Programme

Thurdsay, June 26, 2025

Morning (9am to 1pm): Land and power in Scotland, historical perspectives

9.30-10.30am

Keynote: Annie Tindley (University of Newcastle) – "Feudal power and the politics of Clearance: the value(s) of land and the limits of landed power in Scotland, c. 1800-the present"

11am-1pm

Session 1

- John YOUNG (University of Strathclyde) – "The pre-1707 Scottish Parliament and the use of forfeiture as a legal and political weapon"

- Juliette DESPORTES (University of Glasgow) – "The Language of the Land in Scottish Highland Petitions, 1745-1784"

- Regina PÖRTNER (University of Swansea) – "'The National Debt no National Grievance'. The Scottish land question and the debate on public finance in Britain, 1762-1820"

- Thomas ARCHAMBAUD (Paris-Sorbonne University) – "Improvements strategies and reactionary politics: the Macphersons, Sir John Sinclair and land management in Scotland, 1780-1820"

- Scott MACFIE (University of Glasgow) – "‘Shameful Tyranny!’: Land and Politics on the Dumfries Estate, 1832-1841"

Afternoon (1.30 to 5.30pm): Land and power in Scotland, legal perspectives

2-3pm

Keynote: Andrew Wightman (former MSP for Lothian and author of The Poor Had No Lawyers, Who Owns Scotland?) – "Scot Land and the Environment"

3.30-5.30pm

Session 2

- Thomas SHERMAN (University of Cambridge) – "Property Rights and Historical Legitimacy in the Scottish School"

- Alexander JORDAN (Metropolitan University Prague) - "Thomas Carlyle and the Land Question"

- Edwige CAMP-PIETRAIN (UPHF Valenciennes) – "The Land Reform Act 2003, a flagship policy in the early stages of devolution"

- Calum ROSS (solicitor, Law Society of Scotland, University of Edinburgh) – "Mortensen v Peters (1906) in context: a surcease of environmental justice?"

- Carey DOYLE (SRUC, Scotland’s Rural College) – "Searching for Community Empowerment: Success and Scotland's Community Rights to Buy"

Friday, June 27, 2025

Morning (9am to 1pm): Land and power in Scotland, environmental perspectives

9.30-10.30am

Keynote: Richard Oram (University of Stirling) – "Historicising Environment and Environmental Change in 21st-century Scotland"

11-1pm

Session 3

- Emma BELL (University of Savoie Mont-Blanc, Chambéry) – "Commoning the rewilding agenda in Scotland"

- Iain ROBERTSON (University of the Highlands and Islands) – "Attitudes to land, environment and landscape in the Highlands and Islands between 1746 and 2021 as resistance and heritage"

- Hélène FOUHETY-LAFAYE (Professeur agrégée CPGE) – "Les représentations des paysages écossais comme outils de la mise en tourisme"