Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies

Interlace panel from the Govan sarcophagus, carved for the bones of St Constantine, c. 900 AD

Seminar Series 2012-13

Tuesday Evening Seminar will all be held in Room 202, 3 University Gardens at 5.30pm unless otherwise stated.

Semester 2

  • 8 Jan 2013: Martin Goldberg (National Museum of Scotland), ‘Pictish symbols’ - This meeting is held jointly with the First Millenia Studies Group
  • 15 Jan 2013: Rhona Brown, ‘Wilkes and Scottish Liberty: The Reception of John Wilkes in the Weekly Magazine’.
  • 22 Jan 2013: Steven Reid and David Mcomish, ‘What role did Latin play in Jacobean Scotland? An introduction to the ‘Bridging the Continental Divide’ Project’
  • 29 Jan 2013: Reception for Centre workshops and reading groups. All welcome.
  • FRI 1 Feb 2013: Dafydd Johnston (University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies), ‘Curses and concepts: the lexicon of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poetry’.
  • 5 Feb 2013: Kate Mathis, ‘Mourning the Maic Uislenn: Blood, Death and Grief in Longes Mac nUislenn and Oidheadh Chloinne hUisneach’
  • 12 Feb 2013: Joanna Clements, ‘Perceptions of Scottish musical antiquity in the Enlightenment’
  • 19 Feb 2013: Iain MacDonald, ‘Hospitality and the Church in the Highlands in the medieval and early modern eras’. This session is hosted jointly with the Scottish Church History Society
  • 26 Feb 2013: Book launch. Details to follow.
  • 5 Mar 2013: Ewan Campbell, ‘Picts, Palaces and Prehistory’
  • 12 Mar 2013: Abigail Burnyeat (University of Edinburgh), ‘A source-book for senchas? Educational miscellanea in B.L. Egerton 1782’
  • 19 Mar 2013: Coinneach MacLean, ‘The Tourist Gaze on Gaelic Scotland’

Semester 1

  • 25 Sept 2012: Dauvit Broun, Ted Cowan and Roger Mason, ‘The Declaration of Arbroath and its Afterlife’ and ‘Why the Declaration of Arbroath doesn’t matter: an early modern perspective’ 
    Nb: Location = Gannochy Room, Wolfson Medical Building 
  • 2 Oct 2012: Domhnall Uilleam Stiubhart (University of Edinburgh and Sabhal Mòr Ostaig), Leisure and Recreation in an Age of Clearance: Hebridean Michaelmas
  • 9 Oct 2012: Edel Bhreathnach (University College Dublin), ‘Identifying the “old”/“pre-Christian” belief system in Ireland’
  • 16 Oct 2012: Steven Reid, ‘What Andrew Melville really thought of James VI: Popular Sovereignty and the Role of the Magistrate in early Jacobean Scotland’
  • 23 Oct 2012: Thomas Clancy, ‘Language and land in 12th- and 13th- century Ayrshire: place-names in the earliest Cunninghame charters’
  • 30 Oct 2012: Karin Bowie, ‘National Opinion and the Union Question in the Union of Crowns’
  • 6 Nov 2012: Stephen Driscoll, ‘ SERF 1 - Royal Forteviot: landscape setting and political contexts’
  • Wed 14 Nov 2012: Keith Brown, ‘Elections, voting and representation in early modern Scotland’
  • 20 Nov 2012: John Cairns (University of Edinburgh), ‘Slaves and Slaveowners in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’
    This is a joint seminar, co-hosted by the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies.
  • 27 Nov 2012: Matthew Hammond (University of Edinburgh), ‘The origins of the earldom of Lennox’
  • Mon 3 Dec 2012: The Angus Matheson Lecture – Joseph Falaky Nagy (University of California, Los Angeles), Title tbc.
  • 11 Dec 2012: Launch of Alan Macquarrie’s An Index of Scottish Saints and Christmas drinks