Thursday 5th October
8.15am Arrivals and Registration
8.45 Welcome – Dr. Clarisse Godard Desmarest (Université de Picardie - Institut Universitaire de France)
9am Keynote Lecture: Prof. Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow): Edinburgh: smart city of 1700
9.45 – 10am Questions
Session 1 Edinburgh: The Enlightenment city
Chair : Dr. Clarisse Godard Desmarest (Université de Picardie - Institut Universitaire de France)
10.00 – 10.20 Prof. Pierre Carboni (Université de Nantes): Architectural visions in James Thomson’s poetry: the future of the past
10.20 – 10.40 Dr. Helena Murteira (Centro de História da Arte e Investigação Artística, CHAIA, University of Évora): The Enlightenment city: Edinburgh New Town and Pombaline Lisbon in comparative perspective
10.40 – 11.00 Dr. Sabrina Juillet Garzon (Université Paris 13) : Edimbourg avant la Ville Nouvelle, ou de la nécessité vitale pour
la capitale écossaise de changer
11.00 Questions and Coffee
11.40 – 12.00 Margaret Stewart (University of Edinburgh): City and state in the designs of the 6th Earl of Mar (1675-1732)
12.00 – 12.20 Dr. Robin Skinner (University of New-Zealand): From Athens of the North to Edinburgh of the South
12.20 – 12.30 Questions
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 Keynote Lecture: Dr. Tony Lewis (Glasgow Museums): “A castle in the air” - how to understand New Towns better?
Some perceived relationships between the Georgian New Towns of Glasgow and Edinburgh and suggested practical ways to
encourage modern public ownerships of Scottish urban architecture and heritage - Chair : Dr. John Lowrey
14.45 – 15.15 Questions
15.30 – 17.00 Visit of Amiens Cathedral
17.45 Drinks reception in Amiens City Hall, and dinner
Friday 6th October
Session 1 Planned new towns across Scotland
Chair : Prof. Simon Texier (Université de Picardie)
9.00 – 9.20 Dr. Aonghus MacKechnie (Historic Environment Scotland): Scotland’s planned towns and villages over the centuries
9.20 – 9.40 Dr. Ophélie Siméon (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle): The ‘Enlightened’ Factory: Textile Industry and the “Planned Village
Movement” in Scotland (1775-1800)
9.40 – 10.00 Prof. Christian Auer (Université de Strasbourg) : L’idéologie de l’improvement et les villes nouvelles dans les Hautes-Terres d’Ecosse
10.00 – 10.20 Prof. Jean Berton (Université Toulouse 2) : Inverness, ville capitale régionale régénérée
10.20 – 10.40 Dr. Fabien Jeannier (Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse) : Glasgow and the new towns in Scotland – 1947-2017.
Reflecting on the dire consequences of a large-scale programme of urban renewal
10.40 – 11.15 Questions and Coffee
Session 2 The New Town of Edinburgh in the 19th century
Chair: Prof. Pierre Carboni (Université de Nantes)
11.15 – 11.35 Dr. Kirsten Carter McKee (University of Edinburgh): After Craig’s Plan: The development of British Imperial ambition through
the Third New Town of Edinburgh
11.35 – 11.55 Dr. Pierre Chabard (Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La-Villette) : Un idéal médiéval dans l’Athènes du Nord :
Patrick Geddes et Edimbourg
12.15 – 12.30 Questions
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
Session 3 Portraying Edinburgh in the 19th century
Chair: Prof. Jean Berton (Université Toulouse 2)
14.00 – 14.20 Dr. Giovanna Guidicini (Glasgow School of Art): Royal Welcomes in Edinburgh New Town: portraying civic identity in 1822 and 1842
14.20 – 14.40 Dr. Marion Amblard (Université Grenoble Alpes): Scottish painters and the representation of Edinburgh since the beginning
of the 19th century: a celebration of Scotland’s capital
14.40 – 15.00 Dr. Sally-Anne Huxtable (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh) ‘A Jewelled Crown’ in Edinburgh’s New Town:
Phoebe Anna Traquair and the Murals of the Catholic Apostolic Church, 1893-1897
15.00 – 15.20 Tea
Session 4 Conservation of historic buildings
Chair : Prof. Trevor Harris (Université de Picardie) & Marc Drouet (Directeur de la DRAC des Hauts-de-France)
15.20 – 15.40 Dr. Ranald MacInnes (Historic Environment Scotland): Edinburgh: A Tale of One City?
15.40 – 16.00 Dr. James Simpson (Simpson & Brown Architects): 50 Years of Conservation and Enhancement
16.00 – 16.20 Nicholas Uglow (Simpson & Brown Architects): The National Galleries of Scotland, on the Mound: a historic building conservation
16.20 – 16.40 Dr. John Lowrey (University of Edinburgh): Commerce and Conservation: Edinburgh New Town in the early twentieth century
16.40 – 17.00 Dr. Clarisse Godard Desmarest (Université de Picardie - Institut Universitaire de France): Commemorating the founding
of the New Town of Edinburgh: 1767, 1967 and 2017
17.00 – 17.20 Ed Taylor (Taylor Architecture & Urbanism Ltd): Edinburgh New Town and New Urbanism in Scotland?
17.20 – 18.00 Questions
End of the conference in Amiens
Saturday 7th October
14.00 Visit of the Scots College, 65 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris. Organised with the Franco-Scottish Association.
Programme subject to change