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2010
March
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Thomas Reid From His Time To Ours
-Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy 2010 (Aberdeen)
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George Gordon - the Scot who finally refuted Aristotle
Tom McInally (University of Aberdeen Tom McInally received his PhD from the University of Aberdeen in 2008 and is now an honorary research fellow at RIISS. His present research is on the contributions to the AufKlarung of Scots Benedictines working in Germany in the 18th century. His monograph, The Sixth Scottish University...
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The Honourable Society of Improvers: Political Economy and the Culture of Improvement in 18th-century Scotland and Ireland
Brian Bonnyman (University of Aberdeen) Brian Bonnyman is an honorary research fellow at RIISS. He obtained his PhD in Edinburgh and formerley lectured in the History department at the University of Aberdeen Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds, 5.15pm
February
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Where the Bishop of Oxford lays down his pen: Writing a Commissioned Survey History
S.J. Connolly (Queen's University, Belfast) Amongst other major studies of early modern Ireland, Professor Connolly is the author of Contested Island: Ireland, 1460-1630 (Oxford, 2007) and Divided Kingdom: Ireland, 160-1800 (Oxford, 2008) Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds, 5.15pm
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"To overhaul that invisible leeway": imagining modern Scotland in the 1930s
Andrew Blaikie (University of Aberdeen) Andrew Blaikie is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He has recently completed a monograph titled The Scots Imagination and Modern Memory, forthcoming 2010 from Edinburgh University Press. Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds, 5.15pm
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Scotland, Northern Ireland and Devolution: Past, Present, and Future
Graham Walker (Queen's University, Belfast) Graham Walker is Professor of Political History at Queen's University, Belfast. He is author of A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmatism and Pessimism (Manchester University Press, 2004). Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds, 5.15pm
2009
November
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The Appropriation of Catholicism in the post-Reformation Gaidhealtachd
Scott Spurlock (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 Dr Spurlock is a research fellow working on insular Christinaity in the early modern period. He has taught in the Department of History in Aberdeen, and is...
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Synge's Playboy, Jack B. Yeats, performance and ideas of cultural value
Dr Lionel Pilkington (National University of Ireland Galway) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Prof Patrick Crotty, on 01224 272196 or email p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk Lionel Pilkington has published widely on theatre, culture, politics and religion in Ireland. He is author of Theatre and the State in 20thC Ireland:...