The Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies (CSCS) is a vibrant multi-and inter-disciplinary collaboration bringing together academics and postgraduate communities from across the College of Arts & Humanities in the University of Glasgow to focus on research, discussion and collaboration.
Staff associated with the Centre are based primarily in Archaeology, Celtic and Gaelic, English Language, Music, Scottish History and Scottish Literature.
Seminar Programme 2026-27
All events are on Tuesdays.
Seminars are held on Tuesdays from 17.30, in Boyd Orr LT 412
Other events, time and location may vary
To book your free place at our events, please click here.
29 September
Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Welcome Event:
18.00 –20.00, Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens.
(**NOTE time and venue**)
6 October
Hugh Cheape, University of the Highlands and Islands
‘Material Culture and Language: Reconstructing the Past in a West Highland Community’
13 October
Grace Wright, University of Glasgow
‘Women and the Crofters’ War of the 1880s in Gaelic Historical Consciousness’
and
Niall Ingram, University of Glasgow
‘“Chaidh an crodh guailfhionn à suim”: Poetic Symbolism and Lived Experiences of Human-Cattle Relationships in the Nineteenth century Gàidhealtachd’
20 October
Scottish History Postgraduate Research Panel:
Andrew Colquhoun (Scottish History), ‘“To be of some use to my Native Country” - Royalism, Jacobitism, and the political career and writings of John, 6th earl of Mar’
Laura Paton (Scottish Literature), ‘Memory Fabrications: Unweaving the mnemonic warp and weft of the University of Glasgow's Adam Smith Tercentenary tartan’
Scott Macfie (Scottish History), ‘Scotland in Miniature?: Improvement and Clearance on Arran and Bute, 1750-1850’
3 November
Suchitra Choudhury, University of Glasgow
‘Sir Walter Scott and India: Textiles, Trade, and Storytelling’
10 November
Christine Baker, Heritage Office, Fingal County Council, Ireland
‘Romans on the Edge of Empire : New Evidence from Drumanagh, Co. Dublin’
17 November
Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut/University of Edinburgh
‘An early modern Gaelic Atlantic? Centre and periphery in Irish political thought, c.1600-1840’
24 November
Ralph Moffat, Curator of European Arms and Armour, Glasgow Life – Museums, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
‘Who Slew the Duke of Clarence at the Battle of Baugé (22 March 1421)?’
1 December:
Eleanor Bell, University of Glasgow
‘Genetic Approaches to Archie Hind’s The Dear Green Place’
8 December: The 21st Angus Matheson Memorial Lecture
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh, University of Edinburgh
‘Ann an eilean gun cheileir gun cheòl?: Gaelic and the Caribbean’
15 December
Social event (details to follow)
SEMESTER 2, 2027
19 January
Llewelyn Hopwood, Aberystwyth University
‘Where and what was “Ffordd Allt Wyddyl”? Observations on Gaels in medieval Welsh poetry and Britons in medieval Irish prose’
26 January
‘The Scottish Historical Novel, 200 Years On’ (commemorating 200 years since Walter Scott’s admission of authorship of the Waverley Novels)
Andrew Greig, S G MacLean and James Robertson in conversation with Catriona Macdonald (Scottish History)
2 February
Joint meeting with the First Millennia Study Group:
Ewan Campbell, University of Glasgow, ‘The Curious Case of Iona's Missing Golden Chalice’
second speaker tbc
9 February
Arun Sood, Exeter University
‘“The wild banshaw’s melancholy sound”: Sonic Imaginaries in Scotland, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic World’
23 February
to be confirmed
2 March
Clare Frances NicNìll, Glaschu/an t-Eilean Sgitheanach
‘An t-Urr. Uilleam MacMhathain: Ùr-ionnsachadh air seinn san t-seann nòs bho na tasglainn’
Seminar will be in Gaelic with simultaneous translation available.
9 March
Matthew Dziennik, Isle of Skye (formerly Associate Professor in British and Imperial History at the United States Naval Academy)
‘Tom Paine in Gaelic: Language and Rhetoric in Scotland and Ireland, 1789-1815’
16 March
Rhona Brown, University of Glasgow
‘A New Edition of the Works of Robert Fergusson’
23 March The Eleventh Annual John Durkan Memorial Lecture
Theo van Heijnsbergen, University of Glasgow:
‘Capital Culture: Palace Poets, Citizen Scholars and the Merchant Muse in Sixteenth-Century Edinburgh’
Associated Events 2026-27
Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies
Tuesday, 29 September, 4pm, Humanities Hub, 1 University Gardens
Book launch: Portable City: Modern Glasgow's Transatlantic Connections, with Dr Stephen Bowman (Stirling University) and Dr Kieran Taylor (Queen Margaret University)
Centre for Gender History
Monday, 2 November, 1pm
Prof Susan Pedersen (Columbia), ‘Lady Frances and Lady Betty object: the family politics of Women's Suffrage’
Thursday, 5 November, 4pm
Prof Onni Gust (Nottingham), ‘The forger, the parrot and the truth about sex: why the Scottish Enlightenment needs trans studies’
Special Event:
Saturday, 21 November, day conference and celebration
Strathclyde Suite, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle: Hugh MacDiarmid and a Hundred Years of the Scottish Renaissance. Organised by Alexander Linklater and Dr Scott Lyall – look out for more details.
CSCS Grants
The Centre hopes to be able to offer grants as has been the case in recent years. However, we have had a very large budget cut and are currently examining what impact this will have on our capabilities on this front. Stay tuned.