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Professor Steven Reid (University of Glasgow)30 September 2026 The personal reign of James VI in Scotland (1585-1603): court and household Steven Reid specialises on the intellectual, political and religious history of Scotland between c. 1450 and c. 1650, especially the life and reign of James VI in Scotland (1567-1603). His recent book,...

Dr Karl Kinsella (Art History, Aberdeen) 14 October 2026 The Latin Language of Architecture: Britain 1150-1350 Karl Kinsella received his DPhil from the University of Oxford for a study on textual and visual representations of architecture in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In 2023, he published the book God's Own Language: Architectural...

Dr Fedor Benevich (Philosophy, University of Edinburgh) 28 October 2026 Testimonial Knowledge in Islamic Philosophy Fedor Benevich, senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, received his PhD at the LMU Munich and worked in the DFG-funded research project “The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East from the 12th...

Dr Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner (DHPA, Aberdeen) 4 November 2026 Jeanne de Jussie (1503-1561) and Reformation in Geneva Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner has widelypublished on various areas of female spirituality in the late Middle Ages. Her research also includes the early Reformation, especially the influence of Lutheran theology on the first English Reformers. She...

Dr Helen Lynch (Aberdeen, LLMVC, in person and online) 11 November 2026 Fires in the House-top: Early Modern Women Writers, Milton & the Manosphere This paper grows out of a larger project, which applies new approaches from social and cultural history, political theory and literary criticism to illuminate a key period...