Friday 12 September
2:00pm | ‘Congregational principles are lost in New England': The drift towards Presbyterian |
policy in colonial New England, with Francis J. Bremer (Millersville University, PA) | |
3:00–4:30pm | Session 1: English Presbyterians in the Atlantic world |
Presbyterians and the Prayer Book in the British Atlantic, with Polly Ha | |
English Presbyterians and the Covenant, with Elliot Vernon | |
4:45–6:15pm | Session 2: Scottish Presbyterians in the Atlantic world |
‘They hope to find an America in Scotland': An Ulster view of religious freedom on the eve of the Stuart Civil Wars, with Andrew Robinson | |
Transatlantic sufferings: The American colonies in post-Revolution Scottish martyrology, with Kathleen Middleton | |
6:30pm | Ascendency and exile: accounting for ecclesiological shifts in ‘Scottish’ |
Presbyterianism, with R Scott Spurlock (University of Glasgow) | |
7:45pm | Conference dinner. Molly’s Yard, Botanic Avenue |
Saturday 13 September
9:00–10:30pm | Session 3: Irish Presbyterians in the Atlantic world |
The Irish Mayfair: People, places and problems, with Laurence Kirkpatrick | |
Thinking like a Presbyterian: Irish Presbyterians in the British Atlantic world, 1689-1707 with Robert Armstrong | |
11–12:30pm | Session 4: Commerce and covenants in the Atlantic world |
Covenants and Commerce: Presbyterian Networks in the Atlantic world, with Craig Gallagher | |
The ‘Radical’ become Revolutionary: Violence as a Means of ‘Salvation’ within Covenanting Political Thought in a British Atlantic World, 1630-1750, with Michael S Griggs | |
12:30pm | Lunch [available locally] |
1:30–3:00pm | Session 5 |
David Houston (1633-96) – Disquieter of the Peace, with Thomas Donachie | |
Covenanter factions in colonial Presbyterianism, with Joseph S. Moore | |
3:00pm | Hunting for ‘presbyterianism’ in puritan New England, then and now, with Michael |
Winship (University of Georgia) | |
4:00pm | Conference ends |
The conference has been organised by Crawford Gribben of QUB as part of the Radical religion in the trans-Atlantic world: Ulster Scots perspectives project, and is funded by the Northern Ireland DCAL Ministerial Advisory Group on Ulster Scots (2014-15). All enquiries should be emailed to Crawford Gribben at c.gribben@qub.ac.uk.
(Thanks to the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland)