Programme

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.

 

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