Dear Fellow

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) together with Highlands and Islands Enterprise, UHI Millennium Institute and Scottish Natural Heritage is organising a conference entitled The Life and Culture of the Highlands and Islands. The first in a two part series of conferences will be held in Edinburgh at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Tuesday 23 September 2008. It is planned to have the second event in Skye in 2009. On behalf of the Society, it gives me great pleasure to invite to you to participate in this event as a member of the audience.

The audience will include policymakers, decision-makers and representatives from organisations and agencies, Scotland’s brightest and most influential people, such as yourself, and will be an opportunity to learn about a region of Scotland, organizations, institutions and companies of different sizes and types, all of whom have experienced challenges but managed to overcome them and produce a vibrant, thriving economic and cultural community.

Professor Chris Whatley FRSE
Chair of the Conference Organising Committee

Organising Committee: Professor Bob Cormack, Principal ,UHI Millennium Institute; Mr Sandy Cumming, Chief Executive, Highlands and Islands Enterprise HIE ; Mr Willy Roe, Chairman, HIE; Professor Jim Hunter CBE FRSE, Director, UHI Centre for History, North Highland College, UHI Millennium Institute; Dr Ian Jardin, Chief Executive, SNH; Mr Chris Roberts, Head of Communications (HIE) and Professor Chris Whatley FRSE, Professor of Scottish History, Vice-Principal and Head, University of Dundee (Chair of Conference Organising Committee)