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2010
March
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:...
October
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Global Nations? Irish and Scottish Expansion since the 16th Century
-6th ISAI Conference
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George Watson Memorial Lecture: Another Country: Politicising national tales in Ireland and Scotland under the Union, Roy Foster
Prof Roy Foster (University of Oxford)
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Nations on the Move: Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Native America 1960-2000
-Margaret Connell Szasz, editor Conference Schedule, 29-30 October 2009 Authors for chapters on Scotland, Ireland and Wales Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies Humanities Manse University of Aberdeen 29 October, afternoon 30 October, morning Registration to register for this event, please contact jon.cameron@abdn.ac.uk (places are limited) General Procedure During each session presenters will have...