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Hello all,
We have decided that from the New Year onwards we will no longer be advertising our events through X.
Instead, keep up to date with centre activities via our new BlueSky profile:
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We look forward to seeing you all in 2026!
❄️A quick reminder for tomorrow's Christmas social! ❄️
Come along to the Humanities Hub at 17:30 for our annual pub quiz and much more!
🎄CSCS Christmas Social alert!🎄
You are all warmly welcomed to the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Christmas social, which will take place from 5.30pm, Tuesday 16 December, in the Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens. Do come along for some festive cheer!
A reminder for this year's Matheson Lecture, taking place tomorrow at 17:30.
Our speaker will be Edinburgh's Prof. William Lamb
covering Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
To book in person/online tickets: eventbrite.com/e/gaelic-in-t…
This week CSCS is joined by Leonie Jungen with her paper entitled 'Tales of a Grandmother' discussing female literary agency and its echoes in scotland’s cultural memory during the age of Scott.
Get your tickets below:
eventbrite.com/e/leonie-jung…
Join us at 17:30 in Boyd Orr 412 with Kajsa Varjonen (Åbo Akedemi University) for a paper on the 1725 Glasgow Malt Tax Riots.
Book online or in person now:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/kajsa-var… eventbrite.co.uk/e/kajsa-var…
Tomorrow evening (17:30) we are joined in Boyd Orr 412 by Dr Peter Mackay with his paper: 'As changeable as language itself': Makaring / Bàrding, Gaelic poetry and Scotland
Tickets are available both in person and online via eventbrite:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-mac…
After a short break we are back! Tomorrow (04/11) we are joined by Aberdeen's Dr Jeff Oliver for a paper on the archaeology of squatting in Scotland and Wales.
Come along to Boyd Orr Room 412 at 17:30 or join us online with a ticket to the zoom call:
eventbrite.com/e/jeff-oliver…
Last minute reminder for tonight's talk from Professor Streete, get your tickets (in person and online) via the link below:
At 17:30 on Tuesday 22 October Professor Adrian Streete will be presenting on the library of Glasgow's own Zachary Boyd.
Left to the University in 1653, join us to uncover the story of this valuable collection, reassembled for the first time.
Tickets:
eventbrite.com/e/adrian-stre…
At 17:30 on Tuesday 22 October Professor Adrian Streete will be presenting on the library of Glasgow's own Zachary Boyd.
Left to the University in 1653, join us to uncover the story of this valuable collection, reassembled for the first time.
Tickets:
eventbrite.com/e/adrian-stre…
Unfortunately this event will no longer be going ahead on 14 October (watch this space for rescheduling)
We will, however be returning on 21 October with Prof Adrian Streete's talk on the library of the seventeenth-century Glaswegian minister and poet Zachary Boyd.
On 14 October CSCS will be hosting a round table on Scottish Historiography with Dr Catriona Macdonald, author of The Caledoniad🏴📚
Also speaking will be Prof Dauvit Broun (chair), Prof Murray Pittock, Prof Ewen Cameron, and Dr Julie Holder
Tickets:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/round-tab…
On 14 October CSCS will be hosting a round table on Scottish Historiography with Dr Catriona Macdonald, author of The Caledoniad🏴📚
Also speaking will be Prof Dauvit Broun (chair), Prof Murray Pittock, Prof Ewen Cameron, and Dr Julie Holder
Tickets:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/round-tab…
Join us this evening at 17:30 in Boyd Orr LT 412 for a talk from Prof Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (University of Glasgow) entitled: Sirens, Mermaids and Divers: Exploring murdhúchann in Medieval Literature and Gaelic Dialects.
CSCS's 25-26 programme is now available at: gla.ac.uk/research/az/scotti… as are Eventbrite in-person & online tickets. The Centre's Welcome Social event will take place on Tuesday 23 September @ 5.30pm in the new Humanities Resesarch Hub in 1 University Gardens. Come along!
Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies retweeted
NEW book: Ì Chaluim Chille: Interdisciplinary Studies on Iona and Columba on the 1500th anniversary of the birth the saint. Fully open access, available here: clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index…
@CelticGaelic @UofGCSCS @UofGArtsHums #Iona #StColumba
On 14 October we are hosting a roundtable discussion on The Caledoniad by our own Catriona Macdonald 📚 save the date!
Meanwhile, have a listen to Catriona in discussion with @NewBooksNetwork, podcast below 👇
newbooksnetwork.com/the-cale…
📢 1 July is the deadline for The Alasdair Ross Prize, which aims to support postgraduate students and early career researchers undertaking archival research on Scottish history and/or environmental history.
Link with details below:
scottishhistorysociety.com/p…
Prof. Jo Guldi (Emory Uni.) will give a seminar on Wed. 11 June 2025, 4-5pm, “The Long Land War: Scotland and Ireland in the longue durée”, in Gilbert Scott 250 Room. Hosted by GU Global History Research Cluster and CSCS. For in person & online tickets:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/jo-guldi-…
Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies retweeted
On 9 July we are hosting a workshop on 'Establishing yourself as a PGR' @UofGlasgow
This event is supported by @sgsah & is open to any PGRs. You don't need to be attending the conference (unless you want to)! For full details see below 😀
Text version: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies retweeted
Less than 2 months to go until the conference 🥳🥳
Registration will be open until **1 June** eventbrite.co.uk/e/understan…
Join us in Glasgow from 9-11 July (or online!) for an amazing line up of speakers and roundtables, plus much more ...
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