Unions/Disunions: SFEE Annual Conference 2024 In brief Dates - 2 to 4 May 2024 Venue - 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh Speakers - Emeritus Professor Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews); c.30 panellists Title - Unions/Disunions Format - three-day international conference with nine panel sessions, keynote plenary, and ceilidh Register to attend (fees apply) About the conference The department of English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to host the Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) for its annual conference. At a time of vivid debates on Scotland’s future within the United Kingdom and outwith the European Union, this year's conference invite us to reflect on the different forms of unions and disunions in which Scotland has been involved. The conference comprises nine themed panel sessions, each of three to four speakers. Themes span politics, literature, languages, and art, taking in themes such as translation, sociolinguistics, coloniality and peripherality. The first day will end with a conference ceilidh at the Consulat Général de France, and the second will finish with a keynote plenary, followed by a conference dinner. Keynote speaker Since A Scottish Assembly (1990) Robert Crawford has published eight collections of poems in English with imprints of Penguin Random House, most recently The Scottish Ambassador (Cape, 2018); his ninth collection, Old World, will be published by Cape next year. His biographies include The Bard: Robert Burns (Cape and Princeton, 2009), Young Eliot (Cape and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015), and Eliot after The Waste Land (Cape and FSG, 2022), as well as the bilingual (English/French) experimental biography of Violette Szabo Curriculum Violette (Molecular Press, 2021). His other books include Devolving English Literature (OUP, 1992), The Modern Poet (OUP, 2000), Scotland’s Books (Penguin and OUP, 2007), and Bannockburns: Scottish Independence and the Literary Imagination 1314-2014 (EUP, 2014). He lives in Edinburgh and is writing a book about haiku. Provisional programme Thursday 2 May 2024 8:50am to 9am - Welcome Stéphane Pailler, Consul général de France à Edimbourg et Glasgow Alex Thomson, Head of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh 9am to 10:30am - Panel 1 - Scottish Politics: Nationalism and Unionism Chair: David Leishman Edwige Camp-Pietrain Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes The Welfare State in Scotland: a “broken” social union? Annie Thiec Nantes Université Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as First Minister of Scotland: an “existential” moment for the Scottish National Party? Astrid Fontaine Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Disuniting the kingdom: how the Scottish National Party has used the Nordic countries to distance Scotland from the United Kingdom 11am to 12.30pm - Panel 2 - Contemporary Literature: union/disunion and the sense of place Chair: Jeanne Schaaf Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon LERMA, Aix Marseille Université “The weight of water”: Sarah Moss’s Summerwater (2020) and Cold Earth (2009) Philippe Laplace Université de Franche-Comté Family Union and Disunion and Women’s Emancipation in Naratives about St Kilda Jean Berton Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Union and disunion in Scotland from geology to crime fiction 1:30pm to 3:30pm - Panel 3 - Languages, voices, multilingualism Chair: Jean Berton Jeanne Schaff Université Lumière Lyon 2 Theatrical Disunions in Translation: a case study of the translation of the plays 'Ciara' by David Harrower (2013) and 'What Shadows' by Chris Hannan (2016) into French Florent Chevalier Nantes Université Unifying voices across a unified network: ScotRail onboard announcements Ian Brown Kingston University Versions of language suppression and appropriation in imperial and post-imperial Scotland Alan Riach University of Glasgow Breaking Pentameters and Other Things: Disruptions and Disunions of Poetic Form in Modern Scottish Poetry 4pm to 6pm - Panel 4 - Nineteenth-Century Literature and after Chair: Robert Irvine Benjamine Toussaint Sorbonne Université George MacDonald and the National Tale: redefining roles within the Union Julie Gay Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale Union/disunion of opposites Robert Louis Stevenson’s fiction: revelling in the tension Lesley Graham Université de Bordeaux “Confessions of a Unionist”: R.L. Stevenson and Ireland Danièle Berton Union and disunion in Man-to-Nature relationships: from ‘Ossianic’ poetic vision to satiric Morna Pearson’s 'Let’s Inherit the Earth' 7:30pm to 10pm - Conference Ceilidh (Consulat Général de France, George IV Bridge) Friday 3 May 2024 9am to 10:30am - Panel 5 - Contemporary Scottish Politics II: Scotland. Coloniality and Peripherality Chair: Edwige Camp-Pietrain John R. Young University of Strathclyde (Mis)understanding and (mis)representing the 1707 Act of Union? Myth-making and politicking in contemporary Scotland’ Nathalie Duclos Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès “We are either in a Union of equals, or we ARE a colony”: an investigation into Scottish nationalists’ enduring understanding of Scotland as a colony David Leishman Université Grenoble Alpes Consumer nationalism and the decline of North Britishness 11am to 12:30pm - Panel 6 - Scotland, colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean Chair: Simon Buck Charlotte Largeron Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Forging Connections in Tobago: Marriages, Power, and Identity in the Young of Delaford Park Family (1715–1842) Désha Osborne University of Edinburgh Eighteenth-Century Scottish and French Settlers in the Eastern Caribbean: A Revised View Michael Morris University of Dundee “La Cache”– Madame Bellanger’s Guadeloupe Hideaway 1:30pm to 3pm - Panel 7 - Scotland and the Rest of the World Chair: Sabrina Juillet-Garzon Clément Guézais Université de Caen Normandie The Auld Severance: a contemporary examination of the historiography of disappointments, blind spots and fantasies in the context of Franco-Scottish relations Florence Petroff Université de La Rochelle The Scots and the American Revolution: the Anglo-Scottish Union facing the disunion of empire (1775–1783) Veronique Molinari Université Grenoble Alpes Countering the “satanic device of mixed marriages” in New South Wales with the emigration of “reputable Scotch Protestant females”: John Dunmore Lang’s 1849 visit to Orkney and Shetland 3:30pm to 5pm - Keynote speaker - Emeritus Professor Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews) 5pm to 6pm - SFEE Annual General Meeting 8:15pm to 10:45pm - Conference Dinner (Vittoria on the Bridge, George IV Bridge) Saturday 4 May 2024 9am to 11am - Panel 8 - Unions and Unionism I: History and Politics Chair: Nathalie Duclos Sabrina Juillet Garzón Université Sorbonne Paris Nord The Union of King James VI & I: when the dream was confronted to the reality of the British kingdoms (1603-1610) Rémy Duthille Université Bordeaux Montaigne Union and Disunion between English and Scottish Radicals, 1780–1832 Jérémy Elmerich Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France/Université du Québec à Montréal Countering Disunion: Forms and Practices of Unionism in Context Fiona Simpkins Université Lumière Lyon 2 Unionism and devolved politics in Scotland: renewal or status quo? 11:30am to 1pm - Panel 9 - Unions and Unionism II: Art and Architecture Chair: Gilles Robel Clarisse Godard Desmarest Université de Picardie Jules Verne Architecture, Reform and the fate of the Union: William Burn and the semantics of style in early 19th-century Scotland Anthony Lewis Planning and building Edinburgh’s first New Town: a manifestation of Scottish ambition? Anne McKim University of Waikato “So we are no more Scots and English but all bold Britons”: Challenging narratives May 02 2024 00.00 - May 04 2024 23.59 Unions/Disunions: SFEE Annual Conference 2024 Join the Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) for a three-day conference on Scotland, unions and disunions through a range of lenses. 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square Register to attend (fees apply)
Unions/Disunions: SFEE Annual Conference 2024 In brief Dates - 2 to 4 May 2024 Venue - 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh Speakers - Emeritus Professor Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews); c.30 panellists Title - Unions/Disunions Format - three-day international conference with nine panel sessions, keynote plenary, and ceilidh Register to attend (fees apply) About the conference The department of English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to host the Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) for its annual conference. At a time of vivid debates on Scotland’s future within the United Kingdom and outwith the European Union, this year's conference invite us to reflect on the different forms of unions and disunions in which Scotland has been involved. The conference comprises nine themed panel sessions, each of three to four speakers. Themes span politics, literature, languages, and art, taking in themes such as translation, sociolinguistics, coloniality and peripherality. The first day will end with a conference ceilidh at the Consulat Général de France, and the second will finish with a keynote plenary, followed by a conference dinner. Keynote speaker Since A Scottish Assembly (1990) Robert Crawford has published eight collections of poems in English with imprints of Penguin Random House, most recently The Scottish Ambassador (Cape, 2018); his ninth collection, Old World, will be published by Cape next year. His biographies include The Bard: Robert Burns (Cape and Princeton, 2009), Young Eliot (Cape and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015), and Eliot after The Waste Land (Cape and FSG, 2022), as well as the bilingual (English/French) experimental biography of Violette Szabo Curriculum Violette (Molecular Press, 2021). His other books include Devolving English Literature (OUP, 1992), The Modern Poet (OUP, 2000), Scotland’s Books (Penguin and OUP, 2007), and Bannockburns: Scottish Independence and the Literary Imagination 1314-2014 (EUP, 2014). He lives in Edinburgh and is writing a book about haiku. Provisional programme Thursday 2 May 2024 8:50am to 9am - Welcome Stéphane Pailler, Consul général de France à Edimbourg et Glasgow Alex Thomson, Head of the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh 9am to 10:30am - Panel 1 - Scottish Politics: Nationalism and Unionism Chair: David Leishman Edwige Camp-Pietrain Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes The Welfare State in Scotland: a “broken” social union? Annie Thiec Nantes Université Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as First Minister of Scotland: an “existential” moment for the Scottish National Party? Astrid Fontaine Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Disuniting the kingdom: how the Scottish National Party has used the Nordic countries to distance Scotland from the United Kingdom 11am to 12.30pm - Panel 2 - Contemporary Literature: union/disunion and the sense of place Chair: Jeanne Schaaf Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon LERMA, Aix Marseille Université “The weight of water”: Sarah Moss’s Summerwater (2020) and Cold Earth (2009) Philippe Laplace Université de Franche-Comté Family Union and Disunion and Women’s Emancipation in Naratives about St Kilda Jean Berton Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Union and disunion in Scotland from geology to crime fiction 1:30pm to 3:30pm - Panel 3 - Languages, voices, multilingualism Chair: Jean Berton Jeanne Schaff Université Lumière Lyon 2 Theatrical Disunions in Translation: a case study of the translation of the plays 'Ciara' by David Harrower (2013) and 'What Shadows' by Chris Hannan (2016) into French Florent Chevalier Nantes Université Unifying voices across a unified network: ScotRail onboard announcements Ian Brown Kingston University Versions of language suppression and appropriation in imperial and post-imperial Scotland Alan Riach University of Glasgow Breaking Pentameters and Other Things: Disruptions and Disunions of Poetic Form in Modern Scottish Poetry 4pm to 6pm - Panel 4 - Nineteenth-Century Literature and after Chair: Robert Irvine Benjamine Toussaint Sorbonne Université George MacDonald and the National Tale: redefining roles within the Union Julie Gay Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale Union/disunion of opposites Robert Louis Stevenson’s fiction: revelling in the tension Lesley Graham Université de Bordeaux “Confessions of a Unionist”: R.L. Stevenson and Ireland Danièle Berton Union and disunion in Man-to-Nature relationships: from ‘Ossianic’ poetic vision to satiric Morna Pearson’s 'Let’s Inherit the Earth' 7:30pm to 10pm - Conference Ceilidh (Consulat Général de France, George IV Bridge) Friday 3 May 2024 9am to 10:30am - Panel 5 - Contemporary Scottish Politics II: Scotland. Coloniality and Peripherality Chair: Edwige Camp-Pietrain John R. Young University of Strathclyde (Mis)understanding and (mis)representing the 1707 Act of Union? Myth-making and politicking in contemporary Scotland’ Nathalie Duclos Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès “We are either in a Union of equals, or we ARE a colony”: an investigation into Scottish nationalists’ enduring understanding of Scotland as a colony David Leishman Université Grenoble Alpes Consumer nationalism and the decline of North Britishness 11am to 12:30pm - Panel 6 - Scotland, colonialism and slavery in the Caribbean Chair: Simon Buck Charlotte Largeron Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Forging Connections in Tobago: Marriages, Power, and Identity in the Young of Delaford Park Family (1715–1842) Désha Osborne University of Edinburgh Eighteenth-Century Scottish and French Settlers in the Eastern Caribbean: A Revised View Michael Morris University of Dundee “La Cache”– Madame Bellanger’s Guadeloupe Hideaway 1:30pm to 3pm - Panel 7 - Scotland and the Rest of the World Chair: Sabrina Juillet-Garzon Clément Guézais Université de Caen Normandie The Auld Severance: a contemporary examination of the historiography of disappointments, blind spots and fantasies in the context of Franco-Scottish relations Florence Petroff Université de La Rochelle The Scots and the American Revolution: the Anglo-Scottish Union facing the disunion of empire (1775–1783) Veronique Molinari Université Grenoble Alpes Countering the “satanic device of mixed marriages” in New South Wales with the emigration of “reputable Scotch Protestant females”: John Dunmore Lang’s 1849 visit to Orkney and Shetland 3:30pm to 5pm - Keynote speaker - Emeritus Professor Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews) 5pm to 6pm - SFEE Annual General Meeting 8:15pm to 10:45pm - Conference Dinner (Vittoria on the Bridge, George IV Bridge) Saturday 4 May 2024 9am to 11am - Panel 8 - Unions and Unionism I: History and Politics Chair: Nathalie Duclos Sabrina Juillet Garzón Université Sorbonne Paris Nord The Union of King James VI & I: when the dream was confronted to the reality of the British kingdoms (1603-1610) Rémy Duthille Université Bordeaux Montaigne Union and Disunion between English and Scottish Radicals, 1780–1832 Jérémy Elmerich Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France/Université du Québec à Montréal Countering Disunion: Forms and Practices of Unionism in Context Fiona Simpkins Université Lumière Lyon 2 Unionism and devolved politics in Scotland: renewal or status quo? 11:30am to 1pm - Panel 9 - Unions and Unionism II: Art and Architecture Chair: Gilles Robel Clarisse Godard Desmarest Université de Picardie Jules Verne Architecture, Reform and the fate of the Union: William Burn and the semantics of style in early 19th-century Scotland Anthony Lewis Planning and building Edinburgh’s first New Town: a manifestation of Scottish ambition? Anne McKim University of Waikato “So we are no more Scots and English but all bold Britons”: Challenging narratives May 02 2024 00.00 - May 04 2024 23.59 Unions/Disunions: SFEE Annual Conference 2024 Join the Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) for a three-day conference on Scotland, unions and disunions through a range of lenses. 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue: 50 George Square Register to attend (fees apply)
May 02 2024 00.00 - May 04 2024 23.59 Unions/Disunions: SFEE Annual Conference 2024 Join the Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises (French Society for Scottish Studies) for a three-day conference on Scotland, unions and disunions through a range of lenses.
