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Amy Bryzgel (History of Art) and Adrienne Janus (School of Language and Literature) are organizing a session entitled “The Art of Performance” at this year’s May Festival. The event will take place on Saturday 30 May, from 14:30-16:00 in the Linklater Rooms. Their presentation brings together arts practitioners, academics and students to...

Amy Bryzgel will give a Pecha Kucha talk at Volume 10 of Aberdeen’s Pecha Kucha Nights, on May 26 at 7pm in the Belmont Filmhouse. Her talk will focus on connections between performance artists in Eastern Europe and the Northeast of Scotland, and will provide a rapid 6-minute introduction to...

Professor Clunies Ross is going to talk about:Autography in late medieval Icelandic sagasDate: Thursday 21st of MayTime: 4 pmVenue: CB 009All are welcome.

We are pleased to be able to host Professor Stephen Williams (Union Theological College, Queen’s University Belfast) at the end of this current half-session for a special meeting of the Systematic Theology Research Seminar.  Prof. Williams will speak with us about his newest book project, entitled The Election of Grace:...

The Normativity  RPAS project sponsored by the College of Arts and Social Sciences will be playing host to Professor Stephen Williams (Union Theological College, Queen’s University Belfast) for its concluding seminar of the academic year. Professor Williams will deliver a paper entitled ‘Deviants from the Human Norm: Zarathustra, Jesus and...

Please make a note in your diary for 12th May 2015 when we welcome Rev Dr Graham Tomlin of St Mellitus College, London, to deliver the Annual CMS seminar and lecture. Seminar ‘Priestly Leadership’ at 2pm in Macrobert 252 Lecture ‘Priesthood as God’s Way of Blessing the World’  at 7pm Kings KCF7

Speakers: Dr Philip Ebert (Senior Lecturer, Stirling University), Mr Guy Robertson (Environmental Consultant, Synergie Environ), Dr Simon Robertson (Lecturer, Cardiff University). We’ll consider questions arising directly from the film Touching the Void concerning the ethics of decision-making in risk-situations: Can cutting your companion’s rope ever be the right thing to do? Do different moral...

Stefan Brink will be presenting a paper on "Prohibitions of pagan cult and rituals in medieval Scandinavian Laws", which is based on an article he is writing for one of the volumes of the forthcoming Pre-Christian Religion of The North (3 vols), which is meant to replace Jan de Vries, "Altgermanische Religionsgeschicte"...

This conference will explore themes of proportion, ratio, equality, and harmony in Spinoza’s philosophy. On Day 2 there is a special emphasis on Spinoza in relation to architecture and housing (papers by Frichot, Rawes, Kodalak, and White). This conference is part of the AHRC Equalities of Wellbeing in Philosophy and Architecture...

The Centre for the Study of Global Empires and the Northern Colonialism Project are pleased to welcome Professor John MacKenzie and Dr Nigel Dalziel, who will be presenting a paper entitled "Reflections on the Encyclopaedia of Empire and the Future of Imperial History". With responses by Professor Marjory Harper, Dr Isabella Jackson, and...