Research Seminar Series
Candlemas Semester 2011 Seminar Programme
Meetings are held at 5.30 in the Class Library, St Katharine's Lodge, The Scores, St Andrews (unless otherwise noted)
Drinks and nibbles served from 5:15pm
ALL WELCOME!
Meetings are held at 5.30 in the Class Library, St Katharine's Lodge.
Thursday 17 February
Dr Amy Blakeway (Cambridge)
‘Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland’
Thursday 10 March
Dr Crawford Gribben (Trinity College Dublin)
‘John Owen and the Cromwellian Invasion of Scotland’
Joint with Reformation Studies - 5.15 pm start
Thursday 17 March - CANCELLED
Dr Anne-Marie Kilday (Brookes)
‘Hurt Harm and Humiliation: Community Responses to Deviant Behaviour in Early Modern Scotland’
Thursday 24 March
Andy Drinnon (St Andrews)
‘Millennialism and the Scottish Apocalyptic Tradition 1588-1648’
Joint with Reformation Studies - 5.15 pm start
Thursday 21 April
Dr James E. Fraser (University of Edinburgh)
‘Alexander I, Dunfermline and the Mausoleum of the Gaelic
Kings of Scotland in Iona’
Thursday 28 April
Beth Tapscott (St Andrews)
‘Propaganda and persuasion in the Scottish Reformation’
Joint with Reformation Studies - 5.15 pm start
In addition to the normal seminar programme, please note:
Thursday 3 March - Special Lecture at 5.30pm (venue to be confirmed)
Professor Robert Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
‘University history teaching, national identity and unionism in
Scotland 1862-1914’
Professor Anderson is a distinguished historian of modern education whose books include European Universities from the Enlightenment to 1914 (2004) and British Universities Past and Present (2006) as well as his acclaimed work on Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland: Schools and Universities (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983; paperback edition Edinburgh University Press, 1989). His lecture will have wide appeal to those with an interest in the development of history as an academic discipline and its engagement with politics. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.
