Event Archive

2023

July

• The Nineteenth Century Scottish Enlightenment

  13 July 2023, 11:00 - 12:30

  Thematic Workshop

May

• In Person, Print, and Prayer: Ragged Schools as a Scottish-English Venture

  03 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Seminar

March

• Church, state and responsibility: new histories of Irish welfare

  28 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar

• A Hotbed of Second Fiddles ? A Few Scottish Trajectories in late Ancien Regime Paris

  27 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Seminar All Welcome

• Early and Late Celticism

  21 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  RIISS Online Seminar (Please note the early start time)

• In Person, Print, and Prayer: Ragged Schools as a Scottish-English Venture?

  15 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar In recent years historians of education have critiqued the tendency to focus on Scotland alone – an approach, they have argued, that neglects the broader context in which Scottish schools operated (Anderson and Wallace, 2015; McDermid, 2015). The Scottish-English border has proven particularly impermeable to scholars of the...

• Enlightenment and Abolition: Henry Brougham, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Slavery

  07 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Online Seminar

February

• 'Learned Ignorance: An Overlooked Counterhegemonic Epistemic Principle of Humility in 19th-Century Texts by Sir William Hamilton and Thomas Carlyle.'

  28 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Online Seminar

• Prying Eyes: The Moral Significance of Sentimental Curiosity in Adam Smith and Joanna Baillie

  22 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:00

  RIISS Research Seminar

2022

November

• Colonial Surveying, Extraction, and Labour: Networks of Knowledge-Formation between India and Ireland from the Mid-Nineteenth Century

  29 November 2022, 16:30 - 17:30

  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar  All Welcome