SAHA Conversations

About SAHA Conversations

Join us for the new podcast series that celebrates Arts & Humanities across Scotland! The SAHA Conversations series brings together Arts & Humanities enthusiasts from different industries: from business to design, from politics to media and many others. Wherever their careers might have led them, they all share a passion for arts and humanities and recognise their important contribution to society today.

Publisher

SAHA

Category

arts · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Oct 2021

Latest episode

21 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Jan 2026

   A SAHA Conversation with Dr Paul Malgrati

   Who was Robert Burns? Join us on a SAHA Conversation with Dr Paul Malgrati and learn more about Scotland’s National Bard and the celebration of his life and works that takes place on his birthday, January 25h. Dr Paul Malgrati is a scholar and poet from France, specialist of modern Scottish literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI). Paul completed his PhD at the University of St Andrews as well as a two-year post-doctoral contract at the University of Glasgow. His award-winning research led to the publication of his first monograph, Robert Burns and Scottish Cultural Politics. The Bard of Contention. 1914-2014 (EUP, 2023), which explores Burns’s legacy in Scottish national culture, from Victorian unionism to contemporary nationalism. Between 2018 and 2023, Paul has also completed three research projects: ‘Joe Corrie (1894-1968): Miner, Playwright, Activist’ (St Andrews, PI, 2018-19); ‘The Burns Supper in History and Today’ (Glasgow, RA, 2020-22) and ‘The Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation: Creating Digital Futures & Networks’ (Glasgow. RA, 2021-23). Alongside scholarship, Paul is also known as a poet and translator. In 2020, his poetic work was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize, which led to the publication Poèmes Écossais (Blue Diode Press, 2022): the first collection of poetry in the Scots language by a non-native anglophone. Such Franco-Scottish interests were also developed in Paul’s French translation of Robert Crawford’s Curriculum Violette, published in bilingual edition by Molecular Press in 2021. That same year, Paul also joined the team of Revue Écossaise, the first printed, Francophone magazine about Scotland (which has since developed into a podcast). The episode is also available on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts. If you like this episode, please like, subscribe and share it on your favourite social media platform. You can tag SAHA on Instagram, Bluesky, LinkedIn and Facebook (Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance).

2. 

   4 Dec 2025

   A SAHA Conversation with Lisa Maria Feige

   What does whisky mean to you? Join us on a SAHA conversation with Lisa Maria Feige on whisky, literature, poetry and  representations of Scottishness in the history of Scotland’s national drink Lisa is a PhD Student at the University of Regensburg, the working title of her dissertation is "Freedom an' Whisky gang thegither? Representations of Scottishness in the History of Scotland's National Drink". The episode is also available on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts. If you like this episode, please like, subscribe and share it on your favourite social media platform. You can tag SAHA on Instagram (@SAHA_voice), Bluesky (@sahavoice.bsky.social) LinkedIn and Facebook (Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance)

3. 

   20 Oct 2025

   A SAHA Conversation with Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland

   To mark International Open Access Week, we had the pleasure of having a SAHA Conversation with Dr Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Associate Head of BMus with a specialism in Historical Musicology at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Scottish Universities Press (SUP). Scottish Universities Press (SUP) is a fully open access publishing press coordinated by the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) and managed by 20 member libraries on a not-for-profit basis. The SUP model provides a clear and cost-effective route for researchers to make their work freely available to a global audience, extending the impact of research across society and meeting the requirements of funders. SUP delivers a full-service publishing experience with open communication and transparent processes from peer review through to promotion. SUP is community-led and responsive to the needs of the academic community that it serves. You can read more about SUP on their website sup.ac.uk and on the guest blog written by Dominique Walker (available here). Visit rcs.ac.uk from more information on The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland This episode was recorded on October 9th, 2025, at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

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Quality

54

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

30

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