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2023
March
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In Person, Print, and Prayer: Ragged Schools as a Scottish-English Venture?
-RIISS Research Seminar In recent years historians of education have critiqued the tendency to focus on Scotland alone – an approach, they have argued, that neglects the broader context in which Scottish schools operated (Anderson and Wallace, 2015; McDermid, 2015). The Scottish-English border has proven particularly impermeable to scholars of the...
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Enlightenment and Abolition: Henry Brougham, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Slavery
-RIISS Online Seminar
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...