Postgraduate Training Weekend, sponsored by the Centre for Early Modern Studies, Aberdeen and the School of DHPA, 25-27 February 2022
Friday 25 February 2022
Arrival ca. 16.30-17.30
18.00 Welcome and introduction (David Turner, Bursar of The Burn)
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Discussion Roundtable
Dr Heidi Mehrkens (Modern European History) and Prof. Karin Friedrich (Early Modern European History): Making the Transition: PGT to PGR
21.00 Networking and social time
Saturday 26 February 2022
9.00 Breakfast
10.00 PGR Papers I
Caitlin Yool (Theology/Religious Studies): Women, Magic, and the Sorceress in Ancient Greece
Haley Guepet (History), ‘Excelling other women, as she did, in dignity and enterprise’: Saxo Grammaticus contemplates the advent of Christianity in Denmark
Chair: Genevieve Strong (Art History) (tbc)
11.00 Coffee break
11.20 PGT projects: The PGT students introduce their chosen topics
Chair: Olivia Klee (History)
12.00 Staff talks
Dr Bradford Bow (ex-postdoc at IASH, the Huntington and Edinburgh University): How to plan your future via postdoc applications
Dr Andrew Dilley (ex-director of research for the School of DHPA): Measuring Academia
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Walk around the Estate
15.00 Workshop with Professor Sanjay Sharma (guest professor at the University of Dundee): Decolonising/Unpacking Imperial Archives,
chair:Dr Andrew Dilley
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 PGR papers II
Ioannis Chountis (History): Edmund Burke: Natural Law thinker, proto-Utilitarian, or something else?
Dan McCollum (History):Irish nationalism and the Irish Catholic press in the Upper Midwestern United States
Chair: tbc
17.45 Scottish History and Church History:
Jeri Cormack (History): 'Rebel-pie’: Jacobite Executions and London Society
Fr Alexander E. Nimmo (Rector of St Margaret, Aberdeen): Church archives/Scottish Episcopalianism (tbc)
Chair: Christoph Moore (History)
19.00 Dinner
20.15 Staff talk/Discussion
Prof Robert Frost (Burnett-Fletcher Chair, History): Plotting an Academic Career. From PhD to the Second Monograph
21.00 Quiz night
Organisers: Cameron Flint, Hayden McCracken (Bar closes 23.00)
Sunday, 27 February 2022
9.00 Breakfast
10.15 PGR talks III
Rosalie Hopko (History/Archaeology): The Kildrummy Skulls: Placing Skeletal Trauma Within the Historical Context
Matthew Lee (English): ‘House of Shand: The Burn’s Links to Atlantic Slavery’
Chair: Ebba Strutzenbladh (History) tbc
Ca. 12.00 departure