Saturday 6 January
Pre-lunch walk A walk to the Antonine Wall, led by Piers Dixon and Simon Taylor
Introduction and opening remarks Prof. Thomas Owen Clancy (Chair)
Session 1: Who and where are we?
Athol Murray: ‘The 60th anniversary of the Scottish Medievalists’
Simon Taylor (University of Glasgow): ‘The place-names of Cumbernauld and its environs’
Bess Rhodes (University of St Andrews): ‘A series of unfortunate events: the life of John, 5th Lord Fleming (d. 1572)’
Session 2: Postgraduate session
William Wyeth (University of Stirling/HES): ‘Results of analysis from a database of early stone castles in Scotland’
Lynn Kilgallon (Trinity College Dublin): ‘“King of the Bees”: communal authority and absentee kingship in Scotland, c.1406–24’
Book launch (sponsored by Birlinn) Jenny Wormald, Mary Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure
Sunday 7 January
Session 3: The first A. A. M. Duncan Memorial: The Battle of Carham, 1000 years on
Neil McGuigan (University of St Andrews): ‘The Battle of Carham: a thousand years on’
Dauvit Broun (University of Glasgow): ‘Southern Scotland as part of the Scottish kingdom: the evidence of the earliest charters’
Session 4: Reports on Barrow Awards
Cynthia Neville (Dalhousie University):‘Wrongdoing and remission: canonical influences on royal pardon in later medieval Scotland’
Claire Hawes (University of Aberdeen):‘Privilege and privacy: corporate politics in Renaissance Scotland, 1469–1542’
Giovanna Guidicini (Glasgow School of Art): ‘Iconography of Stirling Castle façade’
Catherine McMillan:‘“Zeal and charity”: Scottish charitable giving in support of Geneva and the common cause of Protestantism’
Session 5: Law and governance
Alexandra Sanmark (University of the Highlands and Islands): ‘The Norse in Scotland: assembly and assimilation’
Alice Taylor (King’s College London): ‘The medieval manuscripts of Scots law’
Margaret Connolly and Rachel Hart (University of St Andrews):‘A late medieval book and its covers: the Marchmont MS of Regiam Maiestatem and its scribe(s)’