This is a past event
RIISS, Humanities Manse (HMG1)
15 March 2013
The organisers acknowledge with gratitude sponsorship by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies not only of the Symposium but also of the publication of the Diary of Patrick Gordon.
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Thanks to RIISS and ACREEH
10.15-11.00 Dmitry Fedosov (Moscow) and Paul Dukes (Aberdeen) Introductory Remarks and Discussion
11.00-11.45 David Smith and Ronnie GibsonMusic of the Scottish Baroque, KC Chapel, and Visit to Snow Kirk
11.45-12.30 Chester Dunning (Texas A&M) Scottish and Irish Soldiers in Early Seventeenth-Century Russia: The Case of George Learmonth and the Belaia Garrison
12.30-13.15 Elena Alekseeva (Ekaterinburg) Patrick Gordon and the Westernization of Russia
13.15-14.15 LUNCH
14.15-15.45 David Cram (Oxford) Networks of Communication in the Seventeenth Century: The Aberdonian ConnectionKelsey Jackson Williams (Oxford) The Admirable Urquhart: Imagined Communities and Writing Scottishness in the Seventeenth Century
BREAK
16.00-17.15 General Discussion including Steve Murdoch (St Andrews), AllanMacinnes (Strathclyde), Robert Frost (Aberdeen) and Karen Friedrich (Aberdeen)
17.30 Book Launch. The Diary of Patrick Gordon, Volume III
- Venue
- University of Aberdeen