Diaspora conference: Political Frontiers

Keynote speaker: Professor Patrick Griffin (Virginia)

Patrick Griffin is author of The People with No Name Irelands Ulster Scots, Americas Scots Irish, & the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 16891764 (2001)

full programme

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.u - please notify Dr Brown if you intend to attend

All welcome

Catholicism and Identity in Interregnum Ireland and Scotland

Dr Scott Spurlock (University of Aberdeen)
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

Scott Spurlock is the author of Cromwell and Scotland: Conquest and Religion: 1650 - 1660 (John Donald, 2007)

The unravelling of a mystery Thomas Wilson (1758-1824) of Dullatur, the Scottish Second Husband of Matilda Tone

Dr Jane Rendall (University of York) Dr C.J. Woods (Dictionary of Irish Biography)
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

Jane Rendall is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of York and author of Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the British Reform Act of 1867 (2000).

C.J. Woods retired from the Royal Irish Academy in 2006. He works on the Academy's Dictionary of Irish Biography project and is a co-editor (with T.W. Moody and R.B. McDowell) of The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98 (3 Vols. Oxford, 1998-2007).

Drinks reception follows

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Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry: a new interpretation

Dr Paddy Bullard (University of Oxford)
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

Paddy Bullard is AHRC Research Fellow for the forthcoming Cambridge University Press edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift. In January 2005 he was elected to a Junior Research Fellow in English at St. Catherine's, and before that he held tutorial fellowships at Mansfield and St. Anne's Colleges. His current research interests are in eighteenth-century political literature and intellectual history, and in the formation of literary coteries.

Drinks reception follows

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Irish societies, clubs and organizations in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century London

Dr Craig Bailey (Villanova)
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

Craig Bailey is assistant professor of History at Villanova University. His research interests include: Irish migration in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a particular focus on London and the middle classes, and Famine and responses to distress in Ireland

Drinks reception follows

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An Anglo-Scottish Vision of Union and Empire

Paul Tonks (Yonsei University, Korea)
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