On 22 October 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Professor Jim Hunter (University of the Highlands and Islands) who discussed ‘Learning to love the marquis: A family story from clearance-era Sutherland’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. After an introduction by Dr Martin MacGregor, Prof. Hunter began his lecture by outlining his unashamedly… Continue reading →
On 15th October 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Dr Andrew MacKillop (University of Aberdeen) who discussed ‘Before Commonwealth: Early Imperial Scotland’. This lecture continued the ‘Scotland and the Commonwealth’ mini-series convened by Dr Lizanne Henderson. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Like Professor Finlay last week, Dr MacKillop stressed his talk focused… Continue reading →
On 9 October, the Centre was pleased to welcome Professor Richard Finlay from the University of Strathclyde who discussed ‘Scotland’s Forgotten Imperial Legacy: The War Against Islam in the Late Nineteenth Century’. This presentation began the seminar mini-series ‘Scotland and the Commonwealth’, convened by Dr. Lizanne Henderson, which will run throughout the year. Below is this listener’s brief summary… Continue reading →
On 2 October 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Dr. Anne MacLeod, who began our weekly seminar series with ‘Hidden Detail? The Human Element in Visual Responses to the Highland Landscape, c.1750-1850’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Dr. MacLeod based her lecture on her book, From An Antique Land: Visual Representations of the Highland… Continue reading →
On 21 May 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome the BBC’s Brian Taylor who discussed, ‘The referendum of 1997: the settled will of the Scottish people?’, as the final seminar in the Vox Populi series which has ran for the last nine months. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Tony Blair came to power… Continue reading →
On 14 May 2013, the Centre was pleased to welcome Katherine Forsyth and Adrián Maldonado who discussed, ‘A magnum monasterium in SW Scotland? New work on Kirkmadrine and its stones’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Adrian began by contextualising the landscape and surroundings of Kirkmadrine. Kirkmadrine is in Galloway, south-west Scotland, situated in an area… Continue reading →
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 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 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 →
