The lineup for the 2011 Fall Colloquium included the Historiographer Royal of Scotland, Professor T.C. Smout, who presented the annual Jill McKenzie Lecture, with a talk titled "Exploring the environmental history of the Firth of Forth."
Diarmid Finnegan of Queen's University Belfast, winner of the 2011 Frank Watson Book Prize for his book "Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland" (Pickering & Chatto, 2009), also gave a talk titled, "Science, Nature and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland."
Other speakers included Susan Brown, from the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. Her talk "Forging Connections, Shaping Identities: Scotland in the Orlando History of Women's Writing in the British Isles" was based on her work with the Orlando Project - a searchable, electronic database on the history of women's writing in the British Isles.
Daniel Travers, from the Academy for the Study of Britishness at the University of Huddersfield, presented on "Scotland's Italians: National Identity and the memory of the Second World War."
Andrew Ross, from the University of Guelph, gave a talk "The Progeny of Andrew Ross and Other Tales from the Census" based on his work with the 1861 census.