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Spring Events Programme 2012

 

HMG1 - Humanity Manse Seminar Room
Humanity Manse is building number 38 on the campus map

Events on Thursdays are open to all, for the remaining events please contact the respective co-ordinators (details, where appropriate, below)

Sat 28 Jan

Workshop: Unions

(closed event: attendance by invitation only)

Colin Kidd (Queen’s University Belfast)
John Robertson (Cambridge)
Alvin Jackson (Edinburgh)
Jolanta Choińska-Mika (Warsaw)

(For information please contact Professor Robert Frost robert.frost@abdn.ac.uk)

   

Wed 2 Feb

Great Aberdonians:
Professor James Beattie (1735-1803): Moral Philosopher and Poet

Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen)
7.30pm, Town and County Hall, Town House, Union Street
   

Thu 16 Feb

John Owen and the British civil wars - print culture and the Cromwellian invasion of Scotland

Crawford Gribben (Trinity College Dublin)
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
   

Thu 23 Feb

Workshop: Exhibiting the Past and the Present:
Scottish and Irish Museums, 1880 to the present

Fintan Cullen (Nottingham)
Neil Curtis (Aberdeen)
Lar Joye (National Museum of Ireland)
John Morrison (Aberdeen)
Mark O'Neill (Glasgow Life)
Trevor Parkhill (Ulster Museum)

(For information please contact Professor Tom Bartlett t.bartlett@abdn.ac.uk)
   

Wed 7 Mar

Great Aberdonians:
Donald Smith of Forres, later Lord Strathcona (1820-1914): Hudson Bay Company entrepreneur and Canadian High Commissioner

Andrew Dilley (University of Aberdeen)
7.30pm, Town and County Hall, Town House, Union Street
   
Wed 7 Mar

Ireland's Empire: The Roman Catholic Church in the Anglo-world, 1830-1922

Colin Barr (Ave Maria University, Florida)
N.B. this talk begins at 4pm, The Seminar Room, Humanities Manse. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk
   
Thu 8 Mar Displaced Persons: Re-Thinking the Irish ‘Sense of Place’

Christopher Morash (NUI Maynooth)
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
   
Thu 15 Mar The Prevalence of the Irish-Language in Eastern Ontario during the late Nineteenth Century: Evidence from the 1901 Canadian Census

Lesa Ní Mhunghaile (Mary Immaculate Limerick)
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
   
Thu 22 Mar Irish Laughter, French Infections, German Doctors

Adrienne Janus (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
   
Wed 4 Apr Great Aberdonians: James MacAndrew (1819-1887): Superintendent of the Province of Otago

Marjory Harper (University of Aberdeen)
7.30pm, Town and County Hall, Town House, Union Street

   
Thu 26 Apr Recent Research on Irish Nation Building

Cultural nationalism in Ireland with comparative glances to Prussian-Poland
Annina Cavelti (University of Basel)


The challenges and rewards of conceptualising post-independent Ireland's interaction with empire
Helen O'Shea (Edinburgh)

Sean Lemáss: Democratic Dictator
Bryce Evans (UCD)

The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 2 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk
   
Wed 2 May Great Aberdonians:
George Reid (1841-1913): President of the Royal Scottish Academy and Pioneer of Realism in Britain

John Morrison (University of Aberdeen)

7.30pm, Town and County Hall, Town House, Union Street
   
Thu 10 May ‘The Uncanny can happen’: Desire and Belief in Ali Smith’s The Seer

Monica Germanà (University of Westminster)
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
   
Fri 18 - Sat 19 May Workshop: Law and Governance in Renaissance Scotland


(For information please contact Dr Jackson Armstrong j.armstrong@abdn.ac.uk)
   
Fri 27 Jul Workshop: Lights and Shadows of Scottish Fiction 1820-1850

(For information please contact Dr Tim Baker t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk)
   

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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