A special event hosted by Greenock Burns Club, Saturday 1 July.

Greenock Burns Club are delighted that the following distinguished speakers will be contributing to this special event.

  • Professor Gerard Carruthers – (Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow) and a Co-Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies. “Editing Robert Burns for the Twenty First Century”
  • Kevin Gallagher (Shaw Scholar, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow). “There are no facts, only interpretations”: Burns and Scottish Modernism”.
  • Moira Hansen (Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Doctoral Scholar, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow). “More akin to the crying than the laughing philosopher”: melancholic dialogue in the correspondence of Robert Burns and Frances Dunlop”


Admission £5.00 payable at the door - (includes tea/coffee/sandwiches/biscuits)

For more details and to book, please click here: Greenock event

First published: 1 July 2017

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