Winter Events Programme 2000

Centre or Periphery: Psychiatric Practice Beyond the Pale

Sixth in a series of annual meetings which provide a forum for the discussion of research into various aspects of psychiatric history and draw together established scholars and new researchers in the field.

Russia and Scotland in the Twentieth Century

Joint Symposium - RIISS and Centre for Russian, East & Central European History, Department of History. Organised by Emeritus Professor Paul Dukes and Dr Catherine Brennan, this symposium will consider: The First World War and the Russian Revolution; The Second World War and the Cold War; and the Scottish Diaspora in Russia. Among the participants will be Emeritus Professor John Erickson FBA, and three associates of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr Elena Poliakova, Dr Natalia Yegorova and Dr Dmitry Fedosov.

How Historic are Historic Rights? Competing Historiographies and the Struggle of Political Legitimacy. The UK, Spain, Canada, Belgium

Lunchtime Seminar with Professor Michael Keating, Department of Politics, Aberdeen and European University Institute, Florence.

This Other England? Deconstructing English and Irish Identities
in This Other Eden

Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Fidelma Farley, Department of English.

The First RIISS Diaspora Symposium: Emigration, Migration and Mobility

This event brings together researchers from the UK and Europe on the history of migration. Contributors will come from RIISS, the North East England Historical Institute and the Northern European
Historical Research Network.

The Dead Ireland: Explorations of Place and Irish Culture

Joint Symposium with RIISS and Department of English. Organised by Dr Shane Murphy. This interdisciplinary Irish Studies Symposium brings together leading scholars from cultural geography, literature and film studies to explore the role of ‘place’ in twentieth-century Irish culture.

Ulster Identity in the era of British Home Rule: Ulster/Scottish Linkages

Evening Seminar with Dr Graham Walker, Queen’s University, Belfast and Honorary Reader, RIISS.

Scotland-Galicia Seminar

The United Kingdom and Spain are two of the world's oldest multinational states. This conference will address the experiences of devolution in Spain and the UK, with a particular although not exclusive focus on Scotland and Galicia. Most of the papers will be presented by members of the universities of Aberdeen and Santiago de Compostela.

The Organisation of Learning in Early Modern Ireland

Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Kaarina Hollo, Department of Celtic.

Messes of Mottage and Quashed Potatoes: Northern Irish Poets in a Stew

Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Shane Murphy, Department of English.

A Nation Again? Scotland’s Parliament, Past, Present and Future

Canon Kenyon Wright, former chair of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, reflects on the historic constitutional changes of recent times in a special St Andrew’s Day Lecture. The first of the RIISS public
lecture series for 2000-1. Chaired by Lesley Riddoch, BBC Scotland. King’s College Conference Centre.

George IV in Edinburgh: Visual culture and the Resistance to Highlandism

Lunchtime Seminar with Dr John Morrison, Department of History of Art.

Identities and Identifications: the Basques, Irish & Scots

Joint Symposium, RIISS and Hispanic Studies. Organised by Dr Nerea Arruti, this comparative symposium considers the linkages between the three peoples with special reference to identities. A keynote address will be given by Prof Joseba Zulaika, Centre for Basques Studies, University of Nevada.