The Department of English Literature at Edinburgh University is delighted to host the Twelfth International Walter Scott Conference, in the 250th year since his birth in this city. Please note that due to the ongoing restrictions on international travel and on the use of the University buildings, this will be an online conference. Participants will send papers in the form of recorded presentations in advance of panel discussions; in the week before the conference, the programme, on this website, will link to those presentations. Panel discussion, and plenary lectures, will take place by videotelephony. Tuesday 6 July 2021 14:00 – 15:50 Welcome Opening Plenary: The Jane Millgate Memorial Lecture Chair: Bob Irvine Prof. Alison Lumsden, University of Aberdeen. Re-awakening the Harp of the North: Scott at 250. Take me to Eventbrite to book my ticket 16:00–16:50 Panel 1. Landscape I: verse Chair: Penny Fielding 1. Juliet Shields, University of Washington, Seattle. Lived-in Landscapes in Lady of the Lake and Clan-Albin. 2. Ainsley McIntosh. ‘O Caledonia! stern and wild’: Scott’s Poetry and Scot(t)-land. 3. Kathryn Chittick, Trent University, Canada. Walter Scott and Sir Tristrem: The Borders Origins of ‘Inglis’. Panel 3. Abbotsford’s Collections in Focus Chair: Prof. Alison Lumsden 7. Kirsty Archer-Thompson FSA Scot. ‘The full value of the influence of absence’: The Lost Collections of Sir Walter Scott. 8. Dr. Katie Stevenson. What the Housekeeper Knew: the ‘Curious’ Portrait on the Armoury Wall at Abbotsford. 9. Dr. Lindsay Levy. Exploring Scott’s Lost Library Catalogues. 10. George Dalgleish FSA Scot. The Curious Case of Edinburgh Mercat Cross and Three Cartloads of Stone from Sir Henry Raeburn. 17:00 – 18:00 Panel 4. Coastal Scott I: Scott on the Coast Chair: Gerard Lee McKeever 11. Alexander Dick, University of British Columbia. Geologic Realism in The Lord of the Isles and ‘Vacation in 1814’. 12. Samuel Baker, University of Texas at Austin. Two Highland Boys: Scott, Wordsworth, and the Coastal Ends of The Heart of Midlothian. 13. Anna Pilz, University of Edinburgh. Scott and Coastal Travel. Panel 5. Scott and Monarchy Chair: Bob Irvine 14. Henri Suhamy. Scott and the English Revolution. 15. Norman Arthur Fischer, Kent State University. Scott’s Knights Against Tyranny. 16. Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley. ‘A King who reigns and does not rule’: Weak sovereignty in The Fortunes of Nigel. Panel 6. Minstrels, Troubadours, Theory Chair: Matthew Reznicek 17. Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy. Scott, the Troubadours and Europe’s Literary Modernity. 18. John Savarese, University of Waterloo, Canada. Musical Ambience and Cognitive Ecology in Percy, Ritson, and Scott. 19. Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University. From Flodden Field to Fields of Sense: Scott’s Poetic Vision and Markus Gabriel’s Realist Ontology. Wednesday 7 July 2021 14:00–14:50 Panel 7. Landscape II: novels Chair: Ainsley McIntosh 20. Anna Fancett, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. The Natural World in The Bride of Lammermoor. 21. John Patrick Pazdziora, University of Tokyo. ‘The Decayed Sanctuary’: Speaking Exclusionary Landscape in The Tale of Old Mortality. 22. Mary Nestor, Clemson University, South Carolina. Outsiders and Local Guides: Negotiating Landscape Familiarity, Belonging and Reader Perspective in Scott’s Works. Panel 8. Perspectives on Ivanhoe Chair: Bob Irvine 23. Dr Kang-yen Chiu, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan. Ivanhoe in the Modern History of Taiwan (ROC). 24. Paul Barnaby, University of Edinburgh. Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret and the French Ivanhoe. 41. Kate Flaherty, Australian National University. Elsewhere Within: Meg Merrilies, Charlotte Cushman, and Scotland. Panel 9: Trauma and Cultural Memory I Chair: Penny Fielding 26. Silvia Mergenthal, University of Konstanz. Prisons, Graveyards, Battlefields: Scott(ish) Traumascapes. 27. Kenneth McNeil, Eastern Connecticut State University. (Un)Forgetting the Covenanters: Scottish Cultural Memory after The Tale of Old Mortality. 15:00–15:50 Panel 10. Coastal Scott II: The Coast after Scott. Chair: Samuel Baker 28. Gerard Lee McKeever, University of Stirling. Reading Scott on the Solway Firth. 29. Eric Gidal, University of Iowa. Valley Sections and Coastal Networks from Scott to Geddes. 30. Susan Oliver, University of Essex. Inshore Fishing in the 21st Century: Romance and Realism of Scott’s Legacy. Panel 11. Scott in Space and Time Chair: Deidre Lynch 31. Carly Yingst, Harvard University. Old News: Periodical Time and Delay in Scott’s Early Historical Novels. 32. Hilary Clydesdale, University of Edinburgh. Walter Scott, ‘A Prophesier of things Past’: Locating History within Time and Space in Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer (1815). 33. Nadia Faconti-Christodoulou, University of Aberdeen. Pilgrimage, Refuge and the Road in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Panel 12. Scott at the Frontier Chair: Caroline McCracken-Flesher 34. Dr Sarah Sharp, University of Aberdeen. ‘How much more healthy is your Walter Scott’: Reading Scott and Imagining Settler Colonial Identity. 35. Jeremy M. Johnston, Buffalo Bill Center of the West. From the Borders to Wyoming: Sir Walter Scott and the Johnson County War. 16:00–16:50 Panel 13. Landscape III: genre Chair: John Savarese 36. Dr Dan Wall, University of Aberdeen. ‘Landscapes of the Imagination: sketching the scenery of Scott’s Lives of the Novelists’. 37. Caroline McCracken-Flesher, University of Wyoming. ‘Terra newly Incognita: Scott’s introductions and remapping the temporal landscape of the novel.’ 38. Daniel Cook, University of Dundee. Reading Wandering Willie’s Tale. Panel 14. Trauma and Cultural Memory II Chair: Ian Duncan 39. Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Mediating Jacobites in Cultural Memory: from the 1745 Rising to Waverley. 40. Erin Saladin, Harvard University. Scott’s Sepulchral Literature. 6. Matthew Reznicek, Creighton University, Nebraska. Healing The Nation: Women, Medicine, and the Romantic National Tale. 17:00–18:00 Plenary event: book launch Authors and editors in conversation Chair: Michelle Houston, Edinburgh University Press The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry: Ainsley McIntosh, ed. Marmion (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) Peter Garside and Gillian Hughes, ed. Shorter Poems (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) Susan Oliver, Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation (Cambridge University Press, 2021) Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Matt Wickman, eds. Walter Scott at 250: Looking Forward (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) Daniel Cook, Walter Scott and Short Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) Thursday 8 July 2021 14:00–14:50 Panel 16. Scott in Europe Chair: Penny Fielding 44. Graham Tulloch. Scott and the Two Sicilies. 45. Margaretmary Daley, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. Sir Walter Schott-land: Landscapes in German-Language Historical Novels. 46. Bob Irvine, University of Edinburgh. Narrative form and political violence in The Black Dwarf and Vadim: Scott, Shakespeare, Lermontov. Panel 17. Antiquarianism and Scott’s sources Chair: Eric Gidal 47. Zachary Garber, University of Oxford. ‘Such Acts to Chronicles I Yield’: Sir Walter Scott’s Collection of Medieval Chronicles and Their Influence Upon His Fiction. 48. Stephen Pallas, Stony Brook University. ‘To Intrude Upon the Province of History’: Dave Gellatly, Waverley, and the Writing of a Collective Heritage. 49. Genevieve McNutt. The Antiquary and the Abbot’s Apple. 15:00–15:50 Panel 18. Landscape IV: scenes and sketches Chair: Kirsty Archer-Thompson 51. Lucy Wood. Writing Ruins: Walter Scott and the case of Melrose Abbey. 52. Kasie Alt, Georgia Southern University. “Revisiting the ‘Rarée Show’: Repton’s Red Books through the Lens of Sir Walter Scott”. 53. Richard Hill, Chaminade University of Honolulu. James Skene’s Sketchbook and Scott’s Vision of Scotland. Panel 19. Twentieth-Century Scott Chair: Daniel Cook 54. Joshua Richards, MidAmerica Nazarene University. Gathering the Limbs of T. S. Eliot’s Sir Walter Scott. 55. Arianna Granata, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano / University of Glasgow. Bibliophilism and collecting in Walter Scott’s The Antiquary and Umberto Eco’s The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (2004): two alter egos compared. Panel 20. Scott’s life and religion Chair: Bob Irvine 56. Marie Michlova, Charles University, Prague. A Tale of a Grandfather. 57. Amy McVeigh, University of Edinburgh. ‘Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live’: Witches in the Fiction of Sir Walter Scott. 58. J. H. Alexander. University of Aberdeen. Scott’s Religious Discourses. 59. Peter Garside. Scott’s Last Words. 16:00–18:00 Closing Plenary Lecture Prof. Deidre Lynch, Harvard University. Unbinding Walter Scott: Books, Scraps and Dispersive Reading. Chair: Penny Fielding Closing business: where next? This article was published on 2024-08-13
