Event Archive

2016

November

• Religious Studies Research Seminar

  15 November 2016, 16:00 - 17:30

  Mr Vincenzo Latrofa (University of Aberdeen) will discuss "The mandate-fulfilment-reward in 1 Kings 17–19". All are welcome!  

• Public Roundtable "Still Home Abroad? Polish Migration to Scotland after Brexit"

  07 November 2016, 19:00 - 20:30

  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...

• The Samaritans: past and present

  03 November 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  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  

• New Testament Seminar

  02 November 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  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

• Art History Seminar

  26 October 2016, 16:15 - 17:30

  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...

• History Department Work in Progress Lunchtime Seminar

  26 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:30

  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

• History Department Work in Progress Lunchtime Seminar

  27 September 2016, 15:00 - 17:00

  An introduction to "Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers 1398-1511" (LACR) (https://aberdeenregisters.org) - Join Dr Jackson Armstrong and the interdisciplinary LACR team to find out who we are, what we are doing, and how medieval Aberdeen is making a distinctive contribution to digital humanities.

April

• Wise Club Philosophy Colloquium

  27 April 2016, 15:00 - 17:00

  Talk by Benjamin Neeser (PhD student - University of Neuchâtel) Title: "Through Worlds and Times Alike: A Counterpart-Theoretic Account of Persistence" This talk is sponsored and organized by the Wise Club at the University of Aberdeen

March

• Philosophy Colloquium

  30 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  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...

• Philosophy Colloquium

  23 March 2016, 15:00 - 16:30

  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...