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This seminar will take place on Monday from 3.15 pm to 4.45 pm in the Divinity Library in King’s College. All are welcome, and it is expected that Masters and PhD students in Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics will attend regularly. 27th March: John Swinton, Medicating the Soul?: Christian Engagements...

Seminar Conversation with Members of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches, hosted by The Very Revd Prof. Iain Torrance (Pro-Chancellor of the University).  This event brings together leading theologians and ecumenists from around the world to Aberdeen to discuss the current work of the World Council...

Dr Sara Kuehn (University of Vienna) will discuss "The Snake Genius in the Roman Domestic Cult"

Speaker: Dr Sara Kuehn Affiliation: University of Vienna Title: “Animal-Human Hybrids in Visual and Textual Representation” Abstract: Conceptions of hybrid creatures continue to intrigue, and to challenge our understanding of representations of the divine. Where depicted or described, they are often morphologically anomalous and specifically composite, comprising a combination of human and/or various...

Dr Sara Kuehn (Vienna), "The Snake Genius in the Roman Domestic Cult"

Philosophy Colloquium w/ Stephan Leuenberger (Glasgow)Title: Scrutability and the Problem of Cross-Family QuantificationAbstract: In Constructing the World, David Chalmers aims to defend strong reductionist claims he calls "scrutability theses". One such thesis says, roughly speaking, that every truth about the world could, in principle, be "read off" a complete list...

Participants:Professor Christoph Mick (University of Wawick)Remembrance in Ukraine and Lviv’s ‘divided memories’ Dr Olenka Pevny (University of Cambridge) Revizualizing the medieval and early-modern past in contemporary Ukraine Robert Frost (51cg)Mykhailo Hrushevsky construction of the Ukrainian past

(co-sponsored with CISRUL) Dr Naomi Haynes (Edinburgh), “The Benefit of the Doubt: On the Relationship Between Doubt and Power”  

This seminar offers an opportunity for sustained reading of and engagement with one of the most important figures in the Lutheran Reformation and with one of the earliest systematic works in the Lutheran tradition – Philip Melanchthon’s Loci Communes of 1521. Text: Philip Melanchthon, Commonplaces (Loci Communes 1521), Translated by Christian...

Discussion with Dr Heidi Mehrkens of her article “Heroic Heirs. Monarchical Succession and the Role of the Military in Restoration Spain and France”, on which she has been working with Dr Richard Meyer Forsting (St Andrews), which was first presented at the conference The Price of Peace. Modernising the Ancien...