Research

Research Seminars 2021

You're warmly invited to join us at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (via Zoom) for our new programme of research seminars, starting Wednesday, 10th February.

Seminars begin at 1pm - please join the waiting room ten minutes before to allow us time to admit you (and say hello!); the room will be locked ten minutes after the start of the seminar.

Zoom details:

https://zoom.us/j/6086570437

Meeting ID: 608 657 0437

 

10 February: Professor. Meg Bateman, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI

Làraichean na Fèinne san Eilean Sgitheanach 

 

17 February: Dr Iain Mackinnon, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University

‘This world of Maclean’s words around us like spirits released’: the Highland historian as Gaelic literary critic 

 

24 February: Dr Fiona McNeill, Edinburgh University & Dr Gábor Bella, Trento University

The Unified Scottish Gaelic Wordnet: Lexicon Extension, Gaps, and Integration into a Large Multilingual Lexical Database
 

03 March: Dr Heather Sparling, Cape Breton University

The Language in Lyrics Project: Corpus Planning, Transcription Frolics, and a Nova Scotia Gaelic Song Index 

 

10 March: Dr Sharon Arbuthnot, Faclair na Gàidhlig & Cambridge University

Dad, sgaiteach, pailt ’s eile: the 2019 Update to eDIL and its insights into Scottish Gaelic   

 

17 March: Dr Ailbhe NicGiollaChomhaill, Luimnigh University

Digital folklore archives as ‘Thick Corpuses’: a case study of text and context in the folklore of Maam village, Co. Galway. 

 

24 March: Dr Frances Wilkins, Elphinstone Institute, Aberdeen University

Sacred Singing in Northern Scotland: Reflections of Cultural and Occupational Landscape 

 

31 March: Postgraduate mini-conference