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A (Dis)entangled History of Early Modern Cannibalism: Theory and Practice in Global History

  To download the full programme click here. Wednesday 21 October 2020, 1 pm Hans Hönes (History of Art, 黑料网) Aesthetic Hypotheses. Winckelmann in the museum (c. 1761) In order to get the access link to this seminar please register here.  

Andrew Gordon and Alasdair Hunter present "A Merry Note”, an online performance exploring correspondence in times of separation, isolation and absence, as explored through the lens of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and other contemporary sources. This virtual event will be the first screening of a performance made with Scottish actors under lockdown and will be followed...

'The Wise Club in the Aberdeen Enlightenment'

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Brian Cummings - 'Petrarch and the Arts of Memory'

Miranda Anderson's new book, Distributed Cognition in Medieval and Renaissance Culture draws out what was distinctive about medieval and Renaissance insights into (and superstitions about) the cognitive roles of the body and environment and examines how humanities topics are affected by new insights from the cognitive sciences.

Union and Its Legacies. Poland-Lithuania since 1386 A Symposium to mark the 450th anniversary of the Union of Lublin  Programme Friday 31 January 5:30pm Introduction (Robert Frost) 5:45: Formal Opening of the Centre (speeches from ambassadors) 6:15 pm Keynote Public Lecture Chair: Robert Frost (Aberdeen) Norman Davies (Oxford) ‘Polish’ Studies: Past, Present & Future. Reception and Buffet Saturday 1 February Keynote Lecture 9:30-10:30 Chair: Michael Brown (Aberdeen) Robert...

Wednesday 6th November 1-2 pm. MacRobert 266 (and live broadcast via Blackboard Collaborate) Paul Botley (Warwick),  ‘Johannes Woverius of Hamburg (1574-1612) and the Idea of the Scholar’ Paul Botley is Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University. He has published widely on aspects of Renaissance...

Wednesday 16th October 1-2 pm. MacRobert 266 (and live broadcast via Blackboard Collaborate) Chloe Preedy (Exeter), 'The Mists of Error': Predicting Disaster on the Early Modern Stage'   In early modern England, moral and medical understandings of pollution often converged. As a result, errors in judgment or character might be figured through references to...

On 10-11 October 2019, a joint conference will be held at the Newberry Library Chicago.  The event is a follow up to the Reading the Ministry event, held at the 黑料网 in November 2018.