Event Archive

2015

October

• Postgraduate Research Induction

  07 October 2015, 10:00 - 11:30

  All new Postgraduate Research students within DHP are invited to this informative induction event. There will be a tea and coffee reception in the Divinity Library following the main session.

September

• The Alexander Souter Memorial Lecture on Late Antiquity

  25 September 2015, 16:00 - 18:00

  THE ALEXANDER SOUTER MEMORIAL LECTURE ON LATE ANTIQUITYSchool of Divinity, History & Philosophy, University of Aberdeen2015/16"Saint Perpetua of Carthage, Early Christian Martyr"by Professor Francis Newton, Duke University, North Carolina, USA Friday, 25 September, 2015, 4 p.m.Lower Ground Floor Seminar RoomThe Sir Duncan Rice Library  This lecture will be of interest to students...

• Art History Seminar

  23 September 2015, 16:15 - 17:30

  Dr Malcolm Jones (University of Sheffield) will present a paper entitled "German Students' Friendship Books: Sampling a Wealth of Neglected Early Modern Imagery", on Wednesday 23 September, in College Bounds CB203, from 4.15pm. Dr Jones's work on Alba Amicorum (friendship albums) produced by German students of the sixteenth and seventeenth...

• Germans in Britain - Lunchtime Talk

  23 September 2015, 13:00 - 14:00

  To round off the 'Germans in Britain' exhibition, there will be two German-themed talks in the Event Space of the Sir Duncan Rice Library on Wednesday 23rd September, 1-2pm. Professor Karin Friedrich will be presenting an overview of the long history of German-British contacts at Aberdeen, a city closely connected...

• Postgraduate Taught Induction

  16 September 2015, 10:00 - 11:15

  All new Postgraduate Research students within DHP are invited to this informative induction event.

May

• 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.

• 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"...

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...

March

• 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...