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Research Theme: Diasporas, Migrations and Identities (June 2005-August 2007)

The Scots at War Project

The European Enlightenment Project, 1995-2000

Conference: The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive (March 2002) (including Web publication of Conference Proceedings)

Conference: Visual Knowledges (September 2003) (including Web publication of Conference Proceedings)

Symposium on: "Williamite Scotland and the United Provinces 1689-1702" (28 June 2004)


Register of Former Fellows and Institute Statistics
Details of all those who have held Institute Fellowships


The Scots at War Project

This project was located in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities from 1995-1999 and is funded by the Scots at War Trust.

The aim of the project is to research and collate information about Scots who served in the armed and civilian services in the 20th century. It is based on an internet Website which quickly attracted an average of 1000 worldwide users per month. The research and Website publication is augmented by seminars involving veterans, scholars and students. Subjects have included The Royal Navy, The 51st Highland Division, Prisoners of War in South East Asia, Indian Army Scots, The Secret War, The Sergeants Mess and The Women's Land Army.

Click here to access the Scots at War Website

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The European Enlightenment Project 1995-2000

Seminars

Saturday 29th April 2000

Dr Eugene Heath, Department of Philosophy, State University of New York, New Paltz
The Eighteenth-century Scots on the Unintended Emergence of Customs and Morals

Dr Ferenc Hörcher, Department of Aesthetics, Pázmany Péter Catholic University, Piliscaba
Was Hume a Conservative?

Dr Tomas Hlobil, Department of Aesthetics, Charles University
Palacky's "History of Aesthetics"

Professor Emory L. Kemp, Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology, West Virginia University
Links in a Chain: The Early Modern Suspension Bridge

Saturday 5th February 2000

Dr Udo Thiel, Department of Philosophy, Australian National University
Hume and the Eighteenth Century Debate about Personal Identity

Dr Andreea Deciu, Department of Literary Theory, University of Bucharest
Rites of Passage: Personal Identity and Travelling in the Enlightenment

Professor Andrew Skinner, Department of Political Economy, University of Glasgow
Adam Smith and the American Colonies

Saturday 20th November 1999

Dr Adam Chmielewski, Institute of Philosophy, University of Wroclaw
The Enlightenment's Concept of the Individual and its Criticism

Dr Josef Moural, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Charles University, Prague
Metaphilosophy in Hume's first Enquiry

Dr Pepka Boyadjieva, Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Rethinking the Social Role of the University of Edinburgh for Scottish Englightenment

Dr Paul Shore, Educational Studies, St Louis University
Cluj: A Jesuit oupost in Habsburg Transylvania, 1700-1773

Saturday 4th September 1999

Dr Stipe Kutleša, Institute for History and Philosophy of Science, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
Boscovich in his Time and Today

Dr Catalin Avramescu, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki
The Theory of Social Contract and the Idea of Political Science in the Eighteenth Century

Dr John Sutton, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney
"Carelessness and In-Attention": Chance and the Physiology of Habit from Locke to Hume

Tuesday 3rd August 1999

Dr Ock-Kyoung Kim, Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven
The Concept of Individuality in Hegel and Adam Smith

Professor Giancarlo Carabelli, Insitute of Philosophy, University of Ferrara
Enlightenment and Anthropology: William Hamilton in Naples and Italian folk religion

Dr Andrés Lema-Hincapié, School of Philosophy, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Kant and the Holy Scriptures

Tuesday 4th May 1999

Dr Ferenc Hörcher, Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Art as Virtue: A Humean and Neothomistic Theme

Saturday 24th April 1999

Dr Timothy Engström, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology
Philosophy and Genre: Forming the Enlightened Community

Dr László Kontler, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest
The Wild and the Civilised: German Readings of William Robertson's Views on European and
Non-European Civilisations

Dr Susanne Kord, Department of German, Georgetown University
Conceptualizing Kunst: Peasant Poets, Women Writers and Bourgeois Art in Eighteenth-Century
Germany and Britain

Wednesday 10th February 1999

Dr Jan Rupp, School for Social Science, University of Amsterdam
Dutch Anatomy Teaching in the 18th Century

Prof Dr Tatiana Artemieva, Institute of Human Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg
Philosophy of History in 18th Century Russia

Saturday 31st October 1998

Professor Paul Wood, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Mind and Method: Mapping the Enlightenment "Science of Man"

Professor Thomas Olshewsky, University of Kentucky
Which Skepticism, Whose Morality?

Dr Karen O'Brien, University of Wales, Cardiff
The Imperial Newton: Poetry and the British Empire in the 18th Century

Dr Glynis Ridley, University of Huddersfield
What "Special Relationship"? British Nationhood and American Nationalism, 1762-1783

Professor Kenneth Johnston, Indiana University
From Hidden Wordsworth to Hidden Republicans

Saturday 7th February 1998

M. Jean-Pierre Gross - Brussels
From Necker to Robespierre: Liberal Egalitarians and the Market Economy

Professor John Renwick - University of Edinburgh
Enlightened...and then Disabused: "Philosophes" into Counter-Revolutionaries

Dr Glynis Ridley - University of Huddersfield
Cicero as victim of the Terror: the use and abuse of classical rhetoric in Revolutionary France

Professor David Kimbell, University of Edinburgh
Was Beethoven enlightened?: reflections on three Beethoven symphonies

Saturday 24th January 1998

Professor Ann Thomson - University of Caen
Eighteenth Century Materialism: Problems and Perspectives

Dr Graeme Garrard - University of Wales, Cardiff
The Counter-Enlightenment of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Professor Stephen Brown - Champlain College, Trent University
Ah kent his faether: William Smellie and Getting Ahead in Enlightenment Edinburgh

Professor Marian Hobson - Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Why did Hegel like Diderot's "Neveu de Rameau"

Saturday 22nd February 1997

Professor Peter Jones - Director, IASH
Hume and Friends on Architecture, Taste and the Design Argument

Professor Marian Hobson - Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Diderot and Implicit Knowledge: Analogy and Architecture

Dr Marian Kempny - Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
The Scottish Enlightenment and the Rise of Anthropological Theory of Culture

Professor John Renwick - Department of French, The University of Edinburgh
Voltaire and the Morangies case (1772-1773) or The Theory of Probability as applied to evidence

Saturday 19th October 1996

Dr Alistair Mason - University of Leeds
The Sentimental Beauties of Blair

Professor Dr Horst Dreitzel - Bielefeld University
A Strange Marriage: Pufendorf's Natural Jurisprudence and Protestant Moral Philosophy in the Early Enlightenment (Barbeyrac, Burlamaqui, Carmichael)

Professor M.A. Stewart - Lancaster University
The Eighteenth Century Curriculum

Dr Udo Thiel - Australian National University
Identity through Change. Materialism and Personal Identity in Eighteenth Century Philosophy

Dr Geoffrey Sweet - Anglia Polytechnic University
Goethe and the German Anti-Enlightenment

Saturday 4th November 1995

Dr John Cairns - University of Edinburgh
Legal Theory and Legal Practice in the Scottish Enlightenment

Professor Charles McKean - University of Dundee
How Physical Form Affected the Enlightenment

Professor Dr Diethelm Klippel - Justus Liebig, Giessen
Luxury and the State in 18th Century Germany

Dr Martin Fitzpatrick - University College of Wales
The Enlightened Patriotism of Richard Price: Some further reflections

Professor Samuel Fleischacker - Williams College
Adam Smith on Self-Interest: Re-reading the "Wealth of Nations"

Dr Nicholas Phillipson - University of Edinburgh
Politeness, Sociability and the Science of Man; Adam Smith in Context

Saturday 14th October 1995
The Sciences and the Enlightenment

Dr Richard Yeo - Griffith University, Australia
Enlightenment Science and the Encyclopedias: Reflections on England and Scotland

Professor W.H. Barber - Oxford
Voltaire and Natural Science: Apples and Fossils

Professor M.A. Stewart - Lancaster University
Rational Religion in the Scottish Enlightenment

Professor Roger Emerson, University of Western Ontario
Scots Doctors in America, 1685-1800

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Conference: The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive (20-23 March 2002)

The electronic revolution of the last decade has transformed the nature and the potential of the public collection. It is now possible to envisage libraries, museums and art galleries which are accessible, in part or in whole, online. The publishing industry is in a state of turmoil as it makes the transition to electronic dissemination of its products; scholarly research has been revolutionsed by the resources of the internet including online publishing, email, scholarly lists, and the formation of new databases. E-commerce is in the process of transforming the retail book trade. What, in this context, is the future of the archive?

Bringing together librarians, curators, archivists, publishers, booksellers and academics, the conference sought to address some of the central issues that arise from the rapidly forming new information order.

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Conference: Visual Knowledges (17-20 September 2003)

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh
Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Glasgow

Edinburgh College of Art

This interdisciplinary conference investigated the role of visual technologies in informing, shaping and creating knowledge. Its overarching aim was to investigate the claims of scholars such as Barbara Stafford, Martin Jay, and Timothy Binkley that our own culture is currently, in the wake of the electronic revolution, undergoing a shift in which the visual medium, traditionally playing a secondary role as the illustration of text, is becoming the dominant medium of thought.

The conference projected forward by casting backwards in time to survey the role of successive new technologies of vision in generating new cultures of knowledge, perception, and experience. From the seventeenth-century invention of the telescope and the microscope, and the progressive elaboration of spatial representation in photography, cinema, the x-ray, scanning technologies and the interactive computer screen, the conference addresses the broad role of technologies of the visible in culture.

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SYMPOSIUM

"Williamite Scotland and the United Provinces 1689-1702"

Monday, 28 June 2004

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Hope Park Square

This Symposium, in which young Scottish and Dutch scholars examined the changing relationship between Scotland and the United Provinces after the Glorious Revolution, was organised as part of the Institute's research programme on Scotland in Europe, Europe in Scotland. Topics included intellectual exchanges, migration, commerce, as well as political and military ties during and in the wake of the Nine Years War.

PROGRAMME

Introduction: Clare Jackson (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)

Session 1: Politics and Presbyterianism
Chair: Frances Dow (IASH)
Mark Jardine (Edinburgh): Schism, Scandal & Struggle: Scottish radical presbyterians in Groningen 1682-84 Alisdair Raffe (Edinburgh): Scottish religious controversy in the 1690s: vocabularies of persecution and party
David Onnekink (IASH): Portland and the Presbyterians

Session 2: Companies and Colonies
Chair: Charles Withers (IASH)
Andrew MacKillop (Aberdeen): An alternative to British Union? The Scots and the VOC, 1680-1702
Douglas Watt (Edinburgh): Contacts and Influences: the Dutch and the Company of Scotland trading to Africa and the Indies
Esther Mijers (Aberdeen): Scots in the Dutch Americas: Networks and Politics

Session 3: Culture and Communities
Chair: Doug Catterall (Cameron, Oklahoma)
Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart (Edinburgh): Highlanders in the Low Countries
Patsy Campbell (Edinburgh): Painting for princes and people in 17th century Scotland and the Netherlands

Concluding remarks: John Young (Strathclyde)

Reception and live performance of seventeenth-century music by Patsy and Murray Campbell

Conference dinner: Hosted by Mr Michael D. Hughes, Honorary Consul (Netherlands Consulate)

 

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