Seminar Blog Archive 2012-2020

CSCS Seminar Archive, 2012-2020

Click on the links below for blog postings for select seminars over the last few years:

2012

• 1 May – ‘Celtic Between the Walls: What can place-names tell us?’
• 3 October – ‘Leisure and Recreation in an Age of Clearance: Hebridean Michaelmas’
• 9 October – ‘The Pre-Christian Belief System in Ireland’
• 16 October – Vox Populi: ‘What Andrew Melville Really Thought of James VI: Popular Sovereignty and the Role of the Magistrate in Early Jacobean Scotland’
• 16 October – ‘Language and land in 12th and 13th century Ayrshire: Place-Names in the Earliest Cunninghame charters’
• 30 October – Vox Populi: ‘National Opinion and the Union Question in the Union of the Crowns’
• 6 November – ‘SERF 1 – Royal Forteviot: landscape setting and political contexts’
• 13 November – Vox Populi: ‘Elections, voting and representation in early modern Scotland’
• 20 November – ‘Slaves and Slaveowners in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’
• 27 November – ‘The origins of the earldom of Lennox’
• 3 December – The Seventh Annual Angus Matheson Memorial Lecture: ‘Some Notable “Troublemakers” in Medieval Celtic Literature’

2013

• 8 January – ‘Carving Pictish Symbols: Conventions and Competence’
• 15 January – Vox Populi: ‘Wilkes and Scottish Liberty: The Reception of John Wilkes in The Weekly Magazine’
• 22 January – ‘What role did Latin play in Jacobean Scotland? An introduction to the “Bridging the Continental Divide” Project’
• 1 February – ‘Curses and concepts: the lexicon of Dafydd ap Gwilym’s poetry’
• 5 February – ‘Mourning the Maic Uislenn: Blood, Death and Grief in Longes Mac nUislenn and Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneach’
• 12 February – ‘Perceptions of Scottish musical antiquity in the Enlightenment’
• 19 February – ‘Hospitality, Pastoral Care and the Church in the medieval and early modern Highlands’
• 26 February – ‘Kenneth Jackson and the Pictish language: Deep Roots and a Long Arm’
• 28 February – Centenary Lecture Series: ‘Everyday Life in Reformation Glasgow’
• 5 March – ‘SERF 2 – Picts, Palaces and Prehistory: Early Medieval Forteviot’
• 12 March – ‘A source-book for senchas? Educational miscellanea in B.L. Egerton 1782’
• 19 March – ‘The Tourist Gaze on Gaelic Scotland’
• 28 March – Centenary Lecture Series: ‘Glasgow Poets and Modern Scotland’
• 23 April – Vox Populi: ‘The Voice of the ‘Wee Society’: the referenda experience in Scottish local government since 1868’
• 26 April – Centenary Lecture Series: ‘The Roots that Clutch; John Buchan, Glasgow and Scottish Fiction’
• 30 April – ‘The ‘Interpenetration of Motifs’ and the Pictish contribution to Insular Art’
• 7 May – Vox Populi: ‘Remembering 1979’
• 14 May – ‘A magnum monasterium in SW Scotland? New work on Kirkmadrine and its stones’
• 21 May – Vox Populi: ‘The referendum of 1997: the settled will of the Scottish people?’
• 27 June – Centenary Lecture Series: ‘Glasgow’s Buried Legacy: 1500 years of growth, development and regeneration’
• 26 September – Centenary Lecture Series: ‘Robert Burns & The Rise of Scottish Studies’
• 2 October – ‘Hidden Detail? The Human Element in Visual Responses to the Highland Landscape, c.1750-1850’
• 9 October – Scotland and the Commonwealth: ‘Scotland’s Forgotten Imperial Legacy: The War Against Islam in the Late Nineteenth Century’
• 15 October – Scotland and the Commonwealth: ‘Before Commonwealth: Early Imperial Scotland’
• 22 October – ‘Learning to love the marquis: A family story from clearance-era Sutherland’
• 24 October – Centenary Lecture Series: ‘Lord Provosts, Local Leadership and Glasgow’s Changing History since the Nineteenth Century’
• 29 October – ‘The development of Gaelic language skills by adult learners’
• 5 November – ‘1979: Scotland’s First Constitutional Referendum’
• 12 November – Inaugural Lecture: ‘Rethinking Scottish Origins’
• 19 November – ‘Hector or Conall Cearnach: Heroic Choices in MacMhuirich Poetry’
• 26 November – ‘Language and Religion in Ireland 1800-1870’

2014

• 14 January – ‘How British is Scotland? Romancing the Union’
• 21 January – Scotland and the Commonwealth: ‘Our Worthy Countrymen?: Highland Development and the West Indies, 1750-1850’
• 28 January – ‘The Massacre of Eigg in 1577’
• 4 February – ‘How British Is Scotland? Anglification and the Arts of Resistance’
• 11 February – ‘A Murder Mystery from Barra: The Killing of the Big Parson, 1609’
• 18 February – ‘The “Mammy” Effect – Tracing cultural exchange through intermarriage in later medieval Ireland’
• 25 February – ‘How British is Scotland? Britain and Scottish Independence in the Middle Ages’
• 4 March – ‘Irish manuscript auctions in the early nineteenth century: markets, collectors, libraries’
• 11 March – ‘Recent work on Pictish barrows’ and ‘An update on Rhynie’
• 18 March – ‘How British is Scotland? A Gendered Perspective’
• 1 April – Scotland and the Commonwealth: ‘Scotland and New Zealand: poetry, fiction and the fact of the nation state’
• 8 April – ‘How British is Scotland? Harmonic Fantasy or Unresolved Dissonance?’
• 29 April – ‘How British is Scotland? Archaeological Origins of Scotland’
• 6 May – ‘The Earldom of Ross and an Intrusive Bishop: The Impact of Thomas Tulloch on MacDonald Lordship in Ross, 1440-1461’
• 13 May – ‘”An Ideal Wife?” Alexander Carmichael’s Deirdire & Revivalist ideals of beauty, dignity & death’
• 20 May – ‘How British is Scotland? Celtic Perspectives on Multiculturalism’
• 11 June – ‘How British is Scotland? Flying the Flag for the Union? Scotland 2014: Yes or No, What Happens Next?’
• 23 June – ‘A Royal Archaeology Lesson at the Forteviot Fête 2014’ by Professor Stephen Driscoll
• 30 September – ‘Mutual receptivities: Scotland and France during the Enlightenment’
• 8 October – ‘Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte and his Gaelic Interests’
• 14 October – ‘Scottish football and Scandinavia, 1898-1914: the future of “European” popular culture?’
• 28 October – ‘The “European question” in post-war Scottish politics’
• 11 November – ‘Scotland and the Flemish People Project: Analysing International interactions in the Middle Ages’
• 18 November – ‘William Carstares in the Netherlands: The Making of a Moderate Mind’
• 25 November – ‘What’s in a Name? Norse Naming Strategies in the Hebrides’
• 2 December – ‘Plantation in the Hebrides: the Dutch in Stornoway, 1628-31’
• 9 December – The Ninth Annual Angus Matheson Memorial Lecture: ‘Sgeul na Gàidhlig / Gaelic at the University of Glasgow – The first 450 years (1451-1901)’

2015

• 13 January – ‘Scotland in the EU – its origin in contrast with the present’
• 27 January – ‘The daughters of James I and their books’
• 3 February – First Millenia Studies Group: ‘What was happening in the Firthlands? Gaels, Picts and Vikings in Northern mainland Scotland’; ‘Comparing the impact of Christianity on Irish, Scottish and Scandinavian sculpture’; and ‘Interpreting Viking Age stone sculpture: the evidence of hybrid practice in the Irish Sea region’
• 10 February – ‘What Women’s Lib – The Aberdeen Women’s Liberation Movement and the Workers Education Association’ and ‘Feminism in Scotland: European Links and Lessons’
• 24 February – ‘Conflict, Commerce and Communities: British markets and society in France, 1603-1763’
• 10 March – ‘Scotland, France, and The Auld Alliance: Was there an Alternative?’
• 17 March – ‘”You seem a very intelligent man, and can speak English. What is it you want to tell us?”: Gaels and Government Inquiries in the Nineteenth Century’
• 28 April – ‘Radicals: John Murdoch and the Birth of Scottish Socialism’
• 12 May – ‘Interlace and the early art of Scotland’
• 6 October – ‘Ireland and the beginnings of Scotland’
• 13 October – ‘Thinking local on the late medieval stronghold of Dùn Èistean, Isle of Lewis’
• 20 October – ‘Werner Kissling – A Different Country: The story of the German ethnologist who made the first ever film in Gaelic’
• 27 October – ‘New thinking on Govan Old’
• 3 November – ‘Fairies, Angels and the Land of the Dead: Robert Kirk’s Lychnobious People’
• 10 November – Ecclesia Scoticana: The Irish and Scottish Church in the tenth to twelfth centuries’
• 17 November – ‘Reformation, Bloodfeud and East Coast Shipping: the Earls Marischal 1542-1623’
• 24 November – ‘The Battle of Clontarf 1014: Literature, Legend and Landscape’
• 1 December – ‘On our terms: “Celtic” and “Celts”’
• 8 December – ‘George Campbell Hay/Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa (8 December 1915-1984):Celebrating the Centenary of a major Scottish poet’
• 19 December – ‘The Long Shadow of 1715. The Great Jacobite Rebellion in Jacobite Politics and Memory – A Preliminary Analysis’

2016

• 27 January – ‘Manufacturing Robert Burns, 1859-1896: George Square to Irvine Moor’
• 2 February – ‘An Early Medieval Miscellany’
• 9 February – ‘Land-assessment in Western Scotland’
• 16 February – ‘George Lauder: early modern Scottish poet and soldier’
• 24 February – ‘Lament for the Dead in Early Irish Tradition: A Gendered Genre?’
• 1 March – ‘The Scots in Ulster and the Colonial “Enterprise” of Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, 1573-1575’
• 8 March – ‘Anticipatory Ancestry: why relational pasts matter’
• 15 March – ‘”The Political Imagination”: Irish Fantasy Writers and the Easter Rising’
• 22 March – ‘Roderick MacLean of Iona (d. 1553): a renaissance Humanist from the Western Isles’
• 19 April – ‘Narrating the Irish story of conversion: the earliest lives of St Patrick and the formation of Irish Christian identity’
• 26 April – ‘Looking behind Celts: views from an exhibition’
• 3 May – ‘The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland 1124-1290’
• 10 May – ‘A thousand years of Welsh scribes’
• 17 May – ‘An inventory of a fragment of Alexander Seton’s library at Pinkie House’
• 29 September – ‘Scots Law and the British Empire, c. 1750-1820’
• 18 October – ‘Sequencing Dafydd ap Gwilym’
• 25 October – ‘Politics and the Public Domain in the Later Fifteenth Century’
• 31 October – ‘The Public History of Scotland and Caribbean Slavery’
• 8 November – ‘Expanding the conversation: a previously unedited poem from Acallam na Senórach’
• 22 November – ‘Ireland and the Art of Stone Carving in Early Medieval Europe’
• 28 November – ‘Early Irish Migrations to Scotland – Difficulties, Debates and DNA’
• 29 November – ‘Finn macCumaill’s Places’
• 6 December – ‘Govan Young and Old: Towards a Sustainable Future’

2017

• 10 January – ‘Scottish workers in France, 1815-1870’
• 17 January – ‘Pop Culture Picts and the Imaginary Hadrian’s Wall’
• 24 January – ‘Robert Burns, Glasgow, Song’
• 31 January – ‘Còmhraidhean nan Cnoc. The Nineteenth Century Gaelic Prose Dialogue’ Book Launch
• 14 February – ‘Crafting Christian Landscapes: Early Medieval Stone Sculpture in North-Western Europe’
• 21 February – ‘Settlement-Names and Society: the medieval districts of Forsa and Moloros, Mull’
• 28 February – ‘James VI and I and the ‘dark corners’ of his kingdoms’
• 7 March – ‘Rethinking the archaeology of early medieval Iona: reassessment and recent work’
• 14 March – ‘A bheil àite ann dha tùsan Gàidhlig ann an eachdraidh na Gàidhealtachd? (Is there a place for Gaelic sources in the history of the Gàidhealtachd?)’
• 28 March – ‘Patriotic Propaganda during the Rough Wooing: The Complaynt of Scotland (1549)’
• 2 May – ‘Celtic Fantasy: A Round-Table Discussion’
• 9 May – ‘Personal names and bynames in Late Medieval Scotland’
• 28 August – In Memoriam: The Topo-Cabin
• 19 September – Historical Conversations – T. C. Smout
• 26 September – ‘Outside the Whale: Conceiving a Nation’
• 10 October – Historical Conversations: Medieval Scottish History Panel, 10 October 2017
• 17 October – ‘Place Names of Kinross-shire’
• 24 October – ‘Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland’
• 7 November – ‘Inchinnan: St Conval to All Hallows’
• 21 November – ‘Making Key Pattern in Insular Art’
• 28 November – Ronald Black: ‘How Did the Reformation Change the Gaelic World?’

2018

• 6 February – The Black Loch of Myrton: The Evolution of a Defended Iron Age Settlement in a Wetland Setting (First Millenia Study Group Event)
• 13 February – Translating Gaelic: Duncan Ban MacIntyre’s ‘Praise of Ben Doran’ and Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair’s ‘Birlinn of Clanranald’
• 27 March – Fourth Annual John Durkan Memorial Lecture: Sally Mapstone, ‘Dunbar and Colophons’
• 8 May – ‘In pursuit of the Scotto-Norse: Reconsidering the Viking Graves of Scotland’ – Dr Stephen Harrison (UoG)
• 25 September – ‘Eòlas nan Naomh: Early Christianity in Uist’ – Professor Thomas Clancy and Dr Sofia Evemalm
• 16 October – Dr Meg Bateman, ‘Fenian and Cù Chulainn Sites in the Isle of Skye’
• 23 October – Dr Margaret Bennett – ‘The Cregeen Journals: Pathways to Sustainability of Land-Use, Language and Culture (CSCS and DASG collaborative event)

2019

• ‘Eòlas nan Naomh: Early Christianity in Uist’ – Professor Thomas Clancy and Dr Sofia Evemalm
• Chapels in the North Atlantic and North Sea Worlds: Individuals, Communities and the Church, c. 1100-1500
• Professor Meg Bateman, ‘Fenian and Cù Chulainn Sites in the Isle of Skye’
• Dr Margaret Bennett – ‘The Cregeen Journals: Pathways to Sustainability of Land-Use, Language and Culture (CSCS and DASG collaborative event).
• Islands in the Sun? The Gaelic World in Archipelagic Politics c. 1400–c. 1600
• The Temple of the Western Main: Recent research work on the Isle of Staffa
• Scottish Places and Imperial Spaces: St Kilda and Tobago
• Royal and monastic island of early medieval Corcu Duibne by Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin
• Professor Gabriel Cooney on the Archaeology of Lambay/Reachrú
• ‘Scotland on the Early Modern European Cultural Map’ – Prof Alasdair MacDonald and Dr Steven Reid
• Professor Andrew McNeillie – ‘Theatres in the Round – Islands, Islanders, and Audiences: or backstage, stalls and gods: in the Unnameable Archipelago’.
• Island Cultures, Island Heritage, Island Futures
• Dalrymple lecture series 2018-2019: Professor Gavin Lucas on the Archaeology of Time
• Steve Murdoch – ‘Preparation and Propaganda: Building the Army of the Covenant, 1633-1639’
• Comasan Labhairt ann an Gàidhlig: Developing a World-Class Resource for Gaelic Learning and Teaching
• Writing Islands: Publishing Pabay – Hugh Andrew and Chris Whatley
• Professor Barry Lewis, ‘Narratives of early British Christianity in Jocelin’s Life of St Kentigern and other 12th-century texts’
• ‘“Rhythms and Images and Legends are everywhere”: George Mackay Brown’s Orkney’ – Dr. Linden Bicket