Category: Seminars
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Exciting Success at the UHI Institute for Northern Studies Islands Matter OCEAN Workshop!
The recent Islands Matter OCEAN Workshop hosted by the UHI Institute for Northern Studies has been celebrated as a brilliant success! Participants engaged in dynamic discussions and shared innovative ideas, highlighting the vital role islands play in our world today. The collaboration and enthusiasm displayed throughout the event truly made…
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Mapping Identities Workshop a Great Success
The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, together with our collaborative partners from the National Library of Scotland and Landscape Research Group, held the first in a series of three Mapping Identities workshops on Friday 25th April 2025. This project, funded through the generous support of…
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Institute for Northern Studies Summer Course 2025
The Birth of Scotland: Celtic & Viking Legacies in the Forging of a New Kingdom Following 2024’s successful summer course, the Institute for Northern Studies Viking and Early Medieval Studies (VEMS) is delighted to announce our summer course for 2025: The Birth of Scotland. The course is residential and will…
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Community Seminar Series Begins Afresh for 2024
In collaboration with Culture Perth and Kinross, the Institute for Northern Studies has created a programme of public lectures and seminars for 2024-25 that are open to the community in the Perth area. The exciting programme has proved to be very popular. It brings seminars and talks to members of…
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‘The Convention for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Resistance, Challenge, Opportunity’ Professor Mairéad NicCraith, Institute for Northern Studies
As part of the INS Public Seminar Series Professor Mairéad NicCraith will present ‘The Convention for the Protection of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: Resistance, Challenge, Opportunity’ was on the 11 May 2022. Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is an umbrella term used to describe living or dynamic traditions from stories to…
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‘Shining a Light Over History: Vikarvet Antiquities Association and the Use of History in Bohuslän’ with Dr Thomas Småberg
As part of the INS Public Seminar Series Dr Thomas Småberg presented ‘Shining a Light Over History: Vikarvet Antiquities Association and the Use of History in Bohuslän’ on the 21 April at 7pm. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century was a period of constructed national identities throughout Europe. Nationalism…
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‘Shetland in the Sagas: Invisible or Hidden?’ with Brian Smith, Shetland Archives
As part of the INS Public Seminar Series Brian Smith from Shetland Archives presented ‘Shetland in the Sagas: Invisible or Hidden?’ on the 31 March at 7pm. On St Magnus Day in 1914 Alfred W. Johnston gave a presidential address to the 22nd annual meeting of the Viking Society. ‘Notices…
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Islands Matter Webinar ‘Shetland: A fishy tale’ by Dr John Goodlad
The Islands Matter webinars are the result of a collaboration between Dr Andrew Jennings Institute for Northern Studies UHI, Professor Frank Rennie Lews Castle College UHI and Dr Beth Mouat Shetland UHI. This series of webinars was set up to address the hunger in the Scottish islands to hear from…
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Islands Matter Webinar ‘Women in Manx Politics: Small island democracy?’
The Islands Matter webinars are the result of a collaboration between Dr Andrew Jennings Institute for Northern Studies UHI, Professor Frank Rennie Lews Castle College UHI and Dr Beth Mouat Shetland UHI. This series of webinars was set up to address the hunger in the Scottish islands to hear from…
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‘The Ministry and Magic in Early Modern Orkney’ with Prof Peter Marshall, University of Warwick
This paper explores practices and attitudes around access to supernatural power in early modern Orkney, from the later sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth. It seeks to ask what parish ministers thought of the persistence of magical beliefs within their congregations, and also what people in those congregations…
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