Seminar Series 2021

The Edge seminars take place on the last Thursday of the month 1-2pm.

Everyone is welcome to join remotely. Please visit the individual seminar pages for details of how to register and join each seminar. You can watch recordings of previous seminars.

Please be aware that we record these seminars and make them available to the public on the UHI website. If you choose to share your video feed/audio feed/name when you join a seminar this information may be captured as part of the recording. If you ask a question at the end of a seminar this will be recorded.

You can avoid your personal data being recorded by :

• Turning off your webcam
• Turning off your microphone
• Writing ‘guest’ in place of your name when prompted to enter your name

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Seminars

• January 2021 - "Art on the Edge: Socially Engaged Arts Practice in Rural & Coastal Communities"
• February 2021 - "Protection Versus Extraction: Science on Skye’s Shoreline" (Dr Elsa Panciroli)
• March 2021 - "Marginalised Maritime Heritage in Belfast’s Port Communities" (Dr Laura Ferguson)
• April 2021 - "Art/Archaeology: Exploring Disciplinary Edges" (Dr Antonia Thomas)
• May 2021 - "Between past and present, word and deed: dictionaries at the margins" (Dr Roderick McDonald)
• June 2021 - "Creative Islands (Isles of Scilly)"
• July 2021 - One Year On: ‘The Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community’
• August 2021 - "'The literature of Highland protest': the Sea League and its newsletter, 1933-1939 - a thoroughly modern cause" (Prof Ùisdean Cheape)
• September 2021 - "Rethinking visual art practices in the Highlands and Islands from an archipelagic perspective" (Roxane Permar)