The T. F. Torrance Lectures (formerly, Scottish Journal of Theology Lectures) are underway at the St Andrews this week. Professor Bruce McCormack of Princeton is the featured speaker. These have traditionally taken place at Aberdeen. I have just learned that there is good reason to be in Aberdeen this weeks as well, and I am strongly thinking about catching a train to the North tomorrow afternoon for the

William Robertson Smith Conference

Thursday 6th December 2007, The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.15 - 7.15 p.m.
University of Aberdeen
 

Programme

4.15pm
William Robertson Smith: Social Scientist or Theologian?
Professor Robert Segal  (University of Aberdeen)

5.00pm
William Robertson Smith and J. G. Frazer: 'genuit Frazerum?'
Professor Robert Ackerman

5.45pm
Wellhausen, Robertson Smith and the Sociology of early Arabia and ancient Israel
Professor J.W. Rogerson  (University of Sheffield)

6.30pm
From Pietism to Totemism:William Robertson Smith and Tübingen
Professor Bernhard Maier  (University of Tuebingen)

The symposium will continue on Friday 7th at 9.30 with:
William Robertson Smith's early Work on Prophecy - the Beginnings of Social Anthropology?
Professor Joachim Schaper  (University of Aberdeen)
and followed by a general discussion of the work and influence of Robertson Smith

(Follow this link to the official conference page, with full details.)