Programme for the People’s Voice Launch Event, 15 February 2018, Trades Hall of Glasgow
10.00: Tea and Coffee
10.30: The People’s Voice Project – Introduction to Resources
11.00: Speaker 1 – Alison Chapman (UVic): The “old rustic Scottish manner”: Locating the People’s Voice in Scottish Victorian Periodical Poetry’
11.45: Speaker 2 – Florence Boos (Iowa): ‘Liminal Poetics: Scottish Labouring-Class Women’s Writings, 1860-1890’
12.30: Lunch
1.15: Janey Buchan Centre – an introduction
1.45: Speaker 3 – Mike Sanders (Manchester): ‘Redemption Songs: From Charter to Rasta’
2.30: Tea and coffee
3.00: Speaker 4 – Jon Mee (York): ‘”Meet we here United”?: London Radicalism and the Question of Political Song in the 1790s’
3.45: Speaker 5 – Gerard Carruthers (Glasgow): Political Anthologising in Scotland: Jacobites, Jacobins and Beyond
4.30: Musical Entertainment – Bill Adair
5.00: Wine reception