Prof Joachim Schaper, University of Aberdeen
Elements of an Ancient Near Eastern History of the Soul: Aramaic inscriptions from
Zinçirli/Sam'al and the biblical nefeš
[Biblical Studies Research Seminar]
Dr Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh
Did Paul Abandon Either Judaism or Monotheism?
[Biblical Studies Research Seminar]
Phil Foster, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh
Is Everything “Beautiful” or “Appropriate” in its Time?: יָפהֶ and Semantic Change
Sofanit Abebe, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh
Peter and the Patriarch: The End Time in 1 Enoch and 1 Peter
[Biblical Studies Research Seminar]
Dr Benedikt Eckhardt (University of Edinburgh): From Club to Church? Organisation and Identity in Early Christian History
[Biblical Studies Research Seminar]
Danielle Smith, University of Edinburgh
‘Portrait of Spain: the Image of Madrid in Antonio Rodríguez’s Colección de trages’
Mary Zundo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
‘“Hue as tawny as the Moor”: Painting the Margins of the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake’
[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]
Edward Wren, University of Cambridge
‘Treating the Practical Rules of Morality: the “two useful Parts” of Moral Philosophy and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)’
Damiano Bardelli University of Lausanne
‘Studying Provincial Intellectual Life in the Enlightenment: the Lausanne Literary Society (1772–1783)’
[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]
Jacopo Veneziani, University of Paris
‘Identity, Visibility and Games of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Views of Paris: Historical, Sociological and Methodological Questions’
[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]
Wednesday 27 February
Georgia Vullinghs, University of Edinburgh
‘The Afterlife of Clementina Sobieska, Stuart Queen in Exile’
Diana Rafaela Pereira, University of Porto
‘Healing Statues of the Virgin in Eighteenth-Century Portugal’
[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]
William Burgess, Queen Mary, University of London
‘The Fossils of John Woodward: Defying Death in the Institutional Museum’
Elena Romero-Passerin, University of St Andrews
‘“Distinguere gli ananassi dale patate”: the Transmission of Botanical Knowledge in Peter-Leopold’s Tuscany’
[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]
Ashley Foster, Notre Dame University
‘The Controversy Surrounding the Cambuslang Revival and its Reflection on Eighteenth-Century Debates concerning Social Cohesion’
Jessica Davidson, University of Oxford
‘Time and Space at the Eighteenth-Century Fair’
[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]