Event Archive

2015

April

• Reflections on the Encyclopaedia of Empire and the Future of Imperial History

  28 April 2015, 14:30 - 16:30

  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...

• Eternal God - Eternal Life: Theological Explorations into the Concept of Immortality

  27 - 29 April 2015

  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...

• Director's Cut: Tanja Ostojic

  01 April 2015, 18:00 - 20:00

  In conversation with Amy Bryzgel

• Centre for the Study of Myth: Final Talk of the Semester

  01 April 2015, 16:00 - 17:30

  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.

March

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  How to (Not) be a Political Theologian

  30 March 2015, 17:45 - 19:15

  A public lecture by Prof. Stanley Hauerwas

• Aberdeen Art Gallery After Hours: Extreme Makeover

  27 March 2015, 18:30 - 22:00

  Marking the formal closure of Aberdeen Art Gallery until 2017 as part of a major redevelopment programme...

• CEMS Research Seminar

  26 March 2015, 17:15 - 19:00

  Joint seminar with RIISS Helen Pierce, ‘Union and Identity in the English Portraiture of James VI and I’

• Postgraduate History Seminar Series

  23 March 2015, 17:00 - 19:00

  The final seminar for the Postgraduate History Seminar Series before the Easter vacation will take place on Monday 23rd March at 5pm in CB202. Our speaker will be Joshua Carroll of the University of Aberdeen, who will be presenting a paper titled: Philo and the Gymnasium of Alexandria, an institution of Greco-Roman Paideia.The talk will be followed by a...

• Systematics Seminar

  19 March 2015, 14:15 - 15:15

  Dr Justin Stratis of Trinity College, Bristol will be giving a paper entitled: ‘A Person’s a Person, No Matter how Divine? The Question of Univocity and Personhood in Richard of St. Victor’s De Trinitate’ The session will start at 2.15 pm in the Humanity Manse, and all are warmly welcome.

• Fallen Animals: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

  19 - 20 March 2015

  Following the success of the Fall Narratives project in 2014, this workshop will explore the theme of fallen animals.