Event Archive

2017

November

• Ross Sinclair In Conversation with John Morrison

  15 November 2017, 18:00 - 19:00

  This free event is during the final week of the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery's current exhibition featuring Landseer’s ‘Monarch of the Glen’ and a contemporary response from artist Ross Sinclair. Sinclair will be in conversation with Professor John Morrison to discuss his own work in relation the wider context of...

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  Martin Luther: Manhood and Pugilism

  09 November 2017, 16:15 - 18:00

  Please register via Eventbrite: Professor Roper's recent book on Martin Luther provides a critical reassessment of the German Reformer during the anniversary of his alleged 'posting of the 95 theses' on a church door in Wittenberg. Luther, not the 'deus ex machina', and not the benign reformer, but a manipulative and...

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  Commemorating the Anniversary of the Russian October Revolution

  08 November 2017, 19:30 - 21:00

  ACREEH in Cooperation with the Friends of the Library Wed 8 November 2017, 19.30-21.00 in the Seminar Room of the Special Collection Centre, Sir Duncan Rice Library, Lower floor Professor Tony Heywood: Leith, Gallipoli and the Russian Revolution Professor Paul Dukes:  Aberdeen and the Russian Revolution Followed by a TV mini-documentary: Russia under Soviet Power...

• History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018

  08 November 2017, 15:00 - 16:00

  Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)

October

• History Postgraduate Seminar Series, 2017-2018

  25 October 2017, 15:00 - 17:00

  Explorans Supram-Disciplinam (Exploring the Meta-Discipline)

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  The Art History Seminar

  18 October 2017, 16:00 - 18:00

  Liz Louis, Curator of Fine Art, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums 'Stay Light on Your Feet! An Aberdeen Graduate's Story So Far'

• The World Knew - Jan Karski's Mission for Humanity

  16 October - 05 November 2017

  Exhibition at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen 16th October - 5th November 2017

August

• 2017 Nordic Research Network Conference

  24 - 25 August 2017

  The University of Aberdeen is pleased to host the seventh iteration of the Nordic Research Network conference series, one of the largest and most respected early-career conferences in the UK to focus on circumpolar scholarship. Co-organised by the Centre for Scandinavian Studies and the Department of Archaeology, we warmly invite...

June

• Centre for the Study of Global Empires presents "Rethinking the Commonwealth of Nations: Histories, Theories, Comparisons"

  08 - 09 June 2017

  Outline The Commonwealth of Nations has become a chimera in history and theory. It originated in the colonial conferences of the 1880s, became formalised as the British Commonwealth of Nations during the interwar period (centred on Britain and the so called old dominions), and transformed after the Second World War into...

May

• Lecture series delivered by Professor William E. Connolly

  08 - 11 May 2017

  Presented by the Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society & the Rule of Law (CISRUL)  Mon, 8 May Tues, 9 May Wed, 10 May Thur, 11 May 1-3pm 1-3pm 6-8pm 1-3 pm New Kings 14   New Kings 14 New Kings 10  Taylor C11 Sophocles, Spirituality and the Planetary Seminar: Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming PUBLIC LECTURE: Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled...