Event Archive

'What bloody shits those Dundeans must be' (Lawrence of Arabia to Churchill, November 1922): Churchill's defeat in Dundee, 1922

hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome

Linguistic Contact and Dialect Genesis and Evolution: 'Marginal' Scots Dialects

Hybid Research Seminar, All Welcome

Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth

Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome

'The sensibility of a poet and the sympathy of a friend': Literature in the Correspondence of Robert Burns and Frances Dunlop

Hybrid Research Seminar: All Welcome

William Macao and the Politics of British Subjecthood in the Courts

Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome

Scott, Hogg and Espionage

Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome

Public Lecture and Book Launch: (Re)collecting Jacobites in Robert Forbes's "The Lyon in Mourning" Manuscript

The lecture will be followed by the launch of Leith Davis, Jacobitism adn Cultural Memory, 1688-1820 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025) This event is held in collaboration with the University Collections and the Freinds of Aberdeen Library. 

Writing Jacobitism Workshop

The Third Annual Jacobite Nations Workshop

The Drunken Irishman: Defining a Nation in Early-Nineteenth Century Literature

Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome 

Ruaraigh Erskine's Galeic Magazines: Scottish and International Newtworks

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies  Onlien Seminar: All Welcome

Rethinking Irish Rock Music, 1970-1985

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Semianr: All Welcome

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Yen-Chi Wu

Dr Yen-Chi Wu (Tunghai University) will be presenting the second paper in the 'New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies' webinar series.

Irish Writers, the New Yorker, and the First-Reading Agreement, 1940-1980

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Seminar: All Welcome NB: This is a lunchtime seminar

New Voices Seminar: TBC

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Research Seminar: All Welcome

Workshop: Towards a History of Political Thought in Ireland

This workshop will bring established and early career researchers together with a view to produce a proposal for an innovative book on the history of political thought in Ireland. The history of political thought is an emerging and dynamic field within Irish studies, with scholars increasingly exploring the intellectual dimensions...

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

RIISS / History Department Seminar All Welcome

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

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

RIISS Research Seminar All welcome

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

RIISS Research Seminar All welcome 

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

RIISS Research Seminar All welcome

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

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...

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

Hybrid Research Seminar  All Welcome

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

New Voices Seminar All Welcome

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

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

Supernatural Stories and Scott

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.

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Annie Webster (University of Edinburgh) 'Placemaking Practices in Stories of the Syrian New Scots'

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

Placemaking Practices in Stories of the Syrian New Scots

New Voices Seminar All Welcome

Jacobite Imaginations

In this relaxed discussion session, you get the chance to explore questions and ideas on a Jacobite theme with a variety of specialist researchers. All are extremely welcome to come along, listen, chat as much or as little as we like in a café setting, and see some relevant materials...

Jacobite Nations

A Hybrid Workshop showcasing recent work in the field of Jacobite Studies

Reading Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland

Panel and Discussion

Come Dancing: Queer Disclosures in Pre-Decriminalisation Filmmaking from Scotland

New Voices Seminar All Welcome

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Marcus Jack (Glasgow School of Art) 'Poor Modernism: The counternarratives of Scotland's contingent artists' film.'

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

"An Instant Affinity": The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974.

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 that the surrender of Scotland’s new-found oil wealth...

"An Instant Affinity": The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974.

This event was cancelled

Join RIISS for a special event to mark the anniversary of a seminal Scottish work.

'If you don't stop quick, I'll put you inside': Teresa Deevy's Carceral Homes

New Voices Seminar All Welcome

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr James Little (University College Dublin) '"If you don't stop quick, I'll put you inside!" Teresa Deevy's Carceral Homes'

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

The Nineteenth Century Scottish Enlightenment

Thematic Workshop

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

RIISS Seminar

Church, state and responsibility: new histories of Irish welfare

RIISS Research Seminar

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

RIISS Seminar All Welcome

Early and Late Celticism

RIISS Online Seminar (Please note the early start time)

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

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

RIISS Online Seminar

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

RIISS Online Seminar

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

RIISS Research Seminar

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

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar  All Welcome

(Re)imagining Coastscapes: Scottish Expertise and the Shaping of pre-Famine Connemara

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies 

New Research in Scottish and Irish Romanticism from the Scott Project Team

New Voices in irish and Scottish Studies Seminar   All Welcome    Dr Natalie Harries: ‘treasures that would charm a bibliomaniac’: Walter Scott’s Supernatural Sources    Dr Anna Fancett: Scott's Seers: Predicting the Future in the Works of Walter Scott

Scottish And American Intellectual Relations

RIISS PGR Workshop

The British Secret Service, the Scottish Book Trade, and the 1707 Act of Union: An Inquiry into the History of Propaganda

Research Seminar presented by a Friends of Aberdeen University Library, Visiting Scholar: All welcome

Jacobite Nations workshop

  13:45-14.00: Welcome Michael Taylor (University of Aberdeen) 14:00-15.00: Session One Dr Nicola Martin (University of the Highlands and Islands): ‘Highland Loyalism: Regional vs. National Responses to Jacobitism’ Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha (Ulster University) (Online): ‘Irish Jacobite History and Historiography’ 15:00 BREAK 15:30-16.30: Session Two Prof Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen): ‘Jacobite Aesthetics and the Conspiratorial Mind’ Harry Lewis (University of...

Reading Group on Irish and Scottish Liberalism

This is a reading group which examines the Liberal tradition of political thought, with a view to thinking about Irish and Scottish contributions to that discourse. It was established following the generous provision of two James Beattie Postgraduate fellowships by the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History. It...

Brothers in Arms: Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean

RIISS Research Seminar

The Launch of 'Walter Scott and Song': Celebrating Scott 250

Join us for a virtual celebration of the 250th anniversary of Walter Scott's birth, and the opening of the University's new online exhibition, Walter Scott and Song: Retuning the Harp of the North, on Tuesday 17 August from 6pm (BST).

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RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

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RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

'Pray for the donor: Money and the material in the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921'

RIISS Seminar- All Welcome

'Globalisation happened on Loch Craignish in 1720'

RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

Convention, Parliament and the Third Estate in the Personal Rule of James V

RIISS Semianr - All Welcome

'James VI and I and his empire of islands: the view from the periphery'

RIISS Seminar Jointly Held with the Centre for Early Modern Studies  All welcome

Bad Bridget: Romance and Retribution

Draws on the AHRC research project 'Bad Bridget: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women in North America, 1838-1918' RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

'Correspondence and Community: Maria Edgeworth's Scottish Friends'

RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

Dr Alison Garden (Marie Skeodowska-Curie Fellow, School Of Arts, English And Languages, Queen's University Belfast), "emphatically anti-political": Troubled love and the North

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All welcome

Globalizing Profession: History of Women Religious Workshop

9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Introduction Rose Luminiello (University of Aberdeen/University of Notre Dame) Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck, University of London)   9:30 – 9:50 Perspectives from Australia Katharine Massam (Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity) Joanna Cruickshank (Deakin University) Laura Rademaker (Australian National University)     9:50 – 10:10 Break 10:15 – 10:45 Perspectives from Europe Kaat Wils (KU Leuven) Caitriona Clear...

Dr Zosia Kuczyñska (Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of English Drama and Film, University College Dublin). 'Artistic practice as a model of influence: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer'

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome  

Dr Lizzie Swarbrick, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Art History, University of Edinburgh. '"Timor mortis conturbat me": Commemoration and the Macabre at Rosslyn Chapel'.

'New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies' All Welcome

#BLM: Developing a more diverse curriculum for LLMVC

Event for all LLMVC staff and students

RIISS Introductions

A day discussing the introductions of current book projects. It will also deliberate on the genre of a scholarly introduction.

Globalisation happened on Loch Craignish in 1720

RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

Twenty Years Hence: Ireland, Scotland, and Europe Irish and Scottish Studies and the State of the Nations conference

Royal Society of Edinburgh network event

Pray for the Donor: Money and the Material in the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921

RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

'Tending to Unsettle the Belief of a Catholic Prisoner': Chaplains, Prison Regimes and the Mind in mid Nineteenth-Century Ireland

RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

Correspondence and Community: Maria Edgeworth's Scottish Friends

RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

Irish Writers Series: Vona Groarke

RIISS and Word Centre Irish Writer Series, presenting Vona Groarke

The 1798 Rebellion: Three Contexts and a Possible Solution

RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

Kirk and Nation in Robert Burns

RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought

RIISS Seminar Series - All Welcome

Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment

RIISS Seminar Series - ALL Welcome

Twenty Years Hence: Ireland, Scotland, and Europe Irish and Scottish Studies and the State of the Nations workshop 3

Royal Society of Edinburgh network event

The Battle against Corruption in early Victorian Britain: Public Service Ethics before Northcote Trevelyan

RIISS Seminar Series - All Welcome

Kindred Nations: Ireland, Scotland and America The Next Twenty Years

A public conversation held in Boston in association with the Irish Consulate

Beyond the Border: Irish and Scottish Studies, 1999-2019-2039

Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies: Twentieth Anniversary Conference

RIISS Recap

Panel 1- Bradford Bow, ‘Instructing the Blind and Deaf in Dugald Stewart’s Educational Doctrine’ First presented at 15th International Congress on the Enlightenment in Edinburgh.   Michael Brown. ‘The English Problem in Irish and Scottish Studies’ First presented as part of the RSE-funded workshop series Twenty Years Hence: Irish and Scottish Studies and the...

Twenty Years Hence: Ireland, Scotland, and Europe Irish and Scottish Studies and the State of the Nations

Workshop 2 Border Crossings: Irish and Scottish Migrant Communities at Home and Abroad

After 20: Irish and Scottish Studies Since the Good Friday Agreement

Workshop 1 in the Royal Society of Edinburgh Network: Twenty Years Hence: Irish and Scottish Studies and the State of the Nations

A Spring Series of Public Readings - 4

The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS

Joost Augusteijn (Leiden University): The role of the Terrorist constituency: The case of IRA hunger strikes in the 1970s

RIISS Seminar All Welcome

Jane Humphries: 'Over Here, Over There: Cultural Crossings Between Irish and Scottish Artists'

RIISS Seminar Series All Welcome

Darren Swanson (University of Sydney and Central Queensland University), Beyond Glover: Alexander Cameron Sim, James Murdoch and North East Scotland's Lesser Known Links with Imperial Japan

RIISS Seminar Series (All Welcome) Please note the unusual date and time.   Abstract: Alexander Cameron Sim, born in Aberlour in 1840, was a pharmacist, sportsman, and entrepreneur. Sim was extremely influential in the development of Kobe, Japan, and is today considered one of the founding fathers of the original foreign settlement. Sim is...

A Spring Series of Public Readings - 3

Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS

Stefanie Lehrer (Queen's University Belfast), Cultural Crossings: The Relevance of Irish-Scottish Studies Post-Brexit

RIISS Research Seminar Series All Welcome

A Spring Series of Public Readings - 2

The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS

Mary-Alice Clancy (Aberdeen), 'The Bush Administration and Northern Ireland, 2001-2007'

RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome

Anne Fogarty (UCD), "The landscape listens": Writing the Posthuman in Edna O'Brien's The Little Red Chairs and Sara Baume's A Line Made by Walking

RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome    

Jennifer Orr (Newcastle), 'Irish writers in Paris and their cosmopolitan networks'

RIISS Research Seminar Series All  welcome

Jay Rozman (NUI Cork), '"The dangerous encroachments of popery': Irish Agrarian Violence and Ultra-Tory Mobilisation in the Age of Reform'

RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome

A Spring Series of Public Readings - 1

The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS A Spring Series of Public Readings by five of the most exciting contemporary Irish Writers

Craig Lamont (Glasgow), '"fam'd for ilka thing": Remembering the Places of the Scottish Enlightenment

RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome

Alex Campsie (Aberdeen), 'Tom Nairn and "the dream of escape"'

RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome

Corey Gibson (Glasgow), 'The Scotland in which there is no repetition': Independence and the Literary Imaginary, from the Interwar Renaissance to IndyRef2

RIISS Research Seminar Series