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2021
March
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Art History Department Spring 2021 Research Seminar Series
-Mary Magdalene in the Museum (Lieke Wijnia, Museum Catharijneconvent, The Netherlands)
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Centre for Knowledge and Society Seminar
-Heather Widdows (Birmingham) ‘My Body, My Self?' Abstract: That our bodies have become our very selves in a visual and virtual culture is one of the main arguments of Perfect Me. This is so widely believed that we often don’t recognise either that it is true (until it is pointed...
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Art History Department Spring 2021 Research Seminar Series
-Street Photography Revisited: Garry Winogrand and the 'Look of Non Art': Simon Constantine (University of Aberdeen)
February
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Centre for Knowledge and Society Seminar
-Åsa Wikforss, (Stockholm) 'Democracy in the Post Truth Era' Abstract: We are said to live in an era of Post Truth, defined as a time when objective facts are less important in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief. We also live in a time where democracy...
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Series
-Wednesday Feb 10th, 3-4.30pm. Mahrad Almotahari (Edinburgh) and Aidan Gray (Illinois) ‘Coordination, De Se Thought, and Russellian Exceptionalism’ Abstract: Russellians, Relationists, and Fregeans disagree about the nature of propositional-attitude content and the role of coordination and de se thought in the explanation of rational behavior. We articulate a framework about the form such...
January
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Philosophy of Religion PG/Faculty Seminar
-The seminar will run as a weekly discussion of selected texts among faculty and research students within the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy. The theme for this session is ‘conscience’, as a locus for studying certain interrelations between biblical theology, natural religion, and the history of moral philosophy. Readings will...
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New Testament Research Seminar
-Select Wednesdays, 3:30–4:45pm (UK Time), MS Teams 27 January Prof. John Collins (Yale University) “Reflections on Apocalyptic and Apocalypticism 40 Years on from Semeia 14” 10 February Rachel Danley (University of Aberdeen) “Reworking Spatial Metaphors of Temple in Second Temple Judaism” Larissa Rosendale (University of Aberdeen) “Characterisation, Cosmology and Crystals: Gemstones in the...
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Philosophy Visiting Speaker Series
-Wednesday Jan 27th, 3-4.30pm. Sarah Broadie, St Andrews ‘Virtue and the non-moral goods: an ancient perspective’ Abstract to follow. For information, contact Federico Luzzi: f.luzzi@abdn.ac.uk
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Theological Ethics Research Seminar
-The Theological Ethics Research Seminar for this term is "A Troubled Inheritance: Desire, Power and Theology Abused". The seminar will ask if—or how—we should read the works of a theologian tainted by moral failure, and will focus on the sexual scandals associated with Karl Barth, John Howard Yoder and Jean Vanier. This...
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Practical Theology Research Seminar
-Our seminar text is The Dangers of Christian Practice: On Wayward Gifts, Characteristic Damage, and Sin by Lauren Winner (Yale University Press, 2018). The text is available through Primo here. Seminars will be held on alternate Wednesdays, from 4.00-6.00pm UK time. As with last term, all sessions will take place online on...