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Rethinking Scottish Thought
A Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the JOURNAL OF SCOTTISH THOUGHT
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New Issue of Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies forthcoming: Scotland, Culture and Empire
We’re excited to announce the forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies ‘Scotland, Culture and Empire’. The issue draws upon the work presented during the University of Aberdeen’s Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies’ digital workshop in September 2021. Titled ‘Scotland, Ireland and the Cultural...
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New chapter for Aberdeen University Press
After almost ten years at the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, Aberdeen University Press (AUP) becomes an online and fully Open Access university press based at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen.
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New monograph by RIISS co-director
On 18 August 2022, Oxford University Press published Dr Bradford Bow’s monograph, Dugald Stewart’s Empire of the Mind. A major new study of a central figure in the final decades of the Scottish Enlightenment, and an influential interlocutor in the early years of Scottish Romanticism, Stewart recast the teaching of moral philosophy...
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Presidency of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
At the Annual General Meeting of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS), held at the University of Liverpool on 29 July 2022, the Co-Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, Professor Michael Brown, was voted in as President. Professor Brown’s term of office will last for two years,...
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Putin's war against Ukraine
The outrageous and distressing scenes in Ukraine continue to shock and sadden as we watch events unfold. As an international community, with staff and students from across the world, we condemn the invasion and war in Ukraine. We stand with Ukraine and its people and offer our unqualified support and...
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Scotland in Europe V
A Conference held in association with the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw, 24-26 September 2020
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Conference held to Celebrate RIISS@20
In celebration of its twentieth anniversary, the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies organised the conference ‘Beyond the Border: Irish and Scottish Studies, 1999-2019-2039’ on 15-17 November 2019. With keynote lectures by Alice Taylor (King’s College London) and Graham Walker (Queen’s University Belfast), the conference addressed questions concerning the...
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RIISS hosting event with the Irish Consulate in Boston
Kindred Nations: Ireland, Scotland and America The Next Twenty Years Tuesday, 19 November 2019
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Beyond the Border: RIISS@20
A conference marking the twentieth anniversary of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies