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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies: Twentieth Anniversary Conference
Friday 15 November
12.30-2.00: Registration
SDRL: Craig Suite
2.00-3.00: Plenary speaker
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite
Alice Taylor (KCL), ‘What does Scotland’s earliest legal treatise actually say (and what does it mean)?’
3.30-5.00: Session One
Cultures of Law in Medieval Aberdeen
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite
Jackson Armstrong (Aberdeen) and Edda Frankot (Nord), ‘Cultures of Law and the Aberdeen Burgh Records Project’
Andrew Simpson (Aberdeen), ‘Men of Law in Medieval Aberdeen: A Case Study?’
Walter Scott Research Centre panel
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite 2
Chair and Discussant: Ali Lumsden (Aberdeen)
Ainsley McIntosh, ‘Writing the Nation: Walter Scott’s Narrative Poetry’
Paul Arant (Aberdeen), ‘Marriage and Union in Walter Scott’s Rokeby’
Saturday 16 November
9.30-11.00: Session Two
United Islands
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite
Hiroki Ueno (Hitotsubashi), ‘The Transnational aspect of the intellectual makings of the Scottish Identity: J. G. A. Pocock and David Hume on Europe and Great Britain’
Sarah McCleave (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘Europe’s Interest in the Music and Lyrics of Thomas Moore’
Irish Women Writers I
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite 2
David Wheatley (Aberdeen), ‘Glenmalure Psychogeography: On the Trail of Fiach McHugh O’Byrne with Biddy Jenkinson’
Matthew Campbell (York), ‘In the Fishtank with Leontia Flynn’
Tara McEvoy (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘“A pattern to the pattern”: Formalism and Contemporary Women’s Poetry’
Creative Engagements with the Aberdeen Council Registers
SDRL floor 2: Room 224
Chair: Jackson Armstrong (Aberdeen)
Claire Hawes (Aberdeen)
William Hepburn (Aberdeen)
11.30-1.00: Session Three
Enlightenments
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite
Brad Bow (Aberdeen), ‘George Campbell on the Common Sense of Rhetoric in the Aberdeen Enlightenment’
Paul Tonks (Yonsei), ‘Opening Borders through 18th Century Political Economy: Migration, Naturalization, Scotland and Ireland in Global Historical Perspective’
Endre Szecsenyi (Aberdeen) ‘Berkeley and Modern Aesthetics’
Irish Women Writers II
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite 2
Aifric Mac Aodha (An Gúm, Dublin), Poetry reading and panel discussion
Ailbhe Darcy: Poetry reading and panel discussion
New Directions for the Seventeenth Century
SDRL floor 2: Room 224
Coleman Dennehy (University of Limerick), ‘Institutional Histories of Seventeenth-Century Ireland’
Ian Campbell (Queen’s University Belfast), ‘The Problem of Holy War in Irish and Scottish History in the Seventeenth Century'
Bethany Marsh (Oxford), ‘"exceedingly troubled with frights and feares": The 1641 Irish Rebellion and the Emotional Dimension of Refugee Displacement’
2.00-300: Plenary Speaker
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite
Graham Walker (QUB), ‘Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the Leaving of Unions’
3.30-5.00: Session Four
Medieval
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite
Simon Egan (Glasgow) ‘Anglo-French Ancestry, Acculturation, and Assimilation in Late Medieval Ireland and Scotland’
Clare Downham (Liverpool), ‘St Patrick in Scotland’
Rethinking Scottish Art
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite 2
William Paton (Aberdeen), ‘Printing Money: James Byres and the Search for Revenue in Grand Tour-Era Rome’
Wendy McGlashan (Aberdeen) ‘Demons of Discord and Illustrious Martyrs: John Kay and the Rhetoric of Radical Reform in Enlightenment Edinburgh’
Michelle Foot (Aberdeen), ‘There is No Death: Christian Spiritualism in Early Twentieth-Century Scottish Art’
Irish Revolution
SDRL floor 2: Room 224
John Regan (Dundee), ‘“Affirmationism” in the Irish revolutionary period’
W. J. McCormack, ‘Evolutionary Types and Roger Casement and Several Scottish Doctors’
Chloe Alexander (Aberdeen), ‘James Connolly, Scotland, Ireland and Marxist Internationalism’
Sunday 17 November
11.00-12.30: Session Five
Locating Irish and Scottish Identity in the Colonial Nineteenth Century
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite
Sarah Sharp (Aberdeen) ‘Hame in USA: Situating The Cotter's Saturday Night in the Post-Revolutionary United States’
Sophie Cooper (Edinburgh), ‘The fair daughter of Erin has been assailed: Irish and Scottish Pride in the Settler Society of Melbourne’
Honor Riley (Glasgow), ‘The Expedition of Bridget Lacy’
Irish and Scottish Diaspora
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite 2
Colin Barr (Aberdeen), ‘Tracing Ireland’s Spiritual Empire’
Patrick Mannion (Edinburgh),’ Nationalism and Identity “On Both Sides of the Line”: The Ancient Order of Hibernians and Networks of Diaspora in the United States and Canada, 1908-1918’
Future of Irish and Scottish Studies
SDRL floor 2: Room 224
Chair: Maria Dick (Glasgow)
Stefanie Lehner (QUB), Corridor(s), (Border) Crossings and/or Crosscurrents: Rethinking Critical Paradigms for Irish-Scottish Studies
Michael Brown (Aberdeen), ‘Irish and Scottish Studies and the English Problem’
12.30-1.00: Final Discussion and Close of Conference
SDRL floor 7 Craig Suite
- Hosted by
- Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
- Venue
- The Sir Duncan Rice Library
- Contact
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For any queries please contact Professor Michael Brown (m.brown@abdn.ac.uk).