黑料网

The Historical Theology Seminar will meet at 2-3.30pm on the following Thursdays in KCF10. The text for discussion is Adolf von Harnack, Outlines of the History of Dogma. The text is available as a pdf here: https://ia800301.us.archive.org/32/items/outlineshistoryd00harnuoft/outlineshistoryd00harnuoft.pdf Members of the seminar should arrive having prepared the following pages on the following dates: 15th October:...

Part of the joint Theological Ethics, Systematics and Practical Theology Research seminar series. All are welcome, and residential postgraduate students in the fields of Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics are expected to attend this seminar along with their sub-disciplinary reading seminar.

John Swinton and some of the postgraduate students in Practical Theology are running a seminar series this half-session, based on the book 'Advancing Practical Theology' by Eric Stoddart. All are welcome to attend. It will run fortnightly for six sessions, Tuesdays, 9am-11am, in OBF01 (Old Brewery).

An Evening of Poetry

The Historical Theology Seminar will meet at 2-3.30pm on the following Thursdays in KCF10. The text for discussion is Adolf von Harnack, Outlines of the History of Dogma. The text is available as a pdf here: https://ia800301.us.archive.org/32/items/outlineshistoryd00harnuoft/outlineshistoryd00harnuoft.pdf Members of the seminar should arrive having prepared the following pages on the following dates: 15th October:...

Anyone interested in reading John Milbank's important book- Theology and Social Theory (Blackwell 1990) should join us at the following time, place and dates: We are meeting 10-12pm at Taylor C24 For this meeting please read: chapters 6, 7 and 8 If you would like to come, please contact Yutaka...

The seminar will meet fortnightly on Mondays from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. during the first half-session in G01 (Humanity Manse) to discuss Michael Welker’s recent work entitled God the Revealed: Christology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013)  Monday, October 12th, Welker, God the Revealed, pp. 104-143

Part of the joint Theological Ethics, Systematics and Practical Theology Research seminar series. All are welcome, and residential postgraduate students in the fields of Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics are expected to attend this seminar along with their sub-disciplinary reading seminar.

All new Postgraduate Research students within DHP are invited to this informative induction event. There will be a tea and coffee reception in the Divinity Library following the main session.

John Swinton and some of the postgraduate students in Practical Theology are running a seminar series this half-session, based on the book 'Advancing Practical Theology' by Eric Stoddart. All are welcome to attend. It will run fortnightly for six sessions, Tuesdays, 9am-11am, in OBF01 (Old Brewery).

Anyone interested in reading John Milbank's important book- Theology and Social Theory (Blackwell 1990) should join us at the following time, place and dates: We are meeting 10-12pm at Taylor C24 For this meeting please read: chapters 3, 4 and 5 If you would like to come, please contact Yutaka...

The seminar will meet fortnightly on Mondays from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. during the first half-session in G01 (Humanity Manse) to discuss Michael Welker’s recent work entitled God the Revealed: Christology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013) Monday, September 28th, Welker, God the Revealed, pp. 55-103

THE ALEXANDER SOUTER MEMORIAL LECTURE ON LATE ANTIQUITYSchool of Divinity, History & Philosophy, 黑料网2015/16"Saint Perpetua of Carthage, Early Christian Martyr"by Professor Francis Newton, Duke University, North Carolina, USA Friday, 25 September, 2015, 4 p.m.Lower Ground Floor Seminar RoomThe Sir Duncan Rice Library  This lecture will be of interest to students...

Dr Malcolm Jones (University of Sheffield) will present a paper entitled "German Students' Friendship Books: Sampling a Wealth of Neglected Early Modern Imagery", on Wednesday 23 September, in College Bounds CB203, from 4.15pm. Dr Jones's work on Alba Amicorum (friendship books) produced by German students of the sixteenth and seventeenth...

Dr Malcolm Jones (University of Sheffield) will present a paper entitled "German Students' Friendship Books: Sampling a Wealth of Neglected Early Modern Imagery", on Wednesday 23 September, in College Bounds CB203, from 4.15pm. Dr Jones's work on Alba Amicorum (friendship albums) produced by German students of the sixteenth and seventeenth...

Part of the joint Theological Ethics, Systematics and Practical Theology Research seminar series. This semester we will have papers from faculty in each session. All are welcome, and residential postgraduate students in the fields of Practical Theology, Systematic Theology and Theological Ethics are expected to attend this seminar along with their...

To round off the 'Germans in Britain' exhibition, there will be two German-themed talks in the Event Space of the Sir Duncan Rice Library on Wednesday 23rd September, 1-2pm. Professor Karin Friedrich will be presenting an overview of the long history of German-British contacts at Aberdeen, a city closely connected...

John Swinton and some of the postgraduate students in Practical Theology are running a seminar series this half-session, based on the book 'Advancing Practical Theology' by Eric Stoddart. All are welcome to attend. It will run fortnightly for six sessions, Tuesdays, 9am-11am, in OBF01 (Old Brewery).

This term the classics & Patristics Reading Group will be reading and translating the Latin text of Virgil, Aeneid, Book IV (the ‘Dido & Aeneas’ book), beginning at line 424.  The group will meet on Thursdays, 1.00-2.00 p.m., in the ground-floor seminar room in Humanity Manse (room HMG1), with the...

Anyone interested in reading John Milbank's important book- Theology and Social Theory (Blackwell 1990) should join us at the following time, place and dates: We are meeting 10-12pm at Taylor C24 For this meeting please read: Intro, chapters 1 and 2 If you would like to come, please contact Yutaka...

All new Postgraduate Research students within DHP are invited to this informative induction event.

The seminar will meet fortnightly on Mondays from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. during the first half-session in G01 (Humanity Manse) to discuss Michael Welker’s recent work entitled God the Revealed: Christology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2013) Monday, September 14th, Welker, God the Revealed, pp. 11-54

Sponsored by the College of Arts and Social Sciences and Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law, 黑料网 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Believing in the Future: The Religious and Non-religious Stories Young Adults TellDr. Abby Day, Reader in Race, Faith and Culture, Goldsmiths University of London Religion and Politics as Modern...

An introduction to some key people in the College, followed by a question and answer session.

Summer School 2015, ‘Participating in the Ministry of Christ’ is organised by the Centre for Ministry Studies at Aberdeen University.  This will be relevant to all involved in church leadership and will provide a safe and stimulating space where ministries are refreshed and re centred on Jesus Christ. During the week-long...

Centre For Global Empires/Aberdeen Centre for Russian & East European History

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...

This public conference will cap a year-long research project into the theology of immortality (generously funded from the Templeton Foundation). The conference, entitled Eternal God - Eternal Life: Theological Explorations into the Concept of Immortality, will take place at the 黑料网 from 27th to 29th April 2015. For details...

In conversation with Amy Bryzgel

Roy and Rachel Ratcliffe "THE MYTHS OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES" Roy and Rachel are practicing Witnesses who will trace the history of the movement and then go through standard misconceptions of it. They are very open to questions.

A public lecture by Prof. Stanley Hauerwas

Marking the formal closure of Aberdeen Art Gallery until 2017 as part of a major redevelopment programme...

Joint seminar with RIISS Helen Pierce, ‘Union and Identity in the English Portraiture of James VI and I’

The final seminar for the Postgraduate History Seminar Series before the Easter vacation will take place on Monday 23rd March at 5pm in CB202. Our speaker will be Joshua Carroll of the 黑料网, who will be presenting a paper titled: Philo and the Gymnasium of Alexandria, an institution of Greco-Roman Paideia.The talk will be followed by a...

Dr Justin Stratis of Trinity College, Bristol will be giving a paper entitled: ‘A Person’s a Person, No Matter how Divine? The Question of Univocity and Personhood in Richard of St. Victor’s De Trinitate’ The session will start at 2.15 pm in the Humanity Manse, and all are warmly welcome.

Following the success of the Fall Narratives project in 2014, this workshop will explore the theme of fallen animals.

Guy Rowlands (St Andrews), ‘The Sinews of War, the Sun King, and the Financial Burdens and Perils of being a Superpower’

Dr Martin Mills (黑料网) 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 黑料网, 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, 黑料网) 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 (黑料网) 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...

Hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies Friday 20 February 2015, 1.30-4.30 Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 1 (7th floor)   1.15 Lunch and Coffee/Tea 2.00-2.45 Dr Giovanni Gellera (University of Glasgow) “Hoc est corpus meum”: there is not more than what meets the eyes. The origins of natural law thinking in Protestant...

For students from the School of Divinity, History & Philsophy

A two day conference supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the 黑料网 Department of Divinity and Religious Studies.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Department of Divinity and Religious Studies at the 黑料网 proudly present the second public lecture in their series ‘The Challenge of Bonhoeffer’sTheology for Contemporary Ethics and Public Life’ featuring: Revd Dr Christopher Holmes Senior Lecturer, University of Otago 4.30pm Tuesday 27th January, 2015 Kings College, KCF22 This lecture is...

The Buddhist texts reading group will meet from 1pm to 2pm on Mondays in KCF23.For further information, please contact Dr Will Tuladhar Douglas.  

Reading Sophocles’s Antigone During the Spring term the Classics & Patristics Reading Group will be reading and translating part of the Greek text of Sophocles’s Antigone.  The group will meet on Thursdays, 1.00-2.00 p.m., in HMG1, the seminar room on the ground floor of Humanity Manse.  The first meeting will be...

A two day conference supported by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the 黑料网 Department of Divinity and Religious Studies.

Lindsey Vyse of the Deparment of History of Art will give a paper entitled “Firmness, Commodity and Delight: Four Case Studies of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres”. All are welcome.   

Balint Kekedi will give a talk entitled “The linguistic model of perceptual cognition in Cartesian Natural automatons” as part of the Philosophy PhD Work in Progress seminar series.

Knox Peden will give a talk entitled “The History of Spinozism as a Philosophical Problem” as part of the Philosophy Colloquium seminar series.    

Part of the BEING HUMAN FESTIVAL organised by the 黑料网

Current PhD student Andreas Fjellstad will give a talk entitled "How to harmonize disharmonious terms" as part of the Philosophy department's 'PhD Work in Progress' Seminar series.  All welcome.

Casper Hansen will give a talk entitled “The Two Envelopes Paradox” as part of the Philosophy Work in Progress seminar series.

A Christian Ethics conference taking place from October 24th - October 25th. Sponsored by the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics and the Department of Divinity and Religious Studies.

In this Director's Cut event, Professor Alan Marcus will discuss the genre of historical dramatisations with Weber and Stein, focusing in particular on WWI films.

Join us for the launch of Series 8 Director's Cut. The event will be in-conversation with Dr Alan Marcus.

For almost one thousand years, 90 per cent of Chinese women had their feet bound to achieve an artificial smallness that corresponded to an ideal of beauty, but restricted movement and caused immense pain and suffering.

The Fifteenth Century Conference is an annual symposium for historians of the late medieval British Isles, which has run since 1970. In 2014 it will be hosted at the 黑料网. The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and the Centre for Early Modern Studies are supporting the...

Discover, discuss and question the big ideas in contemporary philosophy in a relaxed, informal environment in this year's Cafe' Philosophique public engagement series. All events are free. All welcome!

As the 340th anniversary of John Milton's death approaches an international workshop and conference from 18 - 19 June 2014 will examine the concept of 'the fall' across a range of disciplines and languages, extending from antiquity to contemporary times.

Discover, discuss and question the big ideas in contemporary philosophy in a relaxed, informal environment in this year's Cafe' Philosophique public engagement series. All events are free. All welcome!

Discover, discuss and question the big ideas in contemporary philosophy in a relaxed, informal environment in this year's Cafe' Philosophique public engagement series. All events are free. All welcome!

The Department of History of Art and the King's Museum Lecture & Events series is pleased to present the fourth talk in the 2013/2014 programme.

黑料网,Scotland 14-15 May 2014 Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 1 (room 706)   Key Note Speakers: Susan James (Birkbeck/Princeton) John Sellars (Birkbeck/Oxford)   The event is sponsored by: The Scots Philosophical Association The Schoolof Divinity, History and Philosophy (黑料网) British Society for the History of Philosophy ANR Anthopos (ENS-Lyon) Brill Academic Publishers   PROGRAM   Wednesday, 14 May 9.15-9.30 Coffee and Welcome   Session I Chair:...

Scottish Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy V (SSEMP V) The Sir Duncan Rice Library, 黑料网 14-15 May 2014 Key Note Speakers: Professor Susan James (University Center for Human Values, Princeton / Birkbeck College, London) Dr. John Sellars (Birkbeck College, London / Oxford University) The SSEMP V is the fifth edition of a yearly event...

The Centre is pleased to welcome Dr James Hopkins, of King's College London, who will be presenting a paper entitled "Freud on Dreams and Myths". This presentation is sponsored by both the Centre for the Study of Myth and the Religious Studies department.

As part of the Theological Ethics/Practical Theology joint seminar series Dr. Susan Parsons, edotir of Studies in Christian Ethics, will present a paper titled 'Teaching Christian Ethics in a Moralistic Age'. The seminar will take place in the Divinity Library from 2pm to 4pm. All are welcome. Please contact Dr. Michael Mawson at m.mawson@abdn.ac.uk for more...

Dr Nick Roubekas from the 黑料网 Religious Studies department will be presenting a paper entitled "Euhemerus' Theory of Myth". All are most welcome to attend this event.

As part of the Theological Ethics/Practical Theology joint seminar series Dr. Esther Reed of the University of Exeter will present a paper titled 'Augustinian Political Rhetoric and the Ethics of Targeted Killing'. The seminar will take place in the Divinity Library from 2pm to 4pm. All are welcome. Please contact Dr. Michael Mawson...

The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Department of Divinity and Religious Studies at the 黑料网 proudly present the inaugural lecture in their series ‘The Challenge of Bonhoeffer’sTheology for Contemporary Ethics and Public Life’ featuring: Dr. Jennifer McBride Chair of Ethics, Wartburg College 4.30pm Friday 28th March, 2014 Kings College, KCF22 This is the first of a...

As part of the Theological Ethics/Practical Theology joint seminar series Dr. David Grumett of the University of Edinburgh will present a paper titled 'Hobbes, Locke and the Theological Roots of Liberalism'. The seminar will take place in the Divinity Library from 2pm to 4pm. All are welcome. Please contact Dr. Michael Mawson at m.mawson@abdn.ac.uk for...

As part of the Theological Ethics/Practical Theology joint seminar series Dr. Lieve Orye of the 黑料网 will present a paper titled 'From 黑料网ness to Wit(h)ness in Thinking through the Relation between Theology and Ethnography'. The seminar will take place in the Divinity Library from 2pm to 4pm. All are welcome. Please...

As part of the Theological Ethics/Practical Theology joint seminar series Prof. Michael Northcott or the University of Edinburgh will present a paper titled 'Christian ethics in the Anthropocene'. The seminar will take place in the Divinity Library from 2pm to 4pm. All are welcome. Please contact Dr. Michael Mawson at m.mawson@abdn.ac.uk for more information.

As art of the Theological Ethics/Practical Theology joint seminar series, Dr. Douglas Gay of the University of Glasgow will present a paper titled 'The Ethics of Nationalism'. The talk will take place from 2pm to 4pm in the Divinity Library. All welcome.   For more information please contact Dr. Michael Mawson at m.mawson@abdn.ac.uk

As art of the Theological Ethics/Practical Theology joint seminar series, Prof. Robert Song of Durham University will present a paper titled 'Same-Sex Relationships as Eschatological Witness'. The talk will take place from 2pm to 4pm in the Divinity Library. All welcome. For more information please contact Dr. Michael Mawson at m.mawson@abdn.ac.uk

As part of the Theological Ethics/Practical Theology joint seminar series Dr. John Perry of the University of St Andrews will present a paper titled 'Putting Hell First: Cruelty, Historicism, and the Missing Moral Theory of Damnation'. The seminar will take place in the Divinity Library from 2pm to 4pm. All are welcome. Please...

Kasia Bajka from Jagiellonian University, Krakow will be presenting a paper entitled "Batman, Superman, Spiderman - are superheroes a modern mythology?" All will be warmly welcome – please feel free to bring a friend, a student, or a colleague.

Final meeting of the term.

Sixth meeting of the Practical Theology and Theological Ethics Joint Seminar.

Final meeting of the German reading group.

Please contact Dr. Brittain if you intend to participate (c.brittain@abdn.ac.uk) and would like access to the reading material. All welcome.

Sixth meeting of the NT Postgrad Seminar.

Eleventh meeting of the seminar.

Fifth meeting of the Practical Theology and Theological Ethics Joint Seminar.