Spring Events Programme 2002

Dissemination

This interdisciplinary symposium is the third part of Aberdeen`s Centre for Early Modern Studies series ‘Translatio’ in Europe and the Atlantic World 1500-1750 programme. Topics include communication, form and media and propagation and reception.

The Poetry of Biddy Jenkinson

Distinguished Poet Nuala Ní Dhomhaill discusses Biddy Jenkinson’s work, normally inaccessible to those without a knowldege of Irish.

Questions of Religion in Contemporary Poetry in Irish

Dr Máire Ní Annrachaín, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Part of the Poets and Critics on Contemporary Irish Poetry.

Towards a New Alliance: Irish-Scottish Literary Relations,1920-1945

Dr Andrew Noble, University of Strathclyde. Part of the AHRB Centre’s Literatures of Ireland and Scotland Seminar Programme.

Mobility & Stability in Early Modern Scottish Society

Professor Ned Landsman, State Universtiy of New York at Stonybrook. Part of the AHRB Centre’s Diaspora Programme Seminar Series.

The Eastern Empire & Diaspora

Professor Peter Marshall, FBA, King's College, London, one of the UK's most distinguished historians of imperialism, gives this seminar as part of the AHRB Centre's Diaspora Programme.

Why were Antiquarians Ridiculous?

Professor Susan Manning, University of Edinburgh. Part of the Scotland, Ireland and the Romantic Aesthetic Series

(Re)-Presenting Ireland

This interdisciplinary symposium brings together leading scholars from several universities to explore the role of 'place' in Irish Studies.

Crosscurrents: The Postgraduate Conference in Irish & Scottish Studies

Hosted by the AHRB Centre for Irish & Scottish Studies this major international 3 day conference, brings together graduate students and research fellows from several countries who are working on Irish and/or Scottish Studies. Topics range from Nation and Narration to Constructing Histories, from Post Colonial Society to the Politics of Translation. There is no conference fee.

Canonicity in Irish & Scottish Literature in the 20th Century

Professor Patrick Crotty, Professor of Irish and Scottish Literary History, The Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster. Part of the AHRB Centre's Literature of Scotland and Ireland Seminar Programme.

Temporary Exiles: Irish Republicans in North America, 1919-22

Professor David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College, Dublin and Hon Professor, RIISS. Part of the AHRB Centre's Diaspora Programme.

State Support for the Arts in Northern Ireland: 'the good the bad and the ugly' and Irish Literary Journals in the 20th century

This double session features Dr Gill McIntosh, Queen's University, Belfast and Tom Clyde, editor The Honest Ulsterman. Part of the AHRB Centre's Literatures of Ireland and Scotland Programme.

Irish Republicanism and Gothic Eleutherarchs: Utopianism in the Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone and Charles Brockden Brown

Dr Nigel Leask, Queen's College, Cambridge. Part of theScotland, Ireland and the Romantic Aesthetic Series.

The Scottish Community Abroad

Part of the AHRB Centre's Diaspora Programme, this symposium will focus on Scottish communities in Northern Europe in the early modern period. Speakers are drawn from Ulster, Norway, Russia, Lithuania and Sweden as well as Scotland.

Yeats and Easter 1916

Professor David Pierce, University College of Ripon and York St John
Part of the Writing Ireland Series.

Scotland and Russia in War and Revolution 1914-1922

This seminar will include speakers from the Institutes of History of the Russian
Academy of Sciences and from Scottish universities.

Scotland, Ireland and the Romantic Aesthetic

Intended for general Romanticists as well as Scottish and Irish literary specialists, this conference, the first of its kind, examines connections and parallels between theliteratures of the two countries, including their relationship with English Romanticism in the period 1760 to 1830.