Thursday 28th April 2022

14.45 Zoom opens

15.00 Opening remarks

15.15 - 16.15 Panel 1: Literary Afterlives

Singing the Cherrie, Placing the Slae: The Seventeenth-Century Reception of Alexander Montgomerie

Dr Sebastiaan Verweij, University of Bristol

A James Melville Mystery Partly Solved

Dr Jamie-Reid Baxter, University of Glasgow

16.30 - 17.30 Panel 2: The Union of the Crowns and Textual Borderlands

The assumption is Scottish and the conclusion is false': The relationship between Scots and English presented in Alexander Hume's 'Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britain Tongue'

Molly Campbell, University of Glasgow

The Appeal of Print: courtly engagement with print culture during the Union of the Crowns

Lisa Benn, University of Nottingham

19.00 - 20.15 Keynote Paper 1

'To Shape an Emergent Public': Coventant, Satire and Panegyric

Professor David Parkinson, University of Saskatchewan

Friday 29th April 2022

12.45 Zoom Opens

13.00 Virtual Visit to Archives and Special Collections, St Andrews University (pre-recorded)

15.00 - 16.15 Panel 3: Realms of the Stuarts

Marking the Land: Scottish Literary Cartographies and the Death of Prince Henry

Dr Kirsten Sandrock, University of Goettingen

Queering the Castalian: James VI + I and 'narratives of blood'

Dr Lucy Hinnie, The British Library

16.15 - 17.15 Panel 4: Print and the Production of Civic Space

John Forbes' Songs and Fancies: The Musical and Printing Legacy of Seventeenth Century Aberdeen

Roslyn Potter, University of Glasgow

'The New Claret-Club': News, Networks and the Scottish Restoration Stage

Jessica Reid, University of Glasgow

19.00 - 20.15 Keynote Paper 2

William Drummond of Hawthornden's 'Forth Feasting': Panegyric, Hope, and National Ideas at the birth of the British Union, Dr Allison Steenson, University of Sussex

20.15 - 20.45 Closing remarks and interval

20.45 - 21.15 Pre-recorded Concert

A selection of early modern music curated by Roslyn Potter, featuring:

Madrigirls

iuchar

Eric Thomas & Roslyn Potter

Andy Bull

Glasgow University Chapel Choir

Friday 29th April 2022 - in-person

If you are in or around Glasgow for the Friday of the Symposium, we have booked the Gilchrist Postgraduate Space (main building) to screen both the final keynote paper and the screening of the concert. Find details and registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sscsl-2022-in-person-networking-event-tickets-314447891107

**There are a LIMITED numbers of places and we will be providing NIBBLES AND DRINKS so please only register if you can attend, and do cancel in good time so you ticket can be reallocated.**