Forthcoming Events

In most Academic years, two or three one-day symposia are held, one of which is in Edinburgh in mid-November when the Annual General Meeting takes place, and the others by invitation in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, St Andrews or Stirling.

Subjects have ranged widely from archaeological and historical topics to ancient and modern Scandinavian literature, place-name studies and material culture.

Annual conferences have been held at various venues: Aberdeen, Argyll, Arran, Barra, Benbecula, Bettyhill, Caithness, Cumbria,Easter Ross, Galloway, Glenfinnan, Harris, Iona, Islay, Isle of Man, Lewis, Moray, Northumberland, Orkney, Shetland, Skye, Tiree and Ullapool

Details of Forthcoming Events are listed below, and information is also available on Recent Events.

Day Conference
Saturday 27th November 2010 Augustine Church Centre, Edinburgh

Rósa Þorsteinsdóttir, Icelandic folklore researcher, will give the Hermann Pálsson Memorial lecture "So is all the world a story: An Icelandic Storyteller's Life and Stories"

Other speakers will include:

Rune Blix Hagen, University of Tromsø
"The Large Black Cat From Northern Russia: Some strange cultural encounters with the Sami people in 1599"

Peter Maxwell-Stuart, University of St. Andrews
"Appearances of Satan"

Andrew Jennings, UHI

Lisanne Henderson, University of Glasgow

Further details will be sent out to members in September