Saturday 7 January
Introduction and opening remarks Prof. Jane Dawson (Chair)
Session 1: Late medieval noble power
Sandy Grant (Lancaster University):‘Lords and lairds: reflections on noble power in late medieval Scotland’
Session 2: Postgraduate session – Legacy of the medieval past
Edwin Sheffield (University of Glasgow):‘Restoration era clan histories and genealogies’
Alasdair Whyte (University of Glasgow):‘Settlement-names and society: the medieval districts of Forsa and Moloros, Mull’
Laura Harrison (University of Edinburgh):‘Monumental commemorations of the first Scottish War of Independence, 1800–1939’


After dinner John Malden:‘Outspoken, amusing and a thorn in the flesh of authority, called J…’
Sunday 8 January
Session 3: Reports on Barrow Awards
Michael Penman (University of Stirling):‘Dunfermline project’
Katy Jack (University of Stirling):‘The earldom of Mar’
Edda Frankot (University of Aberdeen):‘The Scottish translations of the Laws of Oleron’
William Hepburn (University of Aberdeen):‘Medieval burgh registers’
Session 4: Court, Kirk and Community revisited: an assessment of Jenny Wormald’s legacy to the study of Renaissance and Reformation Scotland
Steven Reid (University of Glasgow):‘Court’
Catherine McMillan (University of Edinburgh):‘Kirk’
Miles Kerr-Peterson (University of Glasgow):‘Community’
Message from Maurice Lee
Session 5
Felicity Heal (University of Oxford):‘“Defending” the Tudors – debates with Jenny’
Ian Campbell (University of Edinburgh):‘The Stewarts had style(s): architecture and aspirations’