06 July 2006
12:30 p.m. Registration
2:00 p.m. Conference Opening
Professor Pat Walsh, Vice-Chancellor, VUW
Professor John MacKenzie, University of Aberdeen
Mr Kenny MacAskill, MSP for the Lothians
HE George Fergusson, British High Commissioner to New Zealand
2:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Marjory Harper, University of Aberdeen,
Adventurers or Exiles?: A Century of Scottish Emigration to New Zealand
3:30 p.m. John Cookson, University of Canterbury,
Scottish Rank and File Soldiers: Migration, Empire and Nation in Scotland, 1800-1850
4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea
4:30 p.m. Jill Harland, Auckland
The Orcadian Odyssey: The Migration of Orkney Islanders to New Zealand, Australia and Nova Scotia 1850-1914
5:00 p.m. Tom Brooking, University of Otago
Modelling the Ideal Colony: The Representation Of Scottish History in New Zealand Schools, 1907-1945
5:30 p.m. Angela McCarthy, University of Hull
Being Scottish in New Zealand
6:15 p.m. Stout Lecture 2006: John MacKenzie, University of Aberdeen
Entryism, Noisiness and Visibility: The Scots Abroad in International Perspective
07 July 2006
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker: Eric Richards, Flinders University of Adelaide,
The Highland Diaspora and its Antipodean Outliers
10:00 a.m. Seán Brosnahan, Otago Settlers Museum
For the Days that are Gone: Otago’s Highlanders and the Death of Culture
10:30 a.m. Edmund Bohan, Christchurch
Te Makarini - Turbulent Highlandman: Towards a new Biography of Donald McLean, 1820-1877
11:00 a.m. Morning Tea
11:30 a.m. Hugh Laracy, University of Auckland
Hector Macquarrie
12:00 p.m. Jim McAloon, Lincoln University
Scots, Networks, and the Colonial Economy
12:30 p.m. Greg Ryan, Lincoln University
The Scottish Contribution to New Zealand Beer: Exporters, Brewers and Anti-Prohibitionists
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Malcolm Prentis, Australian Catholic University, Sydney
It’s a Long Way to the Bottom: The Insignificance of the Scots in Australia
3:00 p.m. Leigh Straw, University of New South Wales
Old Caledonia in the Swan River Colony: A Small Group Analysis of Scottish Identity
3:30 p.m. Ian Carter, University of Auckland
‘Ane End of Ane Auld Sang?’: Scottish Universities in New Zealand
4:00 p.m. Afternoon Tea
4:30 p.m. Dot Page, University of Otago
An ‘Outpost of Edinburgh’: The Otago Medical School and the Scottish Connection, 1874-1914
5:00 p.m. Warwick Brunton, University of Otago
An Overwhelming Confidence in Everything that is of Home Growth’: The Scottish Influence on Psychiatry in New Zealand, 1840-1947
5:30 p.m. James Beattie, University of Otago
Natural History, Colonisation, and the Role of Scottish-trained Doctors in New Zealand, 1790-1920
6:15 p.m. Social Hour
08 July 2006
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Panel Discussion (Panellists to be announced.)
Understanding the Scottish World: How Useful is the Concept of Diaspora?
10:00 a.m. Morning Tea
10:30 a.m. Ali Clarke, Hocken Library
New Year in the New World: The Evolution of a Scottish Holiday in Colonial New Zealand
11:00 a.m. Rosalind McClean, University of Waikato
Sons and Lovers: Family Matters and Men in Nineteenth Century Scotland and New Zealand
11:30 a.m. Mark Stocker, University of Otago
‘The Head o’ the Bard Sweeps the Southern Sky’: Sir John Steell’s Statue of Burns in Dunedin Revisited
12:00 p.m. Tanja Bueltmann, VUW
‘To the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns’: Celebrating Scotland’s National Poet in Otago
12:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Michael Vance, St Mary’s University,
Cape Breton to Vancouver Island: Studying the Scots in Canada
2:30 p.m. Laurie Bauer, VUW
Scotland’s Linguistic Influence on New Zealand
3:00 p.m. Kirstine Moffatt, University of Waikato
The Kirk, the Land and a Longing for Home: The Poetry and Fiction of Scottish Settlers
3:30 p.m. Afternoon Tea
4:00 p.m. Vickie Hearnshaw, Christchurch
James Nairn: the Glasgow Boy “Downunder”, 1890-1904
4:30 p.m. Brad Patterson, VUW
Maintaining a Gaelic Tradition?: Turakina’s Highland Games
5:00 p.m. Donald MacRaild, VUW
Closing Address: The Conference in Retrospect
8:00 p.m. Conference Event: Dinner
After Dinner Speaker: Kenny MacAskill, MSP for the Lothians
Archives New Zealand, 10 Mulgrave Street. Venue provided by the Chief Archivist, a unique opportunity to dine in style at New Zealand’s foremost historical repository. The $62.50 per person charge includes drinks with the meal