Academic Programme (Outline)
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| Monday 30th June 2008 | ||
| Plenary: Dr Sally Mapstone (Strand: Early Printing) | ||
| Session 1 (11:30am - 1:00pm) | Session 2 (2:30pm - 3:30pm) | Session 3 (4:00pm - 5.00pm) |
| a) Narrating the Nation | a) Gavin Douglas | a) Literature and Family |
| b) Script to Print | b) National Borders | b) Chepman and Millar prints |
| Evening: Viewing of the National Library of Scotland exhibition 500 Years of Scottish Printing, and Reception. | ||
| Tuesday 1 July 2008 | ||
| Plenary: Professor Gordon Kipling (Strand: Celebration and Commemoration) | ||
| Session 1 (11:00am - 12:30pm) | Session 2 (2:30pm - 4:30pm) | Session 3 (4:30pm - 6.00pm) |
| a) Festivity and Ceremonial | a) Education: Scottish Universities | a) William Dunbar |
| b) Norse Literature | b) Manuscript compilations | b) James VI |
| Wednesday 2 July 2008 | ||
| Plenary: Dr Keith Williamson (Strand: Languages of Scotland) | ||
| Session 1 (11:30am - 1:30pm) | ||
| a) Literary Borders(1) | ||
| b) Literary Borders(2) | ||
| Thursday 3 July 2008 | ||
| Plenary: Professor W Gillies, Gaelic (Strand: Languages of Scotland) | ||
| Session 1 (11:00am - 12:30pm) | Session 2 (2:30 - 4:30pm) | Session 3 (4:30pm - 6:00pm) |
| a) Seventeenth Century Women Writers | a) Editing and Textual Criticism | a) Robert Henryson |
| b) Magic and Medicine | b) Post-Reformation religious writing | b) Fabliau and Humour |
| Friday 4 July 2008 | ||
| Section 1 (9:30am - 11:00am) | Section 2 (11:30am - 1:00pm) | |
| a) Aberdeen Breviary | a) Sir David Lindsay | |
| b) Psychology and Philosophy | b) Woman and Commemoration | |
| Plenary: Professor John McGavin (Strand: Celebration and Commemoration) | ||
