Event Archive

2011

March

• Lunchtime workshop

  16 March 2011

  Dan Wall 1-2pm, Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds

• Lunchtime workshop: 'The Place of Irish Scottish Studies and the New "New British History"'

  14 March 2011

  Michael Brown 12-1pm, Humanity Manse Seminar Room, 19 College Bounds

• Social Order and Social Ordering in Stuart Ireland and Scotland

  10 - 11 March 2011

  About Historical analysis of the Stuart period in British history, running from 1603 to 1714, has rightly concentrated on understanding a series of collapses in political and social order – from the Bishops Wars, 1641 Rebellion in Ulster through the Civil Wars, and the Revolution of 1688 and the War of...

2010

December

• George Watson Memorial Lecture: "Linked Verse": Comparing Modern Irish & Scottish Poetry, Edna Longley

  09 December 2010

  Prof Edna Longley (Queen's University, Belfast) ALL WELCOME

• Postgraduate symposium on the future of Irish and Scottish Studies

  09 - 10 December 2010

  Postgraduate symposium on the future of Irish and Scottish Studies (Thu 9- Fri 10 December, University of Aberdeen)

November

• The Politics of Devolution

  05 November 2010

  Irish-Scottish Forum: The Politics of DevolutionThe first Irish-Scottish forum organised by Aberdeen University ’s AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies was held in June 2000 at the end of the first year of the Centre’s existence – as well as the Parliament’s. The topic was ‘Scotland, Northern Ireland and...

September

• 10th Language and Politics Symposium on the Gaeltacht and Scotstacht

  20 - 21 September 2010

  AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies A Bilingual Strategy for the Irish Language? Implementation and Outcomes Themes Bilingualism Education Adult Learners People and Institutions Language Organisations Research Basis Údarás na Gaeilge Policy Northern Ireland Scottish Gaelic   Confirmed Speakers (as of 5 August 2010) François Grin, University of Geneva Joseph Lo Bianco (via satellite?), University of MelbourneConchur Ó Giollagáin,National University of Ireland, GalwaySeosamh Mac...

June

• Money, Power and Print

  17 - 19 June 2010

  Money, Power and Print (University of Aberdeen, 17-19 June 2010)

• Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples

  10 - 12 June 2010

  IRCISS conference

March

• Thomas Reid From His Time To Ours

  24 - 26 March 2010

  Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy 2010 (Glasgow)