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This workshop explores ethical and epistemic problems connected to ambition and related ideas, such as social recognition, prestige, target-setting, achievement and the meaningfulness of life.  Ambition is an underexplored philosophical topic: yet arguably, the most significant achievements of humanity (e.g. space exploration, the elimination of smallpox) were strongly driven by...

The Scottish Society for Northern Studies will hold its annual conference in Aberdeen 26-28 June. Speakers from DHPA, LLMVC and Geosciences will feature alongside external colleagues and creative writing and music events. Day-rates as well as full residential packages are available. Please see https://www.ssns.org.uk/events/aberdeen2024/ for more details and to register.

Webinar: 'Kinship in the Household of God' What: Cynthia Tam will explore the concept of belonging to a church community from the perspective of autistic people who are not using speech or language as their primary means of communication. Cynthia will describe a participatory action research project in which she explored...

Join us on 15 May to celebrate the publication of books by department members Isabelle Gapp and Hans Hönes.

Discussion event at Aberdeen Art Gallery, Friday 3 May 2024, 2-4pm

Decolonial Encounters with Hollywood Cinema: The Fragment as Audiovisual Metonym in Artists' Moving Image Professor Sarah Smith (Glasgow School of Art)

An Environmental History Week event, presented by the Network in Canadian History and Environment and the 51cg

Talk by Professor Miri Rubin as part of the Gifford Lecture Series

The Centre for Scandinavian Studies and the Swedish department are co-hosting a Nordic Literature Read-Aloud - with a North-East Scotland twist! We will hear about Astrid Lindgren's much-loved character Emil and his adventures in the early 20th century Swedish countryside, when Emil invites the whole poorhouse to a party and...

A new exhibition on faces co-curated by Dr Helen Pierce with Clare Sutherland in Psychology and Sam Revell from Special Collections, is now open in the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Members of the Art History Society will be running tours on Thursday lunchtimes in due course, and the exhibition will be...