testament Research Seminar
-All PG students are welcome. Please note that all New Testament PhD candidates (resident and distance) are expected to attend seminars regularly as able. Meetings and materials will be on MS Teams. For access and further information, please contact Dr J. Thomas Hewitt (jthomas.hewitt@abdn.ac.uk). Please see attached flyer for dates and...
May
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Practical Theology Online Research Seminar
-This term our text will be Saving Face: Enfacement, Shame, Theology, by Stephen Pattison (2013). Faces our all around us and are a significant theme in the Bible, think about the ‘face of God.’ Facebook is sometimes rather Fakebook, and shame is seen as ‘losing one’s face.’ Many of us...
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series
-This seminar was cancelled
Cameron Stewart: “Not so Neutral Nordics: Scandinavia, Neutrality and the First World War”
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Philosophy Colloquium: Tommaso Piazza (Pavia)
-This seminar was cancelled
Speaker: Tommaso Piazza (Pavia)
April
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Practical Theology Online Research Seminar
-This term our text will be Saving Face: Enfacement, Shame, Theology, by Stephen Pattison (2013). Faces our all around us and are a significant theme in the Bible, think about the ‘face of God.’ Facebook is sometimes rather Fakebook, and shame is seen as ‘losing one’s face.’ Many of us...
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Philosophy Colloquium: Joe Ulatowski (Waikato University)
-This seminar was cancelled
Speaker: Joe Ulatowski (Waikato University)
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series
-This seminar was cancelled
Ashleigh Black: “Death Does Not Become Her: Portraiture as Social Control in relation to the Canonical Five”
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Faculty and Postgraduate Research Seminar in Philosophy of Religion
-This seminar was cancelled
In 2019/20 the Seminar starts the first of two years of exploration of recent philosophical interpretations of the Apostle Paul in relation to questions of truth, knowledge and politics. This year will consider works by Alain Badiou and Jacob Taubes. In 2020/20, we will continue reading of works by Stanislas...
March
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-This seminar was cancelled
Allan Macinnes (University of Strathclyde): ‘Globalisation happened on Loch Craignish in 1720’
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Practical Theology Online Research Seminar
-This term our text will be Saving Face: Enfacement, Shame, Theology, by Stephen Pattison (2013). Faces our all around us and are a significant theme in the Bible, think about the ‘face of God.’ Facebook is sometimes rather Fakebook, and shame is seen as ‘losing one’s face.’ Many of us...
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History Postgraduate Seminar Series
-This seminar was cancelled
Matt Lee: “The Transatlantic World of William Shand: The Epistolary Networks of Slavery”
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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-This seminar was cancelled
During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-This seminar 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 seminar was cancelled
Dr Hannah Burrows (Aberdeen) Showered with Praise: Weatherscapes in Late Tenth-Century Skaldic Verse
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Philosophy Colloquium: Michael Beaney (Humboldt University)
-This seminar was cancelled
Speaker: Michael Beaney (Humboldt University)
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Faculty and Postgraduate Research Seminar in Philosophy of Religion
-This seminar was cancelled
In 2019/20 the Seminar starts the first of two years of exploration of recent philosophical interpretations of the Apostle Paul in relation to questions of truth, knowledge and politics. This year will consider works by Alain Badiou and Jacob Taubes. In 2020/20, we will continue reading of works by Stanislas...
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Divinity Joint Research Seminar
-This seminar was cancelled
A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘The Idealist View of Divine Action in Nature’ :: Dr Edward Epsen
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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-This seminar was cancelled
During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-This seminar 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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Philosophy Colloquium: Kerstin Andermann (Technical University Dresden/Luneburg University)
-This seminar was cancelled
Speaker: Kerstin Andermann (Technical University Dresden/Luneburg University)
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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...
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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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Divinity Joint Research Seminar
-A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘A Legacy of Misunderstanding: Spinoza’s Doctrine of God and the Charge of Pantheism in Modern Theology’ :: Dr Daniel Pedersen
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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...
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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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Practical Theology Online Research Seminar
-This term our text will be Saving Face: Enfacement, Shame, Theology, by Stephen Pattison (2013). Faces our all around us and are a significant theme in the Bible, think about the ‘face of God.’ Facebook is sometimes rather Fakebook, and shame is seen as ‘losing one’s face.’ Many of us...
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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...
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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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Faculty and Postgraduate Research Seminar in Philosophy of Religion
-In 2019/20 the Seminar starts the first of two years of exploration of recent philosophical interpretations of the Apostle Paul in relation to questions of truth, knowledge and politics. This year will consider works by Alain Badiou and Jacob Taubes. In 2020/20, we will continue reading of works by Stanislas...
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Divinity Joint Research Seminar
-A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘“Body theodicy”: Theological complicity in the bodily trauma of women’ :: Dr Katie Cross
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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...
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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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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...
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Philosophy Colloquium: Bradford Bow (Aberdeen)
-Speaker: Bradford Bow (Aberdeen)
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Divinity Joint Research Seminar
-A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘Debating forgiveness after conflict: Colombian conflict survivors, Matthew 18:21-35, and philosophical critics’ :: Dr Rob Heimburger
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New Testament Greek Reading Group
-During the spring term we will be reading a selection of texts from the undisputed letters of Paul. The schedule of readings is designed to give attendees exposure to several passages central to descriptions of the Apostle Paul’s thought (including his view of the sacraments) and to reconstructions of the...
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RIISS Seminar Series 2020
-Samantha Walton (Bath Spa University): 'The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought'
January
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Scandinavian Studies Seminar
-Chapter Workshop: Solveig
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Philosophy Colloquium: Giovanna Colombetti (Exeter)
-Speaker: Giovanna Colombetti (Exeter)
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Faculty and Postgraduate Research Seminar in Philosophy of Religion
-In 2019/20 the Seminar starts the first of two years of exploration of recent philosophical interpretations of the Apostle Paul in relation to questions of truth, knowledge and politics. This year will consider works by Alain Badiou and Jacob Taubes. In 2020/20, we will continue reading of works by Stanislas...
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Divinity Joint Research Seminar
-A series of research lectures in the spring semester on Wednesday mornings in the Divinity Library. This Seminar will profile the work of our post-doctoral research fellows in Divinity. ‘Pneuma and Descent according to Paul’ :: Dr J Thomas Hewitt
2019
December
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Faculty and Postgraduate Research Seminar in Philosophy of Religion
-In 2019/20 the Seminar starts the first of two years of exploration of recent philosophical interpretations of the Apostle Paul in relation to questions of truth, knowledge and politics. This year will consider works by Alain Badiou and Jacob Taubes. In 2020/20, we will continue reading of works by Stanislas...
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Classics & Patristics Reading Group
-Over the autumn term the Classics & Patristics Reading Group will be reading and translating the Latin text of some of the stories in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, starting with that of Daedalus and Icarus (Metamorphoses, Book VIII, lines 183-235). The group will meet on Thursdays, 1.00-2.00 p.m.,with the first two meetings,...
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Practical Theology Research Seminar
-The Practical Theology Research Seminar will run fortnightly on Thursdays, from 10am-12pm (beginning 3rd October) in HMG01, Humanity Manse. Our text is Courtney Goto’s Taking on Practical Theology (2018). Professor Goto is currently of Boston University, and this ground-breaking work has attracted a lot of attention in the field recently. While...
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Classics & Patristics Reading Group
-Over the autumn term the Classics & Patristics Reading Group will be reading and translating the Latin text of some of the stories in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, starting with that of Daedalus and Icarus (Metamorphoses, Book VIII, lines 183-235). The group will meet on Thursdays, 1.00-2.00 p.m.,with the first two meetings,...
November
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Classics & Patristics Reading Group
-Over the autumn term the Classics & Patristics Reading Group will be reading and translating the Latin text of some of the stories in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, starting with that of Daedalus and Icarus (Metamorphoses, Book VIII, lines 183-235). The group will meet on Thursdays, 1.00-2.00 p.m.,with the first two meetings,...
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Practical Theology Research Seminar
-The Practical Theology Research Seminar will run fortnightly on Thursdays, from 10am-12pm (beginning 3rd October) in HMG01, Humanity Manse. Our text is Courtney Goto’s Taking on Practical Theology (2018). Professor Goto is currently of Boston University, and this ground-breaking work has attracted a lot of attention in the field recently. While...
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Classics & Patristics Reading Group
-Over the autumn term the Classics & Patristics Reading Group will be reading and translating the Latin text of some of the stories in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, starting with that of Daedalus and Icarus (Metamorphoses, Book VIII, lines 183-235). The group will meet on Thursdays, 1.00-2.00 p.m.,with the first two meetings,...
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Faculty and Postgraduate Research Seminar in Philosophy of Religion
-In 2019/20 the Seminar starts the first of two years of exploration of recent philosophical interpretations of the Apostle Paul in relation to questions of truth, knowledge and politics. This year will consider works by Alain Badiou and Jacob Taubes. In 2020/20, we will continue reading of works by Stanislas...
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Being Divine: An Introduction to the Disciplines of Theology
-MA Theology and Religious Studies, Bachelor of Theology, and Bachelor of Divinity students are warmly invited to the following meetings that will be held in the Chaplaincy, on Tuesdays, from 10.00-11.30am. 19 Nov: Inter-disciplinary Colloquy
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Political Theology and the Christian Tradition
-In the first half-session of 2019/20, the Theological Ethics research seminar will focus on political theology and the Christian tradition. We will read several important historical texts in the tradition of Christian political thought, as well as Oliver O’Donovan’s The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology....
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Faculty and Postgraduate Research Seminar in Systematic Theology
-In this First Half-Session of 2019/20 the seminar will read and discuss the first volume of Karl Barth’s account of the doctrine of reconciliation as found in his Church Dogmatics, IV/1, The Doctrine of Reconciliation (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1958) [§§57-63]. Both German and English versions of the volume can be...