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University of Strathclyde History Seminar Series 2009

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University of Strathclyde – Seminar Series
Department of History, February-June 2009
in association with
the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen
IDENTITY AND MOBILITY FROM JACOBITISM TO EMPIRE,
c.1680-c.1820

Seminars will be held from 5.15-6.30 p.m.
in R. 4.02, Department of History, McCance Building,
16 Richmond St, Glasgow G1 1XQ

 

5 February         
English Liturgy and Scottish Identity: The Case of James Greenshields, 1709-11
Dr Jeffrey Stephen, University of Strathclyde

19 February       
Scotland’s Lost Revolution – Versailles, St. Germain and the Scots Jacobite Underground in 1708
Professor Daniel Szechi, University of Manchester

5 March               
Defending the Colonies against malicious attacks of Philanthropy: Scottish Imperial Networks and the Anti-Abolition campaigns –
Dr Doug Hamilton, University of Hull

19 March             
‘In Defence of our Lawful Sovereign King George, The Succession as Established by Law and the Protestant Religion’: Hanoverian Loyalism, Scots Whig Volunteers and the ’15 Rising –
Dr Derek Patrick, University of Dundee

9 April                  
Scottish Networks in the Dutch Americas in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
Dr Esther Mijers, University of Reading

23 April               
The Empire of Political Economy (tbc) –
Professor Steve Pincus, Yale University

7 May                   
Logics of an Eccentric: Networks and Travels of William Playfair (1759-1823) -         
Dr Jean-François Dunyach, University of Paris IV Sorbonne

21 May                 
‘But Dear Doctor, if possible let him be an Englishman’ : The Church of England in the West Indies (1680-1720) – made in Scotland from probity
Dr Sarah Barber, University of Lancaster

4 June                  
In the Service of State, Company and Empire: the careers of the Malcolms of Burnfoot, 1780-1830 –
Dr Robert Blyth, National Maritime Museum, London

18 June                
The Scottish electric contribution to the German Enlightenment
Dr Tom McInally, University of Aberdeen

Still to be finalised, papers from Dr Abby Swingen, Auburn  University (Royal Africa Company) & Dr John McIntosh, Edinburgh (Seceders and Overseas Missions)

Seminar Organisers

Professor Allan I. Macinnes, Professor of Early Modern History &
Dr Jeffrey Stephens, University of Strathclyde in association with the AHRC, Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Please contact allan.macinnes@strath.ac.uk for further information about these events.

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