Event Archive

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Medbh McGuckian and the Politics of Minority Discourse Dr Richard Kirkland (King’s College London) The Old Senate Room, Mon 5 November, 5-7 p.m. Further information from Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, on 01224 272630 or email sam@abdn.ac.uk Dr Kirkland is a senior lecturer in English at King’s College London.  He...

Professor Willy Maley (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 Professor Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies and  author of A Spenser Chronology (1994), Salvaging Spenser: Colonialism, Culture and Identity (1997), and Nation, State and Empire...

Dr Susan Manly (University of St Andrews) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Stephen Dornan, on 01224 273608 or email s.dornan@abdn.ac.uk Dr Manly is a Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews. Her areas of specialisation include literature of the 1790s and the works of...

Dr Kevin James (University of Guelph) 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 James is author of Handloom Weavers in Ulster’s Linen Industry, 1815-1914 (2006). His current research programme analyses the historical evolution of tourism in pre-partition Ireland.

Dr Andrew Noble (University of Strathclyde) 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 Noble was editor, along with Patrick Scott Hogg, of The Canongate Burns (2001).