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2008
March
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Nations, Diasporas, Identities
-Rationale Political and economic events over the last decade have begun radically to reshape the cultural identities of Ireland and Scotland.In Ireland, the dynamism of the 'Celtic Tiger' economy has catapulted the nation from being one of Europe's poorest to one of its most advanced. In Northern Ireland, the 'peace process'...
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The unravelling of a mystery Thomas Wilson (1758-1824) of Dullatur, the Scottish Second Husband of Matilda Tone
Dr Jane Rendall (University of York) Dr C.J. Woods (Dictionary of Irish Biography) 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 Jane Rendall is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of York and author of...
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Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry: a new interpretation
Dr Paddy Bullard (University of Oxford) 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 Paddy Bullard is AHRC Research Fellow for the forthcoming Cambridge University Press edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift. In January 2005 he was elected to a...
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Irish societies, clubs and organizations in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century London
Dr Craig Bailey (Villanova) 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 Craig Bailey is assistant professor of History at Villanova University. His research interests include: Irish migration in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, with a particular...
February
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Patrick Geddes's Montpellier Contacts and the College Des Ecossais
Professor Siân Reynolds (Stirling) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk An event jointly sponsored by RIISS and the department of History Siân Reynolds has published widely on French history, culture and politics, and more recently on Scottish history....
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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...