September 2016

Scottish Identity through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Event date: 
Thursday 14 April 2016
Location: 
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

RSE Susan Manning Workshop.

Programme:

14.00 Registration
14.15 Welcome

Panel 1: Literary and Musical Traditions

14.30 Ralph McLean: ‘Literary Symbols: Language and style in the 1707 Union debates’
14.55 Vivien Williams: 'From bagpipe to fiddle, flute, piano, and poetry: piobaireachd experiments'
15.20 Discussion

Panel 2: Nostalgia and Progress

Aurangzeb Haneef: Sufyān al-Thawrī and the Early Qur’anic Exegesis: A Historical and Textual Study

Event date: 
Wednesday 13 April 2016
Location: 
Room 2.39, 50 George Square

LLC Work in Progress Seminar

Wednesday 13 April 2016
17:30-18:30
Room 2.39, 50 George Square

 

Our final LLC Work in Progress Seminar of the semester will take place this Wednesday the 13th, when IMES PhD candidate Aurangzeb Haneef will present his paper "Sufyān al-Thawrī and the Early Qur'anic Exegesis: A Historical and Textual Study".

Since it's the end of the semester, the presentation and discussion will be followed by an informal reception including wine, non-alcoholic beverages (including our customary tea), and nibbles!