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The Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies and The WORD Centre for Creative Writing proudly present FIVE IRISH WRITERS A Spring Series of Public Readings by five of the most exciting contemporary Irish Writers

RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome

RIISS Research Seminar Series All welcome

RIISS Research Seminar Series

RIISS Research Seminar Series Please note the later than usual start time of 5pm All welcome

The contributors share an interest in visual research and practice in Northern Scotland, particularly the historical roles of photography, individual archives and image-makers. Through this lens, the workshop will explore cultural and environmental encounters between Scottish society and modernity, offering insights into national identity between the late-nineteenth and the...

It is not easy, recent events suggest, to end political unions. From the late medieval period, the political structure of much of Europe was dominated not by nation states, or even by empires, but by various forms of political union, whether personal, dynastic, real, or federal in nature. Unions were...

The second symposium of the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers project

Friday 1.30 pm – Welcome and Opening Remarks, Prof. Cairns Craig, Director of RIISS   Chairperson: Prof. Pauline Phemister (Edinburgh) 1.45 pm – 2.30 pm Dr. Isis Brook (Stroud): Wonder Revisited Coffee break 2.35 pm – 3.20 pm Prof. David E. Cooper (Durham): Metaphysics, Mystery and the Appreciation of Nature Coffee break 3.40 pm – 4.25 pm Dr....

A two-day workshop on the latest research into Fifteenth-Century Scotland, including the Law in the Aberdeen Council Registers Project.