Event Archive

New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome

Thursday 18 September 13.30-14.30: Handling Session – The Wilson Archive 14.30-14.45: Coffee break 14.45- 16.30: Session 1: Wilson as traveller Marion Devigne (Aberdeen): Egypt Alexia Petsalis-Diomides (St Andrews): Greece/Mesopotamia Andrew Newby (Galway): Europe 16.30-16.45: Comfort Break 16.45- 17.30: Session 2: Identities Hans Hones (Aberdeen): Comparativism Sally Tuckett (Glasgow): Dress Friday 19 September 10.00- 10.45: Session 3: Empire and Professions Andrew Mackillop (Glasgow): East India Company Thomas...

  10.30AM Discussion      1.30 PM Paper Panels  Panel 1-  Paula Sledinska Drama, Yas and Miwa Soto Translation and Globalisation   Panel 2- Kate Mathis Gaelic Song Arianna Introna Disability Darryl Peers Queerness in Scottish Fiction   3.00 PM  Break      3.30 PM  Paper Panels  Panel 3- Rodge Glass Jewish-Scottish Writing Linda Tym Energy   Panel 4- Hongling Lyu and Pingting Zhang Scottish Literature in China Lorna MacBean Prisons Monika Szuba Animals

As the tensions and contradictions between the global economic system and national affirmations of cultural and political identity come into sharp focus, the SSNCI annual conference seeks to establish how the polarity between universalism and locality was articulated and examined in nineteenth-century Ireland. Drawing inspiration from the work of Aberdeen...

On the 9th – 10th June the Consulate General of Ireland, the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen and Údarás na Gaeltachta will host a symposium at the University of Aberdeen bringing together policy makers, statutory and non-departmental public bodies, academics, industry and civil...

Author meets Critics Gordon Graham in conversation with James Harris and Tamas Demeter

9.15: Welcome and Introductions 9.30-10.00: Bradford Bow, 'Beattie and the Aberdeen Philosophical Society' 10.00-10.30: Tamas Demeter, 'Beattie and Common Sense' 10.30-11.00: Douglas McDermid, 'Beattie and Scepticism' Coffee 11.15-11.45: Gordon Graham,'Beattie and Memory' 11.45-12.15: Botond Csuka, 'Beattie and Belles Lettres Lunch 1.30-2.00: Michael Brown, 'Beattie and Politics' 2.00-2.30: Fred Ablondi, 'Beattie and Religion' 2.30-3.00: Amit Aizenman, 'Beattie and Free Speech'    

The Inaugural James Beattie RIISSS Lecture

Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome

hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome