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QS Rankings, 2016
The University of Aberdeen is delighted to be named amongst the top 25 UK universities in the latest QS Rankings.
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Aberdeen Summer School – Society and Culture of Scotland
From the Union and Jacobitism to the Clearances and the Great Disruption
14-28 June 2015
This new two-week Summer School programme is designed to introduce undergraduate students to the one of the most crucial periods in Scottish history which has continued to have profound effects on contemporary Scotland even feeding directly into debates surrounding the recent referendum on independence.
Subjects covered will include:
- the Treaty/Acts of Union; Jacobitism;
- the Scottish Enlightenment;
- Scottish traditional culture (for example, fairies and second sight);
- Scottish literature (especially Burn and Scott);
- Scottish religion (culminating in the great split in the Kirk in the 1840s);
- traditional music and oral culture;
- the impact of industrialization
- the clearances of the Highlands and depopulation of much of rural Scotland.
The programme will include lectures by leading scholars in the field as well as small-group discussions and field trips. There will also be plenty of social activities designed to introduce students to contemporary Scottish society and culture. Key academics involved will include:
Professor Ali Lumsden. Ali is a General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of Scott’s Waverley Novels and the lead editor for an edition of his poetry. She is also co-director of the University of Aberdeen’s Walter Scott Research Centre, which exists to promote all aspects of research on Walter Scott. She has published extensively on Walter Scott and on other aspects of Scottish literature and is currently the chair of the Scottish Universities Committee for Scottish Literature.
Dr Andrew Mackillop. Mackie was a lead historical advisor for the new visitor centre/experience at the Culloden battlefield and is a historical advisor to the Western Isle local council. His areas of interest span the eighteenth century focusing on cultures of urban governance and urban disorder in post-Union Scotland
Professor John Morrison. John’s main research interests are concerned with Scottish painting from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. He recently published a book on images of rural labour in Scotland. His interests also include developments in architecture as well as country-house living among Scotland’s elite.
Professor William Naphy. Bill’s interests include traditional cultural practices including witchcraft, the keeping or banning of traditional festivals (such as Christmas – not a legal holiday in Scotland until the 1950s) and fairy-folk. He also has interests in how elites, especially via religion, control and regulate personal practices including sexual mores.
The cost of the two-week programme is £2000 which includes meals, accommodation, classes/instruction as well as all excursions. It does not include travel to/from Aberdeen or personal purchases. The programme is limited to 25 students and the deadline for applications (including a 15% deposit (£300) is 31 March. The balance of the costs (£1700) must be paid no later than 1 June.
For details please contact Professor William G Naphy at w.g.naphy@abdn.ac.uk
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