Event Archive

2015

April

• Great Aberdonians: Reeling and Quadrilling: Aberdeen dancing masters from 1800 to 1920

  08 April 2015, 19:30 - 21:00
  

  Great Aberdonians is a public lecture series organised by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and Aberdeen City Council

• RIISS Conversations

  07 April 2015, 13:00 - 14:00

  Visual culture/non-text sources

• 'Irish and Scottish Literature: A Euphemism?

  02 April 2015, 17:15 - 18:55

  Maria Dick (University of Glasgow)

March

• Union and Identity in the English Portraiture of James VI and I

  26 March 2015, 17:15 - 23:59

  Helen Pierce (University of Aberdeen)

• RIISS Conversations

  24 March 2015, 13:00 - 14:00

  Non-academic careers

• Recovery and Forgetting: Trauma Narratives and the Diseased Body in Northern Irish Culture

  19 March 2015, 17:15 - 19:00

  Shane Alcobia-Murphy (University of Aberdeen)

• Constitutional Rhetoric as Legal Defence: Irish Lawyers and the Languages of Political Dissent in 1848

  12 March 2015, 17:15 - 23:59

  Colin Reid (University of Northumbria)

• RIISS Conversations

  10 March 2015, 13:00 - 14:00

  Academics in the wider community

February

• Workshop: Translation, Adaptation, and Rewriting in Irish & Scottish Literature and Film

  27 - 28 February 2015

  FRIDAY 2.00 - 2.30  Welcome and introduction 2.30 - 3.30  Panel 1: Prof. Patrick Crotty, TBC Dr. David Wheatley, 'This infinitesimal lag, between arrival and departure’: Allegories of Verbal Transformation in Beckett’s Words and Music 3.30 - 4.30  Panel 2: Paula ?ledzi?ska, 'Textual and Musical Discourse in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart ' Nick Collins, 'Queen...

• 'Weird shapes and forms': Kathleen Jamie's writing of the body

  26 February 2015, 17:15 - 23:59

  Alan Macpherson (University of Aberdeen)