Professor Richard Wyn Jones
Home Institution: Cardiff University
Project: England: The Rebirth of a Political Community
Dates: October - December 2016
Home Institution: Cardiff University
Project: England: The Rebirth of a Political Community
Dates: October - December 2016
October 2016 to July 2017
Bio - Michael Carroll holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge, having submitted his thesis ‘Metaphor in action: the creation of meaning in Aeschylean tragedy’ in September 2014. His main research interests are in archaic and classical Greek poetry, literary style (especially metaphor), and cognitive approaches to literature.
Performing cognition: world construction in Pindar's odes
Celtic and Scottish Studies Research Seminars
Fridays 1.10-2.30 pm
Room G.05, 50 George Square
2 December
Dr Catherine Swift (University of Limerick): Early Irish migrations to Scotland - Difficulties, Debates and DNA
Celtic and Scottish Studies Research Seminars
Fridays 1.10-2.30 pm
Room G.05, 50 George Square
25 November
Bob Pegg: Confessions of a Reformed Folk Singer
Celtic and Scottish Studies Research Seminars
Fridays 1.10-2.30 pm
Room G.05, 50 George Square
18 November
Dr Natasha Sumner (University of Harvard): Fionn mac Cumhaill in Gaelic Folklore
Celtic and Scottish Studies Research Seminars
Fridays 1.10-2.30 pm
Room G.05, 50 George Square
11 November
Sue King – Evenings of Wonder – Circus Stories from the Isle of Man in the Nineteenth Century
Celtic and Scottish Studies Research Seminars
Fridays 1.10-2.30 pm
Room G.05, 50 George Square
4 November
He Qianwei (University of Edinburgh): 爱尔兰 & Seiria, from ‘the Island of Love’ to ‘the Land of Silk’: issues in translating Kuno Meyer's Selections from Ancient Irish Poetry into Chinese
Celtic and Scottish Studies Research Seminars
Fridays 1.10-2.30 pm
Room G.05, 50 George Square
28 October
Bill Innes: The Humour of the Bard!: Dòmhnall Ruadh Mac an t-Saoir’s great satirical masterpiece “MacPhàil is MacThòmais”