2014
Shocking Medicine? - Edwardian electrotherapy devices
Date: 9 December 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Nicky Reeves, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Museum
Robert the Bruce Tomb Visualisation Project
Date: 2 December 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker: Alastair Rawlinson, Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art
Location: Hunterian Museum
The Lost Tomb of Robert the Bruce talk
Object Lessons: Teaching Aid to Museum Piece
Date: 25 November 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker: Rosie Spooner, Hunterian Associate
Location: Hunterian Museum
History, Fiction, Fantasy: The Making of Past Worlds
Date: 18 November 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker: Ioulia Kolovou, Hunterian Associate
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Dunfermline as a Royal Mausoleum
Date: 11 November 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker: Professor Dauvit Broun, Scottish History
Location: Hunterian Museum
The Lost Tomb of Robert the Bruce talk
The biggest crystal in The Hunterian collections
Date: 4 November 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr John Faithfull, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Museum
Colonial Caricatures? The Sculptures of Thomas Ona
Date: 28 October 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker: Rosie Spooner, Hunterian Associate
Location: Hunterian Museum
Black History Month talk
Taking the bite out of Malaria
Date: 21 October 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Heather Ferguson, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
Location: Hunterian Museum
Black History Month talk
Further adventures in Africa
Date: 14 October 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker: Dr Sally Anne Coupar and Monica Callaghan, The HunterianLocation:
Hunterian Museum
Black History Month talk
Crafty Critters
Date: 7 October 2014
Time: 1.00pm
Speaker:Dr Mhairi Stewart, Wellcome Trust Centre For Molecular Parasitology
Location: Hunterian Museum
Malaria Science Showcase and Black History Month talk
Toadstones and tongue stones: fossils as medicines
Date: Tuesday 30 September 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Dr Beverly Bergman, Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
Location: Hunterian Museum
A jigsaw puzzle with most pieces missing: reconstructing the lost tomb of Robert the Bruce
Date: Tuesday 23 September 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Iain Fraser, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Location: Hunterian Museum
Medici Medals: Miniature Art from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Date: Tuesday 16 September 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Sean Kelly, Hunterian Intern
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Malaria: Killer Disease
Date: Tuesday 9 September 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Dr Sonya Taylor, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow
Location: Hunterian Museum
Malaria Science Showcase talk
Begonias by Charles Rennie Mackintosh: a special loan to The Hunterian
Date: Tuesday 2 September 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Professor Pamela Robertson, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
The Blarney Stone and much, much more: the geological microscope slides of Matthew Forster Heddle (1828-1897)
Date: Tuesday 26 August 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Becky Smith, Hunterian Intern
Location: Hunterian Museum
The Lost Tomb of Robert the Bruce
Date: Tuesday 19 August 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Professor David Gaimster, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Museum
These rags and streaks that master us: Edwin Morgan, Joan Eardley and Glasgow street scenes
Date: Tuesday 12 August 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Kirsty Strang, Hunterian Associate
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Down the plughole: bathing with the Romans in Scotland
Date: Tuesday 5 August 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Rachel Pugh, Material Culture and Artefact Studies MLitt student
Location: Hunterian Museum
Twin Peaks: the archaeological story of Dumbarton Rock
Date: Tuesday 29 July 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Dr Sally-Anne Coupar, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Museum
Small Change, Big Games: Roman artefacts demonstrate that coins celebrating games is a very old tradition
Date: Tuesday 22 July 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Jennifer Hilder and Sarah Graham, Hunterian Associates
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
The woman with the veil: The technical analysis of John Duncan Fergusson's 'Le Voile Persan'
Date: 15 July 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Camilla Catania, MLit student, Technical Art History, University of Glasgow
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Bricks, pots, tropical weathering and glaciers: the geology and uses of clay in and round Glasgow
Date: Tuesday 8 July 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Dr John Faithfull, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Museum
Cochrane's Portraits of Anna and William Cullen
Date: 1 July 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Dr Vivien Williams, Hunterian Associate
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Turkey Red: Glasgow’s Colourful Textile History
Date: Tuesday 24 June 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Julie Wertz, Hunterian Associate
Location: Hunterian Museum
Lucy Skaer: Our New Display
Date: Tuesday 17 June 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Mungo Campbell, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Great artists and printmaking in the Renaissance
Date: Tuesday 10 June 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Tom Nichols
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Ancestral Themes in Roman Republican Coinage
Date: Tuesday 3 June 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Henriette Van D Blom, Classics, University of Glasgow
Location: Hunterian Museum
Science Showcase theme talk
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: TBC
Location: Hunterian Museum
Tuesday 20 May 2014
Title and speaker to be confirmed
Venus and victuals
Date: Tuesday 13 May 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Laurence Grove
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Science Showcase theme talk
Date: Tuesday 6 May 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: TBC
Location: Hunterian Museum
What you looking at? Changing attitudes to disability in the Hunterian pathology collections
Date: Tuesday 29 April 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Alexandra Foulds, Hunterian Associate
Location: Anatomy Museum (meet in Anatomy Museum at 1.00pm, or in Hunterian Museum Entrance Hall at 12.50pm)
Making tracks in Dorset: The Hunterian's dinosaur footprints
Date: Tuesday 22 April 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Dr Neil Clark, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Museum
Art and beauty in the Renaissance print
Date: Tuesday 15 April 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: Genevieve Warwick
Location: Hunterian Art Gallery
Henry Smeathman in Sierra Leone, 1771- 1774: collecting insects and colonising
Date: Tuesday 8 April 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Geoff Hancock, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Museum
The good, the bad and the ugly: examples of the taxidermists art from The Hunterian collections
Date: Tuesday 1 April 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Maggie Reilly, Hunterian Museum
Location: Hunterian Museum
Please note, this week's talk has been cancelled:
Marcantonio and the sculptural print
Tuesday 25 March 2014
Animals and isotopes: using carbon and nitrogen in ecology
Date: Tuesday 18 March 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Dr Grant Hopcraft and Dr James Grecian, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
Location: Hunterian Museum
No Insight Talk - 11 March 2014
There will be no Insight Talk this week
Hindle’s hamsters: research at Glasgow and the origins of hamsters as pets
Date:Tuesday 4 March 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Becky Smith, Collections Intern
Location: Hunterian Museum
Fukushima - on narrow roads to the north
Date: Tuesday 25 February 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15 pm
Speaker: Dr Bjoern Seitz, Physics and Astronomy
Location: Hunterian Museum
Roundheads and Cavaliers: coins of the Civil War
Date: Tuesday 18 February 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: Donal Bateson Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Museum
The oldest working mines on Earth – the lapis lazuli of Afghanistan
Date: Tuesday 11 February 2014
Time: 1.00pm – 1.15pm
Speaker: John Faithfull, The Hunterian
Location: Hunterian Museum
From supernovas to icesheets
Date: Tuesday 4 February 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15pm
Speaker: 'Derek Fabel, Geographic and Earth Sciences
Location: Hunterian Museum
Glasgow's isotope nobility - William Ramsay and Frederick Soddy
Date: Tuesday 28 January 2014
Time: 1.00pm - 1.15 pm
Speaker: Fin Stuart, SUERC
Location: Hunterian Museum