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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)
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Wed 9 Jan |
Great Aberdonians: Jane Geddes (University of Aberdeen) |
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) |
Wed 13 Feb |
Great Aberdonians: Andrew Mackillop (University of Aberdeen) |
Thu 14 Feb |
‘Another Attempt to Define My Irishness’: The Political Michael Longley |
Thu 21 Feb |
Reason and Revelation in Thomas Reid's Theology |
| Thu 7 Mar | The Transportation of Irish Soldiers to Sweden and Russia, 1609-1613, and the Plantation of Ulster
Chester Dunning (Texas A&M) |
| Wed 13 Mar | Great Aberdonians: Andrew Blaikie (University of Aberdeen) |
| 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) |
| Thu 21 Mar | Unfriendly Friends and Friendly Foes: Negotiating Jacobitism and its Legacies in the Waverley Novels
Alison Lumsden (University of Aberdeen) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Thu 25 Apr | The Poetry of Janet Frame
Miriam Gamble (University of Edinburgh) |
| Thu 2 May | '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) |
| 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) |
| 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 on Events or the Institute contact: Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies |
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