Dis/placing the British Empire: theoretical and critical views from Scottish studies

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Gioia Angeletti (University of Parma, Italy)
"The plantation owner is never wearing a kilt":the power of memory versus Scottish amnesia in Jackie Kay's The Lamplighter

Ian Brown (University of Glasgow and University of Glamorgan, UK)
Fostering the imperial view in a school: life-writing in Dollar Magazine before the First World War

Liam Connell (University of Winchester, UK)
Kailyard Money: the local and the global in Scott's Malachi Malagrowther letters

Giovanna Covi (University of Trento, Italy)
Reconstellating the Postcolonial Through Caribbean-Scottish Gendered Relations

Bashabi Fraser (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)
The Scottish Jutewallah

Patrick Hart (University of Strathclyde,  UK)
'Voglie divise': William Drummond of Hawthornden and Petrarchan national sentiment in the wake of the Union of the Crowns

Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
The Redefinition of the Scottish Split Self in Brian McCabe’s The Other McCoy (1990)

Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow, UK)
The Colonial Cotter: Pastoral Virtue from Robert Burns to Thomas Pringle

Graeme MacDonald (University of Warwick, UK)
Complicity, Resistance and Distance: Iraq, Afghanistan and the new imperialism in contemporary Scottish Literature

Peter MacKay (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)
Gaelic negotiations

Wilson McLeod (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Gaelic poetry and the British military, 1756-1945

Kei Miller (University of Glasgow, UK)
From Jamaica to Scotland: Some initial notes on writing in dialect

Alan Riach (University of Glasgow, UK)
Wole Soyinka and Hugh MacDiarmid: The Violence and Virtues of Nations

Jacqueline Ryder (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Representations of Colonial Relations in Naomi Mitchison’s work

Silke Stroh (University of Muenster, Germany)
Celticity and the Gaelic voice in (post)colonial discourse


The sessions are convened by Carla Sassi of the University of Verona and Theo van Heijnsbergen of the University of Glasgow.
carla.sassi@univr.itheynsbrg@human.gla.ac.uk