Event Archive

2020

January

• The Battle against Corruption in early Victorian Britain: Public Service Ethics before Northcote Trevelyan

  14 January 2020, 16:00 - 17:30

  RIISS Seminar Series - All Welcome

2019

November

• Kindred Nations: Ireland, Scotland and America The Next Twenty Years

  19 November 2019, 17:30 - 19:30

  A public conversation held in Boston in association with the Irish Consulate

• Beyond the Border: Irish and Scottish Studies, 1999-2019-2039

  15 - 17 November 2019

  Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies: Twentieth Anniversary Conference

October

• RIISS Recap

  29 October 2019, 14:00 - 17:00

  Panel 1- Bradford Bow, ‘Instructing the Blind and Deaf in Dugald Stewart’s Educational Doctrine’ First presented at 15th International Congress on the Enlightenment in Edinburgh.   Michael Brown. ‘The English Problem in Irish and Scottish Studies’ First presented as part of the RSE-funded workshop series Twenty Years Hence: Irish and Scottish Studies and the...

September

• Twenty Years Hence: Ireland, Scotland, and Europe Irish and Scottish Studies and the State of the Nations

  27 - 28 September 2019

  Workshop 2 Border Crossings: Irish and Scottish Migrant Communities at Home and Abroad

June

• After 20: Irish and Scottish Studies Since the Good Friday Agreement

  07 - 08 June 2019

  Workshop 1 in the Royal Society of Edinburgh Network: Twenty Years Hence: Irish and Scottish Studies and the State of the Nations

May

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  A Spring Series of Public Readings - 4

  25 May 2019, 14:00 - 15:00

  The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS

• Joost Augusteijn (Leiden University): The role of the Terrorist constituency: The case of IRA hunger strikes in the 1970s

  24 May 2019, 13:00 - 15:00

  RIISS Seminar All Welcome

• Jane Humphries: 'Over Here, Over There: Cultural Crossings Between Irish and Scottish Artists'

  16 May 2019, 17:00 - 18:30

  RIISS Seminar Series All Welcome

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  Darren Swanson (University of Sydney and Central Queensland University), Beyond Glover: Alexander Cameron Sim, James Murdoch and North East Scotland's Lesser Known Links with Imperial Japan

  07 May 2019, 16:00 - 18:00

  RIISS Seminar Series (All Welcome) Please note the unusual date and time.   Abstract: Alexander Cameron Sim, born in Aberlour in 1840, was a pharmacist, sportsman, and entrepreneur. Sim was extremely influential in the development of Kobe, Japan, and is today considered one of the founding fathers of the original foreign settlement. Sim is...