Events • Conferences • Lectures • Exhibitions
CONFERENCES
Inexhaustible Abundance?
Environmental History, Educators & Sustainable Development
Conference: Saturday 24 March 2007
Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling
Organized by The Department of History & The HE Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics & Archaeology
This exciting one-day conference will focus on the key terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’, which are currently two of the most contentious global issues. To enable us to make more informed future policy choices we need to determine how the actions of our ancestors have already affected both the environment and the landscape, and gain an understanding of long-term change. It would also be mistaken to focus solely on Scotland, as we are part of a wider North Atlantic World. Accordingly, some of the papers will concentrate on our near neighbours, England and Iceland, to provide a wider historical context for sustainability issues. Yet another part of the day will focus on sustaining the teaching of environmental history and on best methods of disseminating the core of research knowledge to a wider audience so that in the future people can make more informed decisions about the environment.
The full cost of the conference is £25 for non-students/£7.50 for students and includes morning coffee and a buffet lunch. For full details and a conference programme please contact:
Dr Alasdair Ross, Department of History, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
e-mail – alasdair.ross@stir.ac.uk
Union of 1707
Conference:
Friday 18th May
2007 sees the tercentenary of one of the most controversial moments in Scottish history: the parliamentary Union with England in 1707. This day conference aims to showcase the work of an exciting new generation of Scottish historians engaged in revising the traditional agenda of debate on the Union. Not only was the era of Union a scene of conflict between competing nationalist and unionist visions of Scotland's future, but the period also needs to be understood in the light of a vigorous culture of popular politics beyond the parliamentary elite, fierce religious debates over the status of the kirk, and a major European war.
Full Registration Fee £35; RSE Fellows' Fee £30;
Concessionary Fee - £20* (unwaged / student) *(Proof required)
To register or for further information:
Telephone / Textphone: 0131 240 5000
Fax: 0131 240 5024
Royal Society of Edinburgh, 22-26 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ
Email: events@royalsoced.org.uk
http://www.royalsoced.org.uk
Scottish Association of Family History Societies Conference 2007
EMIGRATION
From Poverty to Prosperity
Saturday, 21 April 2007
Culloden Academy Community Complex, Inverness.
Hosted by Highland FHS. Speakers: Dr Marjory Harper, Senior Lecturer in History, Aberdeen University ; Prof Jim Hunter, Head of the Dept of the University of Highlands and Islands Centre for History; David Stenhouse, Journalist and Senior Producer at BBC Radio Scotland and Prof Ted Cowan, Professor of History at Glasgow University.
SAFHS.
Contact: kenglenlivet@tiscali.co.uk
Historical Settlement around Clyde Seaways
Rothesay, Isle of Bute
Sat May 12th 9.30 – 5pm
Half-day conference focusing on aspects of past life around the Clyde Seaways plus afteroon field trip etc. Fee of £25. Organised by The Historic Rural Settlement Group. Contact Dr. Richard Tipping, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences,University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA.
e-mail: rt1@stir.ac.uk
http://www.molrs.org.uk
LECTURES/TALKS
Tercentenary of the Anglo-Scottish union 1707
Events at the University of Edinburgh
13 March, The death of Unionism? Nationalism and Devolution since ca 1960.
McEwan Hall, Bristo Square.
6.00 pm:
Speakers: Prof. Bill Miller, University of Glasgow; Dr Tam Dalyell, Former Rector, University of Edinburgh, Chair
17 April: Where stands the Union now?
Assembly Hall 6.00 pm. Speakers: Prof John Curtice, University of Strathclyde; Prof Charlie Jeffery, University of Edinburgh;
Mr Allan Massie, Author and Commentator; Harry Reid, Journalist and Author; Dr Magnus Linklater, Journalist and Author, Chair
Contact details: you can book online at www.ed.ac.uk
The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
Friends of the Smith Lecture Series
Lecture Theatre. 7:30pm
The admission fee is £3.00, which includes tea/coffee and biscuits.
26 March: Self Reflections. Matilda Mitchell, former Curator of the University of Stirling Art Collection, will talk about self portraits by women through the ages.
LOCAL SOCIETIES
Abertay Historical Society
Discovery Point (unless otherwise stated) 6.30pm
14 March:"For Honour and Me": Killiecrankie, minor skirmish or crucial battle? Grant Carnegie, Military Historian
11 April: Ninewells Revisited
Dr Graham Lowe, Tayside Medical History Museum & Alan Wightman, Architect
25 April: Auld Kirk, Castle Street, Tayport - 6.30pm (refreshments from 6pm) Cynicus and his Tayport publishing company. Flora Davidson, Cynicus biographer
9 May: AGM Dundee and the Span- ish Civil War. Mike Arnott, Dundee Trades Union Council
Aberdeen & NE Scotland Family History Society
Queen Street Church Hall, Aberdeen. 2.00pm.
15 Mar. AGM plus talk: tba
Moray-Banff Group Activities Room, Elgin Library. 2.00pm.
31 March:Getting started with your Family History. Jean Shirer
Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Carnegie Library, Ayr (Garden Street entrance) 7.45pm
8 March: Historical Geography of the Shetland Isles. Jim Goodland
Dollar History Society
Academy Dining Hall. 7.30pm
13 March: The Haldane Family. Mr Martin Haldane of Gleneagles, Perthshire
Drymen & District Local History Society
Drymen Village Hall at 7.45 pm on Thursday evenings.
22 March: The Glasgow Necropolis. Nigel Willis and Richard Weddle.
Dumfriesshire & Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
Cumberland Street Day Centre, Dumfries, at 7.30 p.m.
2 March: Special General Meeting . Members' Night
16 March: Excavation at Lockerbie Academy.Magnus Kirkby,. CFA Archaeology,
31 March: Early Christian and Pictish Stones. (Saturday) Kirkcudbright Meeting. Ingval Maxwell,Historic Scotland,
(Please note that this meeting will be held in the Town Hall, St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright at 2.00 p.m.)
Edingburgh Archaeology Field Society
7.30pm at 23a Fettes Row
13 March: The Appin Murder 1752 . Andrew Broom, Retired Deputy Keeper of National Archives of Scotland
Fife FHS
Buckhaven Theatre, Lawrence Street, Buckhaven. 7.30pm
Mar 13: Sheila Pitcairn
Apr 10: Mining Evidences in the Parish of Wemyss. Dave Reid
Glasgow Archaeological Society
Sesquicentennial Programme
Lecture Theatre 2, Boyd Orr Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, at 7.30 pm
15 March: Empire and River Part II: Commercial and Industrial Glasgow. Dr Chris Dalglish, University of Glasgow.
19 April : Archaeology, Culture and Society in Scotland. Neal Ascherson, Institute of Archaeology,
London.
Peebles Archaeological Society
7.45 pm in the Eastgate Theatre, Peebles.
13 March: Life and Death in Bronze Age Tweeddale’. Tam Ward, Biggar Museum Trust.
Joint Meeting with the Tweeddale Society
Tay Valley Family History Society
University of Abertay, Bell Street, Dundee at 7.15 p.m.
21 March: The Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther.
Speaker: Linda Fitzpatrick
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