Seminar Archive

2021

September

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  Biblical Studies Research Seminar

  29 September - 08 December 2021

  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...

• Theological Ethics Research Seminar

  27 September 2021, 15:00 - 17:00

  Christian Ethics as Prophecy in Turbulent Times

April

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  Art History Department Spring 2021 Research Seminar Series

  28 April 2021, 16:30 - 17:45

  Recursive Histories and American Physiognomies: Revisiting Walker Evans's American Photographs Stephanie Schwartz (UCL) This event will be hosted by Zoom; please email simon.constantine@abdn.ac.uk for joining instructions. 

March

• Art History Department Spring 2021 Research Seminar Series

  17 March 2021, 16:30 - 17:45

  Mary Magdalene in the Museum (Lieke Wijnia, Museum Catharijneconvent, The Netherlands)

• Centre for Knowledge and Society Seminar

  10 March 2021, 15:00 - 16:30

  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

• Centre for Knowledge and Society Seminar

  24 February 2021, 15:30 - 17:00

  Åsa Wikforss, (Stockholm) 'Democracy in the Post Truth Era'  Abstract: We are said to live in an era of Post Truth, defined as a time when objective facts are less important in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. We also live in a time where democracy...

January

• Philosophy of Religion PG/Faculty Seminar

  28 January - 13 May 2021

  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...

• New Testament Research Seminar

  27 January - 31 March 2021

  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...

• Theological Ethics Research Seminar

  25 January - 05 April 2021

  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...

• Practical Theology Research Seminar

  20 January - 31 March 2021

  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...