Thomas Pennant's Tours of Wales and Scotland
University of Glasgow, 1-2 February 2013
The first of Two multi-disciplinary workshops hosted by the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies and the University of Glasgow.
Sponsored by the British Academy and supported by the Learned Society of Wales
Friday 1st February
Registration with tea and coffee: 3.00-4.00pm, School of Critical Studies, Room 202, 4 University Gardens
4.00-4.45pm: Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow), 'Robert Riddell's Annotated and Graingerized Copy of Pennant's Scottish Tours', Henry Heaney Room, Special Collections, Glasgow University Library
5.00pm: Plenary Lecture R. Paul Evans (Denbigh High School), 'Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland: "A round jump from ornithology to antiquity"
Drinks and Dinner
Saturday, 2nd February
9.30-11.00am. Domhmnall Uilleam Stiubhart (University of Edinburgh), 'Cultural Brokers in the North: Gaelic Guides and Pennant's Tours'
Thomas Clancy (University of Glasgow), 'Pennant, Saints, and Place-Names: sources, traditions, trajectories'
11.00-11.30. Tea & Coffee
11.30am-1.00pm. Mary-Ann Constantine (University of Wales), 'Pennant's Heart of Darkness'
Helen McCormack (University of Glasgow), 'Pennant, Hunter, Stubbs and the Pursuit of Nature'
1.00-2.00pm Sandwich lunch
2.00-3.30pm Mike Basset (National Museum of Wales), Pennant and geology (title TBC)
Alison Ksiazkekiewicz (University of Cambridge), 'Sir Joseph Banks, Thomas Pennant and the Isle of Staffa as 'natural' architecture'
3.30-4pm Tea & Coffee
4.00-4.40pm. Tom Furniss (University of Strathclyde), 'Geological Observation in Pennant's 'Tours of Scotland'
4.40-5.30pm. Response (Murray Pittock, VP and Head of College of Arts, University of Glasgow) and Round Table
Close
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