On 22 March, 2016, the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies welcomed Alan Macquarrie to discuss ‘Roderick MacLean of Iona (d. 1553): a renaissance Humanist from the Western Isles’ for the Second Annual John Durkan Memorial Lecture. Dr. John Durkan was Senior Research Fellow in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow from 1976 until… Continue reading →
On 13 October, 2015, the Centre welcomed Rachel Barrowman to discuss ‘Thinking local on the late medieval stronghold of Dùn Èistean, Isle of Lewis’. Below is this listener’s brief summary of the lecture. Rachel Barrowman presented some of the results of the excavations that took place at Dùn Èistean, a late medieval site which is located on… 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 →
