Event Archive

AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies and the Walter Scott Research Centre The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies and the Walter Scott Research Centre at the University of Aberdeen will host a textual editing symposium on 7 – 8 November 2008. The event will begin at 1pm on...

Dr John Regan (University of Dundee) 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 Regan is a lecturer in History at the University of Dundee. His current research reflects on the impact of the war in Northern Ireland (1969-1997)...

Dr William Jenkins (York University, Toronto) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Rosalyn Trigger, on 01224 274473 or email r.trigger@abdn.ac.uk Dr Jenkins is associate professor of geography and a member of the graduate programmes in geography and history at York University. He is co-author of...

Philosophy, Physics and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century Scotland and Ireland Professor Cairns Craig (University of Aberdeen) King's College Conference Centre, 6 p.m. Further details from www.abdn.ac.uk/inaugurallectures. Advance booking is recommended - please contact the Events Office at the University of Aberdeen by telephoning 01224 273874 or emailing events@abdn.ac.uk. Advance reservation is free. Professor...

Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy (University of Aberdeen) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, on 01224 273681 or email cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk Dr Alcobia-Murphy is Senior Lecturer in the School of Language and Literature and has published widely on Irish and Scottish Culture including two monographs: Governing...

(8-10 July 2008, University of Aberdeen) an event organised by the Centre for the Novel in Association with the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies

keynote speakers: Professor John MacKenzie (emeritus Lancaster) and Dr Lindsay Proudfoot (Queen’s University Belfast) John Mackenzie held posts as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor at Lancaster University, where he was also Dean of Humanities and Dean of Education. He has been general editor of the Manchester University Press, 'Studies in Imperialism',...

A symposium of the AHRC funded Irish-Scottish Poetry Project, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast, in association with the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen.   Humanity Manse 19 College Bounds, University of Aberdeen 9th May 2008     Fri 9th May     Symposium                         Seminar Room, Humanity Manse   9.15                 Welcome   9.30-10.30       Edna Longley ‘Phoenixes...

Keynote speaker: Professor Patrick Griffin (Virginia) Patrick Griffin is author of The People with No Name Irelands Ulster Scots, Americas Scots Irish, & the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 16891764 (2001) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on...

Dr Scott Spurlock (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 Scott Spurlock is the author of Cromwell and Scotland: Conquest and Religion: 1650 - 1660 (John Donald, 2007)