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Author Talk with James Robertson - News of the Dead
We were delighted to welcome James Robertson to the Arcadia Center once again to discuss his latest novel, the News of the… More
We were delighted to welcome James Robertson to the Arcadia Center once again to discuss his latest novel, the News of the… More
We were delighted to welcome James Robertson to the Arcadia Center once again to discuss his latest novel, the News of the Dead, with our students. This novel is truly epic in the sense that it covers 1300 years of Scotland's past, all centred on… More
This is a fascinating lecture from our speaker archives that we hosted in the Edinburgh Center in Fall 2012 two years before a Scottish independence referendum was run in 2014. Scotland eventually voted 'no' on Scottish independence at the 2014 referendum… More
“Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their… More
“How different things are in the sea, in which every inch of my skin tingles and thrills, where I am tossed and buffeted, taken to new places – out of the comfort zone, as the pedagogical jargon has it, into the learning zone, touching on the margins… More
As part of our lecture series, award-winning author Kevin MacNeil joined us at the Arcadia Edinburgh Center to talk about his recent novel, The Brilliant & Forever. The book follows a small Hebridean island’s annual literary festival, The Brilliant &… More