Tradition and Cultural Memory: Representations, Reflections, and the Relationship to the Past

Tradition and Cultural Memory: Representations, Reflections, and the Relationship to the Past

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Centre for Early Modern Studies, University of Aberdeen
Veranstaltungsort
Humanity Manse Seminar Room, Old Aberdeen Campus
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Aberdeen
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United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
16.03.2012 - 16.03.2012
Von
Andrew Gordon, Centre of Early Modern Studies, Aberdeen

Centre for Early Modern Studies
Postgraduate Symposium

This year's postgradaute conference focuses on Tradition and Cultural Memory through an analysis of lieux de memoire, material, visual and literary culture, focusing mainly on early modern English and Scottish examples.

Programm

12.00-1.30 Welcome and Session 1
12.00 Fern Insh
Why That There?: The Importance of Order in Early Modern Scottish Visual Culture

12.30 Thomas Brochard
The Early-Modern Tradition of the Scottish Highlands: Cultural Construction and Deconstruction

1.00 Questions & Answers

1.30-2.00 Light Buffet with Tea & Coffee

2.00-3.30 Session 2
2.00 Mads Heilskov
The Late Gothic Grave as Lieux de Mémoire

2.30 Leslie Drury
Pastimes and Times Past: Old Wives’ Tales as Retrospective Genre in Early Modern England

3.00 Questions & Answers

3.30-3.45 Tea & Coffee

3.45-5.15 Session 3
3.45 Raymond Whelan
Archbishop William King and defence of Protestant Ireland during the 1688 Revolution

4.15 Chris Langley
"Reade a prayer of good Johne Knoxes": Understandings of The Reformation in mid-seventeenth century Scotland

4.45 Discussion

5.15 Wine Reception in Common Room

Kontakt

Dr Karin Friedrich

History Department, University of Aberdeen, Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, U.K.

+441224 272451

k.friedrich@abdn.ac.uk

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cems
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