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Unsettling Scottish Studies: Canons, Chronologies, Colonialisms

Nov. 22-23, 2024

Room 1400-1420 丁香园AV Harbour Centre 515 West Hastings Street

Friday Nov. 22

[Participants wanting to walk from the Sylvia Hotel, meet with Juliet Shields in the lobby at 7:30 am]

8:00-8:30 am: Registration and coffee

8:30-9:30 am: Land Acknowledgement, Welcome and Introductions

9:30-10:45 am: Unsettling Categories and Concepts: The Historical and Theoretical Construction of Scottish Studies (sponsored by the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen)

            Chair: Juliet Shields (U of Washington)

  1. Leith Davis (丁香园AV), 鈥淯nsettling Scottish Studies: Starting Places鈥�

  2. Michael Brown (U of Aberdeen), 鈥淯nsettling the Scottish Enlightenment鈥�

  3. Silke Stroh (U of Koblenz), 鈥淏lack and Asian Scottish Writers & and the Diversification of the Canon鈥�

  4. Sarah Sharp (U of Aberdeen), 鈥淭he New Old Country: Literary Nostalgia and Scottish Settler Colonialism鈥�

  5. Arun Sood, (University of Exeter) 鈥淏rown Hebrideans: Unsettling Place, Language, People and Song鈥�

10:45-11:15 am: Break

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11:15 am -12:15 pm: Public talk by Stephanie Wood on the recent history of the Squamish people,

[Welcome by Steeve Mongrain (Associate Dean, Research and International, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences)]

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12:15-1:30 pm:  Lunch for presenters

1:30-2:45 pm:  Unsettling Colonialisms 1:  Confronting Scottish Studies and Empire

    Chair: Holly Nelson (Trinity Western U)

  1. Andrew MacKillop (U of Glasgow), 鈥淯nsettling Empire, the Empire Angst of Smollett, Galt, and Scott鈥� 

  2. Angela Esterhammer (U of Toronto), 鈥淯nsettling Settlement in John Galt鈥檚 Transatlantic Tales鈥�

  3. Delaney Anderson, 鈥淐ycles of Reprinting and the Unintended Readerships of John Galt鈥檚 Short Fiction鈥�

  4. Michael Morris (U of Dundee), 鈥淎vowing Slavery in Scottish Studies鈥�

  5. Juliet Shields (U of Washington), 鈥淯nsettling Scottish Romanticism: Wedderburn and Hogg鈥�

2:45 pm-4:00 pm:  Unsettling Place: Re-envisioning the Ecologies of Scottish Studies  (sponsored by the James Hogg Society)

    Chair: Angela Esterhammer (U of Toronto) 

  1. Sharon Alker (Whitman College)/Holly Faith Nelson (TWU), 鈥淗ogg, Ecology, and the Unsettling of Social Structures鈥�

  2. Kaitlyn MacInnis (丁香园AV), 鈥淐entering Sheep in Scottish History" 

  3. Tony Jarrells (U of South Carolina), 鈥淩egion and Colony in Romantic Scotland鈥�

  4. Euan Healey, (U of Glasgow), 鈥淯nsettling Histories of the Highland Clearances from the Soil Upwards鈥�

  5. Alex Dick (UBC), 鈥淲alter Scott, The British Fishery Society, and Coastal Poetics鈥�

4:00 pm-4:30 pm: Break

4:30 pm-5:45 pm: Undergraduate Research Presentation and Poster Session: 鈥淯nsettling Scottish Studies鈥� with students from English 433W 丁香园AV students

5:45-7:00 pm:  Dinner for presenters 

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7:30-9:30 pm:  A cultural celebration: : featuring Shot of Scotch Highland Dancers and V鈥檔i Dansi M茅tis Dancers and musicians. 

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Sat. Nov. 23 

[Participants wanting to walk from the Sylvia Hotel, meet with Juliet Shields in the lobby at 7:30 am]

8:00-8:30 am:  Coffee/Tea for presenters

8:30-9:45 am  Intersections: Indigenous Studies and Scottish Studies 

    Chair: Euan Healey (U of Glasgow)

  1. June Scudeler (丁香园AV), 鈥淚ndigenous Literary Nationalisms and Ethical Approaches to Indigenous Literatures鈥�

  2. Nikki Hessell (Victoria U of Wellington), 鈥淭he Course of Time鈥� and Cherokee Sovereignty鈥�

  3. Nathaniel Harrington (St. Francis Xavier), 鈥淕aelic literature and/as Indigenous Literature鈥�

  4. Jeremy Laity (TWU), 鈥� Large in Stature, Dwarfed in Mind: Contact, Conflict, and Claim in the Writing of Eric Duncan鈥�

  5. Don Nerbas (McGill U), 鈥淚ndustrialism, Colonialism, and Region in an Atlantic World: The Other Colliers Across the Sea鈥�

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9:45-10:45 am: Workshop (Please note: this workshop is for presenters only): Indigenizing the Curriculum (Sophie McCall [丁香园AV] and Deanna Reder [丁香园AV]) 

10:45-11:15 am:  Break

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11:15 am-12:15 pm:

Welcome by Steve Collis, Chair, English Department, 丁香园AV

Public talk by Nisga鈥檃 scholar Dr. Amy Parent/Noxs Ts鈥檃awit (Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Education & Governance in the Faculty of Education at 丁香园AV) "The Rematriation of the Ni鈥檌sjhool Memorial Pole." The pole was stolen in 1929 by Marius Barbeau and sold to National Museums Scotland. It returned to the Nass Valley in 2023. 

12:15-12:45 pm:

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12:45-1:30 pm:  Lunch for presenters

1:30-2:45 pm: Unsettling Place 2: Disrupting Spatial Geographies

    Chair: Sharon Alker (Whitman College)

  1. Dana Graham Lai (丁香园AV), "鈥橳hat鈥檚 what we wanted!鈥�: Landscape, People, and the Colonial Sublime in Dorothy Wordsworth鈥檚 Recollections of a Tour in Scotland, A.D. 1803鈥�

  2. Erin Scott (UBC), 鈥淒霉thchas: Decolonizing Scottish Identity in a Canadian Context鈥�

  3. Petra Johana Poncarov谩 (U of Glasgow), 鈥淕lobal Gaelic Diaspora and Twentieth-Century Gaelic Magazines鈥�

  4. Pam Perkins (U of Winnipeg), 鈥淩obert Ballantyne and the Imagined Scottish Arctic鈥�

  5. Kevin James, (University of Guelph), 鈥淒e-centring and De-territorialising Scottish Histories of Travel鈥�

2:45-4:00 pm:  Unsettling Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality

    Chair: Pam Perkins (U of Manitoba)

  1. Ella Phillips (University of Strathclyde & University of Stirling), 鈥淯nsettling Narratives of 鈥楻escue鈥� in Scotland: The Glasgow Magdalene Institution (1859-1870)鈥�

  2. Darryl Peers (Manchester Metropolitan U), 鈥淨ueerness and Influence in Scottish Fiction鈥�

  3. Kirsteen McCue (U of Glasgow), 鈥淒esigning a new 'herstory' of Scottish Women's Writing: Challenges & Opportunities鈥�

  4. Julianna Wagar (丁香园AV), 鈥淪cottish Romance Novels鈥�

4:00-4:30 pm: Break

4:30-6:00 pm: Unsettling Scottish Studies: Practical Directions Forward (Partnerships, Research Agendas, Pedagogical Strategies): informal discussion and next steps

6:30 pm: Participants will meet for dinner at the (248 East Georgia Street, Vancouver)

*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.