McGill Faculty Club, 10 April 2026, 1 to 6pm 

The livestream link for the event is available here.

1:00-2:30: New Work in Scottish Studies

Dana Graham Lai (Simon Fraser University), “The Art of the Weak”: Place and Placelessness in the Autobiography, poems and songs of Ellen Johnston

Katherine Wilson-Smith (McGill), Political culture and Scottish-Catholic identity in Glengarry County, Ontario, 1860-71

Grant Schreiber (Guelph), Discipline, Education, and Correction: Social Control of the Poor in seventeenth-century Aberdeen

Chair: Eben Prevec (Queen's University)

3:00-4:30: The View from the Archives: Montreal and Beyond

Michael Vance (Saint Mary’s University)

Gillian Leitch (St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal)

Heather McNabb (McCord Stewart Museum)

Moderator: Don Nerbas (McGill)

5:00-6:00: Keynote

Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh), “Commanding, valiant men”: Encounters between Scottish Gaels, First Nations and Francophones in Canada

6:00-7:00: Reception