The Hunterian Weekly Talk Series - Old Ways New Roads
The Hunterian Weekly Talk Series - Old Ways New Roads
The Hunterian Weekly Talk Series | College of Arts
Date: Tuesday 16 February 2021 - Tuesday 30 March 2021
Time: 13:00 - 13:30
Venue: Zoom
Category: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Speaker: Various
Website: www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/virtualexhibitions/oldwaysnewroads/
Old Ways New Roads, both the exhibition and the publication, takes us on a journey around many of Scotland’s best-known locations, following in the footsteps of 18th-century travellers.
Join us on Tuesday at 1pm via Zoom for the weekly talk series.
16 February
Anne Dulau Beveridge, Curator at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
An Introduction to Old Ways New Roads
23 February
John Bonehill, Lecturer in Art History, University of Glasgow
Mapping the landscape: Paul Sandby's 'View near Loch Rannoch'
2 March
Mary-Ann Constantine, Reader at the University of Wales, Centre of Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
New Ways with Old Roads – towards digital editions of Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland
9 March
Hugh Cheape, Professor at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, University of the Highlands and Islands
'There's another road near the Highway': the Ethnology of the 'Old Ways' in Gaelic Scotland
16 March
Viccy Coltman, Professor of eighteenth-century History of Art, University of Edinburgh
Portable Knick-knacks or the Material Culture of Travel
23 March
Christina Young, Professor of Conservation and Technical Art History, University of Glasgow
Panoramas and Landscape
30 March
Nigel Leask, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow
Elizabeth Diggle’s ‘Journal of a Tour from London to the Highlands of Scotland’