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Andrew Lang Lecture

The Andrew Lang Lecture series is held at the University of St. Andrews. The lectures are named after Andrew Lang, a graduate of the university. * December 1927 – "Andrew Lang", by George Gordon. * 1928 – "Andrew Lang's

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The Andrew Lang Lecture series is held at the University of St. Andrews. The lectures are named after Andrew Lang, a graduate of the university.

Lectures

* December 1927 – "Andrew Lang", by George Gordon. * 1928 – "Andrew Lang's work for Homer", by Alexander Shewan. * 1929 – "The raw material of religion", by R. R. Marett. * 1930 – "Andrew Lang as historian", by Robert S. Rait. * 1931 – "Andrew Lang and the Maid of France", by Louis Cazamian * 1932 – "Andrew Lang and the Border", by John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir). * 6 December 1933 – "Lang, Lockhart and biography", by H. J. C. Grierson. * 21 November 1934 – "Andrew Lang and the House of Stuart", by John Duncan. * 1937 – "Andrew Lang's poetry", by A. Blyth Webster. * 8 March 1939 – "On Fairy-Stories", by J. R. R. Tolkien * 7 May 1947 – "Andrew Lang the poet", by Gilbert Murray. * 5 April 1948 – "Law and custom", by Hugh Pattisan MacMillan, Baron MacMillan. * 11 May 1949 – "Andrew Lang and the casket letter controversy", by J. B. Black. * 11 May 1950 – "Andrew Lang and journalism", by J. B.

Salmond. * 25 April 1951 – "Andrew Lang: his place in anthropology", by Herbert J. Rose. * 14 November 1951 – "Andrew Lang, John Knox and Scottish Presbyterianism", by William Croft Dickinson. * 16 February 1955 – "Homer and his forerunners", by Maurice Bowra. * 14 November 1956 – "Shakespeare's Scotland", by James Fergusson. * 8 February 1978 – "The writing of Scottish history in the time of Andrew Lang", R.G.

Cant. * (not known) 1980 – "Physiological Symbols", Rodney Needham. * 26 January 1988 – "The Scottish paradox", by Gordon Wilson * 29 April 2004 – "Hamlet and the Tables of Memory", by Peter Stallybrass * 1 November 2012 – "Folklore versus Fakelore: An Imagined Conversation with Andrew Lang", by Jane Yolen, the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture * 31 October 2017 – "Andrew Lang and the Folkloristic Legacy of 'The Forest, by Lizanne Henderson, 90th Anniversary Lecture * 16 February 2021 – "Andrew Lang's Fairy Tales", by Andrew Teverson, the first Andrew Lang lecture to be delivered on-line

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*University of St. Andrews Library catalogue

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