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Undergraduate Prize Winners in History of Art
Congratulations to the following undergraduate students, who have won prizes for their work in History of Art for the 2014-15 academic year: Debora Bertoldi and Marina McCrory were jointly awarded the Felicia Murray Lefebvre Prize. This annual prize is awarded for the best essay submitted by any Level 2 student in History...
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Dr Fern Insh receives the Principal's Prize for Public Engagement
Dr Fern Insh, who recently received her doctorate in History of Art from the University of Aberdeen, has been awarded the Principal's Prize for Public Engagement with Research in the Early Career Researcher category. Principal Sir Ian Diamond presented Fern with a certificate and prize on 31 May at a ceremony...
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PhD success for Aberdeen Art Historian
Congratulations to Aaron Thom on his recent, successful PhD viva! Aaron defended his research, "Caravaggism in Rome and Naples: Case Studies in Connoisseurship", which was supervised by Mr John Gash. Aaron's thesis deals with some infrequently studied followers of the revolutionary Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). Investigations pertaining to many...
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History of Art PhD student to present her research at international conference
PhD student Jasmina Zaloznik has been selected to present the research she conducted this past year for her dissertation at an international conference on Neue Slovenische Kunst (New Slovenian Art) at the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, 19-21 June 2015. The conference will feature prominent theorists on contemporary visual culture and...
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Art historian's research uncovers cultural links between East and West
An Aberdeen art historian has demonstrated that throughout the Cold War artists on both side of the Iron Curtain remained closely connected, despite the commonly held notion that there was deep division between East and West.
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Aberdeen academic to speak at Polish national celebration
An Aberdeen historian will address the highest court in Poland as part of celebrations to mark the anniversary of the signing of a constitution acknowledged as a revolutionary document in the political history of the world.
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Scottish Crucible success for Aberdeen academic
Dr. Amy Bryzgel is one of 30 early-career researchers, selected from a pool of 102 applicants, to attend this year’s ‘Scottish Crucible,’ the professional and personal leadership development programme created by NESTA (http://www.nesta.org.uk) for experienced post-doctoral researchers and those in their first academic position. The scheme brings together talented researchers from a range...
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PhD student publishes paper in Synthese
Congratulations to 2nd year PhD student Peter Hartl whose paper 'Modal scepticism, Yablo-style conceivability, and analogical reasoning' has been accepted for publication in Synthese!
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Dr Amy Bryzgel to deliver lecture at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw
On April 16, Amy Bryzgel will deliver the closing lecture for the exhibition “Natalia L.L.: Secretum et Tremor” at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Poland. The lecture is entitled “Natalia L.L.: Intimate Transfigurations,” and will focus on the manner in which the Polish artist’s work crosses...
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Workshop with Tanja Ostojic
On April 1st, the renowned Serbian feminist performance artist Tanja Ostojic visited the University of Aberdeen and gave a workshop about Misplaced Women?. Over twenty students and staff from disciplines such as Film & Visual Culture, History of Art, Scandinavian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and sculpture...