Event Archive

2024

February

• Grave Charges: The Reaction to the Oscar Wilde and Hector Macdonald Scandals in the Scottish Press

  20 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Research Seminar All welcome

2023

December

• Old Networks, New Media: "The Lyon in Mourning" Digital Humanities Project and the Post-1745 Jacobite World

  08 December 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  This paper, based on an ongoing digital humanities research project at Simon Fraser University, reports on the challenges faced and theoretical perspectives gained in the digitization, encoding and analysis of “The Lyon in Mourning.” Compiled by Jacobite Episcopalian minister Robert Forbes after the suppression of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, “The Lyon...

November

• Contextualizing William Mackay's Narrative of the Wreck of the Juno (1798)

  21 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  Hybrid Research Seminar  All Welcome

• The Popish Masquerade: Popery and the Politics of the Hanoverian Succession in Scotland

  07 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:30

  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

  07 November 2023, 16:00 - 18:00

  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

  31 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:30

  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'

  31 October 2023, 16:00 - 18:00

  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.

• Placemaking Practices in Stories of the Syrian New Scots

  31 October 2023

  New Voices Seminar All Welcome

• Jacobite Imaginations

  28 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:30

  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...

• Jacobite Nations

  28 October 2023, 13:00 - 16:30

  A Hybrid Workshop showcasing recent work in the field of Jacobite Studies