News & Forthcoming Events

News & Events Archive

News & Forthcoming Events

News & Events Archive

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Uchida Go - Friday 15th February 2019 , Room 308, 5 Lilybank Gardens

Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:32:00 GMT

Creative Writing at University of Glasgow is delighted to welcome Uchida Go to read and talk about their work.

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Call For Papers - The Third World Congress of Scottish Literatures - Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 24-28 June 2020

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:20:00 GMT

The Third World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, 24-28 June 2020.

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The Martin Niemöller Scholarship

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 13:02:00 GMT

The German Speaking Congregation in Glasgow are pleased to offer awards of £500 for students originating from German speaking countries.

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Greatest Glasgow Award for The Centre For Robert Burns Studies

Wed, 30 Jan 2019 11:19:00 GMT

The Centre for Robert Burns Studies has been selected as one of the Winners of the Greatest Glasgow Awards for the 2019 Best Glasgow Robert Burns Locations.

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Professor Louise Welsh wins the Most Inspiring Saltire Society Scottish First Book Award

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:20:00 GMT

'The Cutting Room' voted the most inspirational debut Scottish novel of the last 30 years

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Gaelic Language Class (Introductory Level)for University Staff - 9 weeks, 23/01/19 - 20/03/19, 17:15

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:24:00 GMT

A free Gaelic language course for University of Glasgow staff.

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Call For Papers - Queen Victoria’s Contemporaries: Born In 1819 - Deadline of 10th March 2019

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:55:00 GMT

We invite proposals of 150-200 words for 10-minute papers for Queen Victoria’s Contemporaries: Born In 1819, Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies and BAVS workshop

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Creative Conversations: Novelist Jacob Ross - Monday, 18/02/19, 13:00 - 14:00

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:41:00 GMT

We welcome novelist, short story writer, editor and creative writing tutor Jacob Ross to out Creative Conversations. We start at 1pm as usual in the University of Glasgow Chapel. All welcome.

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: DALRYMPLE LECTURES (GLASGOW ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY), Gavin Lucas - 18-21/02/19, 6:30pm

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:43:00 GMT

‘The Archaeology of Time’

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Dr Menashe Anzi (Ben Gurion University) - Wednesday, 20/02/19, 4.00-5.30

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:51:00 GMT

From Yemen to India and Back: Jewish Immigration and Knowledge Flows

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Creative Conversations: Poet Sophie Collins - Monday, 25/02/19, 13:00 - 14:00

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:55:00 GMT

Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. We start at 1pm as usual in the University of Glasgow Chapel. All welcome.

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Calum MacLeod and Agnes Rennie, 26/02/19, 5:30pm

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:05:00 GMT

Island Cultures; Island Heritage; Island Futures

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Dr Doug Gay (Lecturer in Practical Theology) - Wednesday, 27/02/19, 4.00-5.30

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:50:00 GMT

Rethinking Reformed Aesthetics: Reforming the Sensorium

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Creative Conversations: Writer Angus Peter Campbell / Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul - Monday, 04/03/19, 13:00 - 14:00

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:07:00 GMT

As part of the on-going Creative Conversation speaker series poet and novelist Angus Peter Campbell comes to campus to chat about his writing. It all starts at 1pm, so bring your lunch and burning questions!

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Fantasy and the Anthropocene: From Gilgamesh to the Ruins of Ymr - March 4th 2019 at 5:30pm

Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:59:00 GMT

The last of 5 public lectures by Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Fantasy, Brian Attebery (Idaho State University) at Glasgow University.

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Steve Murdoch, 05/03/19, 5:30pm

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:52:00 GMT

Preparation and Propaganda: Building the Army of the Covenant 1633-1639

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Prof Todd D. Still (Baylor University) - Wednesday, 6/03/19, 4.00-5.30

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:20:00 GMT

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Creative Conversations: Poet Nadine Aisha Jassat - Monday, 11/03/19, 13:00 - 14:00

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:19:00 GMT

As part of the on-going Creative Conversation speaker series poet Nadine Aisha Jassat comes to campus to chat about her writing. Everything starts at 1pm, so bring your lunch and burning questions!

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Sarah Künzler, 12/03/19, 5:30pm

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 16:09:00 GMT

A place in the Dún: Place-making in early Gaelic texts

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Kristy Whaley (Theology and Religious Studies) and Meg MacDonald (Anglia Ruskin) - Wednesday, 13/03/19, 4.00-5.30

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:27:00 GMT

Title: TBC

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Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica in Conversation with Louise Welsh - 14/03/19, 18:00 – 19:00

Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:51:00 GMT

Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica will be reading and discussing her work with Louise Welsh in The Bute Hall - Tickets are free

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Creative Conversations: Writer Andrew O'Hagan - Monday, 18/03/19, 13:00 - 14:00

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:42:00 GMT

As part of the on-going Creative Conversation speaker series novelist and essayist Andrew O’Hagan comes to campus to chat about his writing.

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: JOHN DURKAN MEMORIAL LECTURE - 19/03/19, 5pm

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:26:00 GMT

JOHN DURKAN MEMORIAL LECTURE - Jane Dawson, Three Coronations and a Union

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Prof Glen Pettigrove (Chair of Moral Philosophy) - Wednesday, 20/03/19, 4.00-5.30

Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:49:00 GMT

Righteous Anger

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Our Space, Our Place: Creating Ecofeminism - Glasgow Women’s Library, 30/3/19 10am-4pm

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 14:40:00 GMT

Our Space, Our Place: Creating Ecofeminism, a partnership between researchers at universities across Scotland and Glasgow Women’s Library.

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Archaeology Workshop - 16/04/19, (time, date & venue - TBC)

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:59:00 GMT

Topographies and Archaeologies of Finn and Fingal (E FitzPatrick and Nigel Leask)

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Gaelic learning, Nicola Carty - 23/04/19, 5:30pm

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:38:00 GMT

Developing a world-class resource for Gaelic learning and teaching

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Barry Lewis - 30/04/19, 5:30pm

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:12:00 GMT

Narratives of Early British Christianity in Jocelin's 'Life of St Kentigern' and Other 12th-century Texts

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Christopher A Whatley - 07/05/19, 5:30pm

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:28:00 GMT

Pabay: Skye's Islands of Revelations

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Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies: Linden Bicket - 14/05/19, 5:30pm

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:48:00 GMT

"Rhythms and Images and Legends Are Everywhere" - George Mackay Brown's Orkney

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Queen Victoria’s Contemporaries: Born In 1819 - Friday 17th May 2019, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:55:00 GMT

Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies and BAVS workshop Keynotes: Dr Trev Broughton (University of York) on contemporaneity among Victoria’s Victorians, and Dr Gregory Tate (St Andrews) on Arthur Hugh Clough.

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Scots Syntax Atlas Data Hack - 10-11/6/19

Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:20:00 GMT

This 2-day data hack offers postgraduate students the first opportunity to work with the Scots Syntax Atlas, a major new online resource for the study of language use across time and space.

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Beastly Modernisms - September 12-13, 2019

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:19:00 GMT

Building on the foundational work on animals and modernism by Carrie Rohman, Margot Norris, Kari Weil, Derek Ryan and others, Beastly Modernisms invites papers on animals and all aspects of modernist culture.