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University of Aberdeen, 12-14 April 2013
FRIDAY, 12 April
3.00-4.30pm Registration: C11, Taylor Building
4.15-6.15pm Panel sessions
C11 Taylor Building
Stewart Sanderson (University of Glasgow): The Symbolist Movement in Scottish and Irish Literature
George N. Asimos (Villanova University): Queer Hybridities: Displacement, Space, and Permeability in Colm Tóibín’s The Master
Erika Meyers (Dublin): Historical Rupture as Empowerment in Dermot Bolger’s The Family on Paradise Pier
Mhairi Urquhart (University of Aberdeen): (Re)writing Music: Composing a Feminist Aesthetic in Bernard MacLaverty’s Grace Notes
A21 Taylor Building
Danni Glover (University of Glasgow): English Heroes, Scottish Rebels: Thomas Percy’s Literary Invention of Britain
Robert Finnigan (University of Sunderland): Ploughing the Fields for Potatoes and Cabbage: Violet Hobhouse, Warp and Weft, and the Kailyard Tradition
Vivien Estelle Williams (University of Glasgow): Narrating Scotland’s Identity: The Romantic Legacy of the Bagpipe
Theresa Muñoz: Field, Concrete and Digital Poetics in Tom Leonard’s access to silence
Tea/Coffee [Outside C11, Taylor Building]
6.45-7.45pm Plenary
Dr Michael Brown - 'The Trouble with Tea: Reflections on Scotland, Ireland and America in the Eighteenth Century' [C11 Taylor Building]
8pm-9.30pm
Reception at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (19 College Bounds)
SATURDAY, 13 April
9.30-11.00 Panel Sessions
Meeting Room 1, University Library
Lucy Macrae (University of Edinburgh): The Peculiar Charm of Locality": Locating Cultural Memory in Walter Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
Lisa McKenna (University of Aberdeen): Cultural Memory and Closure in the Ending of Walter Scott’s Waverley
Anna Fancett (University of Aberdeen): The Anxiety of Textual Creation: An Exploration of the Link between Maternity and Writing in Walter Scott’s The Monastery
Meeting Room 2, University Library
George Legg (King’s College, London): Derek Mahon and the Language of Boredom
Adam Hanna (University of Aberdeen): Derek Mahon’s Domestic Attachments
Blake Anderson (University of Aberdeen): Derek Mahon’s Exphrastic Texts
Meeting Room 3, University Library
James T. O’Donnell (NUI, Galway): News, Networks and the Nation-State: The Decolonisation of Irish News Supply?
Matthew McAteer (University College Dublin): Sheltered Audiences/Hooded Men: The Hegemonic Code of Television Documentaries on the Troubles, 1980-1990
Victoria Connor: Our Boys and Dear Daughter: (Re)Constructing the Past in Irish Drama-Documentary
11.00-11.30 Tea/Coffee – General Events Area, University Library
11.30-12.30 Panel Sessions
Meeting Room 1, University Library
Ivy K. Manning (University of Liverpool): Sixteenth Century Piracy and Ireland
Julie M. Orr (University of Dundee): The Company of Scotland and the Long Reach of Spanish Justice
Meeting Room 2, University Library
Jonathan M. J. Henderson (University of Glasgow): Robert Burns and the Historical Thesaurus: Unlocking the Language of Sentiment
Arun Sood (University of Glasgow): New Places and Tongues: Reading Burns across the Traditions
Meeting Room 3, University Library
Mario Ebest (Leipzig University): Processing the Survival Guilt: An Analysis of Sorley MacLean’s Poem ‘Hallaig’ on the Highland Clearances
Petra Johana Poncarová (Charles University, Prague): ‘… so that I may not see there / how you have changed, dark brown island’: Derick Thomson and the Poetry of Place
12.30-1.30pm Lunch – General Events Area, University Library
1.30-3.30pm Panel Sessions
Meeting Room 1, University Library
Rebecca Ford (UHI Centre for Nordic Studies, Orkney): From Story to Fable: How Words Have Woven an Imaginary Orkney
William Frost (The British Library/University of Sheffield): ‘Island Images: Reimagining Filmic Representations of Orkney and Shetland, 1937-1954
Linden Bicket (University of Glasgow): ‘We Belong and We Do Not Belong’: Scottish and Orcadian Identity in the Work of George Mackay Brown
Monika Liro (University of Krakow): Brochs between Bergen and Edinburgh: The History of Orkney as a Heterogeneous Component of Identity in George Mackay Brown’s Novels and Short Stories
Meeting Room 2, University Library
Katherine Basanti (University of Aberdeen): Bellum Iustum et Sanctum Rhetorica: Crusading Rhetoric and Realpolitik in Late Medieval Scottish Statecraft, 1437-c.1449
Christopher McMillan (University of Glasgow): Noisy Neighbours: The Scots in Tudor Ulster, 1550-1603
Michael Riordan (University of Cambridge): Mystics and Prophets in Early Eighteenth-century Scotland
Michael Shaw (University of Glasgow): Allegory, History and Myth: Scottish Masques and Pageants, c.1890-1914
3.30pm-4.00pm Tea/Coffee – General Events Area, University Library
4.00pm-5.30pm Panel Sessions
Meeting Room 1, University Library
Florence Impens (Trinity College, Dublin): Seamus Heaney’s ‘Return’ to the Classics
Stuart Johnston (University of Aberdeen): Paul Muldoon: Elegy and Intertextuality
Faye McDermott (University of Aberdeen): Non-consolatory Elegy?: Paul Muldoon’s ‘Incantata’.
Meeting Room 2, University Library
Darach MacDonald (University of Ulster): Imagined Homeland: Scottish Dimensions of Ulster Loyalist Culture
Arianna Introna (University of Stirling): Unfeeling Place: Narratives of Place and Affective disablement in Violet Jacob’s ‘The Lum Hat’ and James Kelman’s Mo Said She Was Quirky.
Neil Syme (University of Stirling): The Darker Recesses: Subjective Realism and Uncanny Estrangement in James Kelman’s Fiction
Meeting Room 3, University Library
Ciaran McMorran (University of Glasgow): Non-Euclidean Geometry in McIntyre’s Giordano Bruno and Joyce
Tamara Radak (University of Vienna): ‘Hell goes round and round: Reluctant Endings and Circular Re-Beginnings in the Novels of James Joyce and Flann O’Brien’
Kingsley Hepburn (University of Ulster): Beckett and Anti-Location
5.30-6.00pm Tea/Coffee [C11 Taylor Building]
6.00-7.15pm Plenary – C11 Taylor Building
Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy: ‘I Could Not Tell’: The Representation of Memory and Trauma in Contemporary Northern Irish Culture
7.30pm Reception – Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
SUNDAY 14 April
9.30-10.30am Plenary
Dr Timothy C. Baker: Authentic Inauthenticity: Found Manuscripts in Contemporary Scottish Gothic [C11 Taylor Building]
10.30-11.00am Tea/Coffee [C11 Taylor Building]
11.00-1pm Panel Sessions
Meeting Room 1, University Library
Denise Wilson (University of Ulster): 'India through Imperial Eyes: The Photographs of Lady Hariot Dufferin
Niamh Campbell (King’s College, London): The Apparition at Knock and Irish Culture
Emma Grey (University of Aberdeen): Paul Seawright’s Conflicting Account
Meeting Room 2, University Library
Edward Molloy (Queen’s University, Belfast): The Performativity of the Nation: Affect, Materiality and the Spirit in Nineteenth Century Irish Nationalism
Manuel Cadeddu (University of Cagliari): Place and Text: Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass
Raymond Jess (Concordia University, Montreal): Irish Emigrant Writers in Canada: John Reade and William Henry Drummond
12.30pm Conference Close – General Events Area, University Library
- Venue
- University of Aberdeen
- Contact
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Shane Alcobia-Murphy: sam@abdn.ac.uk