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2015
May
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"The Art of Performance" at the May Festival
-Amy Bryzgel (History of Art) and Adrienne Janus (School of Language and Literature) are organizing a session entitled “The Art of Performance” at this year’s May Festival. The event will take place on Saturday 30 May, from 14:30-16:00 in the Linklater Rooms. Their presentation brings together arts practitioners, academics and students to...
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Pecha Kucha talk on Eastern European Performance Art and Northeast Scotland
-Amy Bryzgel will give a Pecha Kucha talk at Volume 10 of Aberdeen’s Pecha Kucha Nights, on May 26 at 7pm in the Belmont Filmhouse. Her talk will focus on connections between performance artists in Eastern Europe and the Northeast of Scotland, and will provide a rapid 6-minute introduction to...
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Annual CMS Seminar and Lecture
-Please make a note in your diary for 12th May 2015 when we welcome Rev Dr Graham Tomlin of St Mellitus College, London, to deliver the Annual CMS seminar and lecture. Seminar ‘Priestly Leadership’ at 2pm in Macrobert 252 Lecture ‘Priesthood as God’s Way of Blessing the World’ at 7pm Kings KCF7
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Cafe Philosophique 4th Annual Philosophy Public Lecture: 'Philosophy, Mountaineering and Risk'
-Speakers: Dr Philip Ebert (Senior Lecturer, Stirling University), Mr Guy Robertson (Environmental Consultant, Synergie Environ), Dr Simon Robertson (Lecturer, Cardiff University). We’ll consider questions arising directly from the film Touching the Void concerning the ethics of decision-making in risk-situations: Can cutting your companion’s rope ever be the right thing to do? Do different moral...
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Spinoza and Proportion Conference
-This conference will explore themes of proportion, ratio, equality, and harmony in Spinoza’s philosophy. On Day 2 there is a special emphasis on Spinoza in relation to architecture and housing (papers by Frichot, Rawes, Kodalak, and White). This conference is part of the AHRC Equalities of Wellbeing in Philosophy and Architecture...
April
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Reflections on the Encyclopaedia of Empire and the Future of Imperial History
-The Centre for the Study of Global Empires and the Northern Colonialism Project are pleased to welcome Professor John MacKenzie and Dr Nigel Dalziel, who will be presenting a paper entitled "Reflections on the Encyclopaedia of Empire and the Future of Imperial History". With responses by Professor Marjory Harper, Dr Isabella Jackson, and...
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Eternal God - Eternal Life: Theological Explorations into the Concept of Immortality
-This public conference will cap a year-long research project into the theology of immortality (generously funded from the Templeton Foundation). The conference, entitled Eternal God - Eternal Life: Theological Explorations into the Concept of Immortality, will take place at the University of Aberdeen from 27th to 29th April 2015. For details...
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Director's Cut: Tanja Ostojic
-In conversation with Amy Bryzgel
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Centre for the Study of Myth: Final Talk of the Semester
-Roy and Rachel Ratcliffe "THE MYTHS OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES" Roy and Rachel are practicing Witnesses who will trace the history of the movement and then go through standard misconceptions of it. They are very open to questions.