Event Archive

2026

April

• Scottish Judges and Convict Transportation in the Eighteenth Century

  21 April 2026, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Postgraduate Seminar All Welcome

• Renaissance Esotericism and the University of Aberdeen

  16 April 2026, 13:00 - 14:00

  RIISS Seminar in collaboration with the Centre for Early Modern Studies. All welcome

• Transnational Troubles, 1968-1998

  10 - 11 April 2026

  RIISS workshop: The Troubled Island

March

• Jacobite Nations IV: Digitising the Jacobite World

  21 March 2026, 09:30 - 17:45

  RIISS Workshop

• In Search of the Exiled Stuart Courts, 1689-1766

  20 March 2026, 18:00 - 19:30

  Public Lecture sponsored by RIISS and the Jacobite Studies Trust. Booking required: In Search of the Exiled Stuart Courts, 1689-1766. Tickets, Friday, Mar 20 from 6 pm to 7:30 pm | Eventbrite Edward Corp is emeritus Professor of British History at the University of Toulouse. He is the world’s leading expert on the...

February

• What might AI mean for the Scots language?

  24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar All Welcome

• The Invention of the Celt. Culture, Politics and Nationalism across the Atlantic Arc

  10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar  All Welcome

2025

October

• Lowland Improvement and Scotland's Last 'Gypsy' Executions, 1770-1800

  28 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30

  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome

• Hotel Lux: Researching an Irish Woman's World in 1920s Moscow

  21 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30

  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar  All Welcome

• 'Frenchmen who chose ... to abandon their country': French émigrés in Dublin, 1789-1794

  14 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30

  New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome