Scottish Society for Northern Studies

(in conjunction with the Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen)

ABERDEEN, SCANDINAVIA and the BALTIC

Conference, Saturday 18th June, 2011

F22, King’s College, University of Aberdeen 


10.15          Registration, Coffee and Tea (Centre for Scandinavian Studies, 24 High Street)
                   Then 3-minute walk to F22

10.40         Welcome by Dr Tarrin Wills, co-director of the Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen

10.50         Thomas Brochard (University of Aberdeen) ‘Relations between Scotland's Northern Territories and the Baltic and Scandinavia from the mid-16th to the mid-17th Centuries’

11.40         Claire McLoughlin  (University of St Andrews) ‘Past the Perimeters: Aberdonian merchant activities beyond Aberdeen 1603-1707’

12.10        Book Launch by the Scottish Place-Name Society (with glass of wine):
                 In the Beginning was the Name: Selected Essays by Prof. W.F.H. Nicolaisen
                 click here for details and order form

12.30        Light lunch (Centre for Scandinavian Studies, 24 High Street)
                 Posters of current research will be displayed in the Centre

13.30        Sally Garden (University of Aberdeen) "Freedom is the fight for freedom" – new light on the Scottish ancestry
of Norwegian composer and nation-builder Edvard Grieg

14.10        Robert Millar (University of Aberdeen) 'The Scots dialects of the Northern Isles and their connections to Norn'

14.50        Barry Robertson (University of Aberdeen) ‘Northeast Sojourns in Northern Continental Europe: the example of the
Gordons’

15.40        Summary and conclusion

Conference Fee (including tea/coffee and sandwich lunch):
Members – £10                   Non-members – £12                   Students – £5

Please send completed form & cheque (payable to the ‘Scottish Society for Northern Studies’) to: 
Alan Calder, SSNS, c/o Dept. of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, 27 George Square, Edinburgh  EH8 9LD, by Friday 10 June 2011.

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