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2008
February
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Diaspora conference: Intellectual Frontiers
Keynote address: Professor David Wilson (Toronto) Celticism, Catholicism and Nationalism: The Intellectual Frontiers of Thomas D’Arcy McGee Professor Wilson teaches courses in modern history, literature, folklore and music. He is the author of five books, including Ireland, a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle, and United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the...
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"Irish and Scottish Migration and Settlement: Intellectual, Political and Environmental Frontiers"
-The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen will host a series of three one-day conferences in 2008 centred on the topic: “Irish and Scottish Migration and Settlement: Intellectual, Political and Environmental Frontiers” Overseas migration has conventionally been understood as a process that leads migrants to cross a...
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The French Scotland of Kenneth White
Dr Gavin Bowd (St Andrews) 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 Gavin Bowd is lecturer in French at the University of St Andrews and author of 'The Outsiders': Alexander Trocchi and Kenneth White (1998) and Paul Morand...
January
2007
December
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Painting, Politics and Propaganda: French Connections in Irish Art
Dr Maebh O'Regan (National College of Art and Design, Ireland) 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
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William Robertson Smith Conference
-Papers: 4.15pmWilliam Robertson Smith: Social Scientist or Theologian? Professor Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen)Robert A. Segal is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen. He writes on theories of myth and on theories of religion. His publications include: Myth: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2004), and the Blackwell Companion to...
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Felled Trees - Fallen Soldiers
Professor Gustav Klaus (Rostock University) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 1.00 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, on 01224 273681 or email cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk
November
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Scottish Poetry After Burns
Dr Gerry Carruthers (University of Glasgow) 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 Carruthers was editor, with Alan Rawes, of English Romanticism and the Celtic World (2003), and, with David Goldie and Alastair Renfrew of Beyond Scotland: new contexts...
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Irish-Scottish Forum: In the National Interest? Culture and Economy in Ireland and Scotland
-On Friday 16 November, and Saturday 17 November, the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen will host a meeting of the Irish-Scottish Forum, which brings academics, policy makers and business leaders together to discuss issues of joint concern in Ireland and Scotland. In 2007-08, the...
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The Ghost of Former Days: John Gamble (1771- 1831), uniting and the act of union
Dr Breandain MacSuibhne (Notre Dame) 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 MacSuibhne is Naughton Publication Coordinator for the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, editor of The Field Day Review and co-editor (with David Dickson) of The Outer...