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
Scotland and the spoils of Empire