Annual Conference 2009

Saturday 17th October 2009

 

St Andrew’s Church Hall (Glasite), King Street, DUNDEE

 

Migration to and From Dundee

The main speaker will be BILLY KAY (Writer & Broadcaster) his books include ‘ The Scottish World’ and ‘Scots - The Mither Tongue’ and many other topics concerning the Scottish Diaspora.

Programme
09.30 – 10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.00 – 10.15  Opening by the Lord Provost
10.15 – 11.15 Billy Kay “The Scottish Diaspora”
11.15 – 11.30  Interval
11.30 – 12.15  Iain Flett “Moving about the Archives”

12.30 – 14.00  Lunch

14.00 – 14.30  Billy Kenefick “The South African Labour Movement and the Scottish Radical: A Dundee Connection”
14.30 – 14.50  Matthew Jarron “The Migration of Dundee Art”.
14.50 – 15.20  Br. John “Immigration and the Catholic Community in Dundee”.
15.20 – 15.40  Tea & Coffee
15.40 – 16.10  Jayne Allan “The Family History Centre and Immigrants Histories”.
16.10 – 16.30  Questions and Summing up.
16.40 – 17.10  The Scottish Film Archive Film – “So many Partings.”

(Tickets direct from Archives & Research Centre,
18 City Square, Dundee. Ph 01382 434494)