Research Seminar Series

2012/13 Programme

Meetings are held at 5.30 pm in the New Seminar Room, St John's House, 71 South Street, St Andrews (unless otherwise noted)

Drinks and nibbles served from 5:15pm

ALL WELCOME!

Semester One

Thursday 27 September
Dr Laura Stewart (Birkbeck College, University of London)
'Contesting the constitution: reconsidering the Scottish revolution, 1639-41' 

Thursday 11 October
Dr  Valerie Wallace (Victoria University of Wellington)
'Political Reform in the Presbyterian Atlantic: Scotland and Canada, 1829-1849'.

Thursday 25 October
Prof Colin Kidd (University St Andrews)
‘The Ayrshire Enlightenment’

Thursday 8 November
Dr Steve Boardman (University of Edinburgh)
'The Duke of Albany, Harlaw, and the "defence of the patria"'

Thursday 22 November
Lucinda Dean (University of Stirling)
'Enter the Alien: Foreign Consorts and their Royal Entries into Scottish Cities before 1603'

Thursday 6 December
Claire Hawes, Wayne Cuthbertson, Darren Layne, Malcolm Petrie.
Postgraduate research forum

Semester Two

Thursday 7 February
Dr Phil Dunshea (University of Cambridge)
'Over the hills and far away - the frontiers of early medieval Scotland in Welsh tradition'

Thursday 21 February
Claire McLoughlin (University of St Andrews)
'Leith-London-Lisbon: Triangular trade in early modern Scoto-Iberian Commercial Relations'

Thursday 7 March
Dr Karly Kehoe (Glasgow Caledonian University)
‘How the Tail Wagged the Dog: Religiosity and Citizenship in British North America, 1774-1823’

Thursday 4 April
Dr Alasdair Raffe (Northumbria University)
'Presbyterian Politics and the Restoration of Scottish Episcopacy, 1660-1663'

Thursday 18 Apr
Cynthia Fry (University of St Andrews)
‘An "ivel-seasoned journey"? The diplomatic implications of James VI’s voyage to Denmark-Norway, 1589-1590’