Event Archive

2024

May

• Irish Anti-Communism and Responses to the Russian Revolutions, 1905-1923

  08 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00

  RIISS / History Department Seminar All Welcome

March

• 'An Instant Affinity': The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974

  19 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar All Welcome Abstract: 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Scotland’s most renowned and influential works of drama, the 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre group’s “ceilidh-play”, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. The Cheviot aimed to engage local communities around Scotland, especially the Highlands, and argued...

• Negotiating Peace in Northern Ireland

  12 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar All welcome

February

• Crisis Management: The World of Irish Tories during the 1830s and 1840s

  27 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar All welcome 

• Grave Charges: The Reaction to the Oscar Wilde and Hector Macdonald Scandals in the Scottish Press

  20 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar All welcome

2023

December

• Old Networks, New Media: "The Lyon in Mourning" Digital Humanities Project and the Post-1745 Jacobite World

  08 December 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  This paper, based on an ongoing digital humanities research project at Simon Fraser University, reports on the challenges faced and theoretical perspectives gained in the digitization, encoding and analysis of “The Lyon in Mourning.” Compiled by Jacobite Episcopalian minister Robert Forbes after the suppression of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, “The Lyon...

November

• Contextualizing William Mackay's Narrative of the Wreck of the Juno (1798)

  21 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  Hybrid Research Seminar  All Welcome

• The Popish Masquerade: Popery and the Politics of the Hanoverian Succession in Scotland

  07 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  New Voices Seminar All Welcome

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  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Clare Loughlin (University of Aberdeen) The Popish Masquerade: Popery and the Politics of the Hanoverian Succession in Scotland

  07 November 2023, 16:00 - 18:00

  The RIISS New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is returning for a fourth year. Join Claire Loughlin for an online webinar.

October

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  Supernatural Stories and Scott

  31 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:30

  Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz's 'Reading Scotland' programme for the 2023-2024 academic year kicks off with a talk by Dr Anna Fancett, University of Aberdeen, on Walter Scott's presentation of the supernatural.