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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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....

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

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...

Chester Dunning (Texas A&M) 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

James Foster (Princeton Theological Seminary) 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