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SUMMARY:Oor Mickle Simmer Collogue: Aberdeen Summer Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Society is pleased to announce its residential conference in Aberdeen on 26-28 June. The event is to be held at the Royal Northern & University Club (9 Albyn Place, AB10 1YE), and it will also include a day trip to Elgin!\nFurther information on the conference is to follow in the next few weeks.\nThe full conference programme is as follows (times in BST):\nWednesday 26 June\n10.30-11.00: Registration\n11.00-11.15: Welcome remarks\n11-15-12.45: Session 1\n\nProfessor Marjory Harper – Navigating New Worlds: Emigration from the Northern Isles, 1770-2000\nProfessor Robert McColl Millar – Founder Populations? Internal and External Forces at Play in the\nDialects of Scots\n\n12.45-14.00: Lunch\n14.00-15.30: Session 2\n\nDr Jackson Armstrong – ‘All thingis covntit’: Government and Accounting in Fifteenth-Century Burghs\nDr Hannah Burrows – Emotional Language in Medieval Law\n\n15.30-16.00: Coffee/tea\n16.00-17.30: Plenary Lecture\n\nProfessor Gordon Noble – The Development of Kingship in Pictland, AD 300-900\n\n17.30-19.00:\n\nWalking tour of Aberdeen with Catherine Simpson (Historic Environment Record, Aberdeenshire officer)\n\n \nThursday 27 June\n10.30-12.45: Session 1\n\nDr Shane McLeod – The Siege of Alt Clut: Implications \nDr Stephen Harrison – Forgotten Vikings? Reassessing the Role of Women in Early Scandinavian Migration to Britain and Ireland\nProfessor Clare Downham – The Kingdom of the Isles and Munster c. 950-1150\n\n12.45-14.00: Lunch\n14.00-17:00: Session 2a\n\nCreative writing workshop with Dr Ragnhild Ljosland (based on Aberdeen witchcraft trial)\n\n17.00-17.30: Coffee/tea\n17.30-18:30: Session 2b\n\nDr Irene Watt – Traditional music (talk and performance)\n\n19:00: Conference dinner\n \nFriday 28 June\nDay trip to Elgin, including Elgin museum, Glen Moray Distillery, and a tour of regional Pictish stones with Dr Lynda McGuigan.\n \n \nRegistration\n\nAll inclusive rate: 26-28 June – includes conference dinner and day trip to Elgin:\n\nSSNS members: £150, early bird rate (book by April 30th)\nSSNS members: £175, standard rate\nNon-SSNS members: £175\nStudents in full time education: £125\n\nConference day rate: Includes lunch and refreshments (excludes conference dinner and excursion to Elgin)\n\nWednesday 26 June: £30\nThursday 27 June: £30\n\nAccommodation\nThe Royal Northern University Club has the following accommodation available on a first come first served basis during and either side of the conference:\n4 x Singles\n1 x King\n1 x Double\nPlease see Accommodation — The Royal Northern & University Club Aberdeen (rnuc.org.uk) for more information.\nRNUC are offering these rooms at a ten percent discount for conference delegates. To book the accommodation, please contact RNUC directly at 01224 583 292, or secretary@rnuc.org.uk\n \n\n
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