2012 Spring Colloquium Programme
Saturday, April 7
Knox College
University of Toronto
75 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto, ON M5S 1K7

REGISTRATION
10:00am Coffee Service

Morning Talks


Dr. Graeme Morton: Welcome
10:30am-10:40am



Dr. Amy Blakeway (Westminster College)
Politics and Power in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
10:40am-11:20am

Amy Blakeway received her PhD entitled 'Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland' from Cambridge in 2010 and she is currently revising the thesis into a monograph. She has published in the Scottish Historical Review and Innes Review, and held a W. M. Keck Foundation fellowship at the Huntington Library. She is currently the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor in British History at Westminster College in Missouri.



Dr. Steven Reid (Yale University)
The Poetry of Andrew Melville
11:20am-12noon

Steven Reid was awarded his PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2008. Steven has been a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow since completing his PhD, where he specialises in the intellectual and religious culture of Scotland during the renaissance and reformation (c. 1450-1650). He is the author of Humanism and Calvinism: Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland 1560-1625 and (co-edited with Emma Wilson) Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts: Ramism in Britain and the Wider World (both Ashgate, 2011). He is currently a Fulbright Scottish Studies Scholar at Yale University.



Sarah McCaslin MA (University of Edinburgh)
Salutes of Sentiments: Expressions of Scottish-American Identity in the Early Republic
12noon-12:30pm

Sarah McCaslin is a second-year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, studying Scottish clubs and societies in Scotland and America from c.1750 to 1830. She is supervised by Dr. Alex Murdoch and Dr. Stana Nenadic and is a McFarlane Scholar at the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies based at the University of Edinburgh.


LUNCH
12:30pm-1:30pm
(AGM of Scottish Studies Foundation will take place during lunch)

Afternoon Talks


Dr. Mairi Cowan (University of Toronto) and John Edwards (Musician in Ordinary)
Fragments of the Early Scottish Lute: An Imaginative Assembly of Musical and Textual Traces
1:30pm-2:00pm

Mairi Cowan is a lecturer at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Her current major research project is a book about religion in Scotland c. 1350-1560. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Dr Cowan argues that although most Scots continued to participate in Catholic religious customs right up to the Protestant Reformation, these practices underwent significant changes when a combination of lay-led initiatives and elite-driven repressions brought the beginnings of Catholic Reform to Scotland some time before its official Protestant Reformation of 1560.



Dr. Valerie Wallace (Harvard University)
Global Covenant: Presbyterian Radicalism in the Ninteenth-Century British World
2:00pm-2:45pm

Valerie Wallace is the inaugural Fulbright Scottish Studies Scholar and Visiting Fellow at the Center for History and Economics, Harvard University. She recently completed her doctorate at the University of Glasgow on Presbyterianism and political radicalism in Scotland and Canada during the early nineteenth-century age of reform. She is now working on a global history of Presbyterian radicalism from 1815 to 1914.


Dr. Graeme Morton: Closing Remarks
2:45pm-3:00pm