The following is a list of lectures and performances by Michael Newton in the past and future.

FUTURE EVENTS

• April 16: Will speak about the Finding the Celtic project at the 2008 conference of the Celtic Studies Association of North America
• July 16: Will offer the talk "Celtic Cousins or White Settlers? Scottish Highlanders and First Nations" at Rannsachadh na Gaidhlig 2008, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia

PAST EVENTS

• Performed of Night of Renewal at Duke University on November 11, 2007
• Spoke about sense of place in Gaelic literature at the Heritage and the Environment conference, Isle of Skye, June 19-23, 2007
• Performed with Rhiannon Giddens at the African-Americans in the Celtic Nations conference in Wales, March 27-31, 2007
• Did a book signing (for Calum and Catriona's Welcome to the Highlands at Malaprops Bookshop and Cafe in Asheville, NC, on April 6 (Tartan Day), 2007
• Performed Night of Renewal with 2NearTheEdge dance company for Raleigh First Night 2007
• Performed Night of Renewal with 2NearTheEdge dance company in the Hayti Center Kwanzaa Series
• Taught Scottish Folklore and Gaelic song at the Swannanoa Gathering (Celtic Week), July 16-22, 2006
• Presented "Blended Scotch: African(-American)s and Scottish Gaelic Music" at Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, College of William & Mary, April 28, 2006
• Performed at concert of Scottish-Heritage Symposium at St Andrew's Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC with Rhiannon Giddens, March 17, 2006
• Presented "Blended Scotch" with Rhiannon Giddens at Scottish-Heritage Symposium, St Andrew's Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC, March 18, 2006
• Presented "Blended Scotch: African(-American)s and Scottish Gaelic Music" for Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast - Caribbean Chapter, Appalachian State University, February 17-18, 2006
• "Exile and Exegesis: Scottish Gaels, language and poetry in North America" at Modern Language Association conference, Washington D.C., Dec 27-29, 2005
• "Lost Voices of the Afro-Celts" at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, November 17, 2005, 3:30 PM in the Toy Lounge of Dey Hall
• Interviewed on North Carolina's NPR program "The State of Things" (go here to listen to it)
• Presented "Lost Voices of the Afro-Celts" at the University of Milwaukee, November 8, 2005
• Presented "Studying Scottish Culture(s) in America" for Scottish Foundation of the Virginia Highlands, Roanoke, VA, Oct 2, 2005
• Presented “Lost Voices of the Afro-Celts: Africans and Scottish Highlanders in the old American South” with Rhiannon Giddens, Virginia Commonwealth University, February 3, 2005 7 PM, Grace Street Theatre
• Presented “Gaelic-Speaking Scottish Highlanders in the US, with a special focus on the Carolinas”, Pickford Theater (3rd Floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress), December 1, 2004
• Taught “Language Groups in the US: Scottish Highlanders” course, Virginia Commonwealth University, Fall 2004
• Ran the Gaelic Song and History tent at the Triad Highland Games in Greensboro, NC, with Rhiannon Giddens, August 21, 2004
• Gave talk about the Highland Wake Dance at Rannsachadh na Gaidhlig 2004, University of Edinburgh, July 21, 2004
• Presented multimedia performance “The Influence of Scottish Gaels on Literature in America” as part of Leabhar Mór na Gàidhlig series at An Lanntair, July 19, 2004 in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
• Presented multimedia performance “Highland Voices: Shared, Mingled and Lost” (with Rhiannon Giddens) at the Hebridean Celtic Festival, July 17, 2004 in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
• Presented multimedia performance “The Legacy of the Scottish Gaels in the US” (with Rhiannon Giddens) at Seallam!, July 16, 2004 in Harris, Scotland
• Taught Highland Literature, History, and Social Dance at Féis Slighe nan Gàidheal in Seattle, June 14-20, 2004
• Gave lecture/performance at Moores Creek National Battlefield in North Carolina, June 5, 2004, 1 PM
• “Celtic Mysteries”: Taught course at Unitarian Universalist Church, Richmond, March 17, 24, 31, April 7, 2004
• Highland Settlers: Scottish Highland Immigrants in North America, University of Richmond, November 6-8, 2003: Organized conference and presented paper on Scots in Virginia.
• University of Richmond: Taught “Gaelic Folklore” course, Fall 2003.
• Lees-McRae College, North Carolina: Taught “Scottish Folklore” course, Summer 2003.
• Smithsonian Institute (Washington DC): Presented day-long seminar “Life Between Loch, Glen and Moor: Scotland's Cultures and Landscapes”, April 2003.
• University of Richmond: Taught “Gaelic Diaspora” course, Spring 2003.
• Scottish-American Symposium, St. Andrew's Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC: Presented “Vain, hurtful, lying, worldly tales: Creed, belief, and practice in the life of Argyll Highlanders, in Scotland and America”, March 2003.
• Toronto: Instructed at intensive day Gaelic courses, February 2003.
• Virginia Commonwealth University: Taught extension courses on Scotland, Spring 2002.
• Presented “Scottish Gaelic in Immigrant Communities in the United States,” Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2, University of Glasgow, 2002.
• Scottish-American Symposium, St. Andrew's Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, NC: Presented “In Their Own Words: Scottish-Gaelic Literature in North Carolina”, March 2003.
• Seattle: Taught intensive 2-day Gaelic courses, August 2002, November 2002, August 2003.
• Boulder, Colorado: Taught Gaelic Immersion Weekend course, June 2001.
• Toronto: Taught intensive day Gaelic courses, February 2001.
• Presented “In Our Own Image: Understanding Nature through Social Paradigms in Scottish Gaelic Literature and Tradition,” Harvard Celtic Colloquium 2001.
• Presented “Ossian’s Grave Defiled: Gaelic Perceptions of Landscape and Reactions to Improvement in the Highlands,” Landscapes and Politics, University of Edinburgh, March 2001.
• Presented “The Solitary Reaper: Reclaiming the Silenced Voices from Scotland’s southernmost Gàidhealtachd,” Department of Celtic Studies, University of Toronto, February 1, 2001.
• Presented “From Jacobite to American Loyalist,” Harvard Celtic Colloquium 2000; also given as an extended presentation at the University of Ottawa, November 17, 2000.
• Presented “The Tree and Axis Mundi in Scottish Gaelic Cosmology,” 11th International Congress of Celtic Studies, Cork, Ireland, 1999.
• Presented “Medieval Poetry of the Lennox and Menteith,” 9th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, St. Andrews University, Scotland, 1999.
• Presented “Gloomy Forests and Forests of Sugar: The Depiction of Nature in Scottish Gaelic Immigrant Poetry,” The Emigrant Experience: The Scottish Diaspora, University of Guelph, Canada, 1999.
• Celtic Department of Edinburgh University: Taught class on 17th and 18th century Gaelic poetry; led two tutorial discussions for Celtic Civilization (history) course, 1998.

FURTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Collected oral history on behalf of John Muir Trust on the island of Skye through the medium of the Gaelic language in the summer of 1995; did further fieldwork through the medium of Gaelic all over the Scottish Gàidhealtachd.

Was interviewed for BBC Radio nan Gàidheal program (January 2002) about Scottish Gaelic literature and history in the United States, which also used extracts from book and album on this subject.

Researched and wrote the scripts for a 5-part series for BBC Radio nan Gàidheal about Gaelic tradition in Perthshire (February and March 2000).

Won Best New Gaelic Song of 1999 contest (with Richard Taylor on guitar).

Performed Gaelic song and dance with the Folklore Ensemble Drumalban at the RITE 1998 Festival in Saint-Girons, France.