Centre for Scottish Culture Blog

Robert Burns, ‘A Red, Red Rose’

O my Luve’s like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve’s like the melodie That’s sweetly play’d in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I: And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry: Till a’ the seas

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Devolution and Global Governance

In partnership with the Scottish Centre for Global History, the Centre for Scottish Culture will begin a new postgraduate programme in September 2014. The MLitt in Devolution and Global Governance follows on from Dundee’s successful 5 Million Questions project and will expand on the lessons learned, and the questions still to be answered, from the

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Dr Daniel Cook at the 10th International Scott Conference

Dr Daniel Cook, Lecturer in English at Dundee and Associate Director of the Centre for Scottish Culture, has been invited to chair and participate in a Plenary Panel on ‘Reading The Lay of the Last Minstrel‘, along with J.H.Alexander, Gillian Hughes, Susan Oliver, Ainsley McIntosh, Alison Lumsden, and John Patrick Pazdziora. The Panel will be

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Scottish History Society Prize

The Scottish History Society is pleased to announce that its annual Postgraduate Prize is now open. This prize, of £350, is awarded for the best transcription with historical introduction by a postgraduate student, and the winning entry will be considered for publication in a subsequent SHS miscellany volume. The deadline for submissions is 15 August

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Waverley at 200

In order to launch The Centre for Scottish Culture, on 22 March 2014 we hosted Waverley at 200, a one-day symposium in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sir Walter Scott’s debut novel. We brought together prominent speakers from across Scotland working in a range of disciplines, such as Literature, Scottish History,

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reid

red, adj. comparative mair reid; superlative maist reid As early as the 15th century, criminals in Scotland were being “apprehendit  with the redhand”. It is not until the 19th century that Walter Scott used the form “red-handed” . The redness of the legs caused by exposure to the elements gave rise to the name redshanks.

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‘To Any Reader’

By Robert Louis Stevenson As from the house your mother sees You playing round the garden trees, So you may see, if you will look Through the windows of this book, Another child, far, far away, And in another garden, play. But do not think you can at all, By knocking on the window, call

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Rethinking Arts and the Highlands

Tuesday 15th April 2014,  6-7pm The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum, Meadowside, Dundee DD1 1DA Rethinking Arts and the Highlands With Prof Murdo MacDonald, University of Dundee www.dundeeartscafe.co.uk The Scottish Highlands have given rise to one of the great oral, literary and musical cultures of the world, but the visual aspect of that Gaelic

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Waverley 200

The Centre for Scottish Culture proudly presents a one-day symposium in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sir Walter Scott’s debut novel, Waverley. We have brought together prominent speakers in a range of disciplines, such as Literature, Scottish History, the History of the Book, Art History, and Politics. More details, including the

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CFP: Revolutions in Eighteenth-Century Sociability

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) &  Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS) 15-18 October 2014 Hôtel Delta Montreal, 475 President-Kennedy Avenue Montreal, Quebec Social cohesion and harmony are based largely on sociability, a form of ‘soft’ police referring to the capacity of individuals to interact, communicate, and live together without the ongoing intervention of a

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