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Ugh...long day...not over yet!
21:34 Aug 13 2007
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Gee today I have been busy...



When I woke up I had to read a book for awhile. Luckily, I was over that ass Captain Morgan kicking me in the head...yes folks, I had a LOT of Captain in me.



But I finished the book, got dressed and headed over the archives to meet my colleague, Kieran German. He is doing a dissertation on the Jacobites of Aberdeen in the Early 18th Century. A truly great guy and noble scholar. I really appreciate getting to have his input and get to know him a bit better.



We spent some time together chatting at Zeste, the lounge for grad students and professors for lunch from 1-2 then went back to the arvhives together.



I was reading the index of the boxes of document archives at Blair Atholl Castle and Kieran was reading a book about the Episcopal Church Diocese and Burgess Church in Aberdeen in the early 1700's.



I came across a letter to read that was from the Archdiocese of Aberdeen and the statement made on behalf the Epicopalians to King William of Orange. The Duke of Atholl, who was at the time styled Lord Murray (his father was the last Earl of Atholl and he had not received his title of Duke. He received that title from Queen Anne - the sister of the Jacobite James VIII.). Wonder which side he was really on? Seems Lord Murray was quite an ardent dissident of Union too. There is a letter at the archives that he writes to Parliament regarding his serious disagreement with the Act of Union and why...



So I gave the letter from a Mr. George Seaton of Aberdeen to Kieran. Letting him know how the Blair Archives can help him too. Normally, I think scholars are quite protective of their sources - for obvious reasons on getting 'scooped' at least for a while - but this subject is so broad that sharing a source like the archives doesn't necessary put me in jeapordy of having a collegue steal my thunder. lol



So Kieran and I are both going back tomorrow but I still have Daniel popping in later to 'visit'. Oh he has been bothering me for WEEKS to try to get him some grass. OMG!!!



I finally found something to pacify him but I am just thankful that he won't bother me until the next freaking time. AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!





Once he leaves, I can FINALLY get cleaned up, ready for bed and REST for a while. LOL!



Talk to you later!



♥

Cheryl



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My first Post Grad Paper!
17:43 Aug 07 2007
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Here is the beginning of the program for the conference at which I am giving a paper in a month. Wish me luck!!! I am terribly nervous!

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The Fifth Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative Conference

UNIONS

Past-Present-Future







And



The Sixth Annual Crosscurrents Conference

The Enclave of My Nation







Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies

University of Aberdeen

7-9 September 2007

Friday 7 September 2007



3.30-4.30: Registration

James MacKay Hall



4.30 -5.30: Plenary Lecture

Dan Mulhall (Irish European Office Director)

King’s Conference Centre



5.30-7.00: Parallel Sessions



Session A: Soviet Union

KQF2: Catherine Gavin Room

Robert Frost (Aberdeen), Poland and the Ghost of Union

Mary Buckley (Edinburgh), TBC

Ron Hill (Trinity College, Dublin), TBC

Alexander Shubin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), TBC



Session B: Scottish Perceptions of Union

KQF3: Carnegie Room

David Dumville (Aberdeen), The So-Called 'Union of Picts and Scots', 842: A Product of Unionist Imagination?

Kevin Forkan, Politics, Propaganda and the Ulster Scots, 1638-41

Kathleen Midleton (Trinity College, Dublin), Protestant Unity and Scottish Immigration in Ulster, 1690-1715

Cheryl Garrett (Aberdeen), The Scottish Civil War and the Dukes of Atholl, 1689-1745



Session C: The United Kingdom’s Impact on Language

KQG3: Multimedia Room

John Kirk (Queen’s University Belfast)

Janet Muller

Aodan Mac Poilin



Session D: Crosscurrents

Scottish and Irish Fiction

KQG4: City of Aberdeen Room

Adelaine Amar (Edinburgh), Memory, economy and Modernity: Maturin’s Irish National Tale

Margaret Matthews (Trinity College Dublin), Scotland and Ireland in the Work of Jane Austen

Dan Wall (Aberdeen), Grand Napoleons of the Realm of Print: Lockhart, Scott, and 'Filthy Lucre’

Stephanie Lehner (Edinburgh), ImagiNation, Ethics and Gender Relations in contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction



7.00-9.00: Buffet

Aberdeen Art Gallery

Launch of the first issue of the Journal for Irish-Scottish Studies