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Spring Events Programme 2013

 

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)

Wed 9 Jan

Great Aberdonians:
Bishop William Elphinstone: Scottish statesman, Bishop of Aberdeen and founder of the University of Aberdeen

Jane Geddes (University of Aberdeen)
7.30pm, Town and County Hall, Town House, Union Street
   

Sat 26 Jan

City Archives Workshop

For further information please contact Dr Jackson Armstrong

   
Thu 7 Feb

Attitudes to law in Scots and Irish Nationalist Identity

Scott Styles (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

   

Wed 13 Feb

Great Aberdonians:
John Forbes of Newe (1743-1821): ‘Bombay Jock’, merchant adventurer of the early British Empire.

Andrew Mackillop (University of Aberdeen)
7.30pm, Town and County Hall, Town House, Union Street
   

Thu 14 Feb

‘Another Attempt to Define My Irishness’: The Political Michael Longley  

Adam Hanna (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
   

Thu 21 Feb

Reason and Revelation in Thomas Reid's Theology

James Foster (Princeton Theological Seminary)
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 28 Feb

'Fully Able / To Write in Any Language - I'm a Babel': James Clarence Mangan and the Task of the Translator

David Wheatley (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
   
Thu 7 Mar The Transportation of Irish Soldiers to Sweden and Russia, 1609-1613, and the Plantation of Ulster

Chester Dunning (Texas A&M)
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 13 Mar

Great Aberdonians:
William Alexander (1826-1894): Journalist and Radical Liberal

Andrew Blaikie (University of Aberdeen)
7.30pm, Town and County Hall, Town House, Union Street
   
Thu 14 Mar The Lost Tribe of Southern Africa: The Catholic Irish at the Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1910

Colin Barr (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
   
Thu 21 Mar Unfriendly Friends and Friendly Foes: Negotiating Jacobitism and its Legacies in the Waverly Novels

Alison Lumsden (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
   
Fri 29 - Sun 31 Mar

Crosscurrents Postgraduate Conference

For further information please contact Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy

   
Wed 10 Apr Great Aberdonians:
Ian Macpherson (1905-1944): Scottish Novelist

Tim Baker (University of Aberdeen)
7.30pm, Town and County Hall, Town House, Union Street
   
Sat 13 Apr Contemporary Irish Culture and Trauma

For further information please contact Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy

   
Thu 18 Apr title t.b.c.

Jim Livesey (University of Sussex)
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 25 Apr title t.b.c.

Miriam Gamble (University of Edinburgh)
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 3 - Sat 4 May

Practicks Workshop

For further information please contact Dr Adelyn Wilson

   
Thu 9 May

'Unfair, spiteful, narrow-minded and hysterical'?: Andrew Lang (1844-1912) and Scottish History

Catriona Macdonald (University of Glasgow)
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 15 - Fri 17 May

United Islands III: Multi-Lingual Poetry and Song in Britain and Ireland, 1770-1920

Queen's University Belfast
For further information please contact Dr Michael Brown
   
Sun 19 - Wed 23 Jun

On the Edge: Transitions, Trnasgressions, and Transformations in Irish and Scottish Studies

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
For further information please contact Dr Willeen Keough
   

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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