Scotland's "Greatest Living Historian" Coming to Vancouver
VANCOUVER - The next lecture in the "Scottish Enlightenment and Emigration" lecture series sponsored by Simon Fraser University's Centre for Scottish Studies will be presented by Professor Tom Devine, Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies and Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen University.
Professor Devine is the pre-eminent authority on the history of modern Scotland and his seminal work The Scottish Nation became an international bestseller when it was published in 1999.
Professor Devine is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2000 he was awarded the Royal Gold Medal by the Queen, Scotland’s highest academic accolade and he was recognized in the 2005 New Year’s Honours List with an OBE “For Services to Scottish History.”
Professor Devine will lecture on “Scotland in 1773: The Dynamics of Emigration.” The lecture will take place in SFU Harbour Centre at 8 PM on January 19. To register call (604) 291-5100.
Professor Devine’s lecture is the second in a series celebrating Simon Fraser University’s Fortieth Anniversary. Carl MacDougall, Scottish novelist and BBC presenter, started the series in September and the following lectures will complete the series in the Spring.
February 16 at 8 PM at SFU at Harbour Centre – David Hume: “Our Excellent and Never To Be Forgotten Friend,” Roger Emerson - Professor Emeritus of History, University of Western Ontario.
March 16, at 8 PM at SFU at Harbour Centre – The Study of Human Nature: Portraiture in the Scottish Enlightenment (illustrated). Duncan Macmillan - Professor Emeritus of the History of Scottish Art, University of Edinburgh, former Curator of the Talbot Rice Gallery.
April 5 at 12 Noon at SFU Burnaby – Lecture /recital – Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century songs and pipe music celebrating women. Women who work, teach, and study at the University are specially invited. Kirsteen McCue – Lecturer in Scottish Literature and Honorary Research Fellow in Music, Glasgow University, BBC3 presenter. David Hamilton, Accompanist – Lecturer, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama; Instructor in Music, Douglas Academy Fingala MacLean, Piper
April 6 at 8 PM at SFU at Harbour Centre – Lecture/recital – “Ae fond kiss:” Songs by and about women in Enlightened Scotland Kirsteen McCue and David Hamilton.
The lecture series is sponsored by: The British Council, Ottawa; The Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science; The 40th Anniversary Fund at SFU; The Koerner Foundation; The Graduate Liberal Studies Program at SFU; The st. Andrew’s and Caledonian Society Endowment.
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