Semester 3
Tuesday 18 May 2010 [*3]
Semester 2
Tuesday 12 January 2010 [*3]
Dr Dagmar Schlueter (Celtic and Gaelic, Glasgow): 'Museum or Filing Cabinet? The case of the Book of Leinster'
The seminar will take place in room 202, 3 University Gardens
Tuesday 19 January 2010 [*9]
Nathan Gray (Scottish History, Glasgow): ‘Making to Themselves Friends of the Mammon of Unrighteousness’:
The Development of the Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge
Tuesday 26 January 2010 [*9]
Elizabeth Boyle (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge): The body and the blood: Eucharistic doctrine in medieval Ireland
Tuesday 2 February 2010 [*3]
Sarah Erskine (History and Celtic & Gaelic, Glasgow): The Enigma of St Patrick's Corporeal Relics: Early Medieval Texts and Contexts
Tuesday 9 February 2010
Sheila Kidd (Celtic & Gaelic, Glasgow): The Rise and Fall of the Early Secular Gaelic Periodical Press, 1829–1845
Tuesday 16 February 2010 [*3]
David Parson (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth): Which Norsemen and which Gaels?
Some new thoughts on the 'inversion-compound' place-names of north-west England
Tuesday 23 February 2010 [*9]
Joint seminar with the Scottish Church History Society
Rachel Butter (Celtic & Gaelic, Glasgow): The Lost Churches of Glassary Parish
Tuesday 2 March 2010 [*9]
Catriona Gray (History and Celtic & Gaelic, Glasgow) [tba]
Semester 1
Tuesday, 6 October 2009 [*9]
Dauvit Broun and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (Glasgow)
Ralph de Diceto’s recension of the Genealogy of the King of Scots: The challenge of editing and the transmission of Gaelic names
Tuesday, 13 October 2009 [*3]
Professor Richard Fawcett (St Andrews)
Looking for medieval architecture in the parish churches of Dunblane and Dunkeld dioceses
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 [*3]
Professor Eric Richards (Flinders University, Australia)
Scourie: Famine, Emigration and Malthus, 1841-55
Tuesday, 27 October & Tuesday, 3 November [tbc]
Tuesday, 10 November 2009 [*9]
Simon Innes (Celtic and Gaelic, Glasgow)
Local Piety in Medieval Highland Perthshire
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 [*9]
Matthew McDowell (Scottish History, Glasgow)
Early Scottish football and the workplace, 1865-1902
Tuesday, 24 November 2009 [*3]
BOOK LAUNCH: THE PLACE-NAMES OF FIFE, vols 2 & 3
Preceded by a seminar by Simon Taylor [tbc]
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
The 4th Annual ANGUS MATHESON MEMORIAL LECTURE
Dr Mary-Ann Constantine (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth)
Wales, Scotland and the ‘Celtic’ voice in Romantic-era Britain
Dr Constantine is a distinguished speaker, well known for her eloquent and innovative research in such publications as Breton Ballads (Aberystwyth, 1996); [with Gerald Porter] Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: from the Blues to the Baltic(Oxford, 2003) and The Truth Against the World: Iolo Morganwg and Romantic Forgery (Cardiff, 2007), and numerous articles and pamphlets. She is currently leader of the AHRC-funded project 'Wales and the French Revolution'.
The Lecture will take place in the Hunterian Art Gallery Lecture Theatre at 6pm. Tea/coffee will be served outside the lecture theatre from 530pm and there will be a wine reception after the lecture, in 3 University Gardens.