Saturday 5 January
A walk to Cumbernauld House, led by Simon Taylor
Introduction and opening remarks
Thomas Owen Clancy (Chair)
Appreciation of Athol Murray
Alan Borthwick
Session 1:
Michael Brown (University of St Andrews),‘“A Margin in the Middle?” Cumbernauld and its Environs in the Late Medieval Period’
Anne Rutten (University of St Andrews), ‘Rolls and Register: understanding the innovative nature of the king’s chapel in the early Stewart reign’
Session 2: Scottish Literature 1400–1650
Rhiannon Purdie (University of St Andrews); Nicola Royan (Nottingham University); Sìm Innes (University of Glasgow); Steven Reid (University of Glasgow)
Book launch (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) Nicola Royan (ed.) The International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400–1650
Sunday 6 January
Session 3: The second A.A.M. Duncan Memorial Lecture
Matthew Hammond (King’s College London), ‘The evolution of the Mac- surname in the Gaelic world’
Session 4: Barrow Award Reports
Alice Taylor (King’s College London)
Lucinda Dean (University of the Highlands and Islands)
Session 5: New Thinking on Old Texts
Alex Maxwell Findlater, ‘The Lyndsay Armorial’
Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow), ‘A new approach to Scotland’s medieval cartulary manuscripts’
Gordon Noble (University of Aberdeen), ‘The development of the Pictish symbol system’
Session 6: Recent Projects
Carole Hough (University of Glasgow), ‘REELS: Recovering the Earliest English Language in Scotland’
Sally Foster (University of Stirling), ‘ECCLES: Early Christian Churches and Landscapes’Nicholas Evans (University of Aberdeen), ‘Comparative Kingship’