On 7 May 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Professor Christopher Harvie, who discussed ‘Remembering 1979’ as part of the ongoing Vox Populi seminar series. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. On the run up to the 1979 devolution referendum, Scottish public opinion was around sixty per cent in favour, twenty against.… Continue reading →
On 30 April 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Cynthia Thickpenny who discussed ‘The ‘Interpenetration of Motifs’ and the Pictish contribution to Insular Art’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Cynthia described ‘interpenetration of motifs’ in Pictish art as the interweaving of two distinct geometric or abstract designs. The strands link seamlessly, either large or… Continue reading →
On 26 April 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Professor Douglas Gifford who discussed, ‘The Roots that Clutch; John Buchan, Glasgow and Scottish Fiction’, as part of the continuing Centenary Lecture Series,. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. John Buchan is perhaps equally famous for his popular thriller novels, like The Thirty-Nine Steps, and for his… Continue reading →
On 23 April 2013, as part of the on-going Vox Populi series, the Centre was pleased to welcome Irene Maver, who discussed ‘The Voice of the ‘Wee Society’: the referenda experience in Scottish local government since 1868’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Dr Maver framed her lecture with a discussion of the key focus of… Continue reading →
On 28 March 2013, the Centre, as part of the on-going series of lectures celebrating the Centenary of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow, welcomed Professor Alan Riach who discussed, ‘Glasgow Poets and Modern Scotland’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. The Chair of Scottish History and Literature at the University… Continue reading →
On 19 March 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Coinneach Maclean who discussed ‘The Tourist Gaze on Gaelic Scotland’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Coinneach argued that the Scottish Gael is “objectified in an un-modified ‘Tourist Gaze’”. The Tourist Gaze, a work by John Urry, served as a model for most of Coinneach’s lecture.… Continue reading →
On 12 March 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Abigail Burnyeat from the University of Edinburgh, who discussed, ‘A source-book for senchas? Educational miscellanea in B.L. Egerton 1782’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. The Egerton 1782 manuscript, found in the Egerton Collection of the British Library in London is an Irish vellum manuscript,… Continue reading →
On 5 March 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Ewan Campbell who discussed ‘Picts, Palaces and Prehistory: Early Medieval Forteviot’. This was the second part of our SERF mini-series, which began with Prof. Driscoll’s lecture last semester: http://cscottish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/serf-1-royal-forteviot-landscape.html. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. The area around Forteviot, near Perth, is one of the… Continue reading →
On 28 February 2013, the Centre, as part of the ongoing series of lectures celebrating the Centenary of Scottish History and Literature at the University of Glasgow, welcomed Dr. Steven Reid who discussed, ‘Everyday Life in Reformation Glasgow’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. The Scottish Reformation has often been presented as a highly enthusiastic,… Continue reading →
On 26 February 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Guto Rhys, who discussed ‘Kenneth Jackson and the Pictish language: Deep Roots and a Long Arm’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. This lecture aimed to assess the influences and impact of Kenneth Jackson’s scholarship on the Pictish language, with less emphasis placed upon linguistic… Continue reading →
