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CFP:Land and People in the Northern Highlands

Call for Papers

Land and People in the Northern Highlands: The Strathnaver Conference

University of the Highlands and Islands (http://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/)

Bettyhill, 4-6 September 2014

Deadline: 31 march 2014

Call for Papers

 

 


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CFP: HJEAS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Scottish Studies
HJEAS (Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies)  Volume 21, 2015
Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2014

The Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (http://dragon.klte.hu/~hjeas/) is a peer-reviewed journal of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary and is available from JSTOR and ProQuest. Editor: Donald E. Morse. Part of volume 21 (2015) will be devoted to Scottish Studies; guest editor: Attila Dósa (University of Miskolc, Hungary).

Scottish Studies: Where is the Field Now?

In Scotland, the last few decades saw two referenda on the decentralisation of political decision-making and the country is now on the doorstep of a third referendum to gain independence. The growing self-confidence in politics has been matched with a growing confidence in fields of cultural production including, most notably, literature. Though political notions of nationalism seem to have been losing ground in certain contexts, it is hard to see the 2014 referendum as other than a wished-for
(at least by some) culmination for the age-old struggle for self-determination. At the same time, literature seems to have entered a post-national phase and critical discourses currently in vogue have been using the rhetoric of hybridism and diversity with an aim to divest it of essentialist or nationalist undertones even though Scottish literature was especially rich in both in the 1970s–1980s. Due to recent changes in politics and an impressive growth of literary production, and with the expansion of the field of Scottish Studies over the borders of Scotland, in the past few decades criticism has followed suit and theoretical structures are being revised or done with altogether at great speed. But where is the field now?

HJEAS invites contributions exploring the present state of Scottish Studies with reference but not limited to the following topics:

  • Theory and reading: constructing, transforming, restructuring and transgressing critical frameworks in the study of Scottish literature
  • Nation and identification: from national identity to trans-national reference points in Scottish literature and in Scottish literary criticism
  • Narratives and counter-narratives of identity and independence: literature, sociology and journalism; oral, written and visual rhetoric; print and e-texts
  • Theory and society: translating social realities to literary criticism and back
  • The referendum of 2014: present political debates of independence in and outside Scotland; radicalism and conservatism; age groups; role of the popular media; humour and rhetoric of hate
  • Text and image: textual and visual representations of aspects of social realities in Scotland in the present; institutions versus e-communities

Please send a proposal (200 words) accompanied by a short CV to the guest editor, Attila Dósa aitdosa@uni-miskolc.hu

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2014
Delivery of completed papers: 31 August 2014

Contributions should conform to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook. Contributions on history may use the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.

Further information on formatting: http://dragon.klte.hu/~hjeas/submitting-manuscripts.html


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CFP: between.pomiędzy Deadline Reminder

BETWEEN.POMIĘDZY 2014

14-16 May 2014 Sopot/Gdańsk

New Beginnings/Openings in Scottish Literature

Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2014.

Call for papers: Between.2014 CFP

The conference will take place as part of the New Beginnings.Otwarcia international festival of literature and theatre held in Sopot and Gdańsk from 12 to 18 May 2014. This is the fifth annual festival/conference organized by BETWEEN.POMIĘDZY.

For information on previous festivals/conferences, see http://www.betweenpomiedzy.pl

For further information, contact the organisers at between@ug.edu.pl


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CFP: Annual Conference of the French Society for Scottish Studies

The Production and Dissemination of Knowledge in Scotland: Invariance and Specificity

Annual Conference of the French Society for Scottish Studies
University of Bordeaux, 9-11 October 2014
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2014

 

Call for papers and more info: http://sfee2014.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/

 

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CFP: Scotland in Europe

Scotland in Europe Conference

15-17th October 2014

Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

 

Organisers:

Prof. dr hab. Aniela Korzeniowska, University of Warsaw

Dr hab. Izabela Szymańska, University of Warsaw

Call for papers and more info: http://www.scotlandineurope.angli.uw.edu.pl/


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Facets of Scottish Identity

Fa­cets of Scot­tish Identity

Edited by Iza­bela Szy­mańska and Aniela Korzeniowska

szkoci_facetsWith glo­ba­li­sa­tion and mul­ti­cul­tu­ra­lism in­cre­asingly in­flu­en­cing mo­dern so­cie­ties, the issue of iden­tity is ga­ining new di­men­sions, and aca­demic re­se­arch on iden­tity is ga­ining new mo­mentum. The topic of iden­tity finds its place in a vast array of aca­demic di­sci­plines, in­c­lu­ding psy­cho­logy, so­cio­logy, eth­no­logy and cul­tural an­th­ro­po­logy, hi­story and po­li­tical stu­dies, lin­gu­istics, li­te­rary and cul­tural stu­dies. The pro­blem of se­ar­ching for and expres­sing the iden­tity of in­di­vi­duals and na­tions sur­faces in so­cial and po­li­tical life, in­c­lu­ding edu­ca­tion, as well as in li­te­ra­ture, ar­chi­tec­ture and the arts.

This vo­lume of­fers a va­riety of ana­lyses and views con­cer­ning Scot­tish iden­tity. Sco­tland may be con­si­dered one of the most vivid exam­ples of the issue of iden­tity in­spi­ring aca­demic re­flec­tion and re­se­arch from di­verse per­spec­tives due to the country’s in­tri­cate po­li­tical, so­cial, lin­gu­istic and li­te­rary hi­story, as well as to its tro­ubled re­la­tion­ships with En­gland and its com­plex re­la­tion­ships with Eu­rope. [from In­tro­duc­tion]

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Table of Contents 

Iza­bela Szy­mańska, Aniela Korzeniowska

In­tro­duc­tion: Per­spec­tives on Scot­tish Identity

Part I. Con­struc­tions of Scot­tish Identity

Piotr Stal­masz­czyk

The Lin­gu­istic Hi­story of Sco­tland. Focus on Gaelic

Alina Do­roch

Scot­tish Ga­elic as a Me­dium of Uphol­ding Na­tional Identity

Ka­ta­rzyna Ko­ciołek

Vir­tual Iden­tity of Ulster-​Scots

Mi­chał Ma­zur­kie­wicz

Sport in Sco­tland. A Brief Study of a Cer­tain Aspect of Scottishness

Mo­nika Izbaner

Mr and Mrs Sco­tland Are Not Dead – Re­sta­ting Scottishness

Part II. Scot­tish Iden­tity in Li­te­rary Discourse

Mario Ebest

Co­ming to Terms with the Agony of the Hi­gh­land Cle­arances – or Not? An Ana­lysis of Two No­vels from the Point of View of Traumatisation

 Mo­nika Liro

The Quest for Norse Roots. Ork­ney­inga Saga in George Mackay Brown’s No­vels and Short Stories

Do­mi­nika Le­wan­dowska

Alas­dair Gray’s 1982, Ja­nine and James Kelman’s How late it was, how late as Acts of Li­te­rary Resistance

Mo­nika Szuba

In­side and Out­side: Scot­ti­sh­ness, Be­twe­en­ness, and Plu­ra­lity in Jackie Kay’s Poetry

Part III. Fe­mi­nist Re­in­ter­pre­ta­tions of Scot­tish Identity

Ewa Szymańska-​Sabala

Genre(s) Re­vi­sited by Gender. Ja­nice Galloway’s Con­struc­tive In­fu­sion in Fo­reign Parts

Ka­ta­rzyna Pi­sarska

Re­turn from the Un­der­world: the Hero(ine) Jo­urney in Alan Warner’s Mo­rvern Callar

 Glenda No­rquay

Re­pre­sen­ta­tions and the Re­pre­sen­ta­tive: Twen­tieth Cen­tury Explo­ra­tions of Gender from North East Scotland

Part IV. Con­struals of Scottishness

Woj­ciech Le­wan­dowski

Scot­smen versus En­gli­shmen: An­cient An­ta­go­nisms as De­picted in a Bel­gian Comic Book

Lu­cyna Krawczyk-​Żywko

‘We­re­wo­lves in Kilts’: The Not So Ste­am­punked Sco­tland in Gail Carriger’s Pa­rasol Pro­tec­to­rate Series

 Uwe Za­gratzki

The Per­cep­tion of Sco­tland in Mo­dern Germany

Mał­go­rzata Czajka

Stran­ge­ness and Fear: De­co­ding the Scot­ti­sh­ness of Sandy Stranger

Part V. Images of Scotland

Sła­womir Wą­cior

From Slate to Ju­piter – Po­etic Pat­terns of Edwin Morgan’s Son­nets from Scotland

Paweł Rut­kowski

Sco­tland as the Land of Seers: the Scot­tish Se­cond Sight at the Turn of the Eigh­te­enth Century

An­drzej We­se­liński

The Su­per­na­tural in Scot­tish Folktales

Mar­kéta Gre­go­rová

To­wards a He­te­ro­gloin the Scot­tish Novel


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Scotland in Europe/Europe in Scotland

Sco­tland in Eu­rope /​Eu­rope in Scotland

Links – Dia­lo­gues – Analogies

Edited by Aniela Ko­rze­niowska and Iza­bela Szymańska

szkoci_euroOver the cen­tu­ries the links be­tween Sco­tland and Eu­rope, not to men­tion the much wider world beyond the Eu­ro­pean con­ti­nent, have had a va­ried hi­story, with Scots emi­gra­ting to all cor­ners of the globe and ma­king a si­gni­fi­cant im­pact on the co­un­tries in which they have set­tled. At the same time, Scots at home, with their in­te­rest in the hu­ma­ni­ties and science and what lies beyond their own bor­ders have given the world a great deal in di­sco­ve­ries, le­ar­ning, cul­ture and the arts, at the same time al­ways being ready to learn, borrow from others, and take ad­van­tage of what could bro­aden their own ho­ri­zons. The Scots in cer­tain pe­riods in the past formed a very si­gni­fi­cant pre­sence out­side their own home co­untry, whe­reas in Sco­tland, edu­ca­tion, cul­ture and the arts de­ve­loped and expanded also thanks to what was in con­stant flux just over their own border as well as fur­ther afield, in Eu­rope par­ti­cu­larly. Re­la­tions be­tween the Scots and the Eu­ro­pean con­ti­nent have al­ways in­ter­woven. The latter has al­ways been a vi­sible pre­sence in Sco­tland whe­reas the Eu­ro­peans have also never been in­dif­fe­rent to the Scots. [from In­tro­duc­tion]

Table of Contents

Aniela Ko­rze­niowska, Iza­bela Szy­mańska

In­tro­duc­tion: Sco­tland and Eu­rope Interwoven

Part I. Sco­tland in Europe

Paweł Han­czewski

Sco­tland in Eu­ro­pean Politics

Wal­demar Ko­walski

Sco­tland, the Scot­tish Dia­spora, and the Wider World in Re­cent Historiography

Ka­ta­rzyna Kło­sińska

The Suc­ces­sors of Flo­rence Ni­gh­tin­gale. Scot­tish Women on the World War I We­stern Front

Petra Jo­hana Pon­ca­rová

A Tale of a City: Edwin Muir and Prague

J. Der­rick McC­lure

Ap­pro­aches to Trans­la­tion in Iain Galbraith’s Be­redter Norden

Part II. Sco­tland in Poland

Marta Crickmar

Scro­oges and Smug­glers – a Potted Hi­story of the Scot­tish Pre­sence in Poland

Jo­anna Ko­pa­czyk

Scot­tish Pa­pers in Early Mo­dern Po­land: a New Re­so­urce for Hi­sto­rical Linguists

Ka­ta­rzyna Gmerek

Sco­tland in the Eyes of Two Po­lish Lady Tra­vel­lers (1790 and 1858)

Barry Keane

Poland’s First Stage Ad­ap­ta­tions of Ar­thur Conan Doyle’s Sher­lock Holmes

Iza­bela Szy­mańska

The Image of Sco­tland in the 1955 Po­lish Trans­la­tion of Kid­napped by R. L. Stevenson

Aniela Ko­rze­niowska

James Kelman’s Po­lish 2011 Début with Jak późno było, jak późno (How late it was, how late) and Its Po­si­tion wi­thin the Po­lish Li­te­rary Polysystem

Part III. Eu­rope in Scotland

Krzysztof For­doński

Neo-​Latin Po­etry in Eighteenth-​Century Sco­tland – John Pin­kerton Trans­lates Ma­ciej Ka­zi­mierz Sarbiewski

Ste­wart San­derson

The Moon and the Pa­thetic Fal­lacy’: Gu­il­laume Apol­li­naire and the Scot­tish Renaissance

Mar­gery Palmer McCul­loch

From Mac­Diarmid and Morgan to Lo­ch­head and Kay: Bards, Ra­di­cals, and the Place of Eu­rope in Mo­dern Scot­tish Poetry

Part IV. Sco­tland and Europe

Bar­bara Ko­walik

Ani­mals as Signs for So­cie­ties and Ru­lers: a Com­pa­rison of Ro­bert Hen­ryson and Biernat of Lu­blin, with Re­fe­rence to Geof­frey Chaucer

Mał­go­rzata Grze­go­rzewska

En­glish Rose(s) in the Gar­dens of Early Mo­dern Scot­tish Poetry

Do­rota Ba­bilas

Queen Victoria’s (Re)discovery of Scotland

Jerzy Jar­nie­wicz

‘Oh, poet, give me so­me­thing I can see and touch’. Con­crete Po­etry in Sco­tland and Its In­ter­na­tional Context

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CFP: The Celtic Revival in Scotland

The Celtic Revival in Scotland (1860–1930)

1–3 May 2014, Edinburgh, Scotland

Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2014.

Organised by the University of Edinburgh’s department of Celtic and Scottish Studies and part-hosted by the National Galleries of Scotland.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The recent upsurge of interest in early twentieth-century cultural nationalisms has raised the profile of the Scottish role in the cultural and nationalist revival movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Especially during the key period between the 1890s and the First World War, the Scottish Celtic Revival movement witnessed a flowering of artistic, literary, and cultural activities that helped to shape incipient political and cultural nationalisms, both Scottish and pan-Celtic.

This interdisciplinary conference (1–3 May) will be organised by the University of Edinburgh’s department of Celtic and Scottish Studies and part-hosted by the National Galleries of Scotland. It will be supported by the Modern Humanities Research Fund and co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), and the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI), University of Edinburgh. The conference will bring together scholars working on the art, music, folklore collection, literary production, scholarship, politics, Gaelic linguistic revival, architecture, and material culture of the period, in order to reassess the role played by the Celtic Revival in the creation of modern Scottish identities. Through an examination of the roots, rise, and withering of the Celtic Revival in Scotland, the conference will reassess the successes – and failures – of the movement in its widest context.

Sessional paper proposals are invited from scholars working in all disciplines concerned with the Revival and figures involved in it. Topics may include Celtic Revival literature in Gaelic and in English, Celtic Revival art, architecture, craft and book design, the varied politics of the Celtic revival, Pan-Celticism, revivalism in the individual Celtic countries and European nationalist movements, the collection and representation of folklore and folksong, Celtic revivalism and the historiography of academic Celtic scholarship, language revival movements and their relationship to cultural, political and educational developments, the invention of the ‘spiritual Celt’, the Celtic Revival and the Celtic diaspora, the legacy of the Celtic Revival, as well as key figures such as Alexander and Ella Carmichael, Patrick Geddes, W. B. Yeats, John Duncan, Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Fiona Macleod (or William Sharp), Ruaraidh Erskine of Marr, Maurice Walsh, Granville Bantock, and many others. Paper proposals (up to 250 words) and enquiries about the conference can be sent to: CelticRevivalinScotland@ed.ac.uk

 


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CFP: Crime Fiction Here and There and Again

CALL FOR PAPERS

Crime Fiction: Here and There and Again

11-13 September 2014

Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2014

International Postgraduate Conference

University of Gdańsk in cooperation with The State School of Higher Professional Education Elbląg

Crime narratives are among the most popular forms of storytelling worldwide and have played a central role in the development of national literatures. Detective and crime novels have developed beyond borders marked by language, culture and genre. The ability to replicate, explore, and interrogate its own conventions is one of the defining features of all types of crime fiction. The recent worldwide success of Scandinavian crime fiction shows that crime novels can be successfully translated into other languages and appropriated for other cultures.

The aim of the conference is to discuss crime fiction across national borders, across cultures, across languages, across genres, across arts and across different media. We invite papers which deal with one or more of the following points (the list is by no means exhaustive), in any given literature and country, or in international comparison:

  • Crime fiction and cultural/national identities
  • Crime fiction and ethnic minorities
  • Others and Otherness
  • Transnational, translocal and transcultural crime narratives
  • Crime Spaces
  • Borrowings, adaptations and transformations
  • Crime fiction in translation
  • International bestsellers
  • Crime Fiction as Cultural Export
  • Exploding the Canon: forgotten crime narratives

Please send an abstract and a short biographical note to Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish at crimegdansk@gmail.com by 31 March 2014. The abstract should include a title, name and affiliation of the speaker and a contact email address. We welcome proposals from both postgraduate students and established scholars. Proposals for suggested panels are also welcome. Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes of presentation time and should be delivered in English.

Conference fee: 300PLN (75 Euro), Students – 250 PLN (60 Euro)

The fee includes tea and coffee breaks on all 3 days; lunches on the 11th and 13th; entertainment night on Thursday; conference reception on Friday and a delegate pack. Please note that accommodation is not included. There is going to be an informal conference warming in the evening on Wednesday the 10th.

For further information, please go to the conference website https://www.crimegdansk.wordpress.com, or contact the organisers at crimegdansk@gmail.com 

Conference organisers:

Urszula Elias, M.A. (University of Gdańsk)
Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish, M.A. (University of Gdańsk)
Arco van Ieperen, M.A. (The State School of Higher Professional Education in Elbląg)

Conference team:

Marta Crickmar, M.A. (University of Gdańsk)
Joanna Szarek, M.A. (University of Gdańsk)

Advisory Board:

Prof. David Malcolm (University of Gdańsk)
Dr Monika Szuba (University of Gdańsk)


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Transcending Oppositions in Scottish Culture: A Symposium

 Transcending Oppositions in Scottish Culture: A Symposium

 2-3 June 2014

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Professor Murray Pittock (University of Glasgow)

Professor Luísa Leal de Faria (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

The culture of Scotland has frequently depended on a negotiation of opposites. A nation on the border of its more powerful, and linguistically victorious, Southern neighbour, Scotland developed its own centres of power, thought and knowledge. In several important stages of its history, the people of Scotland was socially and ideologically divided between the Highlands and the Lowlands, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, Unionists and Jacobites (including the more recent rift between those in favour of the Union and those in favour of Devolution and even national independence). Scots participated in the risks and opportunities of the British Empire, but many remained strongly attached to a feeling of national belonging which was emphatically not English. Scottish thinkers made far-reaching contributions to the Enlightenment, yet Scotland was – and is – one of the acknowledged cradles of the gothic. The themes and modes of Scottish literature, in particular, have often oscillated between the realistic and the fantastic, quixotism and pragmatism, with writers providing such impressive embodiments of contradiction as Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and the many characters in the novels of Walter Scott who inhabit a world of recognizable places and problems but live in a world of romance.

This symposium addresses the problem of oppositions in all aspects of Scottish culture across the centuries. It is intended to focus on the persistence and/or resolution of tensions and discrepancies such as the ones mentioned above, taking into consideration the history, the thought and the literature of (and about) Scotland. At the same time, the event is meant to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Sir Walter Scott’s début novel, Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since, a landmark in the history of the representations of Scotland and of the symbolic negotiations which involve past and present, realism and romance, politics and personal identity, Englishness and Scottishness.

Submissions should be sent by email to  scotland@letras.up.pt

Please include the following information with your proposal:

• the full title of your paper;

• a 200-250 word description of your paper;

• your name, postal address and e-mail address;

• your institutional affiliation and position;

• a short bionote;

• AV requirements (if any)

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2014
Deadline for registration: 15 May 2014

Registration Fee: 70 Euros

Student fee: 55 Euros

All delegates are responsible for their own travel arrangements and accommodation. Relevant information will be provided on the conference website – http://web3.letras.up.pt/scotland

Organizing Committee

Jorge Bastos da Silva (Universidade do Porto, Portugal / CETAPS)

Katarzyna Pisarska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland / CETAPS)

For further queries please contact:

CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies

Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

Via Panorâmica, s/n

4150-564 PORTO

PORTUGAL

Phone / Fax:  +351-226077610

scotland@letras.up.pt