This event is a collaboration between the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum (NTS) and the Centre for Robert Burns Studies (University of Glasgow)
09:30 – Tea & Coffee
Morning Session – Chair: Pauline Mackay
10:00: Welcome
10:05: Robert Burns, Scotland and the Soviet Union: Scottish national identity during the Cold War (1941-1959) – Paul Malgrati
10:30: ‘Hotaru no Hikari (Light of the Fireflies)’: the Japanese uses and the reception history of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ – Thomas Cressy
10:50: Naething Could Resist My Nancy! – Maureen Bell
11:10: Tea & Coffee
11:30: The Lancashire Burns: Edwin Waugh, Broadside ballads and Lancashire Dialect in the 19th century – Jennifer Reid
11:50: James Beattie and Robert Burns: an unlikely pair? – Ian Robertson
12:10: Question Panel
12:30: Lunch
Afternoon Session – Chair: Rhona Brown
13:30: Musical Performance – Emily Smith
14:00: The Burns Scotland Lecture – Robert Burns: Iconics and Comics – Prof. Laurence Grove
14:30: Tea & Coffee
14:45: Some New Facts about Robert Burns – Prof. Patrick Scott
15:15: Question Panel
15:30: Close
