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“Migrating Minds”, University of Aberdeen, 14-15 May 2009
By Noreen Bowden | March 9, 2009
“Migrating Minds: Imagined Journeys – Imagined Homecomings” will be the topic of a conference hosted in May at the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. The conference will take place alongside the Aberdeen WORD Festival.
Organisers say:
Literature (both fiction and non-fiction), personal journals and correspondence, and art enable us to explore the impact that journeys and homecomings have had on Irish and Scottish imaginations. Irish and Scottish migrants, as well as those who sought to understand, interpret and exploit the experience of migration, participated in the production and circulation of these accounts and images both at home and abroad. As such, they form an important dimension to any understanding of the Irish and Scottish diasporas. With this in mind, we seek to investigate the idea of migration as a series of narratives and rhetorical tropes that develop over time.
Selected proceedings will be published in the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies.
Related links:
- Conference call for papers at the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies website
- Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies
- Aberdeen Word Festival
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