UHI Events

Looking In From the Edge Public Talk: Trade in the North Atlantic, 1400-1700

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 19:00:00 +0100

Looking In from the Edge is the name of a new research project by a team of archaeologists and historians from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, University of Lincoln and the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, on how emerging economies identified and adapted to opportunities for trade in early modern Europe. This event will comprise five short talks on various aspects of trade in the North Atlantic by the LIFTE Project Team.

Living off the edge: The crisis in late modern ethnolinguistic diversity from the Gaelic perspective (Prof Conchúr Ó Giollagáin)

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:00:00 +0000

This paper draws on findings from the major new research publication, The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community: A comprehensive sociolinguistic survey of Scottish Gaelic. The talk examines two inter-related issues concerning the vitality and societal continuity of Gaelic in Scotland: - the contradiction in more favourable public attention for Gaelic evolving in tandem with a disregard of the crisis in the vernacular community; - the possibility of public policy for Gaelic outliving the Gaelic group

The Lost Township of Broo: Climate Change or Human Agency in a Coastal Sand Disaster?

Fri, 30 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

As part of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute Research series, all are welcome to join this seminar led by Gerry Bigelow. Through the history of the township of Broo in Shetland, which was overwhelmed by sand, the seminar looks as the causes, processes and consequences of geocatastrophe.

What’s in a Name? Why study Onomastics for the sake of Old Norse Mythology? by Professor Stefan Brink

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000

INS online public seminar series - free entry, all welcome! To join this seminar, click on the 'remote access' link, where you will be invited to register. The link will be live from 13.50pm on that day.

"Fraying edges upon the ‘utmost corners of the warld’" (Cait McCullagh) - part of The Edge

Thu, 26 Nov 2020 13:00:00 +0000

This event forms part of a series of monthly seminars as part of the interdisciplinary research programme "The Edge”, which culminates in a two-day conference in December.

Learning from Northern People

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 16:00:00 +0000

As part of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute Research Seminar series, this seminar asks what we can learn from people in the Arctic to help us respond to and survive climate change.

People and plants in Scotland: a contemporary view by Dr Veerle Van den Eynden

Wed, 02 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Let Veerle take you on a plant walk to explore how we use, view and perceive plants and nature. There will be some folklore and history. But above all, she'll show how also today, plants matter in our lives.

"Living on the (knife) edge" (Prof Donna Heddle) - part of The Edge

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000

This event forms part of a series of monthly seminars as part of the interdisciplinary research programme "The Edge”, which culminates in a two-day conference in December.

Viking Boat Burials with Colleen Batey (University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research seminar)

Fri, 11 Dec 2020 16:00:00 +0000

From the massive and rich ship burials found in Scandinavia, to the small rowing boats used in boat burials on Scottish isles, the distinctive Viking burial rite making use of a boat to carry the dead into the next life has always fascinated. Dr Colleen Batey explores the variety of this distinctive burial form with examples from Orkney, Lochaber, the Western Isles and beyond.