News & Events
2021-22 Seminar Series
Our seminars are delivered online (via Zoom) and everyone is welcome!
Should COVID protocols allow, we may move to hybrid delivery, with a limited audience on campus: if so, updates will be delivered via the Centre email lists and twitter.
Please register on Eventbrite for any/all of these events
Semester 1
Tuesday 28 September 2021
Film Premiere: 'Air fhògair is air fhalbhan (Exiles and Vagabonds)'
Brittnee Leysen, Viki Marker, Alasdair Whyte
Tuesday 5 October 2021
Online Welcome Event, 5.30pm (Glasgow University staff and students only).
Tuesday 19 October 2021
‘Rewriting Football History from the Ground Up’
Ged O’Brien
Tuesday 2 November 2021
'Representing the People? Disenchantment and democracy in Scottish politics during the 1960s and 1970s'
Malcolm Petrie
Tuesday 9 November 2021
'The Poet, the Unprincipled Prostitute and the Perjured Blockhead’'
Kevin Gallagher
Tuesday 23 November 2021
Book Launch: Human Capital and Empire: Scotland, Ireland, Wales and British Imperialism in Asia, c.1690-c.1820" by Andrew Mackillop, with special guests, Stephen Mullenb and Corinne Fowler
Semester 2
11 January 2022, 5.30pm
Máire Ni Mhaonaigh
‘Ordering History and Chronicling the Past: A Medieval Irish Approach’
1 February 2022, 5.30pm
A joint seminar with the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies
David Alston
‘Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean’
8 February 2022, 5.30pm
Rhys Kaminski-Jones
'A real picture of the old Britons'?: Eighteenth-century Welsh Receptions of ‘North American ‘Indians’’
29 March 2022, 5.30pm: Annual John Durkan Memorial Lecture
Alasdair A. Macdonald
‘"You gave me rules, I give you rhymes again": Scottish poets and the Union of the Crowns’