Oor Mickle Simmer Collogue: Aberdeen Summer Conference

The Society is pleased to announce its residential conference in Aberdeen on 26-28 June. The event is to be held at the Royal Northern & University Club (9 Albyn Place, AB10 1YE), and it will also include a day trip to Elgin!

Further information on the conference is to follow in the next few weeks.

The full conference programme is as follows (times in BST):

Wednesday 26 June

10.30-11.00: Registration
11.00-11.15: Welcome remarks

11-15-12.45: Session 1

• Professor Marjory Harper – Navigating New Worlds: Emigration from the Northern Isles, 1770-2000
• Professor Robert McColl Millar – Founder Populations? Internal and External Forces at Play in the
  Dialects of Scots

12.45-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.30: Session 2

• Dr Jackson Armstrong – ‘All thingis covntit’: Government and Accounting in Fifteenth-Century Burghs
• Dr Hannah Burrows – Emotional Language in Medieval Law

15.30-16.00: Coffee/tea

16.00-17.30: Plenary Lecture

• Professor Gordon Noble – The Development of Kingship in Pictland, AD 300-900

17.30-19.00:

• Walking tour of Aberdeen with Catherine Simpson (Historic Environment Record, Aberdeenshire officer)

Thursday 27 June

10.30-12.45: Session 1

• Dr Shane McLeod – The Siege of Alt Clut: Implications 
• Dr Stephen Harrison – Forgotten Vikings? Reassessing the Role of Women in Early Scandinavian Migration to Britain and Ireland
• Professor Clare Downham – The Kingdom of the Isles and Munster c. 950-1150

12.45-14.00: Lunch

14.00-17:00: Session 2a

• Creative writing workshop with Dr Ragnhild Ljosland (based on Aberdeen witchcraft trial)

17.00-17.30: Coffee/tea

17.30-18:30: Session 2b

• Dr Irene Watt – Traditional music (talk and performance)

19:00: Conference dinner

Friday 28 June

Day trip to Elgin, including Elgin museum, Glen Moray Distillery, and a tour of regional Pictish stones with Dr Lynda McGuigan.