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The Centre for Robert Burns Studies
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Est. 2007 at the University of Glasgow for the development of research, scholarship and teaching in the area of Robert Burns (1759-96).
The Queen’s Anniversary Prize winner 2023.
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Join us in Glasgow on Saturday 17th January 2026 for the next Centre for Robert Burns Studies conference, to be held @uofgarc.bsky.social in collaboration with @n-t-s.bsky.social, centring around the Burns Supper.

Tickets and full programme here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

All welcome!
Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
A conference exploring the life, work, and legacy of Robert Burns, this year celebrating the 225th anniversary of the Burns Supper
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November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Burns and Nature 🌳👨‍🌾🐭

Join us and the @natlibscot.bsky.social as we explore the Ploughman Poet’s relationship with nature through poetry, spoken word, song and film.

21st January 2026 | Kelvin Hall | 6pm

Book your free ticket here👇

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Burns and Nature
An exploration of Robert Burns’ relationship to nature through poetry, spoken word and film.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Would you like to find out more about innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Burns studies? Get your ticket for tomorrow to find out more 👩‍💻
uofgarc.bsky.social UofGARC @uofgarc.bsky.social · Feb 17
Just one more day until the next ARC Conversations lecture!

Dr Pauline MacKay @paulinemackay.bsky.social, Director of @glasgowburns.bsky.social discusses her experience of interdisciplinary research, innovation and impact.

📅 Feb 18th, 4:00-5:30, the ARC

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Dr Pauline Mackay wears a VR headset in the Hunterian Museum
February 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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‘Ae Fond Kiss’ is one of Burns’ most famous love songs, arising from his relationship with Agnes McLehose. The pair exchanged passionate letters as ‘Clarinda’ and ‘Sylvander’.

The emotive song is a powerful farewell to McLehose who was moving to the West Indies.

#ValentinesDay 💌❤️‍🔥🎶
February 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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'My love is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June':
I played it at the station, but
Their piano's no' in tune.
I plinked and plonked the ivories,
And some were slow or mute,
I'll no' be playin' there again, Of that, I ha'e nae doubt.
a red rose is surrounded by pink hearts
ALT: a red rose is surrounded by pink hearts
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February 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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#ICYMI you can read more about "The Missing Manuscript of ‘A Red, Red, Rose’" on @glasgowburns.bsky.social's website 👇

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The Missing Manuscript of ‘A Red, Red, Rose’
Guest blog by Professor Patrick Scott (Hon. Fellow, CRBS) The lockdown these past few months has altered the pace of Burns research, but not stopped it.  Most research has become even more reliant …
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February 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Our Director @paulinemackay.bsky.social will be taking part in ‘ARC Conversations’ next Tuesday! Come along to hear more about innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Burns Studies 👩‍💻
uofgarc.bsky.social UofGARC @uofgarc.bsky.social · Feb 11
Come along and hear Dr Pauline MacKay @paulinemackay.bsky.social, Director of @glasgowburns.bsky.social, discuss her experience of interdisciplinary research, innovation and impact.

📅 Feb 18th, 4:00-5:30, the ARC

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February 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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From 2020 – Prof Kirsteen McCue, Prof Nigel Leask, & Dr Craig Lamont discuss the importance of the Kilmarnock edition of POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT for Burns, & the significance of the copy of the volume donated by Craig Sharp to @glasgowburns.bsky.social
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Craig Sharp's Kilmarnock Edition - then and now
YouTube video by Centre for Robert Burns Studies
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January 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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🚨PhD Opportunity 🚨

Our award winning research centre is thrilled to share the news of this exciting funded research project which will focus on Burns and the Environment 🐭🐾🌳

Find out more here:

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January 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Excellent debate on Robert Burns last night in Holyrood and am very thankful to Oliver Mundell for tabling the motion and Minister @jamiehepburn.bsky.social for his response

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Members' Business — S6M-16078 Oliver Mundell: Celebrating the Continued Social, Cultural and Economic Importance of Robert Burns | Scottish Parliament TV
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January 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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A wonderful morning at the #CRBSconference ! We heard about the great environmental work carried out by the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum 🌳🐭 Some new, exciting digital resources were also launched 💻

#robertburns
#scottishliterature
January 18, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Director @paulinemackay.bsky.social will give an update on the exciting research the CRBS has been carrying out since we were awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize.

It’s your last chance to register for our conference👇

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#CBRSconference
#robertburns
January 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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The annual Craig Sharp Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr Arun Sood this Saturday at our conference.

Tickets and details can be found 👇

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January 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Global Burns 2025: Burns & the Environment
28 January, online – free

Join @glasgowburns.bsky.social to explore Robert Burns & the environment. How did it influence his poetry? And how might we understand Burns in the context of contemporary environmental concerns?
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University of Glasgow Global Burns 2025: Burns and the Environment Join us online for discussion, laughter and an insight into the life and times of Robert Burns! Start Time/Date: Jan 28, 6:00 PM End Time/Date: Jan 28, 7:00 PM
January 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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We are excited to welcome Dr Sarah Leith to our conference on Saturday where she will be discussing forged manuscripts 📜✍🏼

If you want to come along please register before ticket sales end:

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January 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Global Burns: Burns and the Environment - Tuesday 28th January

This virtual gathering will dive into Burns' creative and practical engagement with the environment, as both writer and improving farmer. 🐭✍🏼

Find out more here:

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January 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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‘To a Mouse’ by Robert Burns

The Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference is next week! We have a wonderful line-up of speakers who will be presenting on an array of topics including Burns and the Environment. 🐭✍🏼

Tickets👇

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January 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
18 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social
in-person: £25

The 2025 @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference spans Burns & the environment; manuscript forgery; & Burns’s connections with the transatlantic slave trade & abolition
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Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
An academic conference exploring the life, work, and legacy of Robert Burns
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January 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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We are counting down the days until our conference! Do you have your ticket? Our speakers include Ruth McKecknie who will be speaking about The National Trust for Scotland’s excellent new Burns resource.

Tickets 👇

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January 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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This day, Time winds th’ exhausted chain;
To run the twelvemonth’s length again:
I see, the old bald-pated fellow,
With ardent eyes, complexion sallow,
Adjust the unimpair’d machine,
To wheel the equal, dull routine…

—Robert Burns, “Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790: To Mrs Dunlop”
Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790: To Mrs Dunlop Robert Burns This day, Time winds th’ exhausted chain; To run the twelvemonth’s length again: I see, the old bald-pated fellow, With ardent eyes, complexion sallow, Adjust the unimpair’d machine, To wheel the equal, dull routine. The absent lover, minor heir, In vain assail him with their prayer; Deaf as my friend, he sees them press, Nor makes the hour one moment less, Will you (the Major’s with the hounds, The happy tenants share his rounds; Coila’s fair Rachel’s care to-day, And blooming Keith’s engaged with Gray) From housewife cares a minute borrow, (That grandchild’s cap will do to-morrow,) And join with me a-moralizing; This day’s propitious to be wise in. First, what did yesternight deliver? “Another year has gone for ever.” And what is this day’s strong suggestion? “The passing moment’s all we rest on!” Rest on—for what? what do we here? Or why regard the passing year? Will Time, amus’d with proverb’d lore, Add to our date one minute more? A few days may—a few years must— Repose us in the silent dust. Then, is it wise to damp our bliss? Yes—all such reasonings are amiss! The voice of Nature loudly cries, And many a message from the skies, That something in us never dies: That on this frail, uncertain state, Hang matters of eternal weight: That future life in worlds unknown Must take its hue from this alone; Whether as heavenly glory bright, Or dark as Misery’s woeful night. Since then, my honour’d first of friends, On this poor being all depends, Let us th’ important now employ, And live as those who never die. Tho’ you, with days and honours crown’d, Witness that filial circle round, (A sight life’s sorrows to repulse, A sight pale Envy to convulse), Others now claim your chief regard; Yourself, you wait your bright reward.
January 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Happy Hogmanay from the team at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies! 🎆 Wherever you are we are sure you will be singing Auld Lang Syne along with us tonight. Visit our blog to read about the origins of the iconic Scottish anthem:

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The first appearance of Auld Lang Syne is studied by UofG academics
In 4th volume of The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns, due to be published in February, Professor Kirsteen McCue has looked at Burns’ songs for George Thomson including Auld Lang Syne
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December 31, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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'My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here'

Obligatory Burns poem for #ScottishPoetryAdvent

[Robert Burns, 'My Heart's in the Highlands']
December 18, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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Have you got your ticket for our upcoming conference? Our speakers include Dr Craig Lamont and Dr Jessica Reid who will be launching an exciting new digital resource. ✉️✍🏼

Tickets 👇

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#robertburns
December 16, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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Announcing the 2025 @glasgowburns.bsky.social Conference held at our Advanced Research Centre.

Join us on 18 Jan for fresh perspectives on Scotland's National Bard.

See the programme & book your place: eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for-robert-burns-studies-conference-tickets-1029780480137
A portrait of Robert Burns and text reading: Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference.
December 12, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
18 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social – in-person: £25

The 2025 @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference spans Burns & the environment; manuscript forgery; & Burns’s connections with the transatlantic slave trade & abolition
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference
An academic conference exploring the life, work, and legacy of Robert Burns
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 3:16 PM