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2006
April
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Reading by James Robertson
James Robertson, best-selling Scottish author of The Fanatic (2000) and Joseph Knight (2003) will talk about the influence of Walter Scott on his writing. Humanity Manse 2 p.m. Humanity Manse 5.15 p.m. Hosted by the Walter Scott Research Centre. Further information from Dr Alison Lumsden, email a.lumsden@abdn.ac.uk
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History Read Backward: Memory, Migration and the Photographic Archive .
Dr Roberta McGrath, Napier University , Edinburgh . Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 4.00 p.m. Further details from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email: e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk
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Fat Sebastian and the Burning Chair: Freyre, Agostini and Brazilian Slavery.
Professor Marcus Wood, University of Sussex Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series . The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 4 p.m. in Further details from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email: e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk
March
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Recording our Past: History, Memory and the Photographic Survey Movement
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, University of the Arts, London Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.00 pm . Further information from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk
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Facing the Atlantic : Politics, Culture, Technology, 1860-1930
Professor Christopher Harvie ( University of Tubingen ) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig on telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk Professor Harvie is the author of Scotland and Nationalism (1977, 2004), No Gods and Precious Few Heroes (1981, 1998), Fool’s Gold (1994)
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The Popular Novel before the Novel Became (Really) Popular
Professor John Sutherland, The Royal Society of Literature, Linklater Rooms, 5.15 p.m . Hosted by the Centre for the Novel. Further information from the School of Language and Literature
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Memory and Historial Time
Dr Bill Schwarz of Queen Mary, University of London . Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, at 4.00 pm . Further information from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk
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James Kelman: A Symposium
Speakers will include: Laurence Nicol, (Edinburgh), ‘”In place of dialectics”: Kelman and the Russian Novel’ Drew Milne ( Cambridge ) ‘The Strains of Globalisation in Kelman’s recent work’ Carole Jones ( Trinity College , Dublin ) ‘Kelman’s representation of men and Masculinity’ Paul Shanks ( Aberdeen ) ‘”This is right enough”: The Treatment of...
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The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy on 01224 272620 or email: sam@abdn.ac.uk
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Medbh McGuckian's "Sympathetic Ink"
Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, University of Aberdeen The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 5.15 p.m. Further information from Professor P J Crotty, telephone 01224 272196 or email: p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk