Event Archive

2022

September

• Reading Group on Irish and Scottish Liberalism

  22 September 2022, 15:30 - 17:00

  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...

• Brothers in Arms: Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean

  05 September 2022, 17:00 - 18:30

  RIISS Research Seminar

2021

August

• The Launch of 'Walter Scott and Song': Celebrating Scott 250

  17 August 2021, 18:00 - 23:55
  

  Join us for a virtual celebration of the 250th anniversary of Walter Scott's birth, and the opening of the University's new online exhibition, Walter Scott and Song: Retuning the Harp of the North, on Tuesday 17 August from 6pm (BST).

May

• TBC

  04 May 2021, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

April

• TBC

  27 April 2021, 16:00 - 17:35

  RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

March

• 'Pray for the donor: Money and the material in the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921'

  30 March 2021, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Seminar- All Welcome

• 'Globalisation happened on Loch Craignish in 1720'

  09 March 2021, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Seminar - All Welcome

• Convention, Parliament and the Third Estate in the Personal Rule of James V

  02 March 2021, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Semianr - All Welcome

February

• 'James VI and I and his empire of islands: the view from the periphery'

  23 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Seminar Jointly Held with the Centre for Early Modern Studies  All welcome

• Bad Bridget: Romance and Retribution

  16 February 2021, 16:00 - 17:30

  Draws on the AHRC research project 'Bad Bridget: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women in North America, 1838-1918' RIISS Seminar - All Welcome