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2013
March
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Scottish Theology Workshop
Divinity Library, King's College Friday 15 March 2013 PROGRAMME 1pm Welcome 1.05-1.40pm HUME AND THE BEGINNING OF THE SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION Robert Segal 1.45-2.20pm FRAZER'S INFLUENCE ON CLASSICAL RELIGION Robert Ackerman 2.20-2.50pm break 2.50-3.25pm JAMES LEGGE'S (1815-1897) INFLUENCE ON THE STUDY OF CHINESE RELIGION AND THE COMPARATIVE SCIENCE OF RELIGIONS Norman Girardot 3.30-4.05pm THE INFLUENCE OF F....
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The Lost Tribe of Southern Africa: The Catholic Irish at the Cape of Good Hope, 1820-1910
-Colin Barr (51cg) 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
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Great Aberdonians: William Alexander (1826-1894): Journalist and Radical Liberal
-Professor Andrew Blaikie Born of farming stock in rural Aberdeenshire, William Alexander rose to become editor of the Aberdeen Free Press, a campaigning Radical Liberal and city worthy. His great value lies in the realist literature he produced in serialised newspaper form, later to emerge as novels, most notably Johnny Gibb...
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The Transportation of Irish Soldiers to Sweden and Russia, 1609-1613, and the Plantation of Ulster
-Chester Dunning (Texas A&M) 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
February
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Reason and Revelation in Thomas Reid's Theology
-James Foster (Princeton Theological Seminary) 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
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'Another Attempt to Define My Irishness': The Political Michael Longley
-Adam Hanna (51cg) 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
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Great Aberdonians: John Forbes of Newe (1743-1821): 'Bombay Jack', merchant adventurer of the early British Empire
Dr Andrew Mackillop Despite its status as one of Scotland’s most important burghs, Aberdeen is not considered a telling example of the high profile role played by other Scottish ports and cities – most obviously Glasgow – in the British Empire in the century or so after 1707. Although Aberdeen may...
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Attitudes to law in Scots and Irish Nationalist Identity
Scott Styles (51cg) 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
January
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City Archives Workshop
City Archives Workshop For further information please contact Dr Jackson Armstrong
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Aberdeen Burgh Records Workshop
Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds, Aberdeen 26 January 2013 10.00-10.30 am Arrival & coffee 10.30-10.35 am Welcome from Dr Michael P. Brown, Acting Director of the Institute 10.35-10.40 am Introduction Dr Jackson Armstrong (Aberdeen) Dr Andrew Mackillop (Aberdeen) 10.40-11.40 am Aberdeen’s records: Retrospect, methods and prospects Dr David Ditchburn (TCD) Ms Siobhan Convery (Aberdeen) Dr Micheál Ó Siochrú (TCD) 11.40-12.00 pm Coffee 12.00-13.00...