Event Archive

2011

November

• Workshop: The Irish Saga

  03 November 2011

  The transmission of the concept of ideal kingship in the tale Togail Bruidne Da Derga Máire West (University of Newcastle) The Irish Saga 'The Destruction of Da Derga's Guesting- Hall': Compilation, Literary Masterpiece, or Both? Ralph O’Connor (University of Aberdeen) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.30 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown,...

• Great Aberdonians: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): Astronomer and Medic

  02 November 2011, 19:30 - 21:00

  Professor William Naphy   NB: This talk will be preceded by a reception, from 7.00

October

• Against Eloquence: Irish Drama at Century's End

  27 October 2011

  Nicky Grene (Trinity College Dublin) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Michael Brown, on 01224 273685 or email m.brown@abdn.ac.uk

July

• Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society Annual Conference 2011

  07 - 10 July 2011

  Hosted by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies   Plenary Speakers Colin Kidd (Queen's University, Belfast) Fiona Stafford(University of Oxford)   Registration Registration is now closed. The conference will take place in the MacRobert Building CPD suite (rooms 027, 028, 029) The welcome desk will open at 12pm on Thursday 7 July (MacRobert Building reception area) with...

May

• Mediaeval Irish sagas and the classical tradition

  28 May 2011

  Mediaeval Irish sagas and the classical tradition   28 May 2011 Humanities Manse, Seminar Room (19 College Bounds)   About This workshop, hosted by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies in association with the Centre for Cultural History, explores the significance of classical Latin texts, themes and techniques for the prose literature...

• Lunchtime workshop: God and Gender in George MacDonald's Robert Falconer: Deifying the Feminine

  11 May 2011

  Phil Hickok 1-2pm, Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds

• Lunchtime workshop: Diaspora and Mental Illness

  04 May 2011

  Marjory Harper 1-2pm, Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds

April

• Lunchtime workshop

  27 April 2011

  Tim Baker 1-2pm, Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds

• Lunchtime workshop: Abolition and the Scottish Enlightenment

  20 April 2011

  Glen Doris 1-2pm, Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds

March

• Lunchtime workshop: Merriman

  23 March 2011

  Patrick Crotty 1-2pm, Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds