UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Scottish History Society
 

Upcoming conferences relating to Scottish History
  • The Scottish Catholic Historical Association and the Scottish Catholic Archives 19th Annual Conference will be held on Saturday, 12 June 2010.  The theme is ‘Liturgy and the Nation’ and it celebrates the centenary of the publication of the Aberdeen Breviary.  The conference will be held in St Andrews Building, University of Glasgow, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH, from 9.30am to 4pm.  
    Speakers include: Greta-Mary Hair (University of Edinburgh), Alan Macquarrie (University of Strathclyde), Rachel Butter and Simon Innes (University of Glasgow), Stephen Holmes (University of Edinburgh), James MacMillan (Composer).  
    Registration £15 (£9 students/OAP/unwaged) includes coffee and lunch.  
    For more information or to register please contact the Scottish Catholic Archives Columba House, 16 Drummond Place, Edinburgh EH3 6PL.  Tel: 0131 556 3661
  • The Modern British History Network will host a fourth major Conference on Modern British History at the University of St Andrews on 22-23 June 2010. The event is particularly aimed at members of all the Scottish universities and the northern English universities although all historians are very welcome. Previous conferences have attracted delegates from across the UK and from overseas.  
    Confirmed keynote speakers this year are: Professor Bob Morris (University of Edinburgh), Professor Jeffrey Richards (University of Lancaster), Professor Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester).
    For further information or any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact James Nott (Dr James Nott: Modern History, University of St Andrews, St Katharine’s Lodge, The Scores, St Andrews, KY16 9AL ).

  • ‘Jacobites and Anti-Jacobites, Culture and Diaspora’ is an international conference to be held at the University of Strathclyde on 24-26 June 2010, in association with The Jacobite Studies Trust and the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (Aberdeen University). Themes under discussion will include, culture, diaspora, ideologies, and communities and networks. The emphasis will be upon viewing Jacobite Studies as a broad historical phenomenon affecting societies, culture and political adaptation in the eighteenth century, rather than as a narrow dynastic cause.  The conference will feature new research in the field of Jacobite studies from leading scholars from across the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Australia.
    It is organised by Professors Allan Macinnes (University of Strathclyde), Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow) and Daniel Szechi (University of Manchester).  
    Registration fee of £100. Discounts are available for students and unwaged.
    To register or for further details email jan.bissett@strath.ac.uk
  • Scotland and the 400th anniversary of the Plantation of Ulster: Plantations in Context will be held at the University of Strathclyde on 17&18 September 2010.  2010 marks the 400th anniversary of the official Plantation of Ulster, a seminal event in Irish history. A series of conferences organised by the international research network of the Institute of Ulster Scots Studies at the University of Ulster have been held since 2006 marking the 1606 Hamilton-Montgomery Plantation (2006), an unofficial Scottish plantation; the 1607 Flight of the Earls (2007); and the Plantation itself with three conferences in 2009 on the theme of ‘The Plantation of Ulster: a laboratory for empire’. The University of Strathclyde is the Scottish partner in this international research network and this conference marks the Scottish contribution to examination of the Plantation and its impact. It does so in a comparative transatlantic context as well as looking at comparative European plantations.  
    Speakers include: Professor Nicholas Canny, Royal Irish Academy; Dr John Sherry, University of Guelph; Dr Aonghas Mackenzie, University of Glasgow; Dr Kirsteen Mackenzie, independent scholar; Dr Karen Cullen, UHI Millennium Institute; Professor Karen Kupperman, New York University; Professor Tim Hall, Central Michigan University; Professor Arthur Williamson, California State University, Sacramento; Dr David Worthington,. UHI Millennium Institute’; Dr Steffen Heiberg, Former Head of Research, The Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark.  
    Registration £50 (£25 students/OAPunwages) includes coffee, lunch and wine receptions.  
    For further details, programme and booking information see http://www.strath.ac.uk/pdu/conferencesandevents/scotlandandulster/