With Kevin James and the University of Guelph's Centre for Scottish Studies, I am co-ordinating a collaborative project on Networking Jacobites From 1688 to the Present. The project brings together scholars from different areas and disciplines (Book History, Art History, Gaelic, Gender Studies, Geography, Library Science) in order to promote innovative perspectives on Jacobite networks. "Networking Jacobites" aims to address the topic of Jacobitism from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national and multilingual perspective.

 

Networking Jacobites From 1688 to the Present

University of Guelph, August 27-28, 2022 

Program

 

August 27

8:00-9:00: Buffet Breakfast - University Centre (UC, RM 442)

9:00-9:30: Welcome, Introductions and Building Collaboration (UC, RM 442)

9:30-10:30: Networking Jacobite Archives (UC, RM 442) 

Anette Hagan (National Library of Scotland), “Jacobite Chapbooks” (remote)

Conversation with network members Anette Hagan, Ralph McLean and Robert Betteridge (remote) and discussion of Jacobite archives 

10:30-11:00: Coffee break (UC, RM 442)

11:00-12:30 Ideological and Intellectual Networks of Jacobitism (UC, RM 442)

Chair: Taylor Breckles

Michael Brown, “Jacobite Politics and the Conspiratorial Mind” (remote)

Kate Mathis, “Gaelic Jacobite women’s poetry from ‘the Whining Age’ to 1715” (remote)

Éamonn Ó Ciardha, 'Historians, Ireland and the Jacobites' (remote)

Erin Peters, “‘An Age Big with Changes’: Traumatogenic Exchange, Exile, and the Origins of Jacobitism” 

David Parrish, “Commonplace Jacobitism:  Commonplace books as maps of Jacobite intellectual networks”

12:30-12:45 Virtual presentations by Marissa Lopez, Chianne Seidel, Emma Trotter and Roya Pishvaei from Leith Davis’s English 415W “Mediating Jacobites” course in Spring, 2022  (UC, RM 442)

12:45-1:45  Buffet Lunch (UC, RM 442)

1:45-3:00  Material and Memorial Networks of Jacobitism (UC, RM 442)

Chair: Julianna Wagar

Viccy Coltman and Georgia Vullinghs, “‘3 ¼ pound of figs and hearts horn’: The Material Culture of Jacobitism as seen in ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript”

Aonghas MacCoinnich, “Clanship, Faith and Jacobitism: Donnchadh MacRath and a Jacobite's Duanaire, 1688-1693”

Harry Lewis, “Jacobite prisoners in the Caribbean and North America”

Shauna Irani & Emma Trotter, “Trauma and Memory in The Lyon in Mourning” 

3:00-4:30: Exploration of the U of Guelph Jacobite holdings with Melissa McAfee and Ashley Shifflett-McBrayne (Archival & Special Collections Reading Room, 2nd floor, McLaughlin Library)

Including overview of collection ; exploration of selected materials ; and Behind the Scenes Tour of Archival & Special Collections 

Symposium Dinner: 6:00-7:00 (University Club, UC - 5th floor)

August 28

8:00-9:00 Buffet Breakfast - (UC, RM 442)

9:00-10:15 Literary Networks and Jacobitism (UC, RM 442)

Chair: Emma Trotter

Betty Schellenberg, “Double-Faced Creeds: Jacobite Poetry and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany”

Pam Perkins, “Anne Grant and Literary Networks of Jacobitism”

Penny Fielding, “Jacobites, Sedition and Secret History in Scott’s Novels”

Juliet Shields, “Keeping it in the Family: The Oliphants’ Intergenerational Jacobitism”

10:15-11:30 Jacobitism and Networks of Cultural Memory (UC, RM 442)

Chair: Shauna Irani 

Kirsteen McCue and Julianna Wagar, “Jacobite Songs and Singing Jacobites” 

Kenneth McNeil, “(Un)Forgetting the Covenanters: Jacobite Counter Memory and Cultural Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Scotland”

Kevin James and Andrew Northey, “Exhibiting the Jacobite: The Highland and Jacobite Exhibition of 1903”

Taylor Breckles, “Representations of Charles Edward Stuart from ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ to  ‘Outlander’

11:30-11:45 Coffee break (UC, RM 442)

11:45-1:00  Jacobitism, Information Management and Digital Humanities (UC, RM 442)

David Radcliffe, “Social Network Theory and Jacobite Networks”

Darren S. Layne, “‘A Fair Account of All They Knew’: Witness Networks and Information Management in Jacobite Prosecutions, 1745-7”

Leith Davis, Taylor Breckles, Shauna Irani, Emma Trotter, Julianna Wagar: “A New Approach to Old Networks: Encoding Robert Forbes’s ‘Lyon in Mourning’ Manuscript

1:00-1:45  Buffet Lunch (UC, RM - 430)

2:00-5:00 Community presentation: Jacobites, Jacobins and Scottish Cultural Memory (UC, RM 442)

2-3: Special Guest Speaker Viccy Coltman, ‘Wartime: Scottish Officers in Military Service, 1793-1815’

3-3:15 Break

3:15-3:45 U of Guelph’s Jacobite Digital Exhibit Panel: Ashley Shifflett-McBrayne, Wilda Thumm, Gavin Hughes and Andrew Northey 

3:45-4:15: Simon Fraser Jacobite Studies Research Forum: Leith Davis, Taylor Breckles, Shauna Irani, Emma Trotter, Julianna Wagar

4:15-5:00  Susan Nase, Choreographing and Performing a Dance Piece on Culloden

The symposium will conclude at 5:00 pm. 

 With Kevin James and the University of Guelph's Centre for Scottish Studies, I am co-ordinating a collaborative project on Networking Jacobites From 1688 to the Present. The project brings together scholars from different areas and disciplines (Book History, Art History, Gaelic, Gender Studies, Geography, Library Science) in order to promote innovative perspectives on Jacobite networks. "Networking Jacobites" aims to address the topic of Jacobitism from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national and multilingual perspective.

 

Papers connected with this project will be presented at "Networking Jacobites, 1688 to the Present," a SSHRC-funded invited symposium to take place at the University of Guelph August 27-28. A joint event organized by Simon Fraser University’s Research Centre for Scottish Studies (RCSS) and the University of Guelph’s Centre for Scottish Studies (CSS), “Networking Jacobites” will highlight internationally important resources in Canadian universities and position Canadian academics as leaders in innovative research on Jacobitism. It will connect faculty and students at the Scottish Studies centresat Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the University of Guelph (UofG) and lay the foundation for further research collaborations between both our Centres and post-secondary institutions, museums and archives in Scotland. The “Networking Jacobites” symposium will constitute a new scholarly network representing innovative approaches to Jacobitism, develop new research trajectories and mobilize our research.