Future events

End-of-project conference: 16 July 2010: New Perspectives on Scotland before the Wars of Independence

The end-of-project conference on Friday 16 July 2010 at the University of Glasgow will include a demonstration and explanation of the project’s database, and a range of 20-minute papers from members of the project team and invited scholars on the main themes of the project :

Programme

9.00-9.30 - Registration
9.30-9.40 - Opening by Bailie Catherine McMaster, Glasgow City Council
9.40-10.50 - Session 1: Culture and Identity
Stuart Campbell (Treasure Trove Unit): ‘The language of objects: material culture in medieval Scotland’
Emilia Jamroziak (University of Leeds): ‘Cistercian identities in the 12th and 13th- century Scotland’
11.15-1.00 - Session 2: Lordship and Society
Alice Taylor (King’s College, Cambridge): ‘Lords and Men in Scotland: Anglo-Norman Feudalism revisited’
Cynthia Neville (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia): ‘Kinsmen, neighbours and local communities in medieval Scotland, 1200-1350’
Keith Stringer (University of Lancaster): ‘The Scottish “political community” in the reign of Alexander II, 1214–1249’
Lunch (provided on site)
2.00-3.45 - Session 3: Personal names and surnames
Fiona Edmonds (University of Cambridge): ‘Celtic personal names south of the Forth-Clyde line’
Matthew Hammond (University of Edinburgh): ‘The adoption of surnames in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland’
Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh (University of Glasgow): ‘Scottish Gaelic personal names’
4.05-5.15 - Session 4: Database for Scotland 1093-1286
John Bradley and Michele Pasin (King’s College, London): ‘Structuring that which cannot be structured: The role of formal models to represent aspects of Medieval Scotland’
Amanda Beam and John Reuben Davies (University of Glasgow): Launch of new database
5.15-5.30 - Close by Professor Richard Sharpe, University of Oxford

Registration

Please register with d.broun@history.arts.gla.ac.uk BY FRIDAY 18 JUNE if you wish to guarantee a place for lunch, and send payment BY 30 JUNE to Christelle Le Riguer, University of Glasgow, 9 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH (cheques payable to ‘University of Glasgow’).

Cost: £10 (students/unwaged £5) including lunch.

Postgraduate bursaries

Bursaries are available to postgraduate students towards the cost of travel and accommodation for attendance. Please apply to Prof. D. Broun BY 31 MAY with a brief statement of (a) costs (b) your research topic and (c) a statement of support from your supervisor.

Accommodation

Visitors to the Department of History are usually booked in the following hotels:

Travel into Glasgow