Please note that the call for papers is now closed. We are currently working on the programme. The registration will open on the 1st of June.
Author Archives: Nowe Szkoty
Conference “Wales and Scotland in European Travel Writing 1760–1870” – 1st Circular
Wales and Scotland in European Travel Writing 1760–1870
National Library of Wales, 16-17 April 2016
“Le Pays de Galles ressemble entièrement à la Suisse” J-J Rousseau
A one-day conference jointly organized by two AHRC-funded projects: European Travellers to Wales 1750–2010 & Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour 1760-1820
A one-day conference looking at perceptions of Wales and Scotland in a century’s worth of travel- writing from Continental Europe. What attracted travellers from France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Low Countries to venture beyond the attractive bustle of London to the Celtic peripheries? How aware are writers of the cultural differences within the United Kingdom? What sources and literary influences inspire them, and shape their experience?
We are particularly interested in exploring European translations of (or borrowings from) the trail-blazing works of Thomas Pennant (author of numerous Tours in Scotland and Wales 1769–1778) and William Gilpin (Observations on the River Wye 1782), and others. How are these key works mediated in different European languages, and do they colour Continental experiences of Wales and Scotland, as they undoubtedly did for British travellers? Pennant himself travelled on the Continent in 1765, and formed important links with some of the foremost members of the scientific community: to what extent did these networks help to spread knowledge of his work across Europe?
Potential topics could also include:
- Translating travel texts
- Literary tourism: Gray, Ossian, Herder, Scott
- Continental Celtic connections and prehistoric landscapes (particularly post-Renan and Arnold)
- The aesthetics of landscape/picturesque – parallels with Alps
- Scientific tours, natural history or geology – European networks and influences.
We welcome any expressions of interest at this stage. Please contact Heather Williams h.williams@cymru.ac.uk or Mary-Ann Constantine mary-ann.constantine@cymru.ac.uk
CFP: Scottish Sport and the Arts
Call for Papers: Scottish Sport and the Arts
Presented by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the British Society of Sports History, Scottish Network
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh Friday, 28 August 2015
To mark the ongoing exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Playing for Scotland: The Making of Modern Sport, we are teaming up to present a one-day conference on Scottish sport’s historic and contemporary relationship with the arts, broadly defined. Suggested papers topics might include (but are not limited to):
• The painting of Scottish sport and sportspeople
• Scottish sport and cinema
• Scottish sport and literature
• Scottish sport and photography
• Scottish sport and statuary
• Scottish sport, cartoons, and comics
• Scottish sport, plays, and performance art
Abstracts should be no longer than 200 words, and should be sent by Friday, 29 May to both Imogen Gibbon (igibbon@nationalgalleries.org) and Matthew McDowell (matthew.mcdowell@ed.ac.uk). Any queries should also be sent to Imogen or Matthew.
Please forward this to any of your colleagues and postgraduate students who may find this of interest.
3rd International St Magnus Conference: Visualising the North
The 3rd International St Magnus Conference will be held in the Orkney Islands 14-16 April 2016.
For more information and the call for papers see the conference website.
Conference “Place and Space in Scottish Literature’ – deadline reminder
The deadline for abstracts is fast approaching!
If you would like to take part in our conference please send us your abstract and short bio no later than on the 10th of May.
CFP: Stevenson and Polynesian Culture
CALL FOR PAPERS
LOXIAS 48: “Stevenson and Polynesian culture”
Robert Louis Stevenson spent the last six and a half years of his life in the Pacific (1888–1894). He was a keen participant observer of the islands – from his first Pacific landfall in the Marquesas to his last residency in Samoa, where he lies buried. Against the prevailing fatal impact argument of the time, he encouraged and celebrated the resilience of Polynesian culture. Such works as In the South Seas, South Sea Tales, A Footnote to History, the Times articles, his Pacific legends, fables and poems, testify to Stevenson’s commitment to Pacific culture. In their turn, Pacific writers have written or commented upon Scottish Stevenson’s place in their own culture.
For this Loxias issue on “Stevenson and Polynesian Culture”, all unpublished essays on Stevenson in the following areas are welcome: Pacific travel literature, Pacific fiction, comparative literature, colonial/post-colonial literature, Pacific anthropology/proto-ethnography, Pacific history, visual arts, cross-cultural exchanges, languages, etc.
Abstracts should be no longer than half a page. Authors of selected articles will have to follow the author guidelines on
http://revel.unice.fr/loxias/index.html?id=2155 .
The accepted languages are English and French, but on final publication abstracts will be required in both languages.
Please send abstracts and a short CV electronically to both Odile.GANNIER@unice.fr and sylvie.ortega@upf.pf with the authors’ complete contact information (name, university affiliation, address and email).
The renewed deadline for abstract submission is 30th June 2015.
The deadline for paper submission will now be 30th October 2015.
CFP: Poetic Politics
One-day symposium “Poetic Politics: Culture and the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum, One Year On”
23rd September, National Library of Scotland
Forgotten Histories, New Perspectives and J.M. Barrie
Forgotten Histories, New Perspectives and J.M. Barrie
Friday 26th June – Saturday 27th June 2015
Dumfries
The Solway Centre is hosting two days of discussion and performance in Dumfries, with the University of Edinburgh and Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust.
Explore the forgotten history of Scottish children’s literature, from the eighteenth century onwards. Two days of discussion and performance in Dumfries, hosted by The Solway Centre for Environment & Culture, the University of Edinburgh and the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust.
Friday 26th June, The Minerva Hall, Dumfries Academy: A special evening organised by the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust, currently developing Scotland’s Centre for Children’s Literature and Storytelling, based in the Dumfries house and garden which inspired J.M. Barrie’s iconic ‘Peter Pan’. The Scottish Youth Theatre will give the first reading of Barrie’s first play Bandelero the Bandit since he premiered the work whilst a pupil at the school. Prior to this, the registration event at Rutherford McCowan, Crichton Campus, will feature Tom Pow, who has collaborated with illustrator Ian Andrew, to produce a new book for children, Sixteen String Jack & the Garden of Adventure.
Saturday 27th June, 10 am – 6 pm Rutherford-McCowan Building, University of Glasgow & Dumfries & Moat Brae A symposium, topics include the birth of Scottish children’s literature; ‘Scottishness’ and the idea of the child in children’s literature; didactic and instructional literature including children’s chapbooks; authors’ perspectives on writing children’s literature. Speakers include Maureen Farrell, Fiona MacCulloch, Rhona Brown, Linden Bicket, Valentina Bold & Sarah Dunnigan. In the late afternoon we move to Moat Brae, Birthplace of Peter Pan, for a tour around the house and gardens and refreshments. The evening will close with a round table discussion featuring writer Liz Niven.
Further details are available at www.gla.ac.uk/solwaycentre with the full program to follow in March.
ASLS conference “Empires and Revolutions” – deadline extended
Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 accessible online
The University Library has redone the digitized version of Women in Scotland c.1150-c.1750 which I co-edited with Maureen Meilkle in 1999. It is now freely available online. You can click on each chapter (although it may not look like you can, as the titles are not highlighted) I hope this may be of use to those interested in women’s history and Scottish history
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