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2024
November
October
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Rethinking Irish Rock Music, 1970-1985
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Semianr: All Welcome
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Yen-Chi Wu
-Dr Yen-Chi Wu (Tunghai University) will be presenting the second paper in the 'New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies' webinar series.
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Irish Writers, the New Yorker, and the First-Reading Agreement, 1940-1980
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Seminar: All Welcome NB: This is a lunchtime seminar
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New Voices Seminar: TBC
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Online Research Seminar: All Welcome
September
May
March
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'An Instant Affinity': The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974
-RIISS Research Seminar All Welcome Abstract: 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Scotland’s most renowned and influential works of drama, the 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre group’s “ceilidh-play”, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. The Cheviot aimed to engage local communities around Scotland, especially the Highlands, and argued...
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Negotiating Peace in Northern Ireland
-RIISS Research Seminar All welcome
February
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Crisis Management: The World of Irish Tories during the 1830s and 1840s
-RIISS Research Seminar All welcome
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Grave Charges: The Reaction to the Oscar Wilde and Hector Macdonald Scandals in the Scottish Press
-RIISS Research Seminar All welcome
2023
December
November
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Contextualizing William Mackay's Narrative of the Wreck of the Juno (1798)
-Hybrid Research Seminar All Welcome
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The Popish Masquerade: Popery and the Politics of the Hanoverian Succession in Scotland
-New Voices Seminar All Welcome
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Clare Loughlin (University of Aberdeen) The Popish Masquerade: Popery and the Politics of the Hanoverian Succession in Scotland
-The RIISS New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is returning for a fourth year. Join Claire Loughlin for an online webinar.
October
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Supernatural Stories and Scott
-Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz's 'Reading Scotland' programme for the 2023-2024 academic year kicks off with a talk by Dr Anna Fancett, University of Aberdeen, on Walter Scott's presentation of the supernatural.
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Annie Webster (University of Edinburgh) 'Placemaking Practices in Stories of the Syrian New Scots'
-The RIISS New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is returning for a fourth year. Join Dr Annie Webster for an online webinar.
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Placemaking Practices in Stories of the Syrian New Scots
New Voices Seminar All Welcome
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Jacobite Imaginations
-In this relaxed discussion session, you get the chance to explore questions and ideas on a Jacobite theme with a variety of specialist researchers. All are extremely welcome to come along, listen, chat as much or as little as we like in a café setting, and see some relevant materials...
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Jacobite Nations
-A Hybrid Workshop showcasing recent work in the field of Jacobite Studies
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Reading Emotions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland
-Panel and Discussion
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Come Dancing: Queer Disclosures in Pre-Decriminalisation Filmmaking from Scotland
-New Voices Seminar All Welcome
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr Marcus Jack (Glasgow School of Art) 'Poor Modernism: The counternarratives of Scotland's contingent artists' film.'
-The RIISS New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is returning for a fourth year. Join Dr Marcus Jack for an online webinar.
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"An Instant Affinity": The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974.
-2023 marks the 50th anniversary of one of the Scotland’s most renowned and influential works of drama, the 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre group’s “ceilidh-play”, The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black Black Oil. The Cheviot aimed to engage local communities around Scotland, especially the Highlands, and argued that the surrender of Scotland’s new-found oil wealth...
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"An Instant Affinity": The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil in Ireland, 1974.
-This event was cancelled
Join RIISS for a special event to mark the anniversary of a seminal Scottish work.
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'If you don't stop quick, I'll put you inside': Teresa Deevy's Carceral Homes
-New Voices Seminar All Welcome
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New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Webinar: Dr James Little (University College Dublin) '"If you don't stop quick, I'll put you inside!" Teresa Deevy's Carceral Homes'
-The RIISS New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is returning for a fourth year. Join Dr James Little for an online webinar.
July
May
March
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Church, state and responsibility: new histories of Irish welfare
-RIISS Research Seminar
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A Hotbed of Second Fiddles ? A Few Scottish Trajectories in late Ancien Regime Paris
-RIISS Seminar All Welcome
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Early and Late Celticism
-RIISS Online Seminar (Please note the early start time)
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In Person, Print, and Prayer: Ragged Schools as a Scottish-English Venture?
-RIISS Research Seminar In recent years historians of education have critiqued the tendency to focus on Scotland alone – an approach, they have argued, that neglects the broader context in which Scottish schools operated (Anderson and Wallace, 2015; McDermid, 2015). The Scottish-English border has proven particularly impermeable to scholars of the...
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Enlightenment and Abolition: Henry Brougham, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Slavery
-RIISS Online Seminar
February
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'Learned Ignorance: An Overlooked Counterhegemonic Epistemic Principle of Humility in 19th-Century Texts by Sir William Hamilton and Thomas Carlyle.'
-RIISS Online Seminar
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Prying Eyes: The Moral Significance of Sentimental Curiosity in Adam Smith and Joanna Baillie
-RIISS Research Seminar
2022
November
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Colonial Surveying, Extraction, and Labour: Networks of Knowledge-Formation between India and Ireland from the Mid-Nineteenth Century
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome
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(Re)imagining Coastscapes: Scottish Expertise and the Shaping of pre-Famine Connemara
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies
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New Research in Scottish and Irish Romanticism from the Scott Project Team
-New Voices in irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome Dr Natalie Harries: ‘treasures that would charm a bibliomaniac’: Walter Scott’s Supernatural Sources Dr Anna Fancett: Scott's Seers: Predicting the Future in the Works of Walter Scott
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Scottish And American Intellectual Relations
-RIISS PGR Workshop
October
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The British Secret Service, the Scottish Book Trade, and the 1707 Act of Union: An Inquiry into the History of Propaganda
-Research Seminar presented by a Friends of Aberdeen University Library, Visiting Scholar: All welcome
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Jacobite Nations workshop
-13:45-14.00: Welcome Michael Taylor (University of Aberdeen) 14:00-15.00: Session One Dr Nicola Martin (University of the Highlands and Islands): ‘Highland Loyalism: Regional vs. National Responses to Jacobitism’ Dr Éamonn Ó Ciardha (Ulster University) (Online): ‘Irish Jacobite History and Historiography’ 15:00 BREAK 15:30-16.30: Session Two Prof Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen): ‘Jacobite Aesthetics and the Conspiratorial Mind’ Harry Lewis (University of...
September
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Reading Group on Irish and Scottish Liberalism
-This is a reading group which examines the Liberal tradition of political thought, with a view to thinking about Irish and Scottish contributions to that discourse. It was established following the generous provision of two James Beattie Postgraduate fellowships by the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History. It...
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Brothers in Arms: Crossing Imperial Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean
-RIISS Research Seminar
2021
August
May
April
March
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'Pray for the donor: Money and the material in the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921'
-RIISS Seminar- All Welcome
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'Globalisation happened on Loch Craignish in 1720'
-RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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Convention, Parliament and the Third Estate in the Personal Rule of James V
-RIISS Semianr - All Welcome
February
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'James VI and I and his empire of islands: the view from the periphery'
-RIISS Seminar Jointly Held with the Centre for Early Modern Studies All welcome
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Bad Bridget: Romance and Retribution
-Draws on the AHRC research project 'Bad Bridget: Criminal and Deviant Irish Women in North America, 1838-1918' RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
January
2020
December
November
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Globalizing Profession: History of Women Religious Workshop
-9:00 – 9:30 Welcome and Introduction Rose Luminiello (University of Aberdeen/University of Notre Dame) Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck, University of London) 9:30 – 9:50 Perspectives from Australia Katharine Massam (Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity) Joanna Cruickshank (Deakin University) Laura Rademaker (Australian National University) 9:50 – 10:10 Break 10:15 – 10:45 Perspectives from Europe Kaat Wils (KU Leuven) Caitriona Clear...
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Dr Zosia Kuczyñska (Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of English Drama and Film, University College Dublin). 'Artistic practice as a model of influence: Brian Friel, Francis Bacon, and Faith Healer'
-New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies Seminar All Welcome
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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Art History, University of Edinburgh. '"Timor mortis conturbat me": Commemoration and the Macabre at Rosslyn Chapel'.
-'New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies' All Welcome
October
September
March
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Globalisation happened on Loch Craignish in 1720
RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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Twenty Years Hence: Ireland, Scotland, and Europe Irish and Scottish Studies and the State of the Nations conference
-Royal Society of Edinburgh network event
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Pray for the Donor: Money and the Material in the Irish Catholic Church, 1850-1921
RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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'Tending to Unsettle the Belief of a Catholic Prisoner': Chaplains, Prison Regimes and the Mind in mid Nineteenth-Century Ireland
RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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Correspondence and Community: Maria Edgeworth's Scottish Friends
-RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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Irish Writers Series: Vona Groarke
-RIISS and Word Centre Irish Writer Series, presenting Vona Groarke
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The 1798 Rebellion: Three Contexts and a Possible Solution
-RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
February
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Kirk and Nation in Robert Burns
-RIISS Seminar - All Welcome
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The Living World: Nan Shepherd and Environmental Thought
-RIISS Seminar Series - All Welcome
January
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Scottish Philosophy after the Enlightenment
-RIISS Seminar Series - ALL Welcome
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Twenty Years Hence: Ireland, Scotland, and Europe Irish and Scottish Studies and the State of the Nations workshop 3
-Royal Society of Edinburgh network event
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The Battle against Corruption in early Victorian Britain: Public Service Ethics before Northcote Trevelyan
-RIISS Seminar Series - All Welcome
2019
November
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Kindred Nations: Ireland, Scotland and America The Next Twenty Years
-A public conversation held in Boston in association with the Irish Consulate
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Beyond the Border: Irish and Scottish Studies, 1999-2019-2039
-Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies: Twentieth Anniversary Conference
October
September
June
May
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A Spring Series of Public Readings - 4
-The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS
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Joost Augusteijn (Leiden University): The role of the Terrorist constituency: The case of IRA hunger strikes in the 1970s
-RIISS Seminar All Welcome
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Jane Humphries: 'Over Here, Over There: Cultural Crossings Between Irish and Scottish Artists'
-RIISS Seminar Series All Welcome
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Darren Swanson (University of Sydney and Central Queensland University), Beyond Glover: Alexander Cameron Sim, James Murdoch and North East Scotland's Lesser Known Links with Imperial Japan
-RIISS Seminar Series (All Welcome) Please note the unusual date and time. Abstract: Alexander Cameron Sim, born in Aberlour in 1840, was a pharmacist, sportsman, and entrepreneur. Sim was extremely influential in the development of Kobe, Japan, and is today considered one of the founding fathers of the original foreign settlement. Sim is...
April
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A Spring Series of Public Readings - 3
-Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS
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Stefanie Lehrer (Queen's University Belfast), Cultural Crossings: The Relevance of Irish-Scottish Studies Post-Brexit
-RIISS Research Seminar Series All Welcome
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A Spring Series of Public Readings - 2
-The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS
March
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Mary-Alice Clancy (Aberdeen), 'The Bush Administration and Northern Ireland, 2001-2007'
-RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome
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Anne Fogarty (UCD), "The landscape listens": Writing the Posthuman in Edna O'Brien's The Little Red Chairs and Sara Baume's A Line Made by Walking
-RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome
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Jennifer Orr (Newcastle), 'Irish writers in Paris and their cosmopolitan networks'
-RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome
February
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Jay Rozman (NUI Cork), '"The dangerous encroachments of popery': Irish Agrarian Violence and Ultra-Tory Mobilisation in the Age of Reform'
-RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome
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A Spring Series of Public Readings - 1
-The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS A Spring Series of Public Readings by five of the most exciting contemporary Irish Writers
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Craig Lamont (Glasgow), '"fam'd for ilka thing": Remembering the Places of the Scottish Enlightenment
-RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome
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Alex Campsie (Aberdeen), 'Tom Nairn and "the dream of escape"'
-RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome
January
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Corey Gibson (Glasgow), 'The Scotland in which there is no repetition': Independence and the Literary Imaginary, from the Interwar Renaissance to IndyRef2
-RIISS Research Seminar Series
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Tim Baker (Aberdeen): 'Perpetual Vanishing: Animal Lives in Twenty-First-Century Scottish Fiction'
-RIISS Research Seminar Series Please note the later than usual start time of 5pm All welcome
2018
November
September
May
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Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe
-The second symposium of the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project
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Workshop: Ronald W. Hepburn and his Legacy
-Friday 1.30 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks, Prof. Cairns Craig, Director of RIISS Chairperson: Prof. Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh) 1.45 pm – 2.30 pm Dr. Isis Brook (Stroud): Wonder Revisited Coffee break 2.35 pm – 3.20 pm Prof. David E. Cooper (Durham): Metaphysics, Mystery and the Appreciation of Nature Coffee break 3.40 pm – 4.25 pm Dr....