EVENTS
Academic and public events are being planned to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Fergusson’s death in 2024 and beyond into 2025. These events will reflect on the diverse legacies connected to his biography and, at the same time, spotlight and disseminate research for the forthcoming edition.
Please keep checking this page for more updates and information. If you are running an event dedicated to Fergusson in 2024 or 2025, please do get in touch via the contact form!
Join the University of Glasgow's Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies for a talk given by Professor Rhona Brown 'Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson'. Tickets are FREE and available at the link here.
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson, the Mitchell Library in collaboration with the University of Glasgow, will host a free exhibition (9th Sep - 30th Oct 2024) and events programme this autumn which celebrates the significant Read More ...
Dr Amy Wilcockson will give a talk on scholarly editing in her role as Research Assistant on the poems of Robert Fergusson and as editor of the letters of Thomas Campbell. The Romanticism Across Borders seminar series broadly focuses on Read More ...
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the death of poet Robert Fergusson. His portrait by Alexander Runciman is currently on display at the Portrait. Both were members of the Cape Club which brought together trades, advocates, poets, artists, musicians and actors in a near ‘bohemian’ Read More ...
This is the online streamed version of the live event. This year marks the 250th anniversary of the death of poet Robert Fergusson. His portrait by Alexander Runciman is currently on display at the Portrait. Both were members of the Cape Club which brought together trades, advocates, Read More ...
A celebration of 18th Century Edinburgh through the Scots poetry of Robert Fergusson, read by Billy Kay and the music and song of the period sung and played by Karine Polwart, Sarah Hoy, Steve Byrne and Gary West. Fergusson’s Auld Read More ...
Professor Rhona Brown will deliver a talk "Ill-Fated Fergusson"? Robert Fergusson's Influence on Robert Burns for the Irvine Lasses Burns Club on 6th February 2025. For more information, please see https://www.irvinelassesburnsclub.org/
Dr Amy Wilcockson will be giving a talk for the Kilbryde Burns Club on Monday 3rd March 2025 on the topic 'The Romantic Legacies of Robert Fergusson'. This discussion will focus on Fergusson's influence on later poets of the eighteenth Read More ...
18 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 Hybrid Research Seminar, All Welcome Speaker Rhona Brown (University of Glasgow) Hosted by Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen Venue Humanity Manse Seminar Room Contact For further details, or a link Read More ...
2-4pm Thursday 22nd May 2025. On campus: 5 University Gardens, Room 205. Refreshments provided. Prof. Rhona Brown and Dr Amy Wilcockson 2024 was the 250th anniversary of eighteenth-century Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson's (1750-74) death, bringing new interest in his life and Read More ...
Join us at the University of Glasgow as we celebrate the launch of 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson. In this new poetry collection, across Scots, Gaelic and English, a wealth of contemporary poets respond Read More ...
Join us online as we celebrate the launch of 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson. In this new poetry collection, across Scots, Gaelic and English, a wealth of contemporary poets respond to famed eighteenth-century Read More ...