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Events Calendar for Spring 2006

February 21, 2006

'Muriel Spark and Robbe-Grillet (The Driver's Seat and Jealousy )'.
Professor Aidan Day ( Aarhus )

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. In conjunction with the Centre for the Novel. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

Aidan Day is the author of Jokerman: the Lyrics of Bob Dylan (1988), Angela Carter: The Rational Glass (1998), and Tennyson’s Scepticism (2005)

February 24, 2006

Irish and Scottish Literature, 1800-2000, an overview.

Professor David Hewitt and Dr Barbara Fennell , University of Aberdeen Dialect in 19 th Century Irish and Scottish Fiction.
Professor Edna Longley and Dr Fran Brearton (Queen’s University, Belfast ) 20 th Century Poetry in Ireland and Scotland

Part of the AHRC Centre’s Comparative programme on Irish and Scottish Literatures. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 3-6 pm .
Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

February 28, 2006

‘“Scottish” psychoanalysis, literary theory, and literature’

Dr Gavin Miller, University of Edinburgh .

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.00 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

Dr Miller is author of R.D. Laing (2004) and Alasdair Gray: the Fiction of Communication (2005)

March 1, 2006

Bernard MacLaverty reading from Matters of Life & Deatth , his new collection of short stories, ( Cape )

Bernard MacLaverty is an Award Winning Writer of novels such as Cal , Lamb and Grace Notes and of screen, radio and film plays.

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.00 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

March 2, 2006

“Tom Moores’s Cosmopolitanism and the Sectarian Landscape of Romantic-era Ireland ”

Professor Julie Kipp, Hope College in Holland , Michigan

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further Information from: Professor P J Crotty on 01224 272196 or email: p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk

Julie Kipp is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Hope College in Holland , Michigan .  She is author of Romanticism, Maternity and
The Body Politic (2003)

March 3, 2006

Medbh McGuckian’s “Sympathetic Ink”

Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, University of Aberdeen

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 5.15 p.m.
Further information from Professor P J Crotty, telephone 01224 272196 or email: p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk

March 6, 2006

The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian

Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies.

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 5.15 p.m.
Further information from Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy on 01224 272620 or email: sam@abdn.ac.uk  

March 7, 2006 *** Date changed now May 9, 2006

The Hitler Years Recalled in Some Berlin German families: A Study of the Relation between Interpersonal and Public Transmission

Professor Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics.

Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse at 4.00 pm . Further information from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email: e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk

March 10, 2006

James Kelman: A Symposium

Speakers will include:

  • Laurence Nicol, (Edinburgh), ‘”In place of dialectics”: Kelman and the Russian Novel’
  • Drew Milne ( Cambridge ) ‘The Strains of Globalisation in Kelman’s recent work’
  • Carole Jones ( Trinity College , Dublin ) ‘Kelman’s representation of men and Masculinity’
  • Paul Shanks ( Aberdeen ) ‘”This is right enough”: The Treatment of Narrative Voice in James Kelman’s Early Fiction’.
  • Scott Hames ( Stirling ), ‘Dislocating Kelman’s Realism’

March 14, 2006

Memory and Historial Time

Dr Bill Schwarz of Queen Mary, University of London .

Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, at 4.00 pm . Further information from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk

March 16, 2006

'Facing the Atlantic : Politics, Culture, Technology, 1860-1930'

Professor Christopher Harvie ( University of Tubingen )

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig on telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

Professor Harvie is the author of Scotland and Nationalism (1977, 2004), No Gods and Precious Few Heroes (1981, 1998), Fool’s Gold (1994)

March 16, 2006

‘The Popular Novel before the Novel Became (Really) Popular’

Professor John Sutherland, The Royal Society of Literature, Linklater Rooms, 5.15 p.m . Hosted by the Centre for the Novel. Further information from the School of Language and Literature

March 21, 2006

Recording our Past: History, Memory and the Photographic Survey Movement

Professor Elizabeth Edwards, University of the Arts, London

Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.00 pm . Further information from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk

April 18, 2006

Fat Sebastian and the Burning Chair: Freyre, Agostini and Brazilian Slavery.

Professor Marcus Wood, University of Sussex

Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series . The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 4 p.m. in Further details from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email: e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk

April 25, 2006

History Read Backward: Memory, Migration and the Photographic Archive .

Dr Roberta McGrath, Napier University , Edinburgh .

Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 4.00 p.m. Further details from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email: e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk  

April 27, 2006

James Robertson, best-selling Scottish author of The Fanatic (2000) and Joseph Knight (2003) will talk about the influence of Walter Scott on his writing. Humanity Manse 2 p.m.

5.15 pm Reading by James Robertson. Humanity Manse 5.15 p.m.

Hosted by the Walter Scott Research Centre. Further information from Dr Alison Lumsden, email a.lumsden@abdn.ac.uk

May 2, 2006

Race, Memory and the Second World War: A People’s History Project in Cardiff Docklands .

Professor Glenn Jordan, University of Glamorgan .

Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series . The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. - 4 p.m Further details from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email: e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk

May 6, 2006

1790s A Symposium

Speakers will include :

Professor Nicholas Roe, University of St Andrews
Dr Esseka Joshua, University of Birmingham
Dr David Duff, University of Aberdeen
Professor Vivien Jones, University of Leeds

Hosted by the Centre for the Novel. Further information from Dr Catherine Jones: email c.a.jones@abdn.ac.uk.

May 12-13, 2006

To mark the 30th anniversary of the death of the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray:

Scottish and Irish Thought in the Era of John Macmurray (1891-1976)

Speakers include :

Professor David Fergusson ( Edinburgh )
Dr Gavin Miller ( Edinburgh )
Dr Esther MacIntosh ( Leeds )
Professor John Brewer ( Aberdeen )
Mr Roger Gallie ( Aberdeen )
Dr Thomas Duddy (NUI, Gallway)
Professor Alexander Broadie ( Glasgow )

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse ,

May 16, 2006

Theories and Practices of the Archive

Professor Michael Sheringham, University of Oxford .

Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 4 p.m Further details from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email: e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk

For further information onEvents or the Institute contact:

Janet D Hendry, Institute Co-ordinator
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
Telephone +44 (0) 1224 273683
Facsimile +44 (0) 1224 273677
Email: riiss@abdn.ac.uk
Website: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/

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