51cg

Dr Martin Mills (51cg) will discuss:  “Time, Millenarianism and Kingly Authority in Tibetan Myth: Rethinking the Longue Duree” All are welcome!

The 2015 Open Lecture of the Theological Club will be given by Dr Helen Bond of New College, Edinburgh. Helen Bond is Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Director of the Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. She is interested in the society and culture...

Rachel McGregor (Robert Gordon), ‘What’s in a nomen?: Readers’ marks and Humanist Identity Formation in Lily’s Grammar’

Our speaker is Mary Hardy of the 51cg, who will be presenting a paper titled: 'A Love of Piety Wherever it is Found’: The seventeenth-century reception of Francis de Sales. The talk will be followed by a brief Q & A session and our customary trip to the Machar.

Professor Stefan Brink (Director, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, 51cg) will be presenting a paper entitled The Concept (and Denial) of the Early Mediaeval Germanic Free Peasant.

Assistant Prof Esther Eidinow (University of Nottingham) will discuss  Did She Jump or Was She Pushed?  An Exploration of Greek Mythemes

The seminar will run from 2.15 pm to 3.45 pm, in the Humanity Manse, and its purpose will be twofold: a) to introduce the world of publishing, and to think through the benefits, practicalities, and pitfalls of being published; b) to introduce the world of vivas, and to think through what to...

This term’s third meeting of the Art History Seminar, jointly sponsored with Film Studies and Visual Culture, and the Aberdeen Centre for Russian and East European History, will take place in KCG7 on Wednesday, 4 March 2015 at 4.15 pm Dr Amy Bryzgel (Department of History of Art) will give a...

Ms Elisabetta Loi (51cg) will be presenting a talk on "Atheism in Medieval Islam: The Case of Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (Rhazes)". All are welcome!

Lower Ground Floor Seminar Room, Special Collections Centre, The Sir Duncan Rice Library A talk by Professor Jane Stevenson, Regius Chair of Humanity. This talk begins by asking 'what is an early Scottish book'? After a brief look at the history of books in Scotland, Professor Stevenson will turn to a consideration...