If you’re in Montreal and have Scottish ancestry and/or are interested in history, you may want to attend the Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies’ Colloquium at McGill University tomorrow, Friday, April 10, from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m., followed by a reception.
This event is free, and it will also be livestreamed on YouTube.
Here’s the lineup of topics and speakers:
1:00-2:30: New Work in Scottish Studies
Dana Graham Lai (Simon Fraser University), “The Art of the Weak”: Place and Placelessness in the Autobiography, poems and songs of Ellen Johnston
Katherine Wilson-Smith (McGill), Political culture and Scottish-Catholic identity in Glengarry County, Ontario, 1860-71
Grant Schreiber (Guelph), Discipline, Education, and Correction: Social Control of the Poor in seventeenth-century Aberdeen
Chair: Eben Prevec (Queen’s University)
3:00-4:30: The View from the Archives: Montreal and Beyond
Michael Vance (Saint Mary’s University)
Gillian Leitch (St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal)
Heather McNabb (McCord Stewart Museum)
Moderator: Don Nerbas (McGill)
5:00-6:00: Keynote
Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh), “Commanding, valiant men”: Encounters between Scottish Gaels, First Nations and Francophones in Canada
This event will be held at McGill’s beautiful Faculty Club in the 139-year-old Baumgarten House at 3450 McTavish Street.
The St. Andrew’s Society/McEuen Scholarship Foundation Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University was established to advance research and learning about Scots and the Scottish influence in the history of Canada, Quebec and Montreal.
