Dis/placing the British Empire: theoretical and critical views from Scottish studies
Clicking on the titles of individual papers will take you to a short abstract of the paper and from there to the full paper itself (when these are provided by the speakers in July). Clicking on the speaker's name will take you to the Speakers' Biographies page.
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.it; heynsbrg@human.gla.ac.uk