9.45-11.15            Union, Empire and National Identity

Esther Breitenbach (University of Edinburgh)

Empire, civil society and national identity

Philip Stern (American University)

‘The unaccountable evil Treatments of our said Neighbours’: Politics, investment and the making of a ‘national’ Scottish East India Company, 1695-1707

R.S. Taylor Stoermer (University of Virginia)

Breaking the circles of trust: the unintended consequences of the Union of 1707

11.30-12.30            Female Frontiers within the Empire

Felicity Donohoe (University of Glasgow)

Native Canadian women and Scotsmen in the eighteenth century fur trade

Marjory Harper (University of Aberdeen)

Female frontiers: Expectations and experiences of Scotland’s women emigrants, 1850-1950

2.00-3.30            Scotland and Slave Societies

Douglas Hamilton (University of Hull)

Scots and slaves in the British Caribbean

Claire Swan (University of Dundee)

Enlightening the Empire? Scottish Doctors in the Caribbean, 1750-1850

Margot Finn (University of Warwick)

Slaves and bastards: Scots and the Indian empire at home, c.1780-1820

3.45-5pm            Keynote Address

Tom Devine