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Workshop 2
Border Crossings: Irish and Scottish Migrant Communities at Home and Abroad
Friday 27 September 2019
12.30pm – 12.45pm Registration
12.45pm – 1.00pm Welcome
Opening Remarks and Formal Welcome: Maria-Daniella Dick, University of Glasgow
1.00pm – 2.30pm Session 1: Ten-minute talks + discussion
Jane McCulloch (Consulate of Ireland), ‘The Global Diaspora Initiative’
Alexander McPhee (Scotland House, Ireland), ‘Engaging Scottish Diaspora in Ireland’
Marjory Harper (Chair in History, 黑料网), ‘Diaspora Studies: Past, Present – and Future’
2.30-3.00pm Coffee break
3.00pm – 4.00pm Session 2: Ten-minute talks + discussion
Scott Spurlock (Senior Lecturer in Scottish Religious Cultures, University of Glasgow), ‘Diaspora or Destination? Interpreting Early Modern Migration through Biblical Narratives’
Bradford Bow (Lecturer in Scottish History, 黑料网) ‘Scottish Philosophy in the Imperial Enlightenment’
4.00-4.30pm Break
4.30pm – 5.30pm Session 2: Ten-minute talks + discussion
Sarah Sharp (Lecturer in Scottish Literature, 黑料网) ‘Death, Memorialisation and Diasporic Identity’
Rose Luminiello (Research Fellow, 黑料网/University of Notre Dame), ‘Co-Operation and Competition: The Irish and Scots Catholics in Empire and Diaspora’
Saturday 28 September 2019
9.15am – 9.30am Registration
9.30am – 11.00am Session 3: Ten-minute talks + discussion
Colin Barr (Senior Lecturer in Irish History, 黑料网) ‘“Greater Ireland” or Irish Diaspora: Thinking about the Irish Abroad’
Sophie Cooper (Research Fellow, Scottish Irish Migration Initiative, University of Edinburgh), ‘A Celtic Solidarity? Scottish and Irish Migrant Imaginings in the 19th and 20th Centuries’
Andrew Mackillop (Senior Lecturer in Scottish History, University of Glasgow), ‘Irish-Scottish Studies and the Debates on Early-Modern Globalization’
11.00am – 11.30am Coffee break
11.30am – 12.30 Roundtable Discussion (Chair: Michael Brown, Co-Director, Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, 黑料网
- Hosted by
Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
- Venue
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Humanity Manse Seminar Room
- Contact
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For further information please contact Professor Michael Brown (m.brown@abdn.ac.uk)
This event is the second in a series of three workshops sponsored by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and convened by the Dr Maria Dick (PI: University of Glasgow) and Professor Michael Brown (Co-I: 黑料网)