Event Archive

2015

June

• World War I Centenary Workshop

  08 June 2015, 11:00 - 15:00

  Centre For Global Empires/Aberdeen Centre for Russian & East European History

May

• "The Art of Performance" at the May Festival

  30 May 2015, 14:30 - 16:00

  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...

• Pecha Kucha talk on Eastern European Performance Art and Northeast Scotland

  26 May 2015, 19:00 - 21:00

  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...

• Centre for Scandinavian Studies Seminar

  21 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:30

  Professor Clunies Ross is going to talk about:Autography in late medieval Icelandic sagasDate: Thursday 21st of MayTime: 4 pmVenue: CB 009All are welcome.

• Special Meeting of the Systematic Theology Research Seminar

  19 May 2015, 11:00 - 13:00

  We are pleased to be able to host Professor Stephen Williams (Union Theological College, Queen’s University Belfast) at the end of this current half-session for a special meeting of the Systematic Theology Research Seminar.  Prof. Williams will speak with us about his newest book project, entitled The Election of Grace:...

• Normativity RPAS Project Seminar Meeting

  18 May 2015, 14:00 - 16:00

  The Normativity  RPAS project sponsored by the College of Arts and Social Sciences will be playing host to Professor Stephen Williams (Union Theological College, Queen’s University Belfast) for its concluding seminar of the academic year. Professor Williams will deliver a paper entitled ‘Deviants from the Human Norm: Zarathustra, Jesus and...

• Annual CMS Seminar and Lecture

  12 May 2015, 14:00 - 15:30

  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

• Cafe Philosophique 4th Annual Philosophy Public Lecture: 'Philosophy, Mountaineering and Risk'

  08 May 2015, 18:00 - 20:00

  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...

• Scandinavian Studies Seminar Series

  07 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:30

  Stefan Brink will be presenting a paper on "Prohibitions of pagan cult and rituals in medieval Scandinavian Laws", which is based on an article he is writing for one of the volumes of the forthcoming Pre-Christian Religion of The North (3 vols), which is meant to replace Jan de Vries, "Altgermanische Religionsgeschicte"...

• Spinoza and Proportion Conference

  05 - 06 May 2015

  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...