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Alec Lawrence Macfie (1898-1980), Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at the University from 1945 to 1958, is commemorated in the name of the Bonar-Macfie Chair of Political Economy. His collection of 19-20C Scottish art was donated to the Hunterian Museum.
Macfie was born in Glasgow, served in the First World War and then studied at the University. In 1930 he became lecturer in Political Economy and then held the Adam Smith Chair from 1945 until he retired in 1958. He was Dean of Faculties, 1974-1978 and was awarded an LLD in 1959.
The James Bonar Chair of Economics was renamed the Bonar-Macfie Chair of Political Economy in 1990.
From more information please see: http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0079&type=P.
Sociology Seminar 12 October 2011
Carin Runciman: 'The Meanings of Mobilisation: Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in Post Apartheid South Africa'
CSSTM Day School Saturday 15 October 2011
Teach-In on The Financial Crisis, Higher Education and Academic Freedom
Sociology Seminar 24 October 2011
Drs Odd Lindberg & Anders Bruhn: 'Sub Cultural Division among Swedish Prison Officers'
Sociology Seminar 9 November 2011
Dr Sian Moore: 'Restoring Political Subjectivity – interest and identity formation in trade union activism'
CSSTM Seminar Tuesday 6 December 2011
David Archibald & Nick McKerrell: 'The Trials of Tommy Sheridan'
Sociology Seminar - 7 December 2011
Prof Andrew Hoskins: 'Media and Memory after the Connective Turn'
Sociology Seminar Wed 11 Jan 2012
Professor Yvette Taylor: Fitting into place? ‘Public sociology’ and ‘city publics’
CSSTM Seminar Tuesday 7 February 2012
Andrew Cumbers: 'Reclaiming Public Ownership: making space for economic democracy'
Sociology Seminar Wed 8 February 2012
Professor Lucia Zedner: 'Preventing Terrorism: The priority of prosecution and the perversion of criminal justice'
CSSTM Seminar Tuesday 14 February 2012
Deborah Bryceson: 'For Richer, For Poorer: Sexuality, Prostitution and Marriage in East African Artisanal Gold Mining Settlements'
Sociology Seminar Wed 16 February 2012
Dr José Lingna Nafafé: 'Europe and Africa Relations: Beyond Wilberforce’s Experiment in Abolitionism, Unfree Labour and the Market'
David Frisby Memorial Lecture Wed 22 February 2012
Prof Richard Sennett: 'The Public Realm, a Century after Simmel'
Sociology & CSSTM Seminar Wednesday 29 February
Prof John Holmwood: 'Knowledge regimes, public higher education and the future of the social sciences'
Sociology Seminar Wed 7 March 2012
Dr Tony Simpson: 'Masculinities and HIV/AIDS in Zambia: A Role for Anthropology?'
CSSTM Seminar Tuesday 13 March 2012
Thomas Munck: 'Political Culture and Print before and during the French Revolution'