Blog author: Craig Conner On Thursday 26th November 2020, The Centre of Scottish and Celtic studies, in collaboration with the National Library of Scotland held the 3rd Annual Thomas Muir lecture, a series named after and dedicated to the study of the life and works of the late 18th century advocate and democratic political activist… Continue reading →
Blog Author: Eleanor Thomson Dr Karen McAulay presented the second seminar in the series, exploring the song-collecting activities of Alexander Campbell (1764–1824). McAulay’s 2013 monograph Our Ancient National Airs: Scottish Song Collecting from the Enlightenment to the Romantic Era is a seminal ethnomusicological study which focuses on song collections with music, rather than words, and… Continue reading →
Blog Author: Gina Lyle On the 3rd of November 2020, the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies had the pleasure of welcoming Kevin Gallagher and George Smith to talk on ‘Duntocher, Dumbarton and the 1820 Rebellion’. Hosted entirely online, the first CSCS seminar of the semester demonstrated the resilience of these researchers and permitted guests… Continue reading →
Blog author: Hannah Pyle On the 31st of October 2019 the centre had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Tom Devine to give the inaugural Thomas Muir lecture on Democracy and Civil Society: ‘Unyielding Power: Foundations of Elite Supremacy in Eighteenth Century Scotland’. Prof Devine is well-known within the realm of Scottish History, having published over… Continue reading →
Blog author: Hannah Pyle On the 24th of October 2019 the centre had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Caroline McCraken-Flesher from the University of Wyoming to talk on ‘Robert Burns and the Cultural Politics of Food’. As the glint of the ever-beautiful autumnal Glasgow sun faded out through the Gloag room windows, Dr Ronnie Young… Continue reading →
Blog author: Craig Conner On Tuesday 14th of January, the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies gladly welcomed Dr Kathrin Zickerman, lecturer at the University of Highlands and Islands. Dr Zickerman completed her PhD on Early Modern Scottish contact with and settlement in Northwest Germany at St Andrews in 2009, which formed the basis of… Continue reading →
Author: Katharine McCrossan On Tuesday 17th December the Centre welcomed Dr David Griffiths, who delivered the final seminar of the semester on the question ‘How Scandinavian was the Viking Age in the Northern Isles?’. A Reader and Director of Studies in Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Dr Griffiths’ research interests include Viking-Age and medieval… Continue reading →
Blog author: Kathleen Reddy The CSCS seminar on December 10, 2019 was given by Dr. Liam Ó hAisibéil of NUI Galway, specialist in Gaelic onomastics and currently a visiting researcher in the University of Glasgow’s School of Humanities. Dr. Ó hAisibéil’s talk was entitled “Onomastic Perspectives in the Creation of Space in Acallam na Senórach.”… Continue reading →
Blog author: Kathleen Reddy On Thursday, December 5th, 2019, Celtic and Gaelic at the University of Glasgow hosted the fourteenth annual Angus Matheson memorial lecture, given by Prof. Angela Bourke of University College Dublin. This annual lecture series is held in memory of Prof. Angus Matheson (1912-1962), first professor of Celtic at the University of… Continue reading →
by Katharine McCrossan On Tuesday 19th November, the Centre was delighted to welcome Dr Joanna Kopaczyk (Senior Lecturer in Scots and English, University of Glasgow). Dr Kopaczyk is a historical linguist whose research interests include the medieval and early modern history of the Scots language and the early modern Scots diaspora abroad, specifically in Central… Continue reading →
