Friday 29 March
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Charles Wilson (University of Edinburgh): “Simply the best, better than all the rest”: Islanders and their Gaelic dialects.
Friday 8 March
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Dr Margaret Mackay: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Professor Catherine (Rena) Kerrigan.
Meg Bateman, Gerda Stevenson, Christine De Luca, Valerie Gillies and Katherine Campbell celebrate the life and work of Professor Catherine Kerrigan in poetry and song on International Women's Day.
Friday 1 March
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Calum Cameron White (University of Glasgow): John Murdoch, Gaels and the left in Scotland, 1870-1890.
Friday 15 February
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Dr Michelle Foot (University of Edinburgh): The Celtic Revival and Modern Spiritualism in Scotland: fairies, witches and haunted landscapes.
Friday 8 February
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Dr Aonghas MacCoinnich (University of Glasgow): Dà dhàn “ùr” o Dhùthaich MhicAoidh, 1608, 1614. (in Gaelic)
Wednesday 30 January
1.10pm, Room 2.12, Appleton Tower
Dr Natalia Kaloh Vid (University of Maribor): Ideological Shifts in Soviet Translations of Robert Burns’s Poetry.
Friday 25 January
1.10pm, Project Room, 50 George Square.
Prof. Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh): What Survives of the “Real” John MacLean, ‘Bàrd Thighearna Chola’, in the Oral Tradition?
We are delighted to announce that the first SEXES event of 2019 will take place on Monday 28 January, 6pm in the Hunter lecture theatre (Hunter building, Edinburgh College of Art). Gary Needham (University of Liverpool) will be giving a seminar on gay cinema after queer theory. There will be a q&a afterwards, and all are welcome. This is not one to be missed - Gary is a wonderfully engaging and knowledgable speaker, and we're very pleased to have snagged him for our inaugural event.
The first FRIED seminar of semester 2 will take place on Thursday January 24th in the 1st Floor Practice Suite of the Chrystal Macmillan Building. I am delighted to announce that our speaker will be Dr Anna Chadwick of the University of Glasgow.