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2013
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The Poetry of Janet Frame
-Miriam Gamble (University of Edinburgh) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk
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Crosscurrents: Postgraduate Conference in Irish and Scottish Studies
-University of Aberdeen, 12-14 April 2013 FRIDAY, 12 April 3.00-4.30pm Registration: C11, Taylor Building 4.15-6.15pm Panel sessions C11 Taylor Building Stewart Sanderson (University of Glasgow): The Symbolist Movement in Scottish and Irish Literature George N. Asimos (Villanova University): Queer Hybridities: Displacement, Space, and Permeability in Colm Tóibín’s The Master Erika Meyers (Dublin): Historical Rupture as Empowerment...
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Memory and Culture in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies 19, College Bounds 11 April 2013 All welcome to attend 9.30-11.00 Richard Kirkland (King’s College, London): Visualising Peace: Northern Irish Post-Conflict Cinema Shane Alcobia-Murphy (University of Aberdeen): ‘I Could Not Tell’: Memory and Trauma in Northern Irish Culture Tea/coffee 11.30-1.00 Emma Grey (University of Aberdeen): Title TBA Tom Herron (Leeds Metropolitan University): Singing...
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Great Aberdonians: Ian Macpherson (1905-1944): Novelist and memoirist
-Dr Tim Baker When remembered at all, Ian Macpherson is usually discussed in relation to his better-known and like-minded contemporaries Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Nan Shepherd. His works, however – ranging from the pastoral coming-of-age novel Shepherds’ Calendar (1931) to the astonishingly prescient adventure Wild Harbour (1936), as well as his...
March
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Unfriendly Friends and Friendly Foes: Negotiating Jacobitism and its Legacies in the Waverley Novels
-Alison Lumsden (University of Aberdeen) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk
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THE WORLD OF PATRICK GORDON
RIISS, Humanities Manse (HMG1) 15 March 2013 The organisers acknowledge with gratitude sponsorship by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies not only of the Symposium but also of the publication of the Diary of Patrick Gordon. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Thanks to RIISS and ACREEH 10.15-11.00 Dmitry Fedosov (Moscow) and Paul Dukes (Aberdeen) Introductory...
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Scottish Theology Workshop
Divinity Library, King's College Friday 15 March 2013 PROGRAMME 1pm Welcome 1.05-1.40pm HUME AND THE BEGINNING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION Robert Segal 1.45-2.20pm FRAZER'S INFLUENCE ON CLASSICAL RELIGION Robert Ackerman 2.20-2.50pm break 2.50-3.25pm JAMES LEGGE'S (1815-1897) INFLUENCE ON THE STUDY OF CHINESE RELIGION AND THE COMPARATIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGIONS Norman Girardot 3.30-4.05pm THE INFLUENCE OF F....
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The Lost Tribe of Southern Africa: The Catholic Irish at the Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1910
-Colin Barr (University of Aberdeen) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk
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Great Aberdonians: William Alexander (1826-1894): Journalist and Radical Liberal
-Professor Andrew Blaikie Born of farming stock in rural Aberdeenshire, William Alexander rose to become editor of the Aberdeen Free Press, a campaigning Radical Liberal and city worthy. His great value lies in the realist literature he produced in serialised newspaper form, later to emerge as novels, most notably Johnny Gibb...