This looks like a great conference.  I wish I could attend.  My doctoral adviser, Ned Landsman, is delivering the opening keynote.

 Notre Dame Conference Center, McKenna Hall
University of Notre Dame
 
Sunday, April 28                  
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.             
“British Union and American Revolution: The North American Province of a Multi-national State”           
Ned Landsman, Stony Brook University    

Monday, April 29
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
“Provinces and Borderlands” Seminar
Chaired by Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame         

 
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
“Auld Scotia or North Britain? Scottish National Identity at the Crossroads”
T. M. Devine, University of Edinburgh         

 
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. 
Irish Identities in the Eighteenth Century North Atlantic World
Owen Dudley Edwards, University of Edinburgh    

 
Tuesday April 30
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
“America (and Scotland) in the Late Eighteenth Century: The Case of William Dunbar”
Frank Cogliano, University of Edinburgh

  
1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. 
“The Provinces: An Extension of Europe?” Seminar      
Chaired by James Smyth, University of Notre Dame           

 
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
“The Trouble with Tea: Connections between Ireland, Scotland and America in the Eighteenth Century”
Michael Brown, University of Aberdeen
Response by Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame