Event Archive

2019

January

• Corey Gibson (Glasgow), 'The Scotland in which there is no repetition': Independence and the Literary Imaginary, from the Interwar Renaissance to IndyRef2

  28 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:30

  RIISS Research Seminar Series

• Tim Baker (Aberdeen): 'Perpetual Vanishing: Animal Lives in Twenty-First-Century Scottish Fiction'

  21 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:30

  RIISS Research Seminar Series Please note the later than usual start time of 5pm All welcome

2018

November

• Photography, Modernity and the North of Scotland

  03 November 2018, 10:45 - 16:30

  The contributors share an interest in visual research and practice in Northern Scotland, particularly the historical roles of photography, individual archives and image-makers. Through this lens, the workshop will explore cultural and environmental encounters between Scottish society and modernity, offering insights into national identity between the late-nineteenth and the...

September

• Staying Together? Crisis and Survival in Political Unions since 1469

  18 - 19 September 2018

  It is not easy, recent events suggest, to end political unions. From the late medieval period, the political structure of much of Europe was dominated not by nation states, or even by empires, but by various forms of political union, whether personal, dynastic, real, or federal in nature. Unions were...

May

• Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe

  25 - 26 May 2018

  The second symposium of the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project

• Workshop: Ronald W. Hepburn and his Legacy

  18 - 19 May 2018

  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....

2017

August

• New Perspectives on Fifteenth-Century Scotland III

  25 - 26 August 2017

  A two-day workshop on the latest research into Fifteenth-Century Scotland, including the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers Project.

July

• George MacDonald's Scotland, 2017

  19 - 21 July 2017

    Conference Schedule Wednesday 19th July 9.00- 10.30 Registration: Sir Duncan Rice Library Ground Floor. 10.30-10.45 Welcome Address 10.50-11.50 Keynote lecture A: David Robb: 'Voice from the North: MacDonald Images Scotland' Chair: 11.50-12.50 Panel 1 ‘The Scottish Novels’ Chair:   Workshop One Special Collections   Jennifer Koopman (Dawson College, Montreal) – “Donal’s Doric Skirmish and the Rise of the Critic Hero” Rachael...

June

• Digital Humanities Workshop: Digital Approaches, Tools and Techniques in the Humanities

  15 - 16 June 2017

  This workshop, funded by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, will bring together invited speakers and participants from Britain and beyond who are experts in Digital Humanities (DH) and who will provide an introduction to DH. The workshop is mainly aimed at researchers from the humanities who do...

2016

November

• Launch of Patrick Gordon Diary: Sixth and Final Volume

  25 November 2016, 10:00 - 18:30

  This event marks the culmination of a long-term research project sponsored by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies: the publication of the complete diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries.