Event Archive

2017

November

• Philosophy Talks 2017-18

  01 November 2017, 15:00 - 16:45

  Alexander Douglas (St Andrews) "Spinoza and the British Idealists: Acosmism, Determination, and Negation" 1 Nov 2017 at 3:00  

October

• Launch of the new Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology

  31 October 2017

  Inaugurated in 2017 on the five-hundredth anniversary of the European Reformation, the Aberdeen Centre for Protestant Theology (ACPT) is purposed to facilitate, coordinate and promote advanced research in the field of Christian theology. Its intellectual ambition encompasses both critical examination of the historic forms, developments and implications of Protestant thought...

• Aberdeen Theology and Ethics Graduate Student Colloquium

  26 October 2017, 09:30 - 16:15

  Coffee and tea will be provided. Attendance is free. Please register your interest in attending with andrew.errington@abdn.ac.uk Program 9:30 – 10:05  Amy Erickson “Ephraim Radner on the Church's Journey Through the Wilderness.” 10:05 – 10:40  Allen Calhoun “Calvin on economic inequality” 10:40 – 11:00 Morning tea 11:00 – 11:35  Declan Kelly “Blessed are the Actualists: Barth on the Beatitudes.” 11:35...

• Philosophy Talks 2017-18

  25 October 2017, 15:00 - 16:45

  All talks will take place on Wednesdays in 50-52 College Bounds CB203 and will end no later than 4:45pm.

• The Art History Seminar

  18 October 2017, 16:00 - 18:00

  Liz Louis, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums: Stay Light on Your Feet! An Aberdeen Graduate's Story So Far

• The World Knew - Jan Karski's Mission for Humanity

  16 October - 05 November 2017

  Exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen 16th October - 5th November 2017

September

• New Materialisms and Politics

  21 - 22 September 2017

  A two-day workshop funded by CISRUL New materialist philosophies emerged towards the end of the 20th century as an interdisciplinary intellectual movement advancing new conceptualisations of materiality, ontology and agency. Their distinctive understanding of matter as dynamic and self-generative force has been taken up across the natural sciences, social sciences and...

• North America PGR Meeting

  20 - 22 September 2017

  The School now has a large number of postgraduate students working in Divinity and Religious Studies who study by distance, with a particular density based in North America. With the support of the Principal, we are looking to pilot a conference for those students in the Fall of 2017. The...

• Divinity Opening Lecture 2017

  08 September 2017, 15:00 - 16:30

  Presented by Christ's College in conjunction with the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy

August

• 2017 Nordic Research Network Conference

  24 - 25 August 2017

  The University of Aberdeen is pleased to host the seventh iteration of the Nordic Research Network conference series, one of the largest and most respected early-career conferences in the UK to focus on circumpolar scholarship. Co-organised by the Centre for Scandinavian Studies and the Department of Archaeology, we warmly invite...