The Roots and Fruits of Scotland’s Global History
Murry Pittock is a well known, leading Scottish historian and public intellectual. His work spans a wide area of topics including literature, history, art history, politics, and virtual/extended reality (VR/XR). In this thought-provoking lecture, he will be examining the influence of Scotland through time and around the world. His work in this area has been described a ‘spectacularly panoramic and sweeping (William Dalrymple), recording ‘the ebb and flow of Scotland’s International experience with panache’ (Guardian).
224th Lecture Series Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Date: Wednesday 28 January 2026
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Venue: Charles Wilson Building, Lecture Theatre 201
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Professor Murray Pittock
Since 2007, Murray Pittock has been Bradley Professor at the University of Glasgow and successively Dean, Vice-Principal and Pro Vice Principal at the University. In 2022, he was declared Scotland’s Knowledge Exchange Champion of the Year. Murray’s academic work, in the words of a recent UK Research and Innovation report, is ‘world-leading and field-defining’, reflected in some 30 books: most recently, Scotland: the Global History. In 2023, he was a senior member of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies Queen’s Anniversary Prizewinning team and author of the only economic impact study of a single writer in the UK; he is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Member of Academia Europaea and has been awarded or shortlisted for numerous prizes.