SFU Scottish Studies Centre: Enlightenment & Emigration lecture series April 5/6

A message from  Harry McGrath, coordinator of SFU Scottish Studies, and Ron MacLeod, Scots Chair

The SFU Scottish Studies Centre is delighted to announce the last two 
events in the Enlightenment & Emigration lecture series, arranged as 
part of the  celebration of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the 
University. The Centre is very gratified with the enthusiastic response 
to the series so far and we hope to see a good turnout again for the 
final events:

1: "18th and early 19th Century Songs and Pipe Music Celebrating 
Women." This presentation will have the informal atmosphere of a 
ceilidh and will take place at 2.30 pm: Wednesday 5 April: SFU Burnaby: 
Forum Chambers (Student Society room below the Highland Pub).
The program will be introduced by Kirsteen McCue (highly regarded 
singer/noted lecturer in Scottish Literature at Glasgow 
University/popular BBC3 Presenter) & David Hamilton (expert accompanist 
& choral director: Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama). It also 
features skilled piper Brianne Young from the SFU Pipe Band who will 
perform songs & pipe music reflecting the lives of women of 18th & 
early 19th century Scotland.

2: Lecture/Recital entitled "Ae Fond Kiss: Songs by and about Women in 
Enlightened Scotland"  Thursday 6 April 8pm, SFU Harbour Centre, 
Downtown Vancouver.
In this presentation, Dr McCue and Mr Hamilton will call on a range of 
song editions to tell the stories of women in Scottish songs of the 
Enlightenment Era. The stories cover the position of women on hot 
political and social issues of the time, and looks at the kinds of 
women that male editors wanted to shape.
Above all, however, the presentation celebrates the vision Scottish 
women had of love and life during a complex time in their history.

NOTES.
1. To find the Forum Chambers, go to the main university concourse. The 
Forum Chambers is on the opposite side of the concourse from the library. Go 
through the coffee bar and downstairs. The room is just below the Highland Pub 
and we hope that there will be a general movement upstairs after the ceilidh. 
There is no need to sign up for the ceilidh - just show up.

Please note starting time of 2.30pm - not noon as stated in the 
newsletter and on the posters.

2. For the Harbour Centre lecture/recital, the usual procedures apply. 
Please phone 604-291-5100 to register. There will be a reception following the
lecture.