HUGH MILLER BICENTENARY CONFERENCE: 10-13 OCTOBER 2002

Hugh Miller in Context

International Bicentenary Conference:
Themes: Church and Society, Ethnography and Folklore, Geology and
Natural
History

Thursday 10- Sunday 13 October 2002

To be held in Cromarty, near Inverness, Scotland
The conference is jointly arranged by the Cromarty Arts Trust, the
Elphinstone Institute (University of Aberdeen), and the Highland
Theological
College, Dingwall, with the financial support of Scottish Natural
Heritage,
Ross & Cromarty Enterprise, the Highland Council, Cromarty Firth Port
Authority and other sponsors.

Delegate registration fee: ?75 (incl VAT). Details of conference shown
below. For registration form and further details see:

http://www.hughmiller.org/calendar.html

The Conference Programme

Keynotes:

Professor David Lowenthal, Berkely USA:

"Caring for Nature: the transatlantic canvas of the nineteenth century"

Professor Christopher Harvie, Tubingen, Germany:

"Hugh Miller and the Scottish Crisis"

Professor Eric Richards, Department of History, Flinders University,
Adelaide:

"Hugh Miller and Resistance to the Highland Clearances"


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Themes:

Church and Society

1. Rev Frank Bardgett (National Mission, Church of Scotland)
"Neither Minister nor Missionary: Staffing and mobilising for Home
Mission"

2. Dr Deryck Lovegrove (St Mary's College, Univ of St Andrews)
"New Directions of the Nineteenth-Century Church: leadership, purpose
and
structure."

3. Iain Maciver (Nat Library of Scotland)
"Voyager on uncharted waters: Hugh Miller and the foundation of The
Witness
1839-40"

4. Dr Nick Needham (Highland Theological College)
"The Disruption: religious and political issues"

5. Rev David Robertson (Free Church Minister, Dundee)
"Religious radicalism and political freedom"

6. Hugh Cheape (Nat Museums of Scotland)
"A hotbed of bigotry and a sea of difficulties"

7. Michael Fry (Historian & Writer)
"Hugh Miller, spin doctor"

8. Krystina Fenyo (Hungary, ex Univ of Glasgow)
"Views of the Highlanders and the Clearances in the Scottish Press,
1845-55"

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Ethnography & Folklore

1. Dr Wm Brogden (Robert Gordon University)
"The pattern of townships and associated landscapes in the Cromarty
Firth"

2. Ian Fraser, (Honorary Fellow, School, of Scottish Studies, Univ of
Edinburgh)
"The place-names of Cromarty"

3. Prof. Ted Cowan (Univ of Glasgow)
"Miller's Tale: traditional history and historical tradition"

4. Lizanne Henderson (Centre for Scottish Studies, Univ of Strathclyde)
"The natural and supernatural world of Hugh Miller"

5. Gavin Sprott (Keeper of Social and Technological History, Nat Museum
of
Scotland)
"The life of the countryside: the changes Miller observed"

6. Elizabeth Sutherland (Historian & Writer, Rosemarkie)
"My Lydia and the women of Cromarty"

7. Dr Lucille Campey (Researcher and author)
"Cromarty - Highland gateway for emigration, sailing to British North
America 1774-1855"

8. David Forsyth (Curator, Nat Museums of Scotland)
"'Altogether a delightful country!' The Free Church settlement in Otago,
New
Zealand"

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Geology & Natural History

1. Professor Hugh Torrens (University of Keele)
"Thoughts on the complex and forgotten history of mineral expoloration,
and
the pioneering work of William Smith"

2. Dr Simon Knell (Dept of Museum Studies, Univ of Leicester) & Dr
Michael
Taylor (Dept of Zoology and Palaeontology, Nat Museums of Scotland)
"Hugh Miller: fossil discoverer and collector"

3. Prof Michael Collie (Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto)
"The culture of science: Hugh Miller's dealings with contemporary
scientists"

4. Ralph O'Connor (St John's Coll, Cambs)
"Hugh Miller and the geological spectacle"

5. Dr Nigel Trewin (Dept of Petroleum Geology, King's College,Univ of
Aberdeen)
"Hugh Miller's fish: the winged Pterichthys"

6. Dr Phillipe Janvier (Nat Museum of Natural History, Paris)
"Armoured fish from the deep time: from Hugh Miller's insights to
current
questions of vertebrate evolution"

7. Emeritus Prof John Hudson (Univ of Leicester)
"Hugh Miller's geological discoveries and observations on the Isle of
Eigg

8. Dr Alison Morrison-Low (Nat Museums of Scotland) with R H Nuttall
"Miller in an age of microscopy"



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M. D. Eddy
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University of Durham, Department of Philosophy, 50 Old Elvet, Durham,
DH1 3HN  UK; Tel: (44) 191 374 7641 OR St. John's College, 3 South
Bailey, Durham, DH1 3HN UK; Voicemail: (44) 191 374 3575;
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