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2009
April
March
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Scripture, science and 'race'
-(Beginning 4.00pm on 26th, ending 12.00 on 27th) Speakers are: Professor Emeritus Michael Banton (University of Bristol) Author of Racial Theories Professor J. Kameron Carter (Duke University) Author of Race: A Theological Account Professor Colin Kidd (University of Glasgow) Author of The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World,...
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Director's Cut: David Mackenzie in conversation with Dr Alan Marcus
David Mackenzie in conversation with Dr Alan Marcus 6pm, KCC, followed by a wine reception hosted by Scottish Screen One of Scotland’s leading film directors, David Mackenzie, won awards at the Berlin Film Festival for Hallam Foe (2007), set in Edinburgh and starring Jamie Bell and Sophia...
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The Orcadian Odyssey: The emigration of Orkney Islanders across three colonial boundaries 1840-1914
Jill Harland, University of Otago The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Prof Cairns Craig, on 01224 273681 or email cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk Jill is a PhD student at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research focuses on the migration of Orcadians from Northern Scotland across three...
February
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Adam Smith and the third Duke of Buccleuch: Patriotism and Improvement in the Scottish Enlightenment
Dr Brian Bonnyman (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 Dr Bonnyman is an honorary research fellow at the University of Aberdeen whose research intrests lie in eighteenth century ideas of agricultural improvement
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Directors Cut: Richard Holloway in conversation with Prof. John Swinton
Richard Holloway in conversation with Prof. John Swinton King's College Chapel, 6pm. The University of Aberdeen's Department of Film and Visual Culture invite you to join us for the first Director's Cut of 2009 with broadcaster and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway. The event is free, but make...
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The Bubble on the periphery: The South Sea Bubble in Ireland and Scotland
Dr Patrick Walsh (UCD) 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 Patrick Walsh is a graduate of TCD where he received his PhD in 2008 for a study of the Irish politician William Conolly. He is currently...
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University of Strathclyde - Seminar Series: IDENTITY AND MOBILITY FROM JACOBITISM TO EMPIRE, c.1680-c.1820
-University of Strathclyde – Seminar SeriesDepartment of History, February-June 2009in association with the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen IDENTITY AND MOBILITY FROM JACOBITISM TO EMPIRE, c.1680-c.1820Seminars will be held from 5.15-6.30 p.m. in R. 4.02, Department of History, McCance Building, 16 Richmond St, Glasgow G1...
2008
December
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Final Symposuim of the AHRC funded Irish and Scottish Poetry Project
Desire Lines: Mapping the City in Contemporary Belfast and Glasgow Poetry Aaron Kelly (University of Edinburgh) Outwith the Pale: Irish-Scottish Studies as an Act of Translation Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen) Seminar Room, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Queen's University Belfast, 2.30-5.30 p.m. Further information, and to confirm attendance, please contact Dr...
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Identifying and investigating the middling sort in Dublin. 1760-1800
Lisa Marie Griffith (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 Lisa Marie Griffith is an IRCHSS scholar finishing a PhD at TCD on social mobility in eighteenth-century Dublin.