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/
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
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2014
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:
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
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)
Marta Crickmar, M.A. (University of Gdańsk)
Joanna Szarek, M.A. (University of Gdańsk)
Prof. David Malcolm (University of Gdańsk)
Dr Monika Szuba (University of Gdańsk)
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.
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)
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
Jorge Bastos da Silva (Universidade do Porto, Portugal / CETAPS)
Katarzyna Pisarska (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland / CETAPS)
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
One of our members, Dr Monika Szuba is going to give a paper at the XIIIth International Conference organised by Société Française d’Études Écossaises (The French Society for Scottish Studies).
The conference will take place from 17 to 19 October 2013 at the University of Besançon.
BETWEEN.POMIĘDZY 2014
14-16 May 2014 Sopot/Gdańsk
New Beginnings/Openings in Scottish Literature
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2014. Please see the call for papers for details.
The conference will be 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://betweenpomiedzy.pl
For further information, contact the organisers at between@ug.edu.pl
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