Program for Spinning Scotland Conference
Friday Evening 12th September 2008
Venue: Scottish Literature Department, Ground Floor, 7 University Gardens
6-9pm Drinks reception (all welcome)
Welcome – Dr Gerard Carruthers (Head of Department)
Poetry Reading –Liz Lochhead (Glasgow’s Poet Laureate)
Saturday 13th September 2008
Venue:Wolfson Building, University Avenue, University of Glasgow
Registration 9:00 – 9:20 am Tea + Coffee Wolfson Hall Atrium
Welcoming Announcements: Dr Kirsteen McCue 9:20 am
Wolfson Medical Building Yudowitz Room
PANELS 1+2
PANEL1: ISLAND POETRY – ON THE FRINGE? 9:30 – 11 am
Chair: Anne Scriven Yudowitz Room
Iain Macdonald : University of Glasgow
The Very Heart of Beyond: Gaelic Nationalism and the Work of Fionn Mac Colla.
Linden Bicket : University of Glasgow
The Looms of History in George Mackay Brown’s Literary Landscape
Emma Dymock : University of Edinburgh
Strands of Politics in the Poetry of Sorley MacLean: Exploring the Symbol of the Skye
Stallion in a Scottish and European Context
PANEL 2: SCOTTISH CULTURE IN MODERN MEDIA 9:30 – 11 am
Chair: Alistair Braidwood Gannochy Room
Guillermo Iglesias : University of Vigo
What is left in between: Trainspotting, from novel to film
Lynne Hibberd : University of Glasgow
River City and BBC Scotland
Coral Calvo : University of Granada
Jackie Kay's representation of The Broons: Scotland's happy family
Tea and Coffee 11 – 11:30 Wolfson Hall Atrium
PLENARY SPEAKER: Carl McDougall 11:30 – 12:30 Yudowitz Room
Lunch: Buffet provided 12:30 pm -1:30 pm Wolfson Hall Atrium
PANELS 3+4
PANEL 3: MEDIEVAL VISIONS AND TRADITIONS 1:30 – 3 pm
Chair: Megan Coyer Yudowitz Room
Kylie Murray : Lincoln College, Oxford
Dream and Vision in The Scotichronicon
Dr. Sebastiaan Verweij : University of Cambridge
From Lydgate to Sidney: The Miscellany Manuscript of James Murray of Tibbermuir, c.1500-c.1612
Chelsea Honeyman : McGill University, Canada
Literary and Political Governance in the Scottish Reception of Chaucer: A Study of the Kingis Quair
PANEL 4: DIASPORA AND DIFFERENT DESTINATIONS 1.30 – 3pm
Chair: Claire McCallum Gannochy Room
Christy di Frances : University of Aberdeen
Visions of Adventure in the Work of Robert Louis Stevenson
Jennifer Orr : University of Glasgow
Poetry, Pikes and Politics: Negotiating a Place for the Ulster Scot in Scottish Literature
Lila Matsumoto : University of Aberdeen
Collective Memory, Collective Myth: Regional Negotiations of National Scottish Identity
in the Works of Neil Gunn and Nan Shepherd
Tea and Coffee 3 - 3:30 pm Wolfson Hall Atrium
PANELS 5+6 PANEL 5: MODERN WRITERS / MODERN IDEAS 3:30 – 5 pm
Chair: Lisa Harrison Yudowitz Room
John McKay : Birkbeck College, University of London
The Banal Daily Drudge: Ali Smith and the Local
Darren Brooks : University of Sunderland
Lang Spoons and Buried Streets: Detective Inspector John Rebus presents ‘Excavating
Edinburgh’
Martyn J. Colebrook : University of Hull
Some Recent Stories - Attacks Political and Cultural: James Kelman and the Hell of Ordinary Life.
PANEL 6: FOREFATHERS OF SCOTTISH LITERATURE 3:30 – 5 pm
Chair: Jennifer Orr Gannochy Room
Yuko Yoshino : University of Edinburgh
Faeries & the Quest for National Identity in Sir Walter Scott’s The Monastery
Alexander J. Cuthbert : University of Glasgow
Reforming Rhetoric: The Immodest Proposals of David Lyndsay'
Ainsley McIntosh : University of Aberdeen
'Alive within the tomb': narrative closure, enclosure and disclosure in Marmion.
Saturday Evening Program
5pm-late at the Hetherington Research CLub 13 University Gardens
Drinks Reception Hetherington Research Club 5 pm
Dinner Buffet Hetherington Research Club 6pm
Evening Performances Alasdair Gray, Carl McDougall, Anne Donovan, and Alan Riach 8pm - late
Man Makes the Beads of Life but Woman Must Thread Them by Frances Macdonald McNair © Hunterian Art Gallery University of Glasgow