9:30-10

Registration, Undercroft, St John's House, 69 South Street

10-11

Opening lecture by Roger Mason ‘Scottish Democracy: a medieval inheritance?’ Old Class Library, St John's House

11-11:15

Tea/Coffee

11:15-12:45

Session 1: Protestantism and the People

Jenny Wormald (University of Edinburgh) ‘Godly Democracy?’

Caroline Erskine (University of St Andrews) ‘A radical Reformation? The first historians of Scottish Protestantism’

12:45-1:45    

Lunch

1:45-3:15

Session 2: Representing the People

Alan MacDonald (University of Dundee) 'The answer's in the post: consultation and consent under James VI'

Gerry Carruthers (University of Glasgow) ‘Burns, the Scottish and Other People’

3:15-3:30

Tea/Coffee

3:30-5

Session 3: A Democratic Deficit? Scotland under Union and Devolution

Ewen Cameron (University of Edinburgh) ‘L.J. Saunders’ Scottish Democracy 1815 to 1840 revisited'

Catriona MacDonald (Glasgow Caledonian University) ‘Peasemeal, Flour and Trumpets: the aestheticization of student politics in Victorian Scotland’

5-5:30

Closing discussion

5:30

Wine Reception, Undercroft, St John's House, 69 South Street