{"id":163,"date":"2015-02-14T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/?page_id=163"},"modified":"2015-03-02T20:25:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T20:25:52","slug":"seminar-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/seminar-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Scots in Asia<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2><strong>Edinburgh: 26-27 June 2015<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><em>In association with\u00a0SCOTTISH CENTRE FOR DIASPORA STUDIES<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Our fifth seminar in the series explores the historical and contemporary experiences of the Scots in Asia. The event will begin\u00a0with a keynote lecture on Friday 26 June at\u00a05.30pm from Professor\u00a0Emeritus Sir Tom Devine. The remaining talks will take place from 9.45am until 6pm on Saturday 27 June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Tom Barron (independent historian), &#8216;Scots coffee planters in nineteenth century Ceylon&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Dr Tanja Bueltmann (Northumbria University), &#8216;From ethnic associationalism to social networking: A longitudinal comparison of formal sociability in Scottish communities in Asia, c.1870 to the present&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Professor Emeritus Sir Tom Devine (University of Edinburgh), &#8216;Addicting the dragon: China, opium, and the Scottish factor&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Ellen Filor (University College London), &#8216;Death or a Pension: Scots and the End of the East India Company, 1800-1857&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Dr Joanna Frew (University of Essex), &#8216;Agricultural improvement and order in the Baramahal, South India, 1792-99&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Dr Isabella Jackson (University of Aberdeen), &#8216;The Shanghai Scottish: Scottish, imperial, and local identities in the Scottish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Professor Angela McCarthy (University of Otago), &#8216;James Taylor and cross-cultural encounters in Ceylon&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Dr George McGilvary (honorary postdoctoral fellow, Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies, University of Edinburgh), &#8216;Commercial exploits of the Scottish elite in India and South-east Asia, 1760-1830, with special reference to David Scott, MP (1746-1805)&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Professor Emeritus Patrick Peebles (University of Missouri &#8211; Kansas City), &#8216;Governor James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie and the making of Ceylon&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Iain Watson (University of Edinburgh), \u2018The right kind of migrants: Scottish expatriates in Hong Kong and South-East Asia since 1950 and the preservation of human capital\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This is a free event, but registration is required. Please click <a title=\"Scots in Asia seminar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/scots-in-asia-tickets-15925511634\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to register.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Banner Image: Clandonald Settlers Leaving Scotland for Alberta, 1924, Glenbow Archives, NA-331-6.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scots in Asia Edinburgh: 26-27 June 2015 In association with\u00a0SCOTTISH CENTRE FOR DIASPORA STUDIES Our fifth seminar in the series explores the historical and contemporary experiences of the Scots in Asia. The event will begin\u00a0with a keynote lecture on Friday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/seminar-5\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20036,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-163","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/scotsdiaspora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}