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2006
March
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Memory and Historial Time
Dr Bill Schwarz of Queen Mary, University of London . Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, at 4.00 pm . Further information from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk
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James Kelman: A Symposium
Speakers will include: Laurence Nicol, (Edinburgh), ‘”In place of dialectics”: Kelman and the Russian Novel’ Drew Milne ( Cambridge ) ‘The Strains of Globalisation in Kelman’s recent work’ Carole Jones ( Trinity College , Dublin ) ‘Kelman’s representation of men and Masculinity’ Paul Shanks ( Aberdeen ) ‘”This is right enough”: The Treatment of...
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The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy on 01224 272620 or email: sam@abdn.ac.uk
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Medbh McGuckian's "Sympathetic Ink"
Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, University of Aberdeen The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 5.15 p.m. Further information from Professor P J Crotty, telephone 01224 272196 or email: p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk
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Tom Moores's Cosmopolitanism and the Sectarian Landscape of Romantic-era Ireland
Professor Julie Kipp, Hope College in Holland , Michigan The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further Information from: Professor P J Crotty on 01224 272196 or email: p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk Julie Kipp is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Hope College in Holland , Michigan. She is author of...
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Bernard MacLaverty reading from Matters of Life & Deatth , his new collection of short stories, ( Cape )
Bernard MacLaverty is an Award Winning Writer of novels such as Cal , Lamb and Grace Notes and of screen, radio and film plays. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.00 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk
February
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"Scottish" psychoanalysis, literary theory, and literature
Dr Gavin Miller, University of Edinburgh . The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.00 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk Dr Miller is author of R.D. Laing (2004) and Alasdair Gray: the Fiction of Communication (2005)
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Irish and Scottish Literature, 1800-2000, an overview
Professor David Hewitt and Dr Barbara Fennell , University of Aberdeen Dialect in 19 th Century Irish and Scottish Fiction. Professor Edna Longley and Dr Fran Brearton (Queen’s University, Belfast ) 20 th Century Poetry in Ireland and Scotland Part of the AHRC Centre’s Comparative programme on Irish and Scottish...
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Muriel Spark and Robbe-Grillet (The Driver's Seat and Jealousy )
Professor Aidan Day ( Aarhus ) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. In conjunction with the Centre for the Novel. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk Aidan Day is the author of Jokerman: the Lyrics of Bob Dylan (1988), Angela Carter: The Rational...