Scottish Associational Culture in the Diaspora
7th June, 2008
Emmanuel College, Room 1
University of Toronto
75 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto, ON M5S 1K7

This one day conference with bring together an international gathering of scholars to focus on the origins, membership and role of associational and philanthropic groups making claim to Scottish national identity. An emphasis will be place on St Andrew's Societies in Scotland, North America and New Zealand, but other clan, religious, Celtic and Highland groups will be investigated. Contributors include:

R. J. Morris (University of Edinburgh)
'The Scottish Contribution to Nineteenth Century Associational Culture - enlightenment and the Thistle?'

Catherine Bourbou (Universities of Aberdeen and Guelph)
'The St Andrew's Society of Montreal: Philanthropy and Power'

Tanja Bueltmarin (Victoria University of Wellington))
'The Case of the Forgotten Saint? Scottish associational life in New Zealand to 1910'

Karly Kehoe (University of Guelph)
'St Andrew's Societies and the Scottish Catholic Community'

Graeme Morton (University of Guelph)
'Philanthropy and National Identity in Scotland'

Shannon O'Connor (University of Guelph)
'The St's Andrew's Society of Toronto: Scottish ethnic associational culture in the I9th and early 20th centuries'

Kevin James (University of Guelph),
'Associational Culture in I9th century Canada'

Gus Noble (Chicago)
'The St Andrew's Society of Illinois: Chicago's First Charity'

Greg Gillespie (Brock University)
'Ritualized Scottishness: Robert Burns Suppers and Associational Culture'

Andrew Hinson (University of Guelph)
'The Scots in Toronto: a special analysis of Scottish philanthropy in the late 19th century'