Event Archive

2017

March

• Philosophy Colloquium

  29 March 2017, 15:00 - 17:00

  Albert Casullo (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)Title: Modal Empiricism: What Is the Problem?Abstract: In his introduction to the Critique, Kant contends that necessity is a criterion of the a priori—that is, that all knowledge of necessary propositions is a priori. This contention, together with two others that Kant took to be evident—we...

• Joint Research Seminar for Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics

  27 March 2017, 15:15 - 16:45

  This seminar will take place on Monday from 3.15 pm to 4.45 pm in the Divinity Library in King’s College. All are welcome, and it is expected that Masters and PhD students in Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics will attend regularly. 27th March: John Swinton, Medicating the Soul?: Christian Engagements...

• Seminar Conversation with Members of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches

  23 March 2017, 17:00 - 18:00

  Seminar Conversation with Members of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, hosted by The Very Revd Prof. Iain Torrance (Pro-Chancellor of the University).  This event brings together leading theologians and ecumenists from around the world to Aberdeen to discuss the current work of the World Council...

• Religious Studies Research Seminar

  23 March 2017, 16:00 - 17:30

  Dr Sara Kuehn (University of Vienna) will discuss "The Snake Genius in the Roman Domestic Cult"

• Religious Studies Research Seminar

  22 March 2017, 16:00 - 17:30

  Dr Sara Kuehn (Vienna), "The Snake Genius in the Roman Domestic Cult"

• Centre for the Study of Myth: Visting speaker

  22 March 2017, 16:00 - 17:30

  Speaker: Dr Sara Kuehn Affiliation: University of Vienna Title: “Animal-Human Hybrids in Visual and Textual Representation” Abstract: Conceptions of hybrid creatures continue to intrigue, and to challenge our understanding of representations of the divine. Where depicted or described, they are often morphologically anomalous and specifically composite, comprising a combination of human and/or various...

• Philosophy Colloquium

  22 March 2017, 15:00 - 16:00

  Philosophy Colloquium w/ Stephan Leuenberger (Glasgow)Title: Scrutability and the Problem of Cross-Family QuantificationAbstract: In Constructing the World, David Chalmers aims to defend strong reductionist claims he calls "scrutability theses". One such thesis says, roughly speaking, that every truth about the world could, in principle, be "read off" a complete list...

• One-day Symposium: Between East and West: Ukraine, Identity and Memory

  22 March 2017, 11:00 - 15:30

  Participants:Professor Christoph Mick (University of Wawick)Remembrance in Ukraine and Lviv’s ‘divided memories’ Dr Olenka Pevny (University of Cambridge) Revizualizing the medieval and early-modern past in contemporary Ukraine Robert Frost (University of Aberdeen)Mykhailo Hrushevsky construction of the Ukrainian past

• Religious Studies Research Seminar

  21 March 2017, 16:00 - 17:30

  (co-sponsored with CISRUL) Dr Naomi Haynes (Edinburgh), “The Benefit of the Doubt: On the Relationship Between Doubt and Power”  

• Research Seminar in Systematic Theology

  20 March 2017, 15:15 - 16:45

  This seminar offers an opportunity for sustained reading of and engagement with one of the most important figures in the Lutheran Reformation and with one of the earliest systematic works in the Lutheran tradition – Philip Melanchthon’s Loci Communes of 1521. Text: Philip Melanchthon, Commonplaces (Loci Communes 1521), Translated by Christian...