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Centre Salon

Current educational and media interest has energised debates concerning the intellectual, political and academic foundations of Scottish Studies. But what is Scottish Studies? Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies members and colleagues from across the university are planning on tackling this very topic.

More information on this debate will follow as soon as we have finalised details.

 


Seminar Series 2011-12

All seminars are held at 5.30pm on Tuesdays, Seminar Room 206, 9 University Gardens (unless specified otherwise). Further information on our Seminar Series can be found by clicking here 

4 October 2011: James Mitchell (Strathclyde), ‘Ever looser union’
(Yudowitz Room, Wolfson Medical Building)
 
8 November 2011: Irene Maver (Glasgow), ‘A song for Scotland?: the unfinished story of the search for a national anthem’
(Room 202, 3 University Gardens)
 
29 November 2011: Ewen Cameron (Edinburgh), ‘The strange death of Liberal Scotland’ 
(Room 202, 3 University Gardens)
 
17 January 2012: Colin Kidd (Queen’s, Belfast), ‘Republicanism, the monarchy, and the Scottish Question’
(Room 206, 9 University Gardens)

24 January 2012: Ralph O'Connor (Aberdeen),‘Are early Irish sagas works of literature? Narrative strategy and compilatory practice in The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel’

31 January 2012: Stephen Holmes (Edinburgh), 'The Lost Ark? Scottish sacrament houses'.

7 February 2012: Peadar O Muircheartaigh, 'Caoine Airt Ui Laoire: the O Longain recensions'

14 February 2012: Hector MacQueen (Edinburgh), ‘Constitutional/legal nationalism?’
(Room 206 9 University Gardens).

21 February 2012: Catriona Gray, ‘The medieval bishopric of Brechin: an ‘illogical scattering of churches’’ (Joint with Scottish Church History Society).

6 March: Geraldine Parsons, ‘The narrator’s presence in some medieval Irish narratives’

13 March 2012: Catriona Macdonald (Glasgow), ‘The accidental death of Unionism, 1488-1513’

20 March 2012: Priscilla Scott (Edinburgh): ‘With heart and voice ever devoted to the cause’:
Women and the Gaelic Platform in the early years of the Twentieth Century.