Join us for the New Perspectives on "The Lyon in Mourning" symposium on 30 June 2022, live-streamed from the University of Edinburgh. Free registration at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/new-perspectives-on-the-lyon-in-mourning-tic...
This event will be livestreamed from the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Please note: all the times that follow are BST. Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link 24 hours before the presentations.
Presentation Schedule:
10:15-11:15 AM: National Library of Scotland/Edinburgh team members' presentations:
Ralph McLean (Curator of 18th-Century Manuscripts, NLS), 'The Lyon in Mourning' and its uses by the National Library of Scotland
Robert Betteridge (Curator of 18th-Century Rare Books, NLS), Collecting (or Not Collecting) the Jacobites in Print at the Advocates Library and National Library of Scotland
Harry Lewis (PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh), On the Trail of ‘The Lyon in Mourning’ Papers of Robert Forbes
11:15-11:45 AM: Break
11:45 AM-12:45 PM: SFU team members' presentations:
Leith Davis (Professor, Simon Fraser University and IASH Fellow), Networking Jacobites and "The Lyon in Mourning" Manuscript Digital Humanities Project
Joey Takeda (User Interface Developer, Simon Fraser University’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab), "An Exact and Faithful Copy"?: Encoding, Transcribing, and Using the Digital "Lyon in Mourning"
Taylor Breckles, Jasmyn Bojakli, Shauna Irani, Julianna Wagar (Research Assistants, “Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript Project, Simon Fraser University): New Perspectives on "The Lyon in Mourning": Spotlights
12:45-1:45 PM: Lunch Break
1:45-2:15 PM: Daniel Szechi, Counting the ‘Cavaliers’: Two Contemporary Analyses of the Political Wing of the Scots Jacobite Underground in the Union Parliament
*All presentations will also be recorded for later viewing.