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Second Mapping Identities Workshop Hailed a Success
On Friday 6 June, UHI Orkney welcomed participants in the second Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland workshop on Geography and Cosmology. Like the first workshop, the event was a big success, with academics from across Europe presenting on their research. The papers and resulting discussion provided a bounty of…
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UHI Institute for Northern Studies Well Represented at SIEF Congress
The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies was well-represented at the June 2025 congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), hosted this year by the Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen, with the theme of ‘unwriting’. Ullrich Kockel, (UHI INS) Professor of…
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REMRA Conference was a Resounding Success
Between 11-13 June 2025, University of the Highlands and Islands Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance (REMRA) hosted its first online conference! Joined by over 80 participants, featuring speakers from across Europe, the conference was a huge success. Structured around REMRA’s key research areas – the North Atlantic and Baltic…
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New Book to be Published Shortly – Royalty and Ritual: Landscapes of Power in Early Medieval Scotland and Europe
The ‘Places of Royal Power and Ritual in Early Medieval Scotland and Europe’ project is an interdisciplinary research programme that unites experts from history, archaeology, culture, and heritage disciplines. The project investigates the role of ritual, particularly in relation to the making of kings, in early medieval Scotland. Co-project leads,…
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New Book Launched in the UHI Institute for Northern Studies Hosted North Atlantic World Series
The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is pleased to announce the launch of another book in The North Atlantic World Series. ‘Small Churches and Religious Landscapes in the North Atlantic c900-1300’ is now on sale from the publisher Brepols. The North Atlantic World series of publications is hosted by the…
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Cateran Ecomuseum Cultural Heritage Story Map Launched Following UHI Assessment Report
In 2022 UHI Archaeology Institute and UHI Institute for Northern Studies were awarded grant funding from the University of the Highlands and Islands to undertake a cultural heritage assessment for the Cateran Ecomuseum situated in the area between Strathmore and the southern Cairngorms in Scotland. Professor Alexandra Sanmark and Dr.…
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The 7th International St Magnus Conference Call for Papers
Theme: “Borne on a Carrying Stream”: How Water has Shaped Heritage, Identity and Power The Institute for Northern Studies, UHI, is proud to announce the seventh International St Magnus Conference, taking place at the UHI Perth campus 15-17 April 2026. From the earliest days of self-awareness, human society has known…
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VEMS St Magnus Symposium Now Open for Registration.
We are pleased to announce that the next Viking and Early Medieval Studies (VEMS) at UHI Institute for Northern Studies (INS) event will be the St Magnus Symposium which will take place at UHI Perth on Wednesday, October 15th 2025. The theme for the programme of lectures and workshops will…
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Next Phase of The Norse and the Sea Project Fieldwork Commences
UHI Institute for Northern Studies VEMS (Viking and Early Medieval Studies) researchers Professor Alexandra Sanmark and Dr Shane McLeod have recently returned from fieldwork at Loch Lomond, the Kintyre peninsula and Islay in Scotland. The early Spring weather was glorious and signalled a successful week examining the next phase of…
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Scottish Arctic Network Hosts Important University of the Arctic Board Meeting in Orkney
Scottish Arctic Network (ScAN) members The University of the Highlands and Islands, Robert Gordon University (RGU) and Heriot-Watt University co-hosted a board meeting of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) between 28th April and 30th April 2025 in Orkney. UArctic is a network comprising universities, colleges, research institutes, and other…
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