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The James Hogg Society
Meetings and Conferences of the Society
The Society holds social events from time to time: for example, on 28 June 1998, members met in Ettrick to commemorate the centenary of the completion of the Hogg birthplace monument, with a simple service in Ettrick Kirk and a celebratory visit to the monument, followed by evening entertainment at the Gordon Arms Inn in Yarrow.
The James Hogg Monument, at his birthplace, Ettrick Hall, Ettrick, the Ettrick Valley
Bi-Annual Conference
The Twelfth James Hogg Society Conference was held at The Mississippi University for Women in Spring 2006.
Hogg Society conferences offer a forum for the discussion of all aspects of Hogg and his world. Speakers are invited to offer their papers for consideration for publication in the Society's peer-reviewed journal, Studies in Hogg and his World.
Hugh McNaughtan Lecture
The James Hogg Society's Hugh McNaughtan Lectures are named after Hugh McNaughtan, who died in the summer of 2000. Hugh was a much-liked and much-respected member of the James Hogg Society whose presence graced and enlivened numerous Hogg Society conferences. Thanks to a munificent donation by Hugh's family, the James Hogg Society has been able to establish an annual Hugh McNaughtan lecture on a subject related to Hogg.
On 4 May 2005, the fifth such lecture was given by Professor Karl Miller (University of London), author of Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg (2003).
On 10 May 2006, the sixth lecture was given by Professor David Hewitt (University of Aberdeen), editor-in-chief of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels.
Details of future lectures, as they become available, will be available from Gill Hughes on behalf of the James Hogg Society at gillhh@lineone.net; they will also be posted on this site.