Friday 18th May

Robert Morrison MacIver Centenary Conference:

An Introduction to MacIver at Aberdeen

Prof John Brewer (University of Aberdeen)The Seminar Room, 10.15 a.m.-10.45 a.m

Sociology in MacIver’s Time: The Edinburgh School of Sociology

Prof John Scott (University of Essex)
The Seminar Room, 10.45 a.m.-11.45 a.m.

Prof Geoff Payne (University of Plymouth)
The Seminar Room, 12.00-1.00 p.m.

MacIver’s Political Writings: Nationality, Community and the Scottish Question

Prof David McCrone (University of Edinburgh)
The Seminar Room, 1.30-2.30 p.m.

MacIver’s Methodological Writings: MacIver on Social Causation

Prof Malcolm Williams (University of Plymouth)
The Seminar Room, 2.30-3.30 p.m.

Further information from Professor John Brewer on 01224 272171 or email j.brewer@abdn.ac.uk

N.B. If attending this event, please email elaine.brown@abdn.ac.uk to register.

Conference website: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/maciver/

For further information on Events or the Institute contact:

Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
Telephone +44 (0) 1224 272343
Facsimile  +44 (0) 1224 273677
Email: riiss@abdn.ac.uk
Website: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss
It is advisable to call to confirm dates and times.

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Clerical Containment of Diasporic Irish Nationalism:  A Canadian Example from the Parnell Era.

Dr Rosalyn Trigger (University of Aberdeen)
The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m.
Further information from Dr Rosalyn Trigger, on 01224 274473 or email r.trigger@abdn.ac.uk

Drinks reception follows

All welcome

Contexts of Contemporary Scottish and Irish Writing

School of Education, MacRobert Building,
9.30 a.m.-5.00 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, on 01224 273681 or email cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

Tuesday 8th May

Irish War Widows in France in the 1720s

Dr Marian Lyons (St Patrick's College, Dublin City University)
The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 5.15 p.m.
Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

Drinks reception follows

All welcome

Tuesday 1st May

Anglo-Scottish Union 1707 Tercentenary Conference
Exhibition of Union artefacts in Special Collections and Marischal College
Marischal College, 5.00-5.30 p.m. - organised by Siobhan Convery and Neil Curtis

Introduction
Principal C. Duncan Rice (University of Aberdeen)
MarischalCollege, 6.00 p.m.

Keynote Speech
Prof Allan Macinnes (University of Aberdeen)
MarischalCollege, 7.30 p.m. Further information from Dr Micheál ÓSiochrú, 01224 272468 or email m.osiochru@abdn.ac.uk

Monday 24th April

The Irish in Britain - Nationalism and Ethnicity

Alan O’Day (Oxford University)
The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Rosalyn Trigger, on 01224 274473 or email r.trigger@abdn.ac.uk

Drinks reception follows

All welcome

Thursday 12th - Friday 13th April

Emigrants and exiles from the Three Kingdoms in Europe, 1603-1688
download full programme (word doc)
Further information from Dr David Worthington, on 01224 272769 or email d.c.worthington@abdn.ac.uk

As part of a series on Romanticism in Ireland and Scotland:

Romanticism in Ireland and Scotland

Prof Murray Pittock (University of Manchester)
The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, on 01224 273681 or email cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

Drinks reception follows

All welcome

The Auld Alliance: Scots and Irish Migrants in France 1790-2000
This event will be held at the Centre for Irish, Scottish and Comparative Studies, ArtsBuilding Trinity College Dublin

Loyal Catholics and Revolutionary Patriots: National Identity and the Scots in Revolutionary Paris

Dr Michael Rapport (University of Stirling)

A Scottish Literati in Paris: The Case of Sir James Hall

Dr Michael Brown, (University of Aberdeen)
Room A6.009 10.00 a.m.-12.30 p.m.

General Discussion
Room A6.009 2.00 - 4.00 p.m.
Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

A New Ireland in South America: Irish Migrants and Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Dr Oliver Marshall (University of Oxford)
The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Rosalyn Trigger, on 01224 274473 or email r.trigger@abdn.ac.uk

Drinks reception follows

All welcome

Swinburne and linguistic anthropology: James Murray Brown lectures, 2007

Jerome J. McGann ( John Stewart Bryan University Professor in the University of Virginia)
Regent Lecture Theatre, 5.15 p.m.
Further information from Professor David Hewitt, david.hewitt@abdn.ac.uk

Swinburne, Wagner and Verse Music: James Murray Brown lectures, 2007

Jerome J. McGann (John Stewart Bryan University Professor in the University of Virginia)
Regent Lecture Theatre, 5.15 p.m.
Further information from Professor David Hewitt, david.hewitt@abdn.ac.uk

Tuesday 27th February

Experimental Victorian Writing: James Murray Brown lectures, 2007

Jerome J. McGann (John Stewart Bryan University Professor in the University of Virginia)
Regent Lecture Theatre, 5.15 p.m.
Further information from Professor David Hewitt, david.hewitt@abdn.ac.uk

Tuesday 27th February

"Our Original Stock": Legal Science and Legal Study in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Dr Sean Patrick Donlan (University of Limerick)
The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 3 p.m.
Further information from Dr Rosalyn Trigger, on 01224 274473 or email r.trigger@abdn.ac.uk

Drinks reception follows

All welcome

Tuesday 20th February

Discussion of The Romantic Ideology by Jerome J. McGann

Professor Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen)
The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, on 01224 273681 or email cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

Drinks reception follows

All welcome

Friday 9th February

Diaspora Project Colloquium:

Faith, Football and the Fatherland:
The Irish Colleges in Paris in the Age of Revolution

Dr Liam Chambers (MIC Limerick)

Ambassador Incognito and Accidental Tourist: Theobald Wolfe Tone’s Mission to France, 1796-8

Dr Sylvie Kleinman (Royal Irish Academy)
The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 2.30 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

Drinks reception follows

All welcome

Tuesday 6th February

As part of a series on Romanticism in Ireland and Scotland:

Scotland, Germany and the Foundations of Romanticism

Professor Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen)
The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, on 01224 273681 or email cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

Drinks reception follows

All welcome

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