Saturday 9 January
Introduction and Opening Remarks: Chair,Professor Hector MacQueen (Scottish Law Commission)
Paper 1: Dr Amanda Beam, University of Glasgow: Connections and family networks of the Umfraville and Balliol families
Paper 2: Dr Alexander Grant, University of Lancaster: Noble bastards in Late Medieval Scotland
Paper 3: Mr Thomas Green, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh: Scottish Protestant divorce for adultery: was the guilty party impeded from re-marriage during the lifetime of their innocent spouse?
Sunday 10 January
Paper 4: Dr Joanna Martin, University of Nottingham and Dr Sebastiaan Verweij, University of Cambridge: Family books and Commemoration in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Paper 5: Dr Heather Pulliam, University of Edinburgh: ‘Four legs good, two legs bad’: families, animals and Insular art
Paper 6: Dr Rhiannon Purdie, University of St Andrews: Sir Colling the Campbell: fictionalising family history in late medieval Scotland