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SUMMARY:Nov 11 – Guest Lecture: Introducing Scottish Magazine Culture, from BLACKWOOD'S to RADICAL SCOTLAND
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Guest Lecture by Scott Hames (University of Stirling, Scotland, UK)
Introducing Scottish Magazine Culture, from Blackwood's to Radical
Scotland
November 11, 2025, 6-8pm, P 6 (Philosophicum)
Periodicals have been unusually central to Scottish literary culture, and
have often been a key conduit for connecting with the rest of the British
cultural and political scene. This session will briefly introduce some key
Scottish magazines since 1800, with a focus on the cultural politics of
‘provincial’ versus ‘national’ publishing. The journals and
magazines we’ll consider frequently grapple with questions of audience,
influence and peripherality on terms which bring publishing and literary
criticism into direct and unavoidable contact with the national question in
politics.
Dr Scott Hames is Senior Lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University
of Stirling, where he writes mainly about Scottish literature and cultural
politics. He has particular interests in the post-1960s movement for
Scottish devolution, which led to the creation of a Scottish Parliament in
1999.The Literary Politics of Scottish Devolution: Voice, Class, Nation was
published in 2020. It‘s a cultural history and critique of devolution,
focused on the role of writers, critics, magazines and intellectuals.He
also leads the Scottish Magazines Network, an AHRC research network
partnered with the National Library of Scotland. His current book project
is on the political essayist Tom Nairn (1932-2023), arguably the most
influential Scottish intellectual of the past century, who made his entire
career in magazines and forgotten newspapers.
You can download the poster for the event here.
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