Andrew Lang Lecture

The Andrew Lang Lecture series is held at the University of St. Andrews. The lectures are named after Andrew Lang, a graduate of the university.

Lectures

  • December 1927 – 'Andrew Lang', by George Gordon.
  • 1928 – 'Andrew Lang's work for Homer', by Alexander Shewan.
  • 1929 – 'The raw material of religion', by R. R. Marett.
  • 1930 – 'Andrew Lang as historian', by Robert S. Rait.
  • 1931 – 'Andrew Lang and the Maid of France', by Louis Cazamian
  • 1932 – 'Andrew Lang and the Border', by John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir).
  • 6 December 1933 – 'Lang, Lockhart and biography', by H. J. C. Grierson.
  • 21 November 1934 – 'Andrew Lang and the House of Stuart', by John Duncan.
  • 1937 – 'Andrew Lang's poetry', by A. Blyth Webster.
  • 8 March 1939 – 'On Fairy-Stories', by J. R. R. Tolkien{{cite web|url=http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external_relations/news_article.cfm?reference%3D610 |title=Inside Tolkien's Mind 04 Mar 2004 |accessdate=2006-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310224433/http://calvin.st-andrews.ac.uk/external_relations/news_article.cfm?reference=610 |archivedate=2007-03-10 }}
  • 7 May 1947 – 'Andrew Lang the poet', by Gilbert Murray.
  • 5 April 1948 – 'Law and custom', by Hugh Pattisan MacMillan, Baron MacMillan.
  • 11 May 1949 – 'Andrew Lang and the casket letter controversy' by J. B. Black.
  • 11 May 1950 – 'Andrew Lang and journalism', by J. B. Salmond.
  • 25 April 1951 – 'Andrew Lang : his place in anthropology', by Herbert J. Rose.
  • 14 November 1951 – 'Andrew Lang, John Knox and Scottish Presbyterianism', by William Croft Dickinson.
  • 16 February 1955 – 'Homer and his forerunners', by Maurice Bowra.
  • 14 November 1956 – 'Shakespeare's Scotland', by James Fergusson.
  • 8 February 1978 – 'The writing of Scottish history in the time of Andrew Lang', R.G. Cant.
  • (not known) 1980 – 'Physiological Symbols', Rodney Needham.
  • 26 January 1988 – 'The Scottish paradox' by Gordon Wilson
  • 29 April 2004 – 'Hamlet and the Tables of Memory' by Peter Stallybrass {{cite web|url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/Stallybrass.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-04-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313063913/http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_se/Stallybrass.html |archivedate=2007-03-13 }}
  • 1 November 2012 – 'Folklore versus Fakelore: An Imagined Conversation with Andrew Lang' by Jane Yolen, the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture {{cite web|url=http://www.sfscope.com/2012/09/jane-yolen-to-lecture-at-st-andrews/ |title=SFScope » Jane Yolen to lecture at St Andrews |accessdate=2013-01-24 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017020735/http://www.sfscope.com/2012/09/jane-yolen-to-lecture-at-st-andrews/ |archivedate=2015-10-17 }} {{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/geeks-guide-jane-yolen/ |title=Author Jane Yolen Talks Book Banning and Harry Potter | Underwire | Wired.com |accessdate=2013-01-23 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315071915/http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/01/geeks-guide-jane-yolen |archivedate=2014-03-15 }}
  • 31 October 2017 - " Andrew Lang and the Folkloristic Legacy of 'The Forest'" by Lizanne Henderson, 90th Anniversary Lecture
  • 16 February 2021 - 'Andrew Lang's Fairy Tales' by Andrew Teverson, the first Andrew Lang lecture to be delivered on-line

References

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