Staking a Claim In brief Date - 22 November 2023 Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Speakers - Dr Margaret Mackay (University of Edinburgh); Professor Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland) Organisers - Celtic & Scottish Studies; Scandinavian Studies; Scottish Society for Northern Studies Book your free ticket on the Scottish Society for Northern Studies website About the event Join us for this event where Dr Margaret Mackay (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland) will explore notions of 'Making Connections and Setting Boundaries in Scotland, Scandinavia and the Viking Diaspora'. Hosted by the departments of Celtic & Scottish Studies and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS), the event will feature the Society’s annual Hermann Pálsson Memorial Lecture. About the speakers Dr Margaret Mackay was born in Canada and came to the University of Edinburgh in 1967 upon graduation from the University of Toronto. Here she gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Scottish Studies and a PhD. Her dissertation was on the alliterative tradition in Middle Scots poetry. Appointed to the School of Scottish Studies, first as a Research Associate and then Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, she became its Director and Director of its Archives before retirement. She is still an Honorary Fellow in Celtic & Scottish Studies, and a Past President of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies. She was recently appointed an Honorary President of The Saltire Society. Terry Gunnell is Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Author of The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia (1995), he is editor of Masks and Mumming in the Nordic Area (2007), Legends and Landscape (2008), and Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe (2022). He is also co-editor of The Nordic Apocalypse: Approaches to Völuspá and Nordic Days of Judgement (2013) and Málarinn og menningarsköpun: Sigurður Guðmundsson og Kvöldfélagið 1858–1874 which was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Award in 2017. Programme 18:30 | Coffee 18:50 | Dr Alan Macniven, University of Edinburgh Welcome 19:00 | Dr Margaret Mackay, University of Edinburgh Scottish Ethnology and Scandinavian Studies at Edinburgh: A Creative Continuum 19:30 | The Hermann Pálsson Memorial Lecture: Prof. Terry Gunnell, University of Iceland Floating High Seat Pillars and the Settlement of Iceland: Fact, Fake News or Folklore? 20:30 | Mingle, fin Read the abstracts on the SSNS website How to attend This event is free to attend, and open to all. You can reserve your place on the SSNS website. Book your free ticket on the SSNS website Related links Visit the SSNS website Nov 22 2023 18.30 - 21.00 Staking a Claim An in-person discussion event on the subject of 'Making Connections and Setting Boundaries in Scotland, Scandinavia and the Viking Diaspora'. Hosted by Celtic & Scottish Studies and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the Scottish Society for Northern Studies. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue Book your free ticket on the SSNS website
Staking a Claim In brief Date - 22 November 2023 Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Speakers - Dr Margaret Mackay (University of Edinburgh); Professor Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland) Organisers - Celtic & Scottish Studies; Scandinavian Studies; Scottish Society for Northern Studies Book your free ticket on the Scottish Society for Northern Studies website About the event Join us for this event where Dr Margaret Mackay (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Terry Gunnell (University of Iceland) will explore notions of 'Making Connections and Setting Boundaries in Scotland, Scandinavia and the Viking Diaspora'. Hosted by the departments of Celtic & Scottish Studies and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh in partnership with the Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS), the event will feature the Society’s annual Hermann Pálsson Memorial Lecture. About the speakers Dr Margaret Mackay was born in Canada and came to the University of Edinburgh in 1967 upon graduation from the University of Toronto. Here she gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Scottish Studies and a PhD. Her dissertation was on the alliterative tradition in Middle Scots poetry. Appointed to the School of Scottish Studies, first as a Research Associate and then Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, she became its Director and Director of its Archives before retirement. She is still an Honorary Fellow in Celtic & Scottish Studies, and a Past President of the Scottish Society for Northern Studies. She was recently appointed an Honorary President of The Saltire Society. Terry Gunnell is Professor of Folkloristics at the University of Iceland. Author of The Origins of Drama in Scandinavia (1995), he is editor of Masks and Mumming in the Nordic Area (2007), Legends and Landscape (2008), and Grimm Ripples: The Legacy of the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in Northern Europe (2022). He is also co-editor of The Nordic Apocalypse: Approaches to Völuspá and Nordic Days of Judgement (2013) and Málarinn og menningarsköpun: Sigurður Guðmundsson og Kvöldfélagið 1858–1874 which was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Award in 2017. Programme 18:30 | Coffee 18:50 | Dr Alan Macniven, University of Edinburgh Welcome 19:00 | Dr Margaret Mackay, University of Edinburgh Scottish Ethnology and Scandinavian Studies at Edinburgh: A Creative Continuum 19:30 | The Hermann Pálsson Memorial Lecture: Prof. Terry Gunnell, University of Iceland Floating High Seat Pillars and the Settlement of Iceland: Fact, Fake News or Folklore? 20:30 | Mingle, fin Read the abstracts on the SSNS website How to attend This event is free to attend, and open to all. You can reserve your place on the SSNS website. Book your free ticket on the SSNS website Related links Visit the SSNS website Nov 22 2023 18.30 - 21.00 Staking a Claim An in-person discussion event on the subject of 'Making Connections and Setting Boundaries in Scotland, Scandinavia and the Viking Diaspora'. Hosted by Celtic & Scottish Studies and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the Scottish Society for Northern Studies. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue Book your free ticket on the SSNS website
Nov 22 2023 18.30 - 21.00 Staking a Claim An in-person discussion event on the subject of 'Making Connections and Setting Boundaries in Scotland, Scandinavia and the Viking Diaspora'. Hosted by Celtic & Scottish Studies and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with the Scottish Society for Northern Studies.
