Public Talks, Lectures, Panel Discussions and Performance

April 2024, Panel Guest: ‘Reciprocal Approaches to Landscape Care,’ Land and Nature in Scotland: Emerging Care Alternatives event, School of Innovation and Technology (SIT) at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA).
March 2024, Performance: Uisge Èirinn | River Findhorn, River Connections: Headwaters Celebration, Strathdearn Hub
Sept 2023, Public lecture: Reforesting Scotland Annual Gathering - Keynote Lecture, Invermoriston
Aug 2023, Guest Speaker: Scottish Communities Climate Action Network
Aug 2022, Public lecture: ‘Creative Ethnology, Archives and Acoustic Ecologies,’ Dandelion, Taigh Chearsabhadh, North Uist
Feb 2022, Online Lecture: Lèirsinn nan Gàidheal / Gaelic Visual Arts, Scottish Artists’ Union
Nov 2021, Online Lecture: Tobar an Dualchais, Blas Festival, with Raghnaid Sandilands
Nov 2021, Public Lecture: Annual Hamish Henderson Memorial Lecture, Carrying Stream Festival, Edinburgh
May 2021, Guest Speaker: Fèis Rois Virtual Weekend Lunchtime Lecture, ‘Ceilidh Culture, Convivality and ‘The Carrying Stream’
June 2020, Panel Guest: #MakeShift Solas Festival, ‘Not Going Back to Normal Panel - Visions of a Post Lockdown Scotland
Nov 2019, Guest Speaker: Hamish Matters Festival, Blairgowrie 2019
Oct 2019: Walking Tour: ‘Making Common Cause,’ Voluntary Arts Scotland, The Stove, Dumfries
May 2020, Panel Guest: Folk Film Gathering online session, ‘Community Under Pressure’
Nov 2019, Guest Speaker: Hamish Matters Festival, Blairgowrie 2019
Aug 2019, Panel Guest: The Hamish Henderson Summer School, Sustainable Cultures, Scottish Storytelling Centre
August 2019, Panel Guest: ‘Wildlife, Land Reform and Environment’ conference, Revive: The Coalition for Grouse Moor Reform
August 2019: Panel Guest ‘Why Hamish Matters’, Hamish Henderson Summer School: Sustainable Cultures day, Scottish Storytelling Centre
March 2019, Guest Speaker: ‘Shieling: Building Community Spaces,’ Shieldfield, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Nov 2018, Public Lecture: ‘Finding Radical Hope in Geopoetics,’ Annual Tony McManus Lecture, Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, Leith Parish Church, Edinburgh
July 2018, Panel Guest: ‘Land and Culture – A Sense of Place,’ Community Land Scotland Conference, Stirling
April 2017, Song Performance: ‘Two Truths of Thomas the Rhymer’ at TradFest with Chris Wright
Oct 2016, Public Lecture: ‘The Space Between is Where the Maysie Lives: Presence, Imagination and Experience in the Traditional Ballad,' The Alan Bruford Memorial Lecture, Scottish International Storytelling Festival (SISF)
Sept 2015, Panel Guest: ‘Poetic Politics: Independence Referendum One Year On,’ National Library of Scotland
Aug 2016, Talk: ‘The Role of Local Cultural Heritage in Learning for Sustainabiltiy,' The Shieling Project
Aug 2016, Talk: ‘Arts &  Crafts - Radical Social Art, Awakening of Mythical heroes & Future Dreams,' Celtic Summer School, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Aug 2015, Talk: ‘Patrick Geddes' Cultural-ecological imagination.' Celtic Summer School, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Aug 2015, Talk: ‘Scotland's Visual Culture.' Celtic Summer School, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Jan 2014, Lecture: ‘Think Global, Act Local: a post-national cultural-ecological perpsective.’ Cultures of Independence Series, Glasgow School of Art
Aug 2013, Lecture: ‘How Scotland’s Environment has shaped Scotland’s Culture and Sense of itself.’ Scotland on the Threshold Seminar Series, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Aug 2013, Lecture: ‘Seeing Scotland: Visual Art and Scotland’s Identities.’ Scotland on the Threshold Seminar Series, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Mar 2013, Lecture: ‘Songs and Sustainability: Exploring a Cultural-Ecological Approach in a Scottish Context.' Traditional Song Forum Spring Meeting, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Nov 2015, Panel Guest: ‘Social Fabric - Knitting a Nation,' Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
Sept 2015, Panel Guest: ‘Poetic Politics - Culture and the 2014 Scottish
July 2014, Panel Guest: The 2014 Middle East Festival Forum on Spirituality, Politics and Culture
July 2014, Panel Guest: ‘How would a Yes vote affect the Common Weal?‘ Festival of the Common Weal, The Arches, Glasgow  
April 2014, Panel Guest: Devil’s Advocate Debate, Devils’ Advocate, Edinburgh
May 2104, Panel Guest: Green Yes Event, Out of the Blue, Edinburgh
March 2014, Panel Guest: YES International Women’s Day, University of Edinburgh

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