Event Archive

2024

July

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  Islamophobia Beyond Borders Workshop - Panel 1: Electoral Myth-making and the Mainstreaming of Racism

  22 July 2024, 13:30 - 15:00

  Join us for the Islamophobia Beyond Borders Workshop, in The Sir Duncan Rice Library, to discuss the international context, repercussions, and consequences of modern Islamophobia. Hosted by Professor Nadia Kiwan of the University of Aberdeen and Dr Jim Wolfreys of King's College London, inviting a host of prominent academics and...

June

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  Interdisciplinary Workshop: Creative approaches to the energy crisis

  10 - 11 June 2024

  You are warmly invited to take part in a 1.5-day interdisciplinary workshop on the energy crisis, which will be delving into creative methodologies. This is an in-person event only, and places are limited.

• Study Day: 'Silenced Voices and Erased Agencies in Victorian Life and Victorian Popular Fiction'

  08 - 09 June 2024

  Online Study Day on 8 and 9 June 2024 hosted by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association.

May

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  Networking the Early Modern Past in North East Scotland

  18 May 2024, 12:00 - 17:00

  An afternoon event exploring networks and connections in the early modern north east of Scotland, and how we make connections from today with the experiences of the past. All very warmly welcome to attend all or part of the event!

April

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  Interview on Eurovision Research

  13 April 2024, 18:00 - 19:00

  Dr Barbara Barreiro Leon gets interviewed on the Radio about her Eurovision Research

March

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  GWW Centre and LLMVC Present Studiocanal Guest Screening, Workshop and Q&A

  29 March 2024, 18:00 - 23:59

  Naomi Holwill of Studiocanal will be presenting a screening of one of her short bonus features and speak about producing content for practical media, the future of Blu-ray and advice to entering the business. The screen will be followed by a Q and A and workshop which will be chaired...

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  University of Aberdeen Languages Ball 2024

  28 March 2024, 19:00 - 23:55

  The French Society in collaboration with the Spanish and Latin American Society, the Celtic Society and the German Society are pleased to announce the 2024 Languages Ball at the Aberdeen Douglas Hotel on March 28th @ 7:00pm.

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  Musical Wellsprings in a Parched Landscape: The Evolution of Steve Reich's Harmonic Language in The Desert Music (1984)

  07 March 2024, 16:00 - 18:00

  Join Professor Pwyll ap Siôn (Bangor University) to explore the evolution of Steve Reich's harmonic language in The Desert Music.

• Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education

  07 March 2024, 09:00 - 10:15

  Dr Fransiska Louwagie is co-hosting a webinar in the 'Art and Testimony' Webinar Series 2024.

February

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  Nordic Literature Read-Aloud

  29 February 2024, 18:30 - 19:30

  Welcome to this read-aloud session on Nordic Literature. Apart from hearing a story in English, for comparison we will also hear a shorter section read out in Doric and a variety of Nordic languages, such as Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish.