Event Archive

Rebecca Gill on Virtual Veronese

We welcome you to Rebecca Gill's talk on Virtual Veronese taking place November 25th. "Virtual Veronese is a research and development (R&D) project looking at how we can share research with a wider audience by using immersive technologies to explore new ways of telling stories. The project will enable us to...

Divine Ascent by Dr Joanna W Anderson

11th November 2020 at 19:30 GMT on Zoom "Mary Magdalen was popular in the late medieval Alps. Across the central European arc, images of the saint graced the walls, altars and glass windows of numerous parish and pilgrimage churches, functioning as indexical markers of faith but also crucially as evidence of...

Michael Tworek: A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism

A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism: Theory and Practice in Global History

Hans Hönes: Aesthetic Hypotheses. Winckelmann in the museum (c. 1761)

  To download the full programme click here. Wednesday 21 October 2020, 1 pm Hans Hönes (History of Art, University of Aberdeen) Aesthetic Hypotheses. Winckelmann in the museum (c. 1761) In order to get the access link to this seminar please register here.  

Andrew Gordon and Alasdair Hunter present "A Merry Note"

Andrew Gordon and Alasdair Hunter present "A Merry Note”, an online performance exploring correspondence in times of separation, isolation and absence, as explored through the lens of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and other contemporary sources. This virtual event will be the first screening of a performance made with Scottish actors under lockdown and will be followed...

'The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment' -- cancelled --!!

'The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment'

CEMS Annual Lecture

This event was cancelled

Brian Cummings - 'Petrarch and the Arts of Memory'

Miranda Anderson: 'Early Modern Distributed Cognition'

Miranda Anderson's new book, Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture draws out what was distinctive about medieval and Renaissance insights into (and superstitions about) the cognitive roles of the body and environment and examines how humanities topics are affected by new insights from the cognitive sciences.

Union and Its Legacies. Poland-Lithuania since 1386 A Symposium to mark the 450th anniversary of the Union of Lublin

Union and Its Legacies. Poland-Lithuania since 1386 A Symposium to mark the 450th anniversary of the Union of Lublin  Programme Friday 31 January 5:30pm Introduction (Robert Frost) 5:45: Formal Opening of the Centre (speeches from ambassadors) 6:15 pm Keynote Public Lecture Chair: Robert Frost (Aberdeen) Norman Davies (Oxford) ‘Polish’ Studies: Past, Present & Future. Reception and Buffet Saturday 1 February Keynote Lecture 9:30-10:30 Chair: Michael Brown (Aberdeen) Robert...

CEMS Research Seminar - Paul Botley (Warwick), 'Johannes Woverius of Hamburg (1574-1612) and the Idea of the Scholar'

Wednesday 6th November 1-2 pm. MacRobert 266 (and live broadcast via Blackboard Collaborate) Paul Botley (Warwick),  ‘Johannes Woverius of Hamburg (1574-1612) and the Idea of the Scholar’ Paul Botley is Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University. He has published widely on aspects of Renaissance...