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The University of Aberdeen, Queen’s University Belfast and The National University of Ireland – Maynooth have established the Irish Scottish Forum for Spatial Planning. Its purpose is to critically examine the relationship between strategic planning and the development of cities, towns and countryside in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. The goal...

Theme The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen will host a conference in 2009 on the topic “Migrating Minds: Imagined Journeys – Imagined Homecomings”. The conference will take place on the 14 and 15 May 2009 alongside the Aberdeen WORD Festival. Literature (both fiction and...

Professor Matthew Wickman (Brigham Young University) 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 Matthew Wickman is Associate Professor of British Literature at Brigham Young University. He is the author of the book The Ruins of Experience:...

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 7 MAY RIISS THE DIARY OF PATRICK GORDON, AND ITS CONTEXT This meeting will celebrate the publication of the first volume of the Diary of Patrick Gordon and discuss vol. 1 along with vols. 2 and 3 already translated into Russian by Dmitry Fedosov and published...

Dr Ralph O'Connor (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 Ralph O'Connor is Lecturer in Irish-Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. His research interests currently fall into two areas: the prose literature of the...

The Women’s History Association of Ireland (WHAI) and Women’s History Scotland (WHS) announce the first joint Irish-Scottish Women’s History conference to be held on the 24th/25th April 2009 in Trinity College Dublin. The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies (CGWS), School of Histories and Humanities,...

The Arts, the State and the Wealth of Nations:Case Studies of Ireland and Scotland Workshop/Conference, Hosted by Long Room Hub and Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies, Trinity College Dublin, and Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, and the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, at Trinity...

Programme Friday, 3rd April Registration: 3-5pm, Humanity Manse (19 College Bounds) 6-7pm Plenary Session: Neal Alexander (University of Nottingham): 'What Might Have Been: Ciaran Carson and the Politics of Memory' Wine reception and buffet to follow   Saturday, 4th April 9.30-11am Parallel Sessions: Memory and Northern Ireland Emma Grey (Aberdeen): The Representation of Memory in Contemporary Northern Irish Visual...

(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,...

    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...