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2023
February
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'Learned Ignorance: An Overlooked Counterhegemonic Epistemic Principle of Humility in 19th-Century Texts by Sir William Hamilton and Thomas Carlyle.'
-RIISS Online Seminar
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Prying Eyes: The Moral Significance of Sentimental Curiosity in Adam Smith and Joanna Baillie
-RIISS Research Seminar
2022
November
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Colonial Surveying, Extraction, and Labour: Networks of Knowledge-Formation between India and Ireland from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome
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(Re)imagining Coastscapes: Scottish Expertise and the Shaping of pre-Famine Connemara
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies
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New Research in Scottish and Irish Romanticism from the Scott Project Team
-New Voices in irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome Dr Natalie Harries: ‘treasures that would charm a bibliomaniac’: Walter Scott’s Supernatural Sources Dr Anna Fancett: Scott's Seers: Predicting the Future in the Works of Walter Scott
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Scottish And American Intellectual Relations
-RIISS PGR Workshop
October
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The British Secret Service, the Scottish Book Trade, and the 1707 Act of Union: An Inquiry into the History of Propaganda
-Research Seminar presented by a Friends of Aberdeen University Library, Visiting Scholar: All welcome
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Jacobite Nations workshop
-13:45-14.00: Welcome Michael Taylor (University of Aberdeen) 14:00-15.00: Session One Dr Nicola Martin (University of the Highlands and Islands): ‘Highland Loyalism: Regional vs. National Responses to Jacobitism’ Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha (Ulster University) (Online): ‘Irish Jacobite History and Historiography’ 15:00 BREAK 15:30-16.30: Session Two Prof Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen): ‘Jacobite Aesthetics and the Conspiratorial Mind’ Harry Lewis (University of...
September
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Reading Group on Irish and Scottish Liberalism
-This is a reading group which examines the Liberal tradition of political thought, with a view to thinking about Irish and Scottish contributions to that discourse. It was established following the generous provision of two James Beattie Postgraduate fellowships by the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History. It...
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Brothers in Arms: Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
-RIISS Research Seminar