Keynote Speakers

Ian Brown is Emeritus Professor in Drama, Kingston University, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Scottish Literature, Glasgow University, and a playwright and poet. His 2013 book Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity, was called ‘transformational’. Performing Scottishness: Enactment and National Identities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) explores a variety of ways in which, over the centuries, conceptions of Scottishness (alongside Englishness and Britishness) has been performed and modified.

 

Sir Thomas Martin Devine Kt OBE FRHistS FRSE FBA is a historian and author recognised for his work on Scottish history and the global diaspora of the Scottish people. He was described in the Financial Times, 2021, as the most distinguished historian of Scottish birth since Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), known as "the voice of the age." Devine has a high national and international media profile, and has won all three national prizes for research and writing on Scottish history.

 

Dominic Grieve QC PC is a British barrister and former politician who served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Attorney General for England and Wales from 2010 to 2014. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beaconsfield from 1997 to 2019 and was the Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee from 2015 to 2019.

A liberal conservative, Grieve was a central figure on Brexit and frequently used his experience as a lawyer to propose amendments on the issue, with his interventions often being at odds with government policy. A prominent Remain supporter on Brexit, Grieve called for a second referendum on EU membership.

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