Event Archive

2006

March

• Recording our Past: History, Memory and the Photographic Survey Movement

  21 March 2006

  Professor Elizabeth Edwards, University of the Arts, London Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.00 pm . Further information from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk

• Facing the Atlantic : Politics, Culture, Technology, 1860-1930

  16 March 2006

  Professor Christopher Harvie ( University of Tubingen ) The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig on telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk Professor Harvie is the author of Scotland and Nationalism (1977, 2004), No Gods and Precious Few Heroes (1981, 1998), Fool’s Gold (1994)

• The Popular Novel before the Novel Became (Really) Popular

  16 March 2006

  Professor John Sutherland, The Royal Society of Literature, Linklater Rooms, 5.15 p.m . Hosted by the Centre for the Novel. Further information from the School of Language and Literature

• Memory and Historial Time

  14 March 2006

  Dr Bill Schwarz of Queen Mary, University of London . Part of the Memory, History and Society Seminar Series. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, at 4.00 pm . Further information from Dr Enda Delaney on 01224 273685 or email e.delaney@abdn.ac.uk

• James Kelman: A Symposium

  10 March 2006

  Speakers will include: Laurence Nicol, (Edinburgh), ‘”In place of dialectics”: Kelman and the Russian Novel’ Drew Milne ( Cambridge ) ‘The Strains of Globalisation in Kelman’s recent work’ Carole Jones ( Trinity College , Dublin ) ‘Kelman’s representation of men and Masculinity’ Paul Shanks ( Aberdeen ) ‘”This is right enough”: The Treatment of...

• The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian

  06 March 2006

  Dr Irene Gilsenan Nordin, Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 5.15 p.m. Further information from Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy on 01224 272620 or email: sam@abdn.ac.uk 

• Medbh McGuckian's "Sympathetic Ink"

  03 March 2006

  Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, University of Aberdeen The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse. 5.15 p.m. Further information from Professor P J Crotty, telephone 01224 272196 or email: p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk

• Tom Moores's Cosmopolitanism and the Sectarian Landscape of Romantic-era Ireland

  02 March 2006

  Professor Julie Kipp, Hope College in Holland , Michigan The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.15 p.m. Further Information from: Professor P J Crotty on 01224 272196 or email: p.j.crotty@abdn.ac.uk Julie Kipp is Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Hope College in Holland , Michigan.  She is author of...

• Bernard MacLaverty reading from Matters of Life & Deatth , his new collection of short stories, ( Cape )

  01 March 2006

  Bernard MacLaverty is an Award Winning Writer of novels such as Cal , Lamb and Grace Notes and of screen, radio and film plays. The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 4.00 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk

February

• "Scottish" psychoanalysis, literary theory, and literature

  28 February 2006

  Dr Gavin Miller, University of Edinburgh . The Seminar Room, Humanity Manse, 5.00 p.m. Further information from Professor Cairns Craig, telephone: 01224 273681 or email: cairns.craig@abdn.ac.uk Dr Miller is author of R.D. Laing (2004) and Alasdair Gray: the Fiction of Communication (2005)