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2014
February
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King's Museum Curator Talk
-A free talk from Neil Curtis, co-curator of 'Fiji, Scotland and the Making of Empire'
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University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, with Special Guest Conductor: Professor James Jordan
-The acclaimed University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir performs their first concert of 2014 with Special Guest Conductor Professor James Jordan of Westminster Choir College, New Jersey, USA.
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Fail Better: Emak Bakia by Man Ray and Film by Samuel Beckett
-Fail Better is an evening of avant-garde visual culture from two Modernist masters, with screenings 'Emak Bakia' by Man Ray, alongside 'Film' by Samuel Beckett. Fail Better is an evening of avant-garde visual culture from two Modernist masters, with screenings 'Emak Bakia' by Man Ray, alongside 'Film' by Samuel Beckett.
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New ideas From Old Bones: The Origins of Early Humans in China?
-The Confucius Institute of the University of Aberdeen is delighted to announce a public lecture by Professor Fajun Li, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
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Gifford Lecture Series: Belfast, the Winter of Discontent and Science in a Sectarian Society
-Across the Irish Sea Darwinian natural science caused great consternation. Sectarian rivalry, who should control higher education, and an infamous speech by the President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science all fed into the Belfast backlash against evolution.
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Cafe Scientifique- What the frack?
-Coffee and a slice of science! Our Cafe Scientifique Aberdeen City series takes place monthly in Waterstones Union Bridge book store in Aberdeen's Union Street, usually around the middle Wednesday of the month. Sessions run from January through to October and are free to attend. No booking is required and...
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Gifford Lecture Series: Edinburgh, Evolution and Cannibalistic Nostalgia
-In Edinburgh, Darwin's theories were absorbed, in the main, with little difficulty. Indeed evolutionary theories were used by Scottish Calvinists to shore up their convictions about the unity of the human race, the idea of design in nature, and the progressive history of revelation. What was far more...
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Lord Hope to Speak in Aberdeen
One of the UK’s most respected legal figures will give an inaugural lecture in Aberdeen on behalf of a student lawyer organisation which assists people in need of legal advice. Lord Hope, who recently retired as Deputy President of the Supreme Court, will mark his appointment as Patron of The Aberdeen...
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Cafe Controversial: Buy one, throw one out
-Buy one, throw one out With food waste on the increase we question how much promotional offers in supermarkets are to blame, what impact food waste is having on the environment and how we might weigh up what we really need.
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Gifford Lecture Series. Dealing with Darwin: Locating Encounters with Evolution
-The lecture series begins by arguing for the importance of locating debates over Darwinism in their local circumstances. Rather than trading in generalities about 'the' relationship between science and religion, this lecture urges that in 'Dealing with Darwin' place, politics and rhetoric have always been of crucial significance.