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A unique symposium on the Irish, Gaelic, Scots and Anglo-Irish writing traditions
Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies
Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds
University of Aberdeen
10th-11th September 2014
This symposium is an exploration of alienation and integration in the literatures of Ireland and Scotland. It brings together papers from four literary traditions which share many areas of commonality but which are nevertheless distinct. Leading scholars from several nations will consider the themes of education and alienation in writing in these four traditions.
Wednesday 10th September
1.45 Welcome
2.00-2.40 Manfred Malzahn, United Arab Emirates University, 'English as a Vehicle of Educalienation: The Scottish Experience'
2.40-3.20 Máire Ní Annracháin, University College Dublin, 'Educated back in: the modern Irish literary context'
Coffee
3.40-4.20 Peter Mackay, University of St Andrews, 'Wild Communities: The Poetry of Aonghas MacNeacail and Meg Bateman'
4.20-5.00 David Wheatley, University of Aberdeen, ‘“The bilingual race /And truth of that water”: Seamus Heaney and the Irish Language’
Thursday 11th September
9.30-10.10 Silke Stroh, University of Münster, 'Walter Kennedy as an early postcolonial trailblazer? Medieval and modern images of the border-crossing intellectual'
10.10-10.50 Michelle Macleod, University of Aberdeen, 'Language and Alienation in the Poetry of Derick Thomson'
Coffee
11.10-11.50 Patrick Crotty, University of Aberdeen, 'Lisping in Lallans?: Reflections on the debt of Hugh MacDiarmaid's poetic language to the early linguistic experience of Kit Grieve.'
11.50-12.30 Moray Watson, University of Aberdeen, 'After the Trill has gone: Iain Crichton Smith, Education and Isolation'
All are welcome to attend the whole or any part of the event. There is no registration fee for this symposium, but should you wish to attend please email m.macleod@abdn.ac.uk by Monday 8th September to facilitate catering arrangements.