This one day symposium taking place on 4 September 2008 at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye, provides an opportunity for critical consideration of Highland imagery, through historical and contemporary art research and practice including photography and film, and in relation to song and placenames.

It is organised by the AHRC-funded project ‘Window to the West / Uinneag dhan Àird an Iar: Towards a redefinition of the visual within Gaelic Scotland’, a collaboration between Sabhal Mòr Ostaig and the Visual Research Centre of the University of Dundee.

Speakers include: John Purser on the landscape and music of Strath; Meg Bateman on Loch Etive; Hugh Cheape on the photographic achievement of Walter Blaikie in South Uist and Eriskay; Joanna Soden on photographic images by the artist William Gillies; Norman Shaw on his ‘Nemeton’ contemporary art project and David Martin Jones on issues relating to landscape and the past in recent Scottish Gaelic films.

It will be chaired by Murdo Macdonald, Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee.

A more detailed programme will be available at a later date. For further details of the programme contact: llindsay@dundee.ac.uk and for booking contact: Nicola Thomson at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig tel: 01471 888 301 and email: sm00na@groupwise.uhi.ac.uk .

Attendance at the symposium itself is free of charge, but please reserve a place with Lesley Lindsay.

Catering and accommodation packages are as follows:

Full package:

2 nights B & B, Wednesday evening Buffet, Thursday lunch, teas and coffees and Dinner £98.45.

Day Rate:

Thursday lunch, teas and coffees and Dinner £31.95.

24 Hour Rate (1 night accommodation and seminar event) 1 night B & B, Wednesday evening Buffet, teas and coffees and Thursday lunch £46.95.