News & Events
Seminars
This page will be updated with upcoming events held by the Centre. Our seminar series spans both semesters, and showcases new research and studies across disciplines. Please check back here for more information as the year progresses. For details of past events, please click the link to the right.
Our seminars are now being delivered in-person, with the intention of having an online (via Zoom)/hybrid component.
Everyone is welcome!
2022-23 Seminar Series
Seminars for 2022/23 will be held in person, with a view to providing hybrid (online) options as often as we can.
More information on how to register for these events (on Eventbrite) will be updated here in due course.
Semester 2
All events take place at 5.30pm, in St Andrews Building Room 227, unless otherwise stated. Named lectures (Dalrymple, Matheson, Muir, Durkan) will be held in larger venues, TBC.
10 January 2023 | Scottish History
Dr Matthew Hammond
Rethinking 'native' landholding in east central Scotland, 1100-1300
17 January 2023 | Scottish History
Dr Rebecca Mason
Coercion or consent?: women navigating the law of property in early modern Scotland
31 January 2023 | Scottish Literature
Alexander Linklater
Antagonist: the life behind Hugh MacDiarmid
7 February 2023 | Archaeology
Dr Kenny Brophy
Digging the Festival - the Archaeology of Glasgow Garden Festival
7 March 2023 | Archaeology
Dr Stephen Mullen
Archaeological Sites and Imperial Wealth in 19th-century Scotland
14 March 2023 | Celtic & Gaelic
Dr Fangzhe Qui
Intertextual networks and reproduction of law: lessons learned from late medieval Irish legal digests
23 March 2023 | Scottish Literature and Celtic & Gaelic
John Purser, Prof Alan Riach, and Dr Alasdair Whyte
Translated Accounts: Music and Poetry in Gaelic and English in Praise of Ben Dorain and The Birlinn of Clanranald
Associated event: a Conference in Honour of Professor Alexander Broadie
‘The Vital Spark: Alexander Broadie and the Scottish intellectual tradition’
14 April 2023, in the Ogilvie Room (526), St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow
Please confirm your attendance by emailing Philip.Tonner@glasgow.ac.uk
18 April 2023 | Celtic & Gaelic
Various speakers
Roundtable - Galloway: The Lost Province of Gaelic Scotland
Semester 1 (past)
4 October 2022
Dr Andrew Mackillop
Welcome event
11 October 2022 | Archaeology
Prof Stephen Driscoll
New Work on the Govan Stones Project
18 October 2022 | Scottish Literature
Dr Craig Lamont
Editing Scottish Texts: from Ramsay to Haynes
1 November 2022 | Celtic & Gaelic
Rody Gorman
Village Verse in Lockdown and a Ceilidh on the Prairie
8 November 2022 | Scottish Literature
Prof Gerard Carruthers
One Night in Paisley 1822 [film] & book launch: 1820: Scottish Rebellion, essays on a nineteenth-century insurrection
14-17 November 2022* | Archaeology | Dalrymple Lectures
Prof Lin Foxhall
Polity to Polis: the development of Greek Communities
* 14-16 November 2022 Lectures begin 6.30pm; 17 November 2022 Lecture begins 7.30pm
22 November 2022 | Scottish History
Dr Pamela Nzabampema
Professor Dudley J. Medley: Empire, Race and the politics of History at Glasgow University
(online only)
29 November 2022 | Scottish History
Dr Stephen Mullen
Book launch with round table: The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838
6 December 2022 | Celtic & Gaelic | Matheson Lecture
Prof Clare Downham
‘Arise, oh handsome valiant host!’ Munster, Limerick and the Hebrides, c. 950-1150