Winter Events Programme 2003

What Rough Beasts? Irish and Scottish Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Three-day international conference (Irish and Scottish Studies: Literature, Film and Media Studies, History, Celtic Studies, Visual Arts).

AHRB Centre Symposium: Scotland, Ireland and India 1695-1857
This symposium of distinguished international authorities will attempt to address the lack of both an interpretative framework and scholarly studies on the integration of Scotland and Ireland into British imperialism in the East. It will examine key avenues of mobility, such as soldiering, missionary activity and merchant enterprise in India, as well as the practical and intellectual impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on the eastern empire.

AHRB Centre sponsored Fourth Language and Politics Symposium: Towards Our Goals: The Media, the Performing Arts and the Economy in Minority Language and Personal Development in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland. In Queen’s University Belfast.

RIISS Welcome and reception for new students and old friends, Humanity Manse, 5pm.

Visit to the AHRB Centre of Sir Brian Follett, Chairman of AHRB

The Scottish Medical Diaspora of the18th Century
Emeritus Professor Roger Emerson (University of Western Ontario). Part of the AHRB Diaspora Seminar Programme.

Irish-Scottish Studies in New Zealand
Dr Brad Patterson (Victoria University, Wellington). Part of the AHRB Diaspora Seminar Programme.

Orangeism in New Zealand
Dr Rory Sweetman (independent historian), Part of the AHRB Diaspora Seminar Programme.

Scotland's Empire 1600-1815 (Allen Lane; the Penguin Press).
The Aberdeen launch of the sequel to Tom Devine's huge bestseller, The Scottish Nation, 1700-2000 (1999) will take place in Aberdeen tonight. The launch will take the form of a debate, chaired by author and journalist Neal Ascherson, with Professor Devine and including a panel of distinguished experts on Empire. Sponsored by Penguin Books and Blackwells bookseller. The Auditorium, King's College Centre, 6pm-7:30pm, followed by a reception.

Let's Get Killed: Cultures of the Peace in Northern Ireland.
Dr Colin Graham (Queen’s University Belfast): This is the first in a series of seminars on Popular Culture and National Identity, sponsored by the AHRB Centre, which aims toexplore the relationship between forms of representation in popularculture and the perception of national identity in Ireland and
Scotland.

AHRB Centre sponsored Symposium: Irish and Scottish Mercantile Networks in Europe and Overseas, c.1550-1820
In Trinity College Dublin. This symposium will bring together leading European, American and Canadian scholars, as well as postgraduates and post-doctoral fellows, who have been working on complementary aspects of the organisation of international trade in the early modern period, namely the role and character of the two great commercial diasporas, that from Scotland and that from Ireland. Part of the AHRB Diaspora Seminar Programme.

Why are the Irish more musical than the Scots?
Professor Simon Frith (University of Stirling): Part of the Popular Culture and National Identity seminar series.

AHRB Centre sponsored Symposium: Lest We Forget: Remembrance and Irish Culture
This one day symposium is part of the Literatures of Scotland and Ireland programme.

Irish Bulls and English Romantics
Professor Tim Webb (University of Bristol): Part of the Popular Culture and National Identity seminar series.

AHRB Centre sponsored Symposium: Imagining Alba:Scotland in Medieval Irish Sources.
This one-day symposium is presented in association with the AHRB project, The Scottish Gaelic Manuscripts: Texts, Transmission and Traffic.

Exporting the Scottish Radical Tradition: The Scots in the South African and Canadian Trade Union and Labour Movement.
Dr William Kenefick (University of Dundee): Part of the AHRB Diaspora Seminar Programme.

Humouring the Tartan Monster: Comedy and Scottish Identity
Dr David Goldie (Strathclyde University): Part of thePopular Culture and National Identity seminar series

December 9, 2003

Scotland, Ireland and the Poetry of England
Professor Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews):Part of the Literatures of Scotland and Ireland programme.