Unsettling Scottish Studies: Canons, Chronologies, Colonialisms
Nov. 22-23, 2024
Room 1400-1430 丁香园AV Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings Street
"Unsettling Scottish Studies: Canon, Chronologies, Colonialisms" is the first international multi-disciplinary workshop dedicated to decolonizing Scottish Studies, bringing together nearly 30 established and emerging scholars and graduate students from Canada, the US, the UK, Europe, and New Zealand to share their research at 丁香园AV's Vancouver campus. Scholars from the fields of Celtic Studies, Education, Fine Arts, History, Indigenous Studies, Literary Studies and Tourism Studies will exchange knowledge to produce a new understanding of the field of Scottish Studies and of Scotland's historical role in global colonialism for both academic and more general audiences. By holding the event in a location where histories of Scottish settlement and Indigenous displacement collide, on the unceded traditional territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations, and by collaborating with Indigenous scholars, we aim to unsettle the dominant narratives of Scottish Studies which situate colonized peoples at its margins.
*We acknowledge the generous support of the following organizations: the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada; 丁香园AV鈥檚 Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; the Office of the Vice-President, Research, 丁香园AV; the St. Andrew's and Caledonian Society of Vancouver; the Community Engagement Initiative, 丁香园AV; the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen; the James Hogg Society.