Death and Identity in Scotland From the Medieval to the Modern New College, University of Edinburgh, Friday 29 to Sunday 31 January 2016

Death in Scotland from the medieval to modern: beliefs, attitudes and practices CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Friday 29th January 2016 12.30 Arrivals and registration, New College Foyer 13.30 Conference Commencement and Introduction 13.45 Professor Ian Campbell, Emeritus Professor of Scottish and Victorian Plenary Lecture Literature, University of Edinburgh: Happy endings 2.45 Break Parallel sessions Session 1: Nonbelief and belief in modern Scotland 1 & 2 1.1 Professor Callum G. Brown, Professor of Late Modern European History, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow: Death and 15.00 atheism: Narrow escapes, bereavement and funerals as instigators of

nonbelief and Humanism in Scotland since 1950

1.2 Nicolle Sturdevant, PhD Candidate, King’s College, Aberdeen: 15.30 Alternative spiritualities and death: How Scottish Pagan celebrants help the decedent, and their family, move on to the next life Session 2: Progressing cremation in modern Scotland 15.00 2.1 Rev Dr Peter C. Jupp, Honorary Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh: The dedication for Kaimhill Crematorium, Aberdeen

(1937)

15.30 2.2 Professor Hilary J. Grainger, Dean and Professor of Architectural History at University of the Arts London: ‘More trouble than Coventry Cathedral’: The architectural identity of Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh 1961-67 16.00 Break, Rainey Hall New College Parallel sessions Session 3: Scottish identity and monumental culture 3 & 4 3.1 Dr Laurie Stanley Blackwell and Dr Michael Linkletter, St. Francis 17.00 Xavier University: Soul effigies, mourning Marys and Green Men: The

imagery of 19th-century Scottish headstones in Eastern Nova Scotia

3.2 Francisco Queiroz, CEPESE - University of Porto, and Cristina 17.30 Moscatel, CHAM / FCSH - Nova University, Lisbon / University of the Azores : Scottish identity in Portuguese cemeteries

3.3 Tiffany Christensen, Arizona State University: There goes the 18.00 neighbourhood: James VI and I, Westminster Abbey and the

construction of the New English national identity

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3.4 Jonathan Kewley, PhD candidate, University of Durham: A kirkyard apart: Was there a distinctively Scottish monumental culture in Scotland and among the Scottish diaspora? Session 4: Early medieval symbolism, landscapes and practice 4.1 Dr Victoria Whitworth, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the 17.00 Highlands and Islands: Freud’s ‘Das Unheimliche’, the personification of

death and two Pictish gravestones

17.30 4.2 John Borland, Historic Environment Scotland: The pattern and distribution of Early Medieval sculpture along the River Spey

4.3 Very Revd Dr Ian Bradley, Principal, St Mary's College, St Andrews: 18.00 The prominence of death in the spiritual landscape of Argyll

18.30 4.4 John Lawson, Archaeology Officer, City of Edinburgh Council: Dark goings on in Cramond 19.00 Drinks Reception Rainey Hall, New College

Saturday 30th January 2016 09.15 Professor Christine Borland, Artist and BALTIC Professor, Northumbria Plenary Lecture University: ‘From Life to Circles of Focus, works of creation and destruction 1994 – 2015’ Parallel sessions Session 5: Architectural and spatial dimensions of seventeenth-century 5 & 6 tomb design 5.1 Cristina Gonzalez-Longo, Director: MSc in Architectural Design for 10.15 the Conservation of Built Heritage, University of Strathclyde: Robert Mylne and the first Baroque mural monument in Greyfriars Kirkyard,

1675

5.2 Dr Fern Insh, Teaching Fellow, History of Art, University of Aberdeen: Monumental passings: Exploring and analysing the design 10.45 of seventeenth-century Scottish tombs

Session 6: Nineteenth-century anatomy 10.15 6.1 Charlie Guy, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk (Lancashire): Close to the bone: The locus of identity within 19th-century anatomy

10.45 6.2 Dee Hoole, Hon. Research Fellow, Department of History, King’s College, University of Aberdeen: Dissecting the destitute: The supply of anatomical subjects to the medical schools of Aberdeen c.1832-1900 11.15 Coffee Break Parallel sessions Session 7: Professionals and childhood death in Modern Scotland 7 & 8 7.1 Maëlle Duchemin-Pelletier, PhD candidate, Centre for the History of 11.45 Medicine University of Glasgow: Stillbirths in Scotland during the

Second World War

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12.15 7.2 Clare Brough Shearer, PhD candidate, Stirling University: Death in Scotland – the way things were

12.45 7.3 Dr Glenys Caswell, Research Fellow, Sue Ryder Care Centre for the Study of Supportive, Palliative and End of Life Care, School of Health Sciences, University of Nottingham: Being parents: Changing approaches to the deaths of babies who die prematurely 11.45 Session 8: Analysing post-Reformation gravestone design 8.1 Dr Elspeth Reid, Secretary of the Pictish Arts Society: Seventeenth- century gravestones in the kirkyards of Angus

12.15 8.2 Lorraine Evans, PhD Candidate at International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy: A thematic passage in mortality: The influence of Ancient Egypt on Scottish funerary architecture and symbolism 12.45 8.3 Dr George Thomson, Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, School of Arts, University of Glasgow: Advanced statistical methods to identify cultural differences in gravemarker design 13.15 Lunch Parallel sessions Session 9: Burial in early modern Scotland 9 & 10 9.1 David Rathel, PhD Candidate, University of St Andrews: The burial of 14.15 the dead in the Scottish Reformations: Exploring diversity of practice in 16th-century Scotland

9.2 Laura Paterson, PhD Candidate, University of Strathclyde: Fear of 14.45 fire: Death by strangling and burning in Early Modern Scotland

9.3 Mauro Di Lullo, PhD Candidate, University of Stirling: Burials in 15.15 Scotland: A lost identity Session 10: Literary figures and influences 14.15 10.1 Jamie Reid Baxter, Honorary Research Fellow in Scottish History at Glasgow University: ‘Nocht bot fame remaynis’: Funerary verse for princes and poets in Renaissance Scotland

14.45 10.2 Emily Knight, DPhil candidate, History of Art, University of Oxford: ‘His undying face’: The death mask of Sir Walter Scott

15.15 10.2 James Morland, PhD candidate, English department at King's College London: Lucretius in the Scottish graveyard: Death, darkness and atomism in Robert Blair’s ‘The Grave’ 15.45 Tea Break Parallel sessions Session 11: Death and burial in monastic contexts 11 & 12

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16.15 11.1 Dr Adrián Maldonado, Research Associate in Archaeology, Glasgow Iona Research Group, University of Glasgow: Stone, fire, wood and water: Elemental transformation in Early Christian burial

16.45 11.2 Christian Clarkson, University of St Andrews: An architecture of mortality: Sickness and death in medieval Scotland Session 12: Meeting the needs of the bereaved: new policy developments 16.15 12.1 Richard Meade, Marie Curie, Susan Lowes, Marie Curie, and Anne Cordon, Honorary Fellow, University of York: Can the Scottish Government alleviate funeral poverty?

16.45 12.2 Rebecca M. Patterson and Mark A. Hazelwood, Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care: To absent friends: A people’s festival of storytelling and remembrance Plenary Panel Death after the Reformation – what do we still need to know about 17.15 continuity and change in practice, beliefs and attitudes? • Professor Jane Dawson, John Laing Professor of Reformation History, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh • Revd Dr Stephen Mark Holmes, Honorary Fellow in Church History, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh • Professor Nigel Llewellyn, (Chair) Honorary Research Fellow, Tate and V&A • Dr Margaret Mackay, Honorary Fellow Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh • Dr Michael Penman, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Stirling 18.15 Close Time (TBA) Conference Dinner

Sunday 31 January 2016 Parallel sessions Session 13: The treatment of royal and noble bodies in medieval Scotland: 13 & 14 ritual and practice 10.00 13.1 Victoria Hodgson, University of Stirling: ‘Ubi locum meum elegi’: Noble burial at the Cistercian house of Coupar Angus

10.30 13.2 Anna Duch, University of York: Many miles before I sleep: The transport of royal bodies out of Scotland

11.00 13.3 Dr Lucy Dean, University of Stirling: Did Scottish kings have two bodies? Session 14: Investigating mortality 10.00 14.1 Robert Shiels, Solicitor in Scotland: The social origins of the deceased at the Ibrox disaster of 1902

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10.30 14.2 Nicholas Duvall, University College Dublin/University of Warwick: ‘With photographs you are so much at the mercy of light and shade.’ Photography and the identification of human remains in a 1935 murder investigation 11.00 14.3. Professor Catriona Paisey, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, N. Paisey, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and Y. Veld- Merkoulova, Monash University, Melbourne: Life expectancy of Scottish chartered accountants - fundamental causes and insights into social class 11.30 Coffee Break 12.00 Professor Douglas J. Davies, Professor in the Study of Religion and Plenary Lecture Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies at Durham University: Great Scot, Great Briton; William Robertson Smith and Sir Thomas Browne - death’s dynamic curators 1.00 Lunch Parallel sessions Session 15: Status, identity and burial 15 & 16 15.1 Dr Stephen Mullen, History. University of Glasgow: The death and 14.00 deification of Glasgow’s ‘Sugar Aristocracy’, 1807-83

14.30 15.2 Rachael Purse, Glasgow City Heritage Trust: Glasgow’s Necropolis: Fear and idealism in nineteenth-century society Session 16: Death and the visual arts 14.00 16.1 Dr Sarah Hoglund, Boise State University: Greyfriars in black and white

14.30 16.2 Michelle Foot, PhD candidate, University of Aberdeen: Modern Spiritualism and the Celtic Revival: Scots, spiritualists and the sidhe 15.00 Concluding remarks and close

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