Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Research Seminars: Autumn 2025
You’re warmly invited to join us at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and via Zoom for our new programme of research seminars, starting Wednesday 24 September. We’ve got a great programme lined up and we’d be delighted if you could join us.
All seminars will begin at 13:00 on Wednesdays. They will be held in Seòmar Shomhairle, Ionad Iain Noble, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. Anyone attending online is asked to please join the waiting room ten minutes beforehand to allow us time to admit you into the call (and say hello!). The room will be locked ten minutes after the start of the seminar.
Wednesday 24 September 2025, 13:00
Almut Boehme, National Library of Scotland
The music collections in the National Library of Scotland
Wednesday 29 October 2025, 13:00
Gilbert Márkus, University of Glasgow
Imitating Jerusalem Imitating Rome: Iona and spatial meaning in the seventh century
Wednesday 05 November 2025, 13:00
Prof. Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut / University of Edinburgh
Teaching, learning and researching Early Modern Gaelic in a digital age: Léamh.org and the practice of collaborative digital humanities
Wednesday 12 November 2025, 13:00
Matt Zurowski, Edinburgh School of Art
Lament, listening, and place in the Gaelic oral tradition
Wednesday 26 November 2025, 13:00
Fiona Mackenzie, An Comunn Gàidhealach
‘An Eibhleag anns an gann bha’n deò’: the lasting legacy of Margaret Fay Shaw of Canna.
Wednesday 03 December 2025, 13:00
Edwin Pickstone, Glasgow School of Art
Typographica Scoto-Gadelica: Scottish Gaelic Typographic Visual Identity through Print and Book Culture
January 2026
Dr Fañch Bihan-Gallic, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE NEW YEAR
Far am bi Fionn: Proverbs and sayings of the Fianna