Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction In brief Speakers - Professor Michelle Keown (University of Edinburgh), Dr Shari Sabeti (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Simon Grennan (University of Chester) Title - Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction Watch a recording of the lecture on Zoom About the event Organised by Museums and Galleries Edinburgh, this online lecture marked Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2022. We heard from the research team behind a major research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific fiction through graphic adaptation, arts education and community engagement. The three-year project (2022 to 2025) will explore the legacies of Stevenson's Pacific writing, specifically the three short stories published in his 1893 collection ‘Island Nights' Entertainments’. As a part of the project, they will commission new poetry by indigenous Pacific authors, and develop a set of accompanying teaching resources for use in Samoa, Hawai’i and Scotland. In addition, the project will produce the first ever documentary film exploring contemporary Samoan perspectives on Stevenson. In this talk, the team talked about their recent field work in Hawai'i, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago in July 2022. About the speakers Michelle Keown Michelle Keown is Professor of Pacific and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in Postcolonial literature and theory, particularly that of the Pacific region. She has published widely on Maori and Pacific writing and is the author of Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body (Routledge, 2005) and Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania (Oxford University Press, 2007). She is co-editor of Comparing Postcolonial Diaspora (Palgrave, 2009); co-editor of The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2010); and co-editor of Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (Routledge, 2018). Shari Sabeti Shari Sabeti is Reader in Arts and Humanities Education at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on arts, humanities and cultural heritage education and has taken place in a variety of locales including schools, museums, community and commercial contexts. She is the author of Creativity and Learning in Later Life: An Ethnography of Museum Education (Routledge 2017) and numerous journal articles and chapter contributions to anthologies. Simon Grennan Simon Grennan is Leading Research Fellow at the University of Chester, an awarded scholar of visual narrative and graphic novelist. He is author of Thinking Through Drawing (Bloomsbury 2022), A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave 2017), Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval (Book Works 2018) and Dispossession (Cape, 2015, one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2015). He is co-author and editor of Key Terms in Comics Studies (Palgrave 2022) and co-author of Marie Duval, Maverick Victorian cartoonist (MUP 2020), Marie Duval (Myriad 2018) and The Marie Duval Archive. How to join This was an online event on Zoom, organised by Museums and Galleries Edinburgh. If you have any questions, please contact them via their website. Contact Museums and Galleries Edinburgh Related links Exploring the legacies of Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific writing Nov 13 2022 19.00 - 20.30 Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction Join us online on Zoom to celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson Day in an event organised by Museums & Galleries Edinburgh, and meet the team behind a new three-year research project aiming to engage contemporary readers in Samoa, Scotland and Hawai'i. Online on Zoom
Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction In brief Speakers - Professor Michelle Keown (University of Edinburgh), Dr Shari Sabeti (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Simon Grennan (University of Chester) Title - Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction Watch a recording of the lecture on Zoom About the event Organised by Museums and Galleries Edinburgh, this online lecture marked Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2022. We heard from the research team behind a major research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), decolonising Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific fiction through graphic adaptation, arts education and community engagement. The three-year project (2022 to 2025) will explore the legacies of Stevenson's Pacific writing, specifically the three short stories published in his 1893 collection ‘Island Nights' Entertainments’. As a part of the project, they will commission new poetry by indigenous Pacific authors, and develop a set of accompanying teaching resources for use in Samoa, Hawai’i and Scotland. In addition, the project will produce the first ever documentary film exploring contemporary Samoan perspectives on Stevenson. In this talk, the team talked about their recent field work in Hawai'i, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago in July 2022. About the speakers Michelle Keown Michelle Keown is Professor of Pacific and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She specialises in Postcolonial literature and theory, particularly that of the Pacific region. She has published widely on Maori and Pacific writing and is the author of Postcolonial Pacific Writing: Representations of the Body (Routledge, 2005) and Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania (Oxford University Press, 2007). She is co-editor of Comparing Postcolonial Diaspora (Palgrave, 2009); co-editor of The Edinburgh Introduction to Studying English Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2010); and co-editor of Anglo-American Imperialism and the Pacific: Discourses of Encounter (Routledge, 2018). Shari Sabeti Shari Sabeti is Reader in Arts and Humanities Education at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on arts, humanities and cultural heritage education and has taken place in a variety of locales including schools, museums, community and commercial contexts. She is the author of Creativity and Learning in Later Life: An Ethnography of Museum Education (Routledge 2017) and numerous journal articles and chapter contributions to anthologies. Simon Grennan Simon Grennan is Leading Research Fellow at the University of Chester, an awarded scholar of visual narrative and graphic novelist. He is author of Thinking Through Drawing (Bloomsbury 2022), A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave 2017), Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval (Book Works 2018) and Dispossession (Cape, 2015, one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2015). He is co-author and editor of Key Terms in Comics Studies (Palgrave 2022) and co-author of Marie Duval, Maverick Victorian cartoonist (MUP 2020), Marie Duval (Myriad 2018) and The Marie Duval Archive. How to join This was an online event on Zoom, organised by Museums and Galleries Edinburgh. If you have any questions, please contact them via their website. Contact Museums and Galleries Edinburgh Related links Exploring the legacies of Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific writing Nov 13 2022 19.00 - 20.30 Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction Join us online on Zoom to celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson Day in an event organised by Museums & Galleries Edinburgh, and meet the team behind a new three-year research project aiming to engage contemporary readers in Samoa, Scotland and Hawai'i. Online on Zoom
Nov 13 2022 19.00 - 20.30 Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction Join us online on Zoom to celebrate Robert Louis Stevenson Day in an event organised by Museums & Galleries Edinburgh, and meet the team behind a new three-year research project aiming to engage contemporary readers in Samoa, Scotland and Hawai'i.
