This is a past event
The AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen will host a series of three one-day conferences in 2008 centred on the topic:
“Irish and Scottish Migration and Settlement:
Intellectual, Political and Environmental Frontiers”
Overseas migration has conventionally been understood as a process that leads migrants to cross a variety of literal and metaphorical “frontiers” in order to settle into new societies. This series of three one-day conferences invites participants to reconsider this issue, looking instead at the varied ways in which the exploration of intellectual, political and environmental “frontiers” by Irish and Scottish migrants and their descendants generated new ideas, discourses and modes of life. Participants are also invited to consider the significance of this dynamic process for overseas Scottish and Irish communities, for the broader societies within which they lived, as well as for the Irish and Scottish homelands.
Each one-day event will focus on a different theme:
Intellectual Frontiers: 23 February 2008 Keynote Speaker: David Wilson, Celtic Studies Program, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto
Political Frontiers: 3 May 2008 Keynote Speaker: Patrick Griffin, Department of History, University of Virginia
Environmental Frontiers: 21 June 2008 Keynote Speakers: John MacKenzie, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Lancaster University & Lindsay Proudfoot, Department of Geography, Queen’s University Belfast
The conferences will be interdisciplinary, welcoming contributions from the fields of history, literature, geography and related disciplines, and will focus on Irish and Scottish overseas settlement around the globe during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We encourage proposals from postgraduate students as well as from established scholars. Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes in length. There is no conference fee and a selection of the papers presented at the conferences will be published.
The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen is the first of its kind in the world. It is a unique interdisciplinary centre of excellence which offers taught master and doctoral programmes in the history, literature and culture of Ireland and Scotland, and carries out research across these disciplines. It is host to the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies funded by the Art and Humanities Research Council. Further information can be found at: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/
- Venue
- University of Aberdeen, Humanity Manse