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 2025-26
Our seminars are free and will take place in a hybrid format (online and in person). Please book on Eventbrite.
Unless otherwise stated, all events take place in the Boyd Orr, LT 412, at 5.30pm.
23 September | Welcome event
Co-directors and subject heads bring in the new academic year with a welcome social. This event will take place in the Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens. All welcome. In-person only.
30 September 2025 | Kelvin Wheelies: the archaeology of Glasgow's Skateboarding Heritage
Dr Kenny Brophy (University of Glasgow)
7 October 2025 | Sirens, Mermaids and Divers: Exploring murdhúchann in Medieval Literature and Gaelic Dialects
Prof Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (University of Glasgow)
14 October 2025 | Round table on The Caledoniad
Roundtable: Dr Catriona M M Macdonald (author, University of Glasgow); Prof Dauvit Broun (chair, University of Glasgow); Prof Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow); Dr Ewen Cameron (University of Glasgow); Dr Julie Holder (National Museums of Scotland)
21 October 2025 | Zachary Boyd’s Books: Recovering a Seventeenth Century Scottish Library
Prof Adrian Streete (University of Glasgow)
4 November 2025 | The Archaeology of Squatting: North East Scotland and Wales
Dr Jeff Oliver (University of Aberdeen)
11 November 2025 | 'As changeable as language itself': Makaring / Bàrding, Gaelic poetry and Scotland
Dr Peter Mackay (University of St Andrews and Makar)
18 November 2025 | The 1725 Glasgow Malt Tax Riots
Kajsa Varjonen (Abo Akademi University)
25 November 2025 | Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency and Its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
Leonie Jungen (Visiting Scholar in the School of Critical Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU))
2 December 2025 | Gaelic in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | The Matheson Lecture
Prof Will Lamb (University of Edinburgh)
16 December 2025 | Christmas Social Event
For all involved at the Centre. This event will take place in the Humanities Research Hub, 1 University Gardens. All welcome. In-person only.
13 January 2026 | The Sailor King: Causley, Clemo, and the poetics of a Cornish Archaeology
Dr Gareth Beale (University of Glasgow)
20 January 2026 | The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval Wales
Dr Luciana Cordo-Russo (University of Bristol)
27 January 2026 | Whither Highland History
Holley McCoy, Gemma Smith, Ryan Dziadowiec
3 February 2026 | That 'circle of chosen friends, for whom alone they are design'd': Social Authorship and Scottish Women's Writing
Dr Ainsley McIntosh (University of Aberdeen)
10 February 2026 | The Stone of Destiny Project
Prof Sally Foster (University of St Andrews)
24 February 2026 | 'A composition rather unskilfully put together'?: Shifting Perspective and Narrative Unreliability in Cath Maige Léna
Dr Brigid Ehrmantraut (University of St Andrews)
3 March 2026 | Late Modern Material Culture in Scottish History
Dr Sonny Angus (University of Glasgow)
10 March 2026 | The Worm Queen Turns: Helen Adam (1909-1993) from Dundee Manse to California Coven
Dr Corey Gibson (University of Glasgow)
17 March 2026 | The Durkan Lecture (title TBC)
Dr Amy Blakeway
28 May 2026 | CSCS PGR Conference
CSCS Grants
For the year 2025-26, CSCS is offering Seedcord funding (up to £500) and Major Grants (up to £1000). Applicants must belong to the School of Humanities or the School of Critical Studies. Application forms can be downloaded below:
