Geddes and the Scottish Generalist Tradition

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Thu Jan 22 2026 at 04:30 pm to 06:00 pm

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Edinburgh Futures Institute | Edinburgh, SC

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This talk features Professor Murdo Macdonald, Emeritus Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee.
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This talk places Geddes within the Scottish interdisciplinary tradition (what George Davie called The Democratic Intellect) and explores Geddes’s global links, both at in the early twentieth century and today not least with reference to his influence in Japan, India and the USA.


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