2nd World Congress of Scottish Literatures and Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society:
DialoguesandDiasporas
June21-25,2017
CoastPlazaHotelVancouver,BritishColumbia
FloorPlanoftheCoastHotelPlazaandSuites
PROGRAM Wednesday,21June201717:45–19:00RegistrationandReception(upperfoyer).Receptionfoodwillbeservedat17:45. 19:00–21:00(ComoxRoom)CelebrationinHonourofNationalAboriginalDayinCanadafeaturingspokenwordartistsJordanAbel,RainPrud’homme-CranfordandSamanthaNockandmusicalensembleM’Girl(inpartnershipwiththeIndigenousLiteraryStudiesAssociation’s3rdAnnualGathering)Thursday,22June20177:30–8:30Mentorshipbreakfast(GilfordRoom)8:00–8:30Registration(upperfoyer)8:30–8:40Welcomingremarks:LeithDavis(Organizerof2ndWorldCongressandPresidentofECSSS)andMurrayPittock(OrganizerofFirstWorldCongressandConvenorofIASSL)8:40–10:00PlenaryRoundTableDiscussionandlaunchofIndigenous/ScottishStudiesresearchcluster1.ScotlandandIndigenousPeopleinCanada:Exchanges,TracesandInfluences Room:ComoxChair:LeithDavis(SimonFraserU)SherryFarrellRacette(UofManitoba)BrendaMacdougall(UofOttawa)DeannaReder(SimonFraserU) 10:00–10:30COFFEE/TEA10:30–12:00Concurrentsessions 2.ScottishEncountersinNorthAmerica(panelsponsoredbySFU’sCentreforScottishStudies)Room:ComoxChair:WilleenKeough(SimonFraserU)KatieMcCullough(SimonFraserU)andPeterCook(UofVictoria):“ATaleofTwoDiasporas:MohawksandScotsintheSt.LawrenceValleyaftertheAmericanRevolution”EmmaPink(SimonFraserU):“TechnologiesofEncounterinAgnesDeansCameron’sTheNewNorth(1910)”LeahTench(SimonFraserU):“FortLangleyasPalimpsest:NarrativeSublationandCounter-memoriesinBritishColumbia” EdwardCowan(UofGlasgow):“ScottishLiteratureofCanadianArcticExploration”3.JohnGaltinDialoguewithScottishEnlightenmentWriters Room:BarclayChair:JoEllendeLucia(CentralMichiganUniversity)SharonAlker(WhitmanCollege)andHollyFaithNelson(TrinityWesternU),“InvisibleHandsandSpectersofTradeinGalt’sBogleCorbet”AngelaEsterhammer(UofToronto),“PoliticalEconomy,Speculation,andGalt’sTheEntail”ReginaHewitt(UofSouthFlorida),“EquitableHistorians:GaltandHumeonWolsey” 4.ScotlandandtheSea:Empire,Piracy,Diaspora(panelsponsoredbytheAssociationofScottishLiteraryStudies)Room:GilfordChair:RhonaBrown(UofGlasgow)
AlexanderDick(UofBritishColumbia),“AlexanderCampbell’sGrampiansDesolate:BiopoliticsAfterOssian” TimothyHeimlich(UofCalifornia,Berkeley),“ThePirateand‘theBucanier’:WalterScott,Piracy,andtheCaribbean”KennethMcNeil(EasternConnecticutStateU),“TheHistoryofMaryPrince,ThomasPringle,andtheProcessofCultural‘Diaspora-ization’” 5.ConjunctionsandDisjunctures:ScienceFictionandScottishFiction Room:NelsonChair:MatthewOcheltree(HarvardUniversity)ErikJaccard(UofWashington),“EmbracingtheConjunction:ScotlandandScienceFiction”MartinProcházka(CharlesU),“MobileDiasporas?TheFutureofCultures,CivilizationsandIdentitiesinIainM.Banks’sScienceFiction”ColinS.Clark(CharlesU),“ScottishSpeculativeFiction” 12:00–13:30LUNCH(onown)13:30–15:00ConcurrentSessions6.MediatingScottishIdentity:Voices,Images,BodiesRoom:ComoxChair:SharonAlker(WhitmanCollege)CarolMcGuirk(FloridaAtlanticU),“HebrewMelodiesandScottishSong:Byron’sEchoesofBurns,Ballads,andScotland”AnneStapleton(UofIowa),“Re-ImaginingScottishCommunitythroughSong:LadyNairn’s‘CallerHerrin’”NancyMooreGoslee(UofTennessee),“TwoBodiesTravelling:GeorgeIVinEdinburgh”DonNichol(MemorialU),“StalkingStevensonfromEdinburghtoVailima” 7.DialogueswithTransatlanticLiteraturesRoom:BarclayChair:KatieMcCullough(SimonFraserUniversity)SilviaMergenthal(UofKonstanz),“TheScottishInventionofCanadianLiterature?JohnBuchaninCanada”AnneArtymiuk(UoftheHighlandandIslands,Scotland),“‘Hereisnonhoom.Herenisbutwildernesse’:DualitiesandDichotomiesoftheImmigrantExperienceinAlistairMacLeod’sNoGreatMischief”RobertMorace(DaemenCollege),“21stCenturyTransatlanticScots”SylviaBryce-Wunder(WilfridLaurierU),“AMulti-FacetedScots-CanadianLiteraryLegacy:FrederickNiven’sWildHoneyandtheCounter-NarrationofCanadaduringtheScottishDiaspora” 8.LiteratureandEnlightenment:RoundTableDiscussionandBookLaunchofTheScottishEnlightenmentandLiteraryCulture(ed.RalphMcLean,RonnieYoungandKennethSimpson)Room:GilfordChair:RichardB.Sher(NewJerseyInstituteofTechnology)RonnieYoung(UofGlasgow)PamPerkins(UniversityofManitoba) 9.RoundtableonScottishLiteratureDigitalHumanitiesProjects(sessionsponsoredbytheInternationalAssociationfortheStudyofScottishLiterature)Room:NelsonChair:MurrayPittock(UofGlasgow)CraigLamont(UofGlasgow),“Edinburgh’sEnlightenment:1680-1750”AlexDeans(UofGlasgow),“CuriousTravellers:ThomasPennantandtheWelshandScottishTour(1760-1820)”JohnKnox(UofSouthCarolina),“TheCollectedPoemsofGavinTurnbullOnline:ADigitalEditingProjectattheUniversityofSouthCarolina”MelissaMcAfee(UofGuelph),“DigitalPedagogyandtheScottishChapbookProjectattheUniversityofGuelph”
15:00–15:30COFFEE/TEA15:30–17:00ConcurrentSessions 10.RoundtableonEcologiesofDestruction:ThePoliticsandPoeticsofthePlanetaryRoom:ComoxChair:MirandaBurgess(UofBritishColumbia)SiobhanCarroll(UofDelaware)EricGidal(UofIowa)MatthewOcheltree(HarvardU)SusanOliver(UofEssex) 11.ScottishSuffering:Melancholy,TraumaandAnxietyRoom:BarclayChair:GeraldineParsons(UofGlasgow)MoiraHansen(UofGlasgow),“‘Moreakintothecryingthanthelaughingphilosopher’:MelancholicDialogueintheCorrespondenceofRobertBurnsandFrancesDunlop”JoeBouch(UofGlasgow),“TraumaticMemoriesasForeignParts:SearchingforNarrativeCoherenceasthePast‘Re-membered’inJaniceGalloway’sForeignParts”HelenaMarieRoots(EdinburghNapierU),“‘MyGriefisBiggerthanYourGrief’:TraumaandDomesticDisplacementinContemporaryScottishWomen’sWriting”HonglingLyu(NanjingNormalU),“FreedomwithAnxietyinWelsh’sTrainspotting” 12.(Re)ForgingIdentityintheLongEighteenthCenturyRoom:GilfordChair:NedLandsman(SUNYatStonybrook)EstherMijers(UofEdinburgh),“AfterRotterdam:TheInternalDialogueoftheScottishDiasporaReturnees”ClarisseGodardDesmarest(UofPicardieJulesVerne),“EducatingtheHeirtoaScottishEstateinthelate17th-Century” 13.TransatlanticConnections,ConcreteandImaginaryRoom:NelsonChair:DerekGladwin(UofBritishColumbia)PaulMaloney(Queen’sUBelfast),“FromtheGorbalstotheLowerEastSide:Theatre’sTransatlanticRe-imaginingofModernScottishIdentity”BrianJ.McAllister(OhioU),“VisualArchives:ScottishConcretePoetryandMid-centuryTransatlanticNetworks”ElizabethKraft(UofGeorgia),“Isthereathere,there?TheScottishHighlandsandtheAmericanDream” 18:00–20:00ReceptionattheIrishHeatherGastropubforCongresspresentersandtheirguests(210CarrallSt.,Vancouver;snackswillbeprovided;dinnerisavailableforpurchase).TransportationtotheIrishHeather:Clickhereforinformation.
Friday,23June20178:00–8:30Registration(upperfoyer)8:30–10:00ConcurrentSessions 14.Proverbs,PoetryandPoeticsRoom:ComoxChair:SteveNewman(TempleU)JeffStrabone(ConnecticutCollege),“HoraceDressedinScots:AllanRamsay’sTheoryandPracticeofImitation”RonnieYoung(UofGlasgow),“‘LikeaSowplayingonaTrump’:AllanRamsay’sScotsProverbsandVernacularPrintCulture”DoraHuang(UofMacau),“EdwinMorganasTranscreator”DerrickMcClure(UofAberdeen),“NormanMacCaig’sVerseTechnique” 15.TechnologiesandTexts:Manuscript,PrintandDigitalCulturesRoom:BarclayChair:SarahFaulkner(UofWashington)KaitlynMacInnis(SimonFraserU),“‘NoEpitaphweneedonStone’:Longevity,Memorialisation,andScottishNationalismintheEpitaphofM.Scott”LeithDavis(SimonFraserU),“MediaandMobility:InscriptingtheDarienVentureinLettersandPrint”EricGidal(UofIowa),“MappingScottishLiteratures:ExperimentsinEco-Philology”KirsteenMcCue(UofGlasgow)andPamelaPerkins(UofManitoba),“AnneGrantandElizabethIsabellaSpence”16.JurisdictionandProscription:DesigningandControllingLandandSeainEighteenth-CenturyScotlandRoom:GilfordChair:EstherMijers(UofEdinburgh)OliverFinnegan(UofCambridge),“‘‘Saintsturnedfreebooters’:TheDarienVenture,PiracyandtheNationalisationofMaritimeSpace,1695-1702”AlastairNoble(UofEdinburgh),“FromDisarmingtoImproving–DefiningandDescribingtheHighlandsafterthe’45”MickyGibbard(UofDundee),“CentresofCivility:SpaceandControlinEighteenth-CenturyRuralPlannedSettlements”17.ModernityandWorldSystem(s)Room:NelsonChair:ErikJaccard(UofWashington)CoreyGibson(UofGroningen),“FegsandtheFlegsomeFeck:HughMacDiarmidandArchieHind”JoeJackson(UofNottingham),“SecurityandtheWorld-SysteminYouHavetobeCarefulintheLandoftheFree”DougalMcNeill(VictoriaUofWellington),“GooglingtheDemocraticIntellect:DialogueandAliSmith’sEpigraphs”10:00–10:30COFFEE/TEA10:30–12:00Concurrentsessions18.AdamFerguson,theMoralLife,andtheEnlightenmentProject:RoundTableDiscussionandBookLaunchofJackA.Hill’sAdamFergusonandEthicalIntegrityRoom:Denman(noA/V)Chair:RichardB.Sher(NewJerseyInstituteofTechnology)XandraBello(UofAberdeen)MichaelBrown(UofAberdeen)Respondent:JackHill(TexasChristianU)
19.TranspacificScottishStudies(andlaunchofTranspacific/Scottishresearchcluster)Room:ComoxChair:DougalMcNeill(VictoriaUofWellington)NikkiHessell(VictoriaUofWellington),“‘WalterScottandPacificHospitality”Kang-yenChiu(NationalYang-MingU),“WalterScott’sFirstChineseCritic”LesleyGraham(UdeBordeaux),“ImaginingScotlandfromthePacific:MargaretStevensonin‘spaceunattached’”CatrionaNiclomhairParsons(St.FrancisXavierU),“‘Eileanangorma’Mhaori’’andDunedin’sGaelicBard” 20.RoundtableonAllanRamsayRoom:BarclayChair:DianaSolomon(SimonFraserU)MurrayPittock(UofGlasgow),“TheEdinburghRamsay:EditorialIssuesandTextualPolicy”RhonaBrown(UofGlasgow),“AuthorandAudience:AllanRamsay’sParatextualDialogues”SandroJung(GhentU),“OnRamsay’sNegotiationsofEnglishPublishingMechanismsandStrategies”SteveNewman(TempleU):“FromthePentlandHillstotheAtlantic:TheGentleShepherd’sDialoguesinSpaceandSound”21.DiasporaandPrintCultureRoom:GilfordChair:BettySchellenberg(SimonFraserU)CraigLamont(UofGlasgow),“ADescriptiveBibliographyofRobertBurnsEditions:AnalysingScottishPrintCultureinNorthAmericanCollections”DavidFinkelstein(UofEdinburgh),“PrintersandtheScottishDiaspora,1840-1914”JulietShields(UofWashington),“Annie S. Swan’s ‘Literature of the Heart’ and the Scottish Diaspora” 22.Caribbean-ScottishConnections Room:NelsonChair:KenMcNeil(UofEasternConnecticut)CarlaSassi(UofVerona),“ScotlandandtheCaribbean:TheStrangeCommerceofNationalismandMemory”MichaelMorris(LiverpoolJohnMooresU),“Multidirectional-memory,Many-HeadedHydras,andScottishSlavery”LouPrendergast(playwright,actress,directorofBlackStarProjects),“blackstar,blacksheep,blackdog,underdog,underling,under-lying,lies,truths,empathy,love,light,luminouslybright,deadlyanddark,humblehumanbeings”12:00–13:30LUNCH(onown)12:00–12:30FilmScreening(Nelson)SpecialScreeningof1745–AnUntoldStoryofSlavery:“1745highlightsaforgottenpartofScotland’shistory:whileScotlandwasfightingforitsnationalfreedominthatfatefulyear,itseconomywasinlargepartfoundedontheboomingcolonialslavetrade.Whilethemajorityofslaveryhappenedelsewhere–off-stage,acrosstheAtlantic–therewereAfricanslaveshere,keptastrophiesandpetsinthehousesoftheirrichmerchantmasters.1745wasinspiredbyadvertisementsthatwriter,MorayoAkandé,discoveredforrunawayslaves,placedinScottishnewspapersofthetime.” 12:30–13:30DHcluster/digitalchapbooksmeeting(BarclayRoom)13:30–15:00ConcurrentSessions
23.LookingNorth:LocalandGlobalDialoguesRoom:ComoxChair:AlexDick(UofBritishColumbia)HalszkaLeleń(UofWarmiaandMazury),“TransgressingtheLocalthroughDialogicGlocalityandTemporalDisplacementinGeorgeMackayBrown’sWriting”DerekGladwin(UofBritishColumbia),“Petro-spaces:ShetlandPoetryandNorthSeaOil”PetraJohanaPoncarová(CharlesU),“TormodCaimbeul’sAnDruimbhoThuath(TheNorthernRidge,2011)”CherylMares(SweetBriarCollege),“CaithnessandtheTransatlanticinLindaCracknell’sCalloftheUndertow” 24. National Roots and Transnational Routes of the Novel Room: Barclay Chair: Juliet Shields (U of Washington) JoEllen DeLucia (Central Michigan University), “Satire more than Sentiment: Scottish Women Novelists of the Long Eighteenth Century” Sarah Faulkner (U of Washington), “Tartan Covers and Family Memories: The Transatlantic Reception of The Scottish Chiefs” Aislinn McDougall (Queen’s U), “The Theoretical Difficulty of Misrepresentation: Characterizing the Real with Narrative and Disguise in Sir Walter Scott’s Rob Roy” Thiago Rhys Bezerra Cass (U of São Paulo), “A Union of Affections: British National Tales in Brazil” 25.History,NationandEmpireintheScottishEnlightenment Room:Gilford Chair:JackHill(TexasChristianU)MarcHanvelt(CarletonU),“PoliticalCourageinHume’sHistoryofEngland”MichaelC.Amrozowicz(StateUofNewYork),“HistoriesofSocialOrganization:Non-LinearSystemsDynamicsinDavidHumeandJohnMillar”RandallHolt(UCLA),“Empire,Race,&GlobalizationinJamesDunbar’sEssaysontheHistoryofMankindinRudeandCultivatedAges”PaulJ.deGategno(PennStateBrandywine),“RespondingtoRebellion:JamesMacpherson’sTheRightsofGreatBritainAssertedagainsttheClaimsofAmerica”26.Scottish-CanadianCompositionsRoom:NelsonChair:CarolMcGuirk(FloridaAtlanticU)RobertDunbar(UofEdinburgh),“JonathanG.MacKinnon:TraditionalistandModerniser”TiberF.M.Falzett(UofP.E.I.),“‘Obheulanùghdair’(‘Straightfromthecomposer’smouth’):TheScottishGaelicWritingsoftheLamontsoftheIsleofSkyeandPrinceEdwardIsland”MichaelStevenNewton(IndependentScholar),“GaelicHeroesoftheTrueNorth:AlexanderFraser’sLiteraryInterventionsinCanadianGaeldom”PaulMoulton(CollegeofIdaho),“ATaleofTwoIslands:HighlandMusicCultureonVancouverIslandandCapeBretonIsland”15:00–15:30COFFEE/TEA15:30–17:00PlenaryLectureRoom:ComoxMirandaBurgess(UofBritishColumbia),“WalterScottandtheTimeofIndia”Chair:SharonAlker(WhitmanCollege)17:00–18:00ECSSSAnnualGeneralMeeting(GilfordRoom)18:15–21:45Craftbeertour(pleaseregisterforthisoptionalevent;includesdinner)
Saturday,24June2017:“DayofScottishCulture”AllSaturdaydaytimetalksareplenaryeventsandarefreetothegeneralpublic.8:30–9:00Registration9:00–10:00PlenarySession(Comox)ScotlandandCulturalMemory(SFUCentreforScottishStudiesStudentandCommunityResearchPanel)JasreenJanjua,“FierceFemalesandMalePretenders:ExaminingGenderReversalsinAnti-JacobitePropagandaofthe1745Rebellion”BrianShannon,“Memories,Mediums,andImaginations:TheFormationoftheJacobiteUprisingasLieudeMémoireinSirWalterScott’sWaverley”AlyssaBridgman,“SimonFraser,CulturalAmnesia,andMemoryLamination”JasreenJanjuaandBenSheppard,“CreatingthePocketSight.comWalkingTourofScottishVancouver:LocatingScottishhistoryintheheartofdowntownVancouver”RosemaryCoupe,“DavidYoung:Copyist,Collector,andComposer” Chair:LeithDavis(SimonFraserU) 10:00–10:30COFFEE/TEA:SpecialPerformancebytheVancouverGaelicChoir(foyer)10:30–12:00PlenaryPanel(Comox)Eighteenth-CenturyGaelicLiterature’sInternationalNetworks:TheRev.JamesMcLagan(1728-1805)SìmInnes(UofGlasgow),“‘Chieftainsandgreatmen’:TheRev.JamesMcLagan’sGaeliccollectionandtheScottishEnlightenment”PeadarÓMuircheartaigh(PrifysgolAberystwythU),“AnEighteenth-CenturyColloquyofAncients?:JamesMcLagan,CharlesO’ConorandGaelicpasts,presentsandfutures”GeraldineParsons(UofGlasgow),“Soldiers’songs?:OssianicMaterialintheMcLaganCollectionintheContextoftheRevJamesMcLagan’sInternationalCareer”Chair:AntoneMinard(SimonFraserU)12:00–12:30LUNCH(onown:pre-orderboxlunchonRegistrationpageorgrabandgofromlocaleateries).Highlanddancers(foyer)12:30–13:30Booklaunchandreading(Comox)RobertAlanJamieson,readingfromhisnewnovelmacCLOUDFALLS13:30–15:00PlenarySessionContemporaryPerspectivesontheHudson’sBayCompanyPamelaPerkins(UniversityofManitoba),“TradingTales:PublicandPrivateNarrativesofScotsandtheHudson’sBayCompany”andBronwenQuarry(Hudson’sBayCompanyArchives)Chair:LeithDavis(SimonFraserU)15:00–15:30COFFEE/TEA15:30–17:00PlenaryLecture(Comox)CarolineMcCracken-Flesher(UofWyoming),“ScotlandandtheDialoguewithTime:ScienceFictionDiasporas”Chair:JulietShields(UofWashington)17:00–18:00IASSLAnnualGeneralMeeting(GilfordRoom)18:30–19:00Cashbar(drinkticketincludedinyourregistrationpackage)19:00–22:00BanquetinMemoryofIanSimpsonRoss(1930–2015)andDance(performanceandparticipatory)featuringmembersofV’niDansi,aVancouver-basedtraditionalMétisandcontemporarydancecompanydedicatedtosharingthedances,storiesandcultureoftheMétis.PLEASEBRINGYOURBANQUETTICKET.
Sunday,25June20179:30–14:30BusTripandTourofFortLangleyOptionalbustriptooldHudson’sBayfurtradingpost,FortLangley;talkbyFortLangleytourguidesonthehistoryofFortLangleyandScotsintheHBC.Lunchisincluded.Pleaseregisterandpayforthisevent.Wewishtothankthefollowingsponsors:TheSocialStudiesandHumanitiesResearchCouncilofCanada/ConseilderecherchesenscienceshumainesTheDepartmentofEnglishatSimonFraserUniversityTheOfficeoftheDeanoftheFacultyofArtsandSocialSciencesatSimonFraserUniversitySimonFraserUniversity’sCommunityEngagementInitiativeTheCentreforScottishStudiesatSimonFraserUniversityTheDepartmentofEnglishatWhitmanCollegeTheInternationalAssociationfortheStudyofScottishLiteraturesTheAssociationforScottishLiteraryStudiesTheDeanofArtsattheUniversityofBritishColumbiaTheDepartmentofEnglishatTrinityWesternUniversityTheIrishHeatherTheHudson'sBayCompanyArchivesStaplesSecondWorldCongressSteeringCommitteeDr.LeithDavis,SimonFraserUniversity(PrincipalOrganizer)Dr.EmmaPink,SimonFraserUniversityDr.SharonAlker,WhitmanCollegeDr.MirandaBurgess,UniversityofBritishColumbiaDr.AlexanderDick,UniversityofBritishColumbiaSarahFaulkner,UniversityofWashingtonDr.ScottMacKenzie,UniversityofBritishColumbiaDr.HollyFaithNelson,TrinityWesternUniversityDr.JulietShields,UniversityofWashington
