University of Strathclyde - Seminar Series: IDENTITY AND MOBILITY FROM JACOBITISM TO EMPIRE, c.1680-c.1820

University of Strathclyde – Seminar SeriesDepartment of History, February-June 2009in association with the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen IDENTITY AND MOBILITY FROM JACOBITISM TO EMPIRE, c.1680-c.1820Seminars will be held from 5.15-6.30 p.m. in R. 4.02, Department of History, McCance Building, 16 Richmond St, Glasgow G1 1XQ

5 February         English Liturgy and Scottish Identity: The Case of James Greenshields, 1709-11Dr Jeffrey Stephen, University of Strathclyde19 February        Scotland’s Lost Revolution – Versailles, St. Germain and the Scots Jacobite Underground in 1708Professor Daniel Szechi, University of Manchester5 March                Defending the Colonies against malicious attacks of Philanthropy: Scottish Imperial Networks and the Anti-Abolition campaigns –Dr Doug Hamilton, University of Hull19 March              ‘In Defence of our Lawful Sovereign King George, The Succession as Established by Law and the Protestant Religion’: Hanoverian Loyalism, Scots Whig Volunteers and the ’15 Rising –Dr Derek Patrick, University of Dundee9 April                   Scottish Networks in the Dutch Americas in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuriesDr Esther Mijers, University of Reading23 April               The Empire of Political Economy (tbc) – Professor Steve Pincus, Yale University7 May                    Logics of an Eccentric: Networks and Travels of William Playfair (1759-1823) -          Dr Jean-François Dunyach, University of Paris IV Sorbonne21 May                 ‘But Dear Doctor, if possible let him be an Englishman’ : The Church of England in the West Indies (1680-1720) – made in Scotland from probityDr Sarah Barber, University of Lancaster4 June                   In the Service of State, Company and Empire: the careers of the Malcolms of Burnfoot, 1780-1830 –Dr Robert Blyth, National Maritime Museum, London18 June                 The Scottish electric contribution to the German EnlightenmentDr Tom McInally, University of Aberdeen

Still to be finalised, papers from Dr Abby Swingen, Auburn  University (Royal Africa Company) & Dr John McIntosh, Edinburgh (Seceders and Overseas Missions)

Seminar Organisers

Professor Allan I. Macinnes, Professor of Early Modern History & Dr Jeffrey Stephens, University of Strathclyde in association with the AHRC, Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.

Please contact allan.macinnes@strath.ac.uk for further information about these events.