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RSE Funding: 'Towards a New Companion to Scottish Literature'
University of Aberdeen Scottish Literature researchers Dr Elizabeth Elliott, Prof. Timothy Baker and Dr Sarah Sharp were recently awarded funding by the Royal Society of Edinburgh for their project ‘Towards a New Companion to Scottish Literature’. The forthcoming Routledge Companion to Scottish Literature includes contributors drawn from creative industries and...
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Inaugural New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Writing Retreat
In October, RIISS was delighted to welcome emerging scholars in Irish and Scottish Studies to attend a weekend article-writing retreat at the Institute. Dr Lucy Hinnie (British Library/Wikipedia), Dr Lizzie Swarbrick(Edinburgh), Dr Zosia Kuczynska (UCD), Dr Natalie Tal Harries (Aberdeen), Dr Anna Fancett (Aberdeen) and Dr Arianna Introna (Open University) are all previously invited speakers from the Institute’s ‘New Voices in Irish and...
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Paula Sledzinska Awarded the Ross Roy Medal
At the annual Scottish Literary Awards hosted by The Saltire Society on 7 December, Dr Paula Sledzinska was awarded the Ross Roy Medal, a prestigious prize which is awarded to the best PhD thesis submitted on a subject relating to Scottish literature.
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar Series Returns!
The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies Early Career Researcher webinar series returns for another year at 4pm on Tuesday 17th, 24th, 31st October and 7 November 2023.
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New Publication! Michael Brown and Jack A Hill (eds), Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue
https://doi.org/10.57132/book23
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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,...