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2016
November
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Public Roundtable "Still Home Abroad? Polish Migration to Scotland after Brexit"
-How does the EU referendum result affect the Polish community in Scotland, and what are people’s responses? Integration of Poles has been a success story, and Scotland’s economy has benefited from migration. People born in Poland have overtaken all other foreign nationalities in the UK for the first time. Academics...
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The Samaritans: past and present
-Please join us for the following talk, co-sponsored by the Religious Studies research seminar and the Old Testament research seminar: Mr Benyamim Sedaka (Historian and one of the elders of the Israelite Samaritan community) will discuss “The Samaritans: past and present”. All welcome! For more details/ questions, please contact: zohar@abdn.ac.uk
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New Testament Seminar
-The New Testament Seminar will meet Wednesday, the 2nd of November, at the earlier time of 3pm, in the Humanities Manse. Our speaker is Dr Tomas Bokedal, who will give a paper entitled, “Kierkegaard, Experience and Revelation.” All are welcome.
October
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Art History Seminar
-The first meeting of the Art History Seminar this term will be at 4.15 pm on Wednesday 26 October 2016 in room CB 203, 50 College Bounds. Dr Sandra Cardarelli, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art, will give a paper related to the forthcoming book which...
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History Department Work in Progress Lunchtime Seminar
-Discussion of Prof. Karin Friedrich’s chapter “Citizenship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth”, in: Dialogue with Europe. A hermeneutics of values, vol. 3, Political Values: The Commonwealth of Two Nations, red. J. Axer, A. Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz, (forthcoming in Polish, in print, Warsaw)
September
April
March
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Talk by Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh) Title: Why It Matters What We Think Abstract: In this presentation, I tease out some implications of Leibniz's claims (i) that there is a structurally isomorphic relationship between the mind or soul and its organic body and (ii) that the mind or soul perceives the external world indirectly...
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Philosophy Colloquium
-Talk by Adam Carter (Edinburgh) Title: "Knowledge-How and Anti-Intellectualism” Abstract: Reductive intellectualists (e.g., Stanley & Williamson 2001; Stanley 2011a; 2011b) hold that knowledge-how is a kind of knowledge-that. Anti-intellectualists (e.g., Ryle 1949; 1945) reject this reduction and identify knowledge-how with ability possession. In this talk, I want to challenge reductive intellectualism on two...
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History of Art Research Seminar
-"Aesthetics, authenticity and a sense of place: conserving carved stone artworks in situ": Dr Shannon Fraser, National Trust for Scotland