Spring Events Programme 2001

Sustainer or Oppressor? The Law in Scots and Irish Nationalisms

Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Scott Styles, Department of Law.

Through Other Races: Through Other Times: Poetry in Ireland and Scotland

Seamus Heaney the Irish poet and Nobel Laureate gives the second of this session’s RIISS public lectures. Chaired by Principal C Duncan Rice.King’s College Conference Centre.

Religion in the Novel of the North East

Lunchtime Seminar with Professor Gordon Graham, Department of Philosophy.

The Influence of Scottish Philosophy in Poland in the 18th & 19th Centuries

Lunchtime Seminar with Professor Jan Wolenski, Jagellonian University, Cracow.

Land, Power & Politics in an Irish Asylum, 1830-80

Lunchtime seminar with Dr Oonagh Walsh, Department of History.

Marxach ann an Tir a’Mhurain/the Hebridean photography of Paul Strand

Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Fraser MacDonald, Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research.

Making the Caledonian Connection: Building Bridges with Ireland

Mr Daniel Mulhall, Consul General in Scotland of the Republic of Ireland gives the third of this session’s RIISS public lectures for 2000-1. Chaired by Joyce McMillan, commentator and journalist.

The Untold Land: Explorations of Place in Irish and Scottish Culture*
Joint symposium with RIISS and the Department of English. Organised by Dr Shane Murphy. This interdisciplinary symposium brings together leading scholars from media and film studies, literature and cultural geography to explore the role of ‘place’ in both Irish and Scottish Studies.

Victorian Women Revisited

An international multidisciplinary conference jointly hosted by RIISS and the Department of History which seeks to review Women & Victorian Studies in the Centenary of Queen Victoria’s death. Themes include Women & Health; National & Sexual Identities; Literary Representations; Education; Empire.

"Blind attachment to inverterate customs". Language use, language attitude and the rhetoric of improvement in the return to Scotland’s First Statistical Account

Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Robert McColl Millar, Department of English.

Securing the Future for Northern Ireland: Politics, policing and the community in a transitional society

The Rt Hon Adam Ingram, MP , Minister of State in the Northern Ireland office, responsible for security, gives the last in this session’s series of RIISS public lectures. Chaired by Prof.
Trevor Salmon, Department of Politics and International Relations. Auditorium, King’s Lecture Theatre.

Oil and the North East Economy: past, present and future

Lunchtime Seminar with Professor Alexander Kemp, Department of Economics.

Peak Performance: Walking Cultures on Scotland’s Mountains

Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Hayden Lorimer, Department of Geography.

Neglected Scottish Philosophers

Joint workshop with the Reid Project, Department of Philosophy & RIISS which will seek to shed light on unexplored aspects of the Scottish philosophical tradition between the 17th and the 19th centuries by presenting new research and work in progress from both prominent experts and younger researchers in the field. Contributors include Prof. Alexander Broadie, Glasgow University, Prof. Gordon Graham, University
of Aberdeen, Prof Knud Haakonssen, Boston University, Prof. M.A.Stewart, University of Aberdeen.

Travel, Missions, Empire: An Interdisciplinary Conference

This event will examine the relationship between travel, missions and empire, from the early modern, to the modern era. Drawing together researchers in church history and anthropology, as well as literary and historical studies, it will provide a forum for a discussion of these under-researched areas. Our plenary speaker will be Prof. J.D.Y. Peel FBA, of the SOAS, University of London.

Emigrant Homecomings: The Return Movement ofEmigrants, c.1700-c2000

This international conference explores an important but neglected dimension of the British & European Diaspora. Return migration tells us much about the process of emigration itself and also its impact on the communities to which migrants returned.