Event Archive

2015

March

• 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.

• CEMS Research Seminar

  18 March 2015, 13:00 - 14:30

  Guy Rowlands (St Andrews), ‘The Sinews of War, the Sun King, and the Financial Burdens and Perils of being a Superpower’

• Religious Studies Research Seminar

  16 March 2015, 16:00 - 17:30

  Dr Martin Mills (University of Aberdeen) will discuss:  “Time, Millenarianism and Kingly Authority in Tibetan Myth: Rethinking the Longue Duree” All are welcome!

• Aberdeenshire Theological Club Annual Open Lecture

  16 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:30

  The 2015 Open Lecture of the Theological Club will be given by Dr Helen Bond of New College, Edinburgh. Helen Bond is Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in the society and culture...

• CEMS Research Seminar

  11 March 2015, 13:00 - 14:30

  Rachel McGregor (Robert Gordon), ‘What’s in a nomen?: Readers’ marks and Humanist Identity Formation in Lily’s Grammar’

• Postgraduate History Seminar Series

  09 March 2015, 17:00 - 18:30

  Our speaker is Mary Hardy of the University of Aberdeen, who will be presenting a paper titled: 'A Love of Piety Wherever it is Found’: The seventeenth-century reception of Francis de Sales. The talk will be followed by a brief Q & A session and our customary trip to the Machar.

• G. O. Sayles Memorial Lecture on Mediaeval History, 2015

  09 March 2015, 17:00 - 18:00

  Professor Stefan Brink (Director, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen) will be presenting a paper entitled The Concept (and Denial) of the Early Mediaeval Germanic Free Peasant.

• Religious Studies and Myth Cemtre Research Seminar

  09 March 2015, 16:30 - 17:45

  Assistant Prof Esther Eidinow (University of Nottingham) will discuss  Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?  An Exploration of Greek Mythemes

• Theology Development Seminar

  05 March 2015, 14:15 - 15:45

  The seminar will run from 2.15 pm to 3.45 pm, in the Humanity Manse, and its purpose will be twofold: a) to introduce the world of publishing, and to think through the benefits, practicalities, and pitfalls of being published; b) to introduce the world of vivas, and to think through what to...

• The Art History Seminar Together with Flim Studies

  04 March 2015, 16:15 - 17:30

  This term’s third meeting of the Art History Seminar, jointly sponsored with Film Studies and Visual Culture, and the Aberdeen Centre for Russian and East European History, will take place in KCG7 on Wednesday, 4 March 2015 at 4.15 pm Dr Amy Bryzgel (Department of History of Art) will give a...