Centre for Nordic Studies
Summer SchooL 2009

Interested in finding out more about Orkney and Shetland? Why not join our expert lecturers and guides for a summer school? You can study the whole programme or pick and mix from the programme. Why not combine both Orkney and Shetland based schools for a two centre holiday?

This year we are offering the following programme of four summer schools

Title:    Orkney Cultural Traditions and Folklore

Venue:   Orkney  College                         Date: 10^th to 16^th June

Cost: £200

Programme:

Wednesday 10^th June

Lecture:  Music Workshop                                                  

Field trip:  Broch of Gurness and Brough of Birsay     

Evening:  music session

Thursday 11^th June

Lecture: History of Orkney                                                  

Field trip:  Italian Chapel, Scapa Flow etc                          

Friday 12^th June

Lecture:  Orkney Folklore and Literature                             

Field trip:  Corrigall and Kirbister Farm Museums               

Monday 15^th June

Lecture: Orkney’s Archaeological Heritage                         

Field trip:  Kirkwall walking Tour                                          

Tuesday 16^th June

Lecture:  Orkney’s Tongue                                                  

Field trip:  Maes Howe, Ring of Brodgar, Skara Brae

Title:              Orkney Writers and Landscape Summer School

Venue:   Orkney  College                         Date: 6^th to 10^th July

Cost: £200

Monday 6^th July

Lecture: Saga Literature                                                    

Field trip:  Italian Chapel, Scapa Flow etc                          

Tuesday 7^th July

Lecture:  Robert Rendall                                                      

Field trip:  Corrigall Farm Museum and Brough of Birsay            

Wednesday 8^th July

Lecture: Edwin Muir                                                          

Field trip:  Maes Howe, Ring of Brodgar,

Skara Brae                                                                             

Evening: music session

Thursday 9^th July

Lecture:  Eric Linklater                                                       

Field trip:  Kirkwall walking Tour                                          

Friday 10^th July

Lecture:  George Mackay Brown                                        

Field trip:  Stromness and Broch of Gurness

Title:  Shetland Cultural Traditions

Venue:   Shetland Museum and Archives         Date: 13^th to 17^th July

Cost: £200

Programme:

Monday 13^th July

Lecture: History of Shetland Overview                                                 

Field trip:  Scalloway Castle and Museum, Shetland Textile Working Museum                                                                              

Tuesday 14^th July

Lecture:  Shetland Folklore and Literature

Field trip:  Böd of Gremista and Croft House Museum

Wednesday 15^th July

Lecture: Shetland’s Archaeological Heritage                         

Field trip:  Scatness, and Jarlshof

Evening: Music session                                       

Thursday 16^th July

Lecture:  Shetland’s Tongue                                                 

Field trip:  Shetland Museum tour + Lerwick Walking Tour (Lodberries, Fort Charlotte, Islesburgh Exhibition etc)

Friday 17^th July

Lecture:  Music Workshop                                                  

Field trip:  Mousa

Title: Shetland Writers and Landscape

Venue:   Islesburgh Centre                    Date: 13^th to 17^th July

Cost: £200

Programme:

Monday 13^th July

Lecture:  Saga Literature                                                        

Field trip:  Scalloway Castle and Museum,                                  

Shetland Textile Working Museum                                                                             

Tuesday 14^th July

Lecture:  Haldane Burgess and the Victorians

Field trip:  Böd of Gremista and Croft House Museum                

Wednesday 15^th July

Lecture:  Vagaland and the oral tradition

Field trip:  Scatness, and Jarlshof                                               

Evening: Music session at the Islesburgh Exhibition                                     

Thursday 16^th July

Lecture:  The work of Robert Alan Jamieson  (by the writer himself)                 

Field trip:  Shetland Museum tour

+ Lerwick Walking Tour (Lodberries, Fort Charlotte,etc)        

Friday 17^th July

Lecture:  Modern Shetland poetry                                         

Field trip:  Mousa                                                                      

(subject to change due to weather conditions) 

CONTACT:     Dr. Donna Heddle , Orkney College, East Road, Kirkwall, KW15 1LX

                       Tel: 01856 569000

E-mail:    Donna.Heddle@orkney.uhi.ac.uk

Downloadable application forms for all schools at

http://www.orkney.uhi.ac.uk/courses/summer-schools/index_html