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2012
November
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Elect Affinities: Robin Jenkins, Ethics, and Religion in the Scottish Novel
N.B. this will be held at the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanitis, University of Edinburgh. For further information please contact Dr Tim Baker: t.c.baker@abdn.ac.uk
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'Winged Horses, Fiery Dragons and Monstrous Giants': Historiography and the Imagination in the Scottish Enlightenment
David Allan (University of St Andrews) 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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Empire and the Peoples of the British Monarchy 1603-1815
-Nicholas Canny (Nui Galway) 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: John Barbour (c.1330-1395)
-Dr Jackson Armstrong John Barbour is most celebrated as the ‘father’ of Scots poetry: he wrote The Brus, the epic poem which immortalised Robert I as the quintessential Scottish monarch, and which famously rejoiced in the troublesome idea of freedom (that ‘noble thing’). But Barbour was also archdeacon of the diocese...
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Home Rule and Town Planning: The Impact of Patrick Geddes and Lady Aberdeen on Dublin 1911-1915
-Anne Michelle Slater (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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Paddies Evermore: Stereotypes and Irish National Identity in the late eighteenth-century
-Padhraig Higgins (Mercer County Community College, New Jersey) 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
October
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Lights and Shadows of Scottish Fiction 1820-1850
-For further information please contact Dr Dan Wall: d.j.wall@abdn.ac.uk
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Postgraduate Symposium: Literature, Art and Cultural Politics in Ireland and Scotland
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen 20 October 2012 Programme 9.30-11.00 Charlene Small (QUB): 'I came into my own/ Masquerade as a man of property': the function of the Glanmore Cottage in Seamus Heaney's poetry' Adam Hanna (Aberdeen): Seamus Heaney’s Uncertainty at the Threshold Faye McDermott (Aberdeen): The Poetry of...
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The Future of Irish History
-Michael Brown (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