Event Archive

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...

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

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...

    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...

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...

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...

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.

Linda Burnett (University of Edinburgh) 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 Linda Burnett is a Scottish history PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Her research is on the English traveller Edward Daniel Clarke and his travels in...

The Great Hall, Queen’s University Belfast Organised by John Kirk, Andrew Noble and Michael Brown for the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, with the support of the AHRC Research Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast Centre for Eighteenth-century Studies and the Linen Hall Library The purpose of the proposed...

The Wild Geese'. Reflections on the History of the Irish soldiers in the Service of France in the Eighteenth-Century Professor Thomas Bartlett (University of Aberdeen) Monday 10 November, 6.00pm, Kings College Conference Centre, University of Aberdeen. Further details from www.abdn.ac.uk/inaugurallectures. Advance booking is recommended - please contact the Events Office...