Event Archive

2019

February

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  A Spring Series of Public Readings - 1

  19 February 2019, 18:00 - 19:30

  The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS A Spring Series of Public Readings by five of the most exciting contemporary Irish Writers

2018

April

• Friends Event Series: Friends of Aberdeen University Library AGM & Behind the Scenes of an Exhibition talk

  26 April 2018, 18:00 - 20:00

  A behind-the-scenes look at how an exhibition is curated. Jen Shaw, Exhibitions Officer for the Special Collections Centre gives a glimpse into how an exhibition comes about: from deciding on a subject or theme, through to the selection of objects, and finally to the week of installation. Fun, fascinating and,...

March

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  The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art

  27 March 2018, 14:00 - 15:30

  The Film and Visual Culture Research Seminar - The Synthetic Proposition: Conceptualism and the Political Referent in Contemporary Art

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  Contextualising Biotechnological Art: Living Biological Objects on the Pedestal

  15 March 2018, 15:30 - 23:55

  Film and Visual Culture Research Seminar   Oron Catts   Tissue culture and Art Project, Director of SymbioticA,  The University of Western Australia will give a talk entitled:   Contextualising Biotechnological Art—Living Biological Objects on the Pedestal Thursday, 15 March, at 3:30PM Room 224, Sir Duncan Rice Library   For more than two decades, world leading bio-artist and theorist Oron Catts has been using semi-living...

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  Hacking the Academic Job Market: The Essential Skills

  05 March 2018, 11:00 - 13:00

  Please join Professor Karen Kelskey and Kellee Weinstein for a special two-hour workshop.

February

• Friends Event Series: A 1594 Aberdonian Schoolmasters Guide to Politics

  15 February 2018, 18:00 - 20:00

  This talk will explore a remarkable manuscript held in Special Collections. In 1594 the Master of New Aberdeen’s Grammar School, Thomas Cargill (d. 1602), made a translation of the Flemish scholar Justus Lipsius’ bestselling 1589 Politicorum sive Civilis Doctrinae Libri Sex, the Six Books of Politics or Civil Doctrine.  Cargill enjoyed a...

January

• 'The Dooble Tongue': Modern Poetry and Translation

  20 January 2018, 09:30 - 16:30

  An Event of the Herbert Grierson Centre for Textual Criticism and Comparative Literary History

2017

November

• Friends Event Series: Behind the Scenes with our Collections - Bookbinding Session & Talk

  23 November 2017, 18:00 - 20:00

  Exclusive Friends' Event: Behind the Scenes with our Collections: Bookbinding Workshop & Talk

October

• Friends Event Series: King James VI and the Beheading Game

  30 October 2017, 18:00 - 20:00

  In this talk, Professor Limon shares his research into an intriguing historical episode that links early modern Aberdeen and Gdansk.

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  The WORD Centre for Creative Writing hosts Claire Keegan

  25 October 2017, 18:00 - 20:00

  Internationally renowned author, Claire Keegan, will be reading from and discussing her work.