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2012
February
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Exhibiting the Past and the Present: Scottish and Irish Museums, 1880 to the present
10 am Opening remarks by Professor Thomas Bartlett (University of Aberdeen) 10.10-11.15 am Professor Fintan Cullen (University of Nottingham): Art, Union and Nationhood: creating a museum for Dublin in the 1890s Chair: T. Bartlett 11.15-11.30 am Coffee 11.30 am - 12.30 pm Dr Neil Curtis (University of Aberdeen): The Scottish Exhibition of 1911: Exhibiting Scottish Identity Chair:...
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John Owen and the British civil wars - print culture and the Cromwellian invasion of Scotland
Crawford Gribben (Trinity College Dublin) 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: Professor James Beattie (1735-1803): Moral Philosopher and Poet
-Dr Michael Brown
January
2011
December
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'No union with slaveholders?' A tale of two Thomas's in Belfast, Edinburgh, and South Carolina 1844-1847
Iain Whyte 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: Patrick Gordon (1635-1699), and Robert Gordon (1668-1731)
-Professor Robert Frost
November
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The Construction of Scottish Myths
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies,Centre for the Study of Myth,andThe Elphinstone Institute Image of the erection of Robert the Bruce Statue © Gordon Casely Programme 1.30-2.30‘The Myth of Freedom in Scottish History’Edward Cowan (Glasgow) 2.30-3.30‘Robert the Bruce - Myth, Legend and National Hero’Robert Segal (Aberdeen) 3.30-4.00Tea and Coffee 4.00-5.00‘The Myth of the Jacobite...
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Early Shelley and National Song
David Duff (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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St Vigeans and the Sculpture of Pictland
Jane Geddes (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 White Slave Trade': Print Culture and Irish Emigration to America in the Late-Eighteenth Century
Martyn Powell (University of Aberystwyth) 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