{"id":451,"date":"2016-05-05T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/?p=451"},"modified":"2016-05-23T11:11:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T11:11:30","slug":"new-perspectives-on-the-auld-alliance-conference-21-22-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/memsnews\/2016\/05\/05\/new-perspectives-on-the-auld-alliance-conference-21-22-june\/","title":{"rendered":"New Perspectives on the Auld Alliance Conference (21-22 June)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Kent will host a two-day conference between 21-22 June 2016<\/strong>, entitled: ‘New Perspectives on the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and their neighbours in the Early Modern
\nPeriod’.<\/p>\n

The ‘auld alliance’ between France and Scotland was one of the key diplomatic and cultural connections between the British Isles and Europe. Speakers from seven countries will explore the cultural, diplomatic and military facets of that crucial relationship, as well as showcasing new scholarship exploring alternatives to the ‘auld alliance’ and challenging assumptions that the ‘auld alliance’ fractured with Scotland’s conversion to Protestantism in 1560.<\/p>\n

Please see below for a provisional programme for the conference. Full registration fees are \u00a355<\/strong> per person (with an optional\u00a0conference dinner to be booked separately).<\/p>\n

Online registration<\/a> is now open – for any queries\u00a0relating to\u00a0the conference, please email: newperspectivesonauldalliance@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

New Perspectives on the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and their neighbours in the Early Modern Period<\/strong><\/p>\n

21-22 June 2016, The University of Kent, Canterbury<\/p>\n

Provisional<\/em> conference programme:<\/strong><\/p>\n

9-9.30<\/strong>: registration<\/p>\n

9.30-11<\/strong>: Panel 1: 1: Translation and Identity<\/strong>
\nBryony Coombs, University of Edinburgh: \u2018Creating Identities: Scots Patronage of the Visual Arts in France 1490-1530\u2019.
\nJamie Reid-Baxter, University of Glasgow: ‘King David, Charles IX and James VI as tyrants: Beza, Belleau, Melville and the Miserere’.
\nAstrid Stilma, Canterbury Christ Church University, \u2018Confessions and Meditations: Translating Scottish Protestant Politics in the Low Countries and France\u2019<\/p>\n

11.-11.30<\/strong>: Coffee<\/p>\n

11.30-1: Panel 2: War and Identity<\/strong>
\nGraeme Millen, University of St Andrews: \u2018Fighting an \u2018Auld Ally\u2019: The Scots-Dutch Brigade during the Franco-Dutch War, 1672-1678\u2019
\nLuca Fois, Universit\u00e0 Bocconi, Milano: \u2018Strangers in a Strange Land: Scottish troops and community in Milian during the Italian Wars\u2019
\nEric Durot, Universit\u00e9 de la Sorbonne: \u2018The Auld Alliance and the Franco-Scottish Wars of Religion\u2019<\/p>\n

1-2: Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n

2-3.30: Panel 3: 1560 and Beyond<\/strong>
\nSiobhan Talbott, Keele University: \u2018Surviving the \u2018chill blast of Protestantism\u2019: The Franco-Scottish Auld Alliance, 1560-1713\u2019
\nDavid Potter, Emeritus, University of Kent: \u2018The splendours and miseries of a French ambassador: Paul de Foix and the British Isles, 1562-66\u2019
\nVioletta Trofimova, Independent scholar, St. Petersburg, Russia: \u2018Three generations of Haddington family and France\u2019<\/p>\n

3.30-4: Coffee<\/strong><\/p>\n

4-5.30: Panel 4: Alternatives to France<\/strong>
\nSimon Egan, University College Cork: \u2018Scotland’s second ‘auld’ alliance? The O’Donnells of Tyrconnell and the Stewart monarchy, c.1450-1541\u2019
\nLaura Crombie, University of York: \u2018Lions United? Diplomatic relations between Scotland and the Burgundian Low Countries, c.1384-1500\u2019
\nSilke Muylaert, University of Kent: \u2018A Protestant intermediary between Scotland and the Continent: The Stranger Churches in England\u2019<\/p>\n

5.45-6.45: Keynote lecture, Professor Steve Murdoch<\/strong>, University of St Andrews: \u2018The Auld Alliance and the French intervention in the Thirty Years\u2019 War, 1630-1648\u2019<\/p>\n

6.45-7.15: Wine reception, sponsored by the University of Kent\u2019s Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/p>\n

7.15: Taxis to central Canterbury; 7.30pm: Dinner
\nDay 2; 22 June<\/p>\n

8.45-9.15 am: Coffee<\/p>\n

9.15-10.45: Panel\u00a0 5: The Rough Wooings and their aftermath: the apotheosis of the \u2018auld alliance\u2019?<\/strong>
\nAysha Pollnitz, Grinnell College: \u2018Learning on the job?\u200e Mary, Queen of Scots in France and Scotland\u2019
\nAnnette Bachstaadt, Universit\u00e9 de Rheims: \u2018Marie of Guise-Lorraine and the end of the auld alliance\u2019
\nAmy Blakeway, University of Kent: \u2018Believing the auld enemy? French understandings of the history of the British Isles\u2019<\/p>\n

10.45-11.15<\/strong>: Coffee<\/p>\n

11.15-12:<\/strong> Roundtable Discussion: where next for studies of the auld alliance, and concluding remarks<\/p>\n

12<\/strong>: Conference concludes.<\/p>\n

This conference is generously funded by the University of Kent\u2019s Humanities Faculty Research Fund and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n

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