Event Archive

New Insights into Scottish Deathways

This multi-disciplinary conference aims to connect academics and practitioners to share insights and ideas across a range of topics, periods and perspectives relating to death and Scotland.

Baptism and Scriptural Hermeneutics in the Early Church

Biblical Studies Research Seminar Baptism and Scriptural Hermeneutics in the Early Church

Scandinavian Studies Seminar

Fictionalised Atrocity? The Complex Question of Types in Sturlunga saga

Art History Research Seminar: Seren Nolan

Seren Nolan (independent researcher)  "Feeling antiquity: women, classicism and sentement"

Silence and Eloquence on the Tribe of Ephraim in the First Three Christian Centuries

Biblical Studies Research Seminar Silence and Eloquence on the Tribe of Ephraim in the First Three Christian Centuries

Philosophy Colloquium Series: Fenrong Liu

For further details please contact: Dr Eilidh Beaton eilidhbeaton.com

Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Guest speaker: Prof. Celia Deane-Drummond

Guest speaker: Prof. Celia Deane-Drummond, Campion Hall, Oxford. Title TBA. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team in Microsoft Teams. You will already be a member of the Team if you have shown interest in the past. For new attendees, in Microsoft Teams, join the...

Scandinavian Studies Seminar

Nordic Legal Libraries: How Quantitative Analyses of Law Manuscripts Provide New Information on the Distribution and Storage of Legal Texts in the Medieval North

The One and the Many Conference

The One and the Many has been one of the great themes of theology, philosophy and mysticism, across a huge and very diverse range of cultures and traditions. The search for an ultimate unity – effected through a single unifying material, idea or agent – behind a world of phenomena...

Art History Research Seminar: Sarah Bromage

Sarah Bromage (University of Stirling) "Curating conversations: the role of art in university life"

The Monstrous, the Bible and Capitalism in the Video Games The Last of Us and Cyberpunk 2077

Biblical Studies Research Seminar The Monstrous, the Bible and Capitalism in the Video Games The Last of Us and Cyberpunk 2077

CEMS research seminar: Dr Iryna Klymenko

Iryna Klymenko is a historian of early modern Europe at Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. She has broad interests in interreligious and interethnic practices, history of corporeality, and interdisciplinary methods of historical research. Currently, she is completing her second book project, dedicated to the religious history of food and attire in the...

Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 7 ‘Eucharist, Racism, and Some Bodies’ & Epilogue Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team in Microsoft Teams. You...

CEMS Seminars Spring Term 2024 Dr Derrick McClure, Dr Paul Hulsenboom and Dr Izabela Curyłło-Klag

14 March 2025, 12.30-16.30 Symposium: Entanglements and Disentanglements: Towards A Transnational History of East Central Europe, Speakers: Dr Derrick McClure, Dr Paul Hulsenboom and Dr Izabela Curyłło-Klag

Applied History Roundtable Talks, Part 2

Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025

Café Sci: 'The World Wars of Disinformation', Aberdeen Art Gallery

Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025

Scandinavian Studies Seminar

How Editing Transforms a Text: The Case of Medieval Icelandic Law

Not an Echo but a Reverb: Transformative Dynamics and Aesthetic Figural Interpretation through the Allusive Reuse of the Akedah

Biblical Studies Research Seminar Not an Echo but a Reverb: Transformative Dynamics and Aesthetic Figural Interpretation through the Allusive Reuse of the Akedah

Applied History Roundtable Talks, Part 1

Global Security, Governance and Applied History Week, 11-14 March 2025

Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 6 ‘Enfleshing Struggle’ Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team in Microsoft Teams. You will already be a member...

Scandinavian Studies Seminar (Internal Members Only)

Chapter workshop

New Testament echoes in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

Biblical Studies Research Seminar New Testament echoes in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney

Philosophy Colloquium Series: Theron Pummer

"The Rules of Rescue: Core Ideas"

Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 5, ‘Turning the Subject’ Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team in Microsoft Teams. You will already be a...

Playing With Heritage - A' Cluich Le Dualchas / Game demo & talk by Kayleigh MacLeod and William Kavanagh

Please join us for a special lunchtime seminar with Kayleigh MacLeod (Abertay) and William Kavanagh (Abertay). Kayleigh and William will demonstrate their Waulking Simulator, and give a talk on the project which has brought it about, exploring games and cultural heritage, with particular reference to minority languages. All welcome! 

Enslavement in the Divine Economy: A Functional Analysis of Paul's Captivity for the Gentiles in Ephesians.

Biblical Studies Research Seminar Enslavement in the Divine Economy: A Functional Analysis of Paul's Captivity for the Gentiles in Ephesians.

CEMS research seminar: Dr Riccarda Suitner

26 February 2025, at 1 pm, Research Seminar: Dr Riccarda Suitner (LMU Munich): Venice and the Radical Reformation: an Italian Republic in European Context Taylor A36 and online (for the link please contact k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk)

Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series William Macao and the Politics of British Subjecthood in the Courts

Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Valerie Wallace (St Andrews) William Macao and the Politics of British Subjecthood in the Courts

Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 4 ‘Marking the Body of Jesus, the Body of Christ (Part II)’ Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team...

Centre for Autism and Theology Resourcing Christian Communities

Key to understanding autism are the senses. At the same time, church services are highly sensory experiences. What happens if we consider together autism, worship and liturgy, and the senses? Based on three years of interdisciplinary research on sensory aspects of worship, with a focus on autism, the research team...

Scandinavian Studies Seminar

Education, Education, Education: Danish Clergy and a French immigrant in 12th -century Denmark

Art History Research Seminar: Beth Welburn (Art of Protest Gallery)

Art in Retail: Managing a Commercial Art Gallery

Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Scott, Hogg and Espionage

Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Penny Fielding (Edinburgh) Scott, Hogg and Espionage

Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being

Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 3 ‘Marking the Body of Jesus, the Body of Christ (Part I)’ Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. To attend online, you will need to join the Theological Ethics Seminar Team...

Computational Explorations of Heritage and Culture : Lessons from the Field

Prof. Lia Costiner History of Art (Digital Art History) Computational Explorations of Heritage and  Culture : Lessons from the Field

Scandinavian Studies Seminar

Swedish Crash Course!

The Gospel of John: Philosophy and Creed

Biblical Studies Research Seminar The Gospel of John: Philosophy and Creed

'The Drunken Irishman': Defining a Nation in Early-Nineteenth Century Literature

Research Institute For Irish and Scottish Studies Spring Seminar Series Lucy Cogan (UCD) ‘The Drunken Irishman’: Defining a Nation in Early-Nineteenth Century Literature

Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being

Text: Copeland, M. S. (2nd ed., 2023). Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being, Second Edition. Fortress Press, available as an eBook via the library. Enfleshing Freedom, ch. 2 ‘Enfleshing Freedom’

Scandinavian Studies Seminar

Workshop: Conferences 

Benjamin Harshav's Theories of Metaphor: With Examples from the Bible

Biblical Studies Research Seminar

Theological Ethics Research Seminar: Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being

Enfleshing Freedom, Preface, Introduction, ch. 1 ‘Body, Race, and Being’                                 You may also like to watch this video lecture by Prof. Copeland from 2016.

CEMS research seminar: Dr Mirjam Hähnle

‘Urban Nature in City Utopias 1600-1750’ Mirjam Hähnle is a researcher at the German Historical Institute which she joined in April 2022. She is interested in early modern concepts of human-environment relations and debates about writing history in times of climate crisis. After studying History and German Studies in Freiburg (Germany), she...

Tartan and Beyond: Fashioning Identities in Historical Research and Museum Curation

Tartan and Beyond: Fashioning Identities in Historical Research and Museum Curation Dr Mhairi Maxwell (Curator, National Museums of Scotland) in conversation with Dr Cecilia Brioni (Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen) 

Art History Research Seminar: Rebecca Mellor

This event was cancelled

Rebecca Mellor (Science Museum): "Seeing Things Queerly" Rebecca Mellor is Curator of Art and Visual Culture at the Science Museum, London. Her research focuses on classical reception, sexual history in visual arts, digital humanities, and museum censorship. She is the founder and chair of the Science Museum Group's Gender & Sexuality...

Biblical Studies Research Seminar

Dr Madison Pierce (Western Theological Seminary)

Christianity and democracy: repairing the intellectual deficit : Dr Jonathan Chaplin (Cambridge)

Dr Jonathan Chaplin (Cambridge) is a well-known British political theologian who will be in Aberdeen this coming Wednesday 22 January at 2-3.30 in the Court Room to present a paper on the role of Christian nationalism in undermining Christian support for democracy. In more detail: Christianity and democracy: repairing the intellectual...

Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session Five

A panel featuring Michael Brown on 'The 1707 Union as an Act of Revolution', Clare Loughlin on 'Highland policy in Church and State after 1715', Brad Bow on 'Rethinking the Aberdeen Wise Club', and Sarah Sharp on 'Blackwood's Tory vision of Cultural Nationalism’, representing the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies

Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 12

Text selection: V, P17-P42

Practical Theology Research Seminar: Christmas Creativity

Dr Lucinda Murphy (Durham University) will lead us in a discussion about her PhD – The Varieties of Christmas Magic: An ethnography of festivity, identity and worldview in British life - which used creative methodologies. Hosted online, contact Dr Jennie Riley – jennifer.riley@abdn.ac.uk. 

Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 11

Text selection: Part V, Preface-P16

CFSS Annual Glöggfest

Join us in person for the Centre for Scandinavian Studies annual Glöggfest

Oh Holy Night: Performing the Nativity Scene in Late Medieval Art

Online Event

The Art History Research Seminar: Hans C. Hönes (Aberdeen)

Formalism, Disciplinarity and the Future of Art History

Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session Four

Marcel Garbos and Cameron Flint, PhD Training event

Philosophy Colloquium: Poppy Mankowitz

Title and abstract to follow. 

CEMS research seminar: Dr Michal Nowakowski

‘Enlightenment Travelogues’ Michal Nowakowski studied at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Department of Early Modern Polish Literature) and just finished his PhD. It appeared in 2023 in print under the title Ambassador at the Crossroads. The World of Values in the Diplomatic Manuals of Poland-Lithuania and their European Context.

EDI and Research

In conversation with Owen Walsh (DHPA Race Equality Champion), Neil Curtis (Museums and Special Collections) will offer a discussion concerning research resources and collections. Refreshments will be available at the DHPA events. Venue: CB202

Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 10

Text selection: IV, P38-Appendix

The Christianization of Scandinavia: Three Possible Ways of Approaching a Complex Theme

Join Dr Lukas Gabriel Grzybowski (Londrina) for a talk on the Christianization of Scandinavia

Practical Theology Research Seminar: What makes a good ethics application?

Members of the university Research Ethics team and the DHPA Ethics Committee will be joining us to provide an overview of ethics applications at Aberdeen, and explore what makes a good ethics application. Hosted online, contact Dr Jennie Riley – jennifer.riley@abdn.ac.uk. 

History Research Series: Dr Owen Walsh

'Internationalism, Americanism and Anti-racist Solidarity during the 1930s'

CEMS research seminar: Dr Brandi Adams

'More than Milton's Holinshed: The Phoenix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection' This talk will address the founding of the Arizona Book History Group and some of the material in The Pheonix Public Library's Alfred Knight Collection, 2300 rare books, many of which were published between 1300-1700. This collection has formed the...

Classical Association Scotland

Fiona Hobden (Open University) will offer a talk on Growing old in ancient Greece: Care, connections and community. Throughout October there are range of resources and events in celebration of Black History Month Venue: CB009 and Online.  Contact s.newington@abdn.ac.uk for the link. 

Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 9

Text selection: Part IV, Preface-P37

Convictions and Suspicions in Early Modernity: A Symposium in Honour of Professor William G. Naphy

In light of the significance of the work of Professor Bill Naphy, retiring in 2024 after nearly three decades at Aberdeen, Convictions and Suspicions in Early Modernity: A Symposium in Honour of Professor William G. Naphy, will be held in Aberdeen in the Sir Duncan Rice Library (Craig Suite) on...

Centre for Autism and Theology December Webinar

'Resourcing Christian Communities'

Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session Three

Marcel Garbos, representing the Centre for Polish-Lithuanian Studies

Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine: Rebecca Hamilton

'Moral Management and the Silencing of the Feminine in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Asylums and The Woman in White (1860)'

CEMS research seminar: Dr Sara Pennell

'Rewriting the early modern women's conduct book: Hannah Wolley's A Guide to Ladies (1668)’ In 1668 Hannah Wolley published her first (and, it turns out, only) non-recipe book: A Guide to Ladies and Gentlewomen.  This book survives in but one physical copy (in the Folger Shakespeare Library), and its rediscovery in...

The Centre for Autism and Theology on Radio 4

Radio 4's Sunday Worship - Professor Grant Macaskill

Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 8

Text selection: III, P43-General Definition of the Affects

Portages and Inland Waterways: Travel and Communication in Scandinavian Scotland

Join Professor Alexander Sanmark (UHI) for a discussion regarding communication and travel in Scandinavian Scotland

George Washington Wilson Centre: Research Seminar

"Ukraine's Heritage in Times of War"

The Art History Research Seminar: Jorge Lopez Malgor (University of Oviedo)

"The Recovery of a Multiple Heritage: Spanish Neo-Medieval Architecture in the Nineteenth Century" This is a hybrid event; please email karl.kinsella@abdn.ac.uk if you would like to join us online via MS Teams. 

Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine: Peter Bowler Talk

" J. Arthur Thomson: Aberdeen Professor and Public Intellectual"

Philosophy Colloquium: Peter Graham

Professor Peter Graham, Department of Philosophy, Program in Linguistics at the University of California, Riverside.

Practical Theology Research Seminar: Researcher Reflexivity

Reflexivity has become an important buzzword for researchers, but what does it actually look like in practice? And how does it relate to our previous conversation about sensitivity and self-care? Encouraged reading (NB – content warning for death): Erica Borgstrom & Julie Ellis (2020) Internalising ‘sensitivity’: vulnerability, reflexivity and death research(ers),...

History Seminar Series: Dr Alessandra Cecolin

Dr Alessandra Cecolin will present a Work-In-Progress on ‘The Agency of People Seeking Asylum in Aberdeen: The Micro-level Impact of Anti-Immigration Policies’. All welcome! 

Race and Gender

In celebration of Black History Month

Nordic Literature Week Read-Aloud

As part of Nordic Literature Week the Scandanavian Studies Seminar presents Freedom in the Nordics 

Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 7

Text selection: Part III, Intro to P42

Chapter Workshop: Saturn in Scandinavia (Internal Members Only)

Maryann Pierse hosts a chapter workshop regarding Saturn in Scandinavia 

Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session Two

Gildas: A Timeline of Roman Britain

Hay of Seaton Lecture: Prophetic Ethics, Reclaiming the Prophets for Ethical Discourse

Professor Steven Kepnes, Colgate University

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies

The New Voices series seeks to support and highlight the work of early career scholars in Irish and Scottish Studies. The webinars are aimed at scholars and postgraduate students at Aberdeen and further afield.

Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar: Week 6

Text selection: II, Postulates-P49

Publishing Workshop (Internal Members Only)

Dr Hannah Burrows chairs a publishing workshop that is open to internal members only.

The Art History Research Seminar: Émilie Oléron Evans (QMUL)

"Linda Nochlin, 'Art Historian Engagée'" Abstract: American art historian Linda Nochlin (1931-2017) spent a career refuting the universality of dominant artistic discourses and listening to the voice of the "other" in its many incarnations. Her dialectical and dialogical approach to her subject is characteristic of her engagement, a word borrowed from...

CEMS research seminar: Dr Aleksandra Ziober

‘Jan Stanisław Sapieha (1589-1635) and early modern mental health’ Aleksandra Ziober is assistant professor at the University of Wrocław where she works on the noble elites of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 17th century She had a postdoc position at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid focusing on the...

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies

The New Voices series seeks to support and highlight the work of early career scholars in Irish and Scottish Studies. The webinars are aimed at scholars and postgraduate students at Aberdeen and further afield.

CEMS Postgraduate Masterclass: Professor Alexandra Walsham

'Unravelling the Renaissance' This is a great opportunity to meet and work with a well-known and successful historian who will run a masterclass in cooperation with RIISS and History. Alexandra Walsham is Professor of Modern History. She served as Chair of the Faculty of History between 2019 and 2022. She was...

The Dr Joan MacCormack Lecture 2024

'Intimate Religion: Devotional Jewellery and the Reformation of Touch in Early Modern England'

Book launch: The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970-1330: Their Lives, Power, and Legacy

Dr Caroline Wilhelmsson’s Book launch: The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970–1330: Their Lives, Power, and Legacy

Centre for Autism and Theology October Webinar

The Centre for Autism and Theology are pleased to share that their next webinar will take place on the 24th October, 4-5:30pm (BST). Elizabeth Cochran will be presenting on 'Autistic Ethics: Moral community, empathy, and virtue.'  

Post Graduate Seminar Series: Session One

Between Home and Hel: Paranormal Evocations of Horror in Old Norse Literature

Practical Theology Research Seminar: Self-Care and Sensitive Research

Research can be isolating, hard work, and dangerous, and might involve managing sensitive subjects on a regular basis and in intimate ways. How can we care for ourselves well while undertaking such research? Encouraged reading (NB - Content warnings for death & suicide): Ben Fincham, Jonathan Scourfield & Susanne Langer (2008)...

Are We There Yet? A Future for the Digital Humanities

This workshop builds on themes from the lecture and demonstrates practical approaches to computational research in the digital humanities. Dr. Miller C. Prosser will demonstrate various tools and methods for recording, integrating, analyzing, and publishing digital research data using the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE) and will illustrate...

Digital Humanities Lecture and Workshop: Dr. Miller Prosser (U. of Chicago)

Dr Nathaniel Greene (Divinity) and Dr Karl Kinsella (Art History) invite you to the second of four lecture/workshop events as a part of our British Academy Talent Development project: Digitising Pre-Modern Material Cultures.  Dr. Miller Prosser (U. of Chicago, Director of Online Publications, Forum for Digital Culture) will be joining us...