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Conference Events

We hosted three free, public events over two days at SFU's Vancouver campus (Harbour Centre) during the Unsettling Scottish Studies Conference. 

Event 1: November 22nd - Author Stephanie Wood on her recent history of the Squamish people, "tin谩7 cht ti temi虂xw (We Come From This Land)" 

Event 2: November 22nd - A cultural celebration entitled, 鈥淪torywork: Music and Dance from the M茅tis and Scottish Gaelic Traditions鈥, featuring V鈥檔i Dansi M茅tis Dancers and musicians, and Shot of Scotch Highland Dancers

Event 3: November 23rd - Annual St. Andrew's and Caledonian Lecture: Public talk by Nisga鈥檃 scholar Amy Parent/Nox Ts'aawit (Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Education & Governance in the Faculty of Education at 51社区黑料) on the rematriation of the Ni鈥檌sjoohl memorial pole that was stolen in 1929 by Marius Barbeau and sold to National Museums Scotland

Immediately following Amy Parent's talk, a performance by the Nisga'a Ts'amiks Vancouver Traditional Dancers (this performance provided an embodied community experience and enriched the cultural understanding of the context of the talk) 

Nisga'a Ts'amiks Vancouver Traditional Dancers
Shot of Scot Highland Dancers

Presenters

Sharon Alker is the Mary A. Denny Professor of English at Whitman College. She has published on a wide variety of authors, often with Holly Faith Nelson; these authors include James Hogg, John Galt, Mary Brunton, Daniel Defoe, Margaret Cavendish, Maria Edgeworth, and William Shakespeare. With Holly Faith Nelson, she published Besieged: Early Modern British Siege Literature, 1642-1722 with McGill University Press (2021). Her most recent publication is a scholarly edition of John Galt's Sir Andrew Wylie of that Ilk (Edinburgh University Press) released this year. She is currently beginning a new project on penal transportation to Australia in the 18th and 19th centuries. 

Delaney Anderson is a recent graduate of the University of British Columbia鈥檚 Master of Arts in English program and currently lives in Vancouver on the traditional and unceded land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, near the ancestral Squamish village of Sen虛谩岣祑. Her research explores how Scottish author John Galt鈥檚 fiction was reprinted in 19th-century British colonial newspapers across the empire - from Upper Canada to Jamaica - and mobilized by editors for a wide variety of ideological purposes. She has worked as a research assistant for the Edinburgh edition of the Works of John Galt and has presented her work at the North American Victorian Studies Association (2022) and North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (2023) conferences.

Michael Brown holds a Chair in history at the University of Aberdeen, where he is also director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. His work primarily concerns the 18th century, and he is the author of The Irish Enlightenment (Harvard University Press, 2016) and biographical studies of Francis Hutcheson and John Toland. He has served on the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Studies and is the general editor of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. His most recent publication (edited with Jack A Hill), Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue (2023), is available via open access from Aberdeen University Press. He is currently writing a study of British political culture from 1707 to 1800 entitled, "Between The Unions". He is also editing (with Karin Friedrich), The Routledge Handbook of the Global Enlightenment

Leith Davis is a professor in the Department of English and Director of the Research Centre for Scottish Studies at 51社区黑料 in Burnaby, British Columbia. She is the author of Acts of Union: Scotland and the Negotiation of the British Nation (Stanford University Press, 1998) and Music, Postcolonialism and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1725-1875 (Notre Dame University Press, 2005), as well as co-editor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture (Ashgate, 2012) and The International Companion to Scottish Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century (ASLS, 2021). Her most recent book, Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland: From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, was published in 2021 with Cambridge University Press. She is also Principal Investigator of the 鈥溾 and "" Digital Humanities projects. 

Angela Esterhammer is Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Her book publications include, The Romantic Performative: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism (Stanford UP, 2000); Romanticism and Improvisation, 1750-1850 (Cambridge UP, 2008); and most recently Print and Performance in the 1820s: Improvisation, Speculation, Identity (Cambridge UP, 2020). Her research interests include late-Romantic print culture, performance, periodicals, and fiction. She is general editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt and is currently working on volumes containing Galt鈥檚 Transatlantic Tales and Essays and International Tales.

Nathaniel Harrington (he/him) is an "independent scholar" (read: unemployed) with a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Toronto. His current research examines the use of speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, and horror) by denied-language writers (Anishinaabemowin, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Welsh) and by Black and Indigenous writers to explore the experiences of language death and linguistic marginalization; he is also working on a critical history of the "Celtic fantasy" genre. His other interests include the work of Miguel de Unamuno, the relationships between oral and written literatures, Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, and meeting new cats.

Euan Healey is a PhD Candidate in History and Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, currently based at 51社区黑料 on the unceded land of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations as a visiting researcher. His work explores interconnections between work and environment, specifically engaging with these themes in the context of the Gaelic-speaking people who experienced the Scottish Highland Clearances. As a way to consider these themes he is exploring popular experience of changes in subsistence economy during this period particularly related to fishing, following a successful Master of Research project focused on subsistence agriculture. While based in Canada, Euan is exploring connections between his own research and Indigenous methods and stories.

Nikki Hessell is a P膩keh膩 (settler) scholar and Professor of English Literatures at Te Herenga Waka鈥揤ictoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Romanticism, settler colonialism, and Indigenous writing and reception, including Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations (2018) and Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry (2021). Her current project is The Poetics of Treaties: Settler Treaty-Making and Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Kevin James is Professor of History, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair, and Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph. In addition to books and articles on Irish and Scottish economic and social history, he has published widely on Scottish tourism history and the history of hotels, and is co-editor, with Eric G.E. Zuelow, of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Tourism History. Amongst his current projects are a large-scale study of the "Many Lives of Duff House" in the 20th century, and a collaboration with scholars at the Open University in Scotland and Glasgow City Archives on "Music in the Parks"鈥攁n exploration of public music performances in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

Tony Jarrells is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Britain鈥檚 Bloodless Revolutions: 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature and the editor of Blackwood鈥檚 Magazine, 1817-1825, and of a forthcoming EUP edition of John Galt鈥檚 Scottish Tales. Recent work includes essays on Galt, Walter Scott, the Scottish urban novel, and regionalism. He is currently working on a book on literature and the history of values, tentatively titled Eighteenth-Century Values. Since 2014, he has co-edited, Studies in Scottish Literature with Patrick Scott.

Dana Graham Lai is a PhD student in 51社区黑料鈥檚 Department of English. She holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Trinity Western University and an MA in English Literature from Carleton University. Her research is situated in Romanticism and theories of place, nationhood, Scottish women鈥檚 writing, and ecocriticism. She is the research assistant for Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks, edited by Leith Davis and Kevin James (forthcoming Edinburgh University Press). Dana is also the reviews editor for Studies in Hogg and his World. Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and SFU鈥檚 Mary and David MacAree Fellowship. Dana lives on the unceded Coast Salish Territory of Kwikwetlem First Nations and is from Taqamiku鈥檍k/Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, the ancestral territory of the Mi鈥檏maq people.

Jeremy Laity is currently a master鈥檚 student in history at Trinity Western University where his research focuses on Indigenous history and early Indigenous/settler relationships. As a person of Indigenous descent, his interests are informed by a personal connection to the subject, as well as a desire to advance reconciliation through education and research. His recent projects include an article on the literary standing of early anthropological texts (currently under review), and his final paper, which examines the ways in which early agricultural settlers interacted with Indigenous people in British Columbia. Jeremy is a member of the Tla鈥檃min nation, which is located on British Columbia鈥檚 Sunshine Coast, just north of Powell River.

Kaitlyn MacInnis (she/her) grew up as a settler in Ladner on sc蓹w虛a胃蓹n (Tsawwassen) and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam) land in Ladner, and now lives in Vancouver on x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m, S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh (Squamish), and s蓹lilw蓹ta涩 (Tsleil-Waututh) land. As far as her knowledge goes, her ancestors all came from Britain and Ireland. She completed her BA and MA (with a thesis on Scottish Jacobitism, memory, and old age) at 51社区黑料, and has returned for a PhD focused on Animal History through a Critical Animal Studies framework. She has also worked as a research assistant for projects on representations of Christ in Scotland, Scottish settler-colonialism in British Columbia, and the Lyon in Mourning manuscript.

Andrew Mackillop is an historian of Scotland during the "long 18th century" (c.1690-1830). His interests focus on the mutually constitutive dynamics between Scotland's simultaneous involvement in British state formation and global empire in this period. With a particular concentration on the emergent empire in Asia, his research considers how the "provincial" parts of the British and Irish Isles developed distinctive responses to the opportunities and pressures generated by Britain's global colonialism. Among his recent articles are "Regional Perspectives on Global Empire: The North East of Scotland and Pre-1815 British Imperialism", Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, 11 (2024) and "Before Bell: Commerce, Scots Law, and the British Empire" in A Wilson and J Hardman (eds), New Perspectives on George Joseph Bell and the Development of Scots Commercial Law to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2025.

Sophie McCall is a settler scholar and Professor in the English department at 51社区黑料. She is the author of First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship (UBC P, 2011), nominated for the Gabrielle Roy Prize and the Canada Prize. She is the editor of Anahareo's Devil in Deerskins (U Manitoba P, 2014), the first book-length life narrative published by an Indigenous woman author in Canada, and and co-editor of several collections of essays, stories, and visual arts. Since 2017, she and Deanna Reder have worked together as co-chairs of the . They also co-edited the anthology, Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (Wilfred Laurier UP 2017). Her current book project (with NunatuKavut scholar Kristina Bidwell) is In Collaboration: Building Collaborative Futures in Indigenous Literary Arts.

Kirsteen McCue is Professor of Scottish Literature and Song Culture at the University of Glasgow where she was Associate and then Co-Director of the award-winning (2007-22). She has published widely on Romantic song culture, including essays on Lord Byron and John Clare, and on Robert Burns鈥檚 songs and musical responses to Burns鈥檚 work. She is editor of two editions of songs by James Hogg for the Stirling/South Carolina research edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg (EUP 2014) and co-editor, with Pam Perkins, of Women鈥檚 Travel Writings in Scotland (Routledge 2017). Her edition of "Robert Burns鈥檚 Songs for George Thomson" for The Oxford Edition of the Works of Robert Burns: Volume IV , appeared in 2021. Between 2017-2019, she led a network of scholars working on British National Song culture during the period of 1750鈥1850, funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (the ) and she has led the relaunch of the another RSE network, between 2021-23.

Amy Parent, Noxs Ts'aawit is from the Nisga'a Nation. She is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Education & Governance (Tier 2) in the Faculty of Education at 51社区黑料 (PhD, UBC). Amy is also Co-Chair of the Indigenous Research Leadership Circle with the Tri-Council Agency (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) and the Inaugural Associate Director for the . In 2023, she received the B.C. with the N鈥檌sjoohl rematriation delegation team, which recognized their collective work to bring her family鈥檚 memorial pole back to its rightful place in the Nisga鈥檃 Nation after being stolen for 94 years. In 2024, Amy was named the " for her research project that informed the Ni'isjoohl rematriation [Additional biographical information can be found ]

Darryl Peers is a writer from Aberdeenshire. He is an AHRC-funded Creative Writing PhD candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is writing his first novel and a memoir. He is the co-editor of the "Queer Form in Scottish Writing" special issue of Scottish Literary Review. His fiction has appeared in the American Literary Review, The Suburban Review, and other publications. His criticism is forthcoming in The Journal of the Short Story in English, Ali Smith: Critical Essays, and The Routledge Companion to Scottish Literature

Pam Perkins is a Professor in the Department of English, Theatre, Film & Media at the University of Manitoba. Her primary research interests include Scottish women writers of the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods and travels around the northern rim of the North Atlantic in the 18th and 19th centuries. She has published on and edited the work of a number of Scottish writers, including Anne Grant, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Francis Jeffrey.

Margaret Oliphant: Her current projects include work on the early 19th-century continental travels of two Scottish sisters, Jane and Charlotte Waldie, as well as an edited transcription of the manuscript journals of Sir Thomas Cochrane, describing his travels around the coasts of Newfoundland in the 1820s and 30s. Her interest in the Arctic fiction of Robert Ballantyne grows out of her work on British encounters with the north. 

Ella Phillips is a PhD candidate at the University of Strathclyde and the University of Stirling in Scotland. Her interdisciplinary research centres around the regulation of women鈥檚 bodies in legal and literary cultures with a particular focus on the construction and imposition of "rescue" narratives. She is a visiting doctoral researcher at 51社区黑料 for the fall term where she hopes to gain an insight into narratives of "rescue" imposed on Indigenous communities, particularly in residential schools, as well as Indigenous counter-narratives. Her research is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). 

Petra Johana Poncarov谩 is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Glasgow, working on a project which explores Gaelic magazines founded by Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar and their impact on Gaelic literature and Scottish nationalism (). She serves as secretary of the and as one of the co-directors of . She was the manager of the 3rd World Congress of Scottish Literatures (Prague, 2022). Her monograph, Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival was published by Edinburgh University Press in January 2024.

Deanna Reder (Cree-M茅tis) is a Professor in Indigenous Studies and in English at 51社区黑料. Her research focuses on the neglected Indigenous literary archive in lands claimed by Canada. She has been collaborating with the amazing Professor Sophie McCall for over a decade on initiatives designed to establish Indigenous literary studies as essential cores of literature departments across the country, with ambitions for even more subversive action!

Erin Scott (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar who works in time-based mediums, including writing, performance, and video/audio. With publications and performances across forms, they have made spoken word albums, books, exhibitions, drag performances, Fringe shows, scholarly articles, social and community art, videopoems and more. As a PhD student at The University of British Columbia Okanagan, her research enquires about the relationship between land, language, and belonging, noting the parallels and divergences between Scottish Gaelic people and Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. Using arts-based methods for Gaelic language revitalization, their dissertation proposes complex questions of belonging from a colonized and colonizer perspective. With a focus on the importance of language for diasporic and national Scottish and Canadian identities, her work asks: "where do you belong?". Erin lives on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Syilx Okanagan peoples. Find more

June Scudeler (M茅tis) (she/her) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies, cross-appointed with the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women鈥檚 Studies at 51社区黑料. Her research encompasses queer Indigenous studies, literature, film, and art. She is currently delving into Indigenous horror and reseraching representations of Indigenous peoples in settler American director Kelly Reichardt's films

Sarah Sharp is a lecturer in Scottish Literature at the University of Aberdeen and Deputy Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. She has previously held funding from bodies including, the Irish Research Council, Leverhulme Trust and Fulbright Commission, and positions in New Zealand, Ireland, and the USA. Her own research focuses on ideas of nation and identity in 19th-century Scottish writing with an increasing focus on transnational and transperipheral contexts. She has published on topics, including settler colonialism, migrant diaries and the Scottish-Australian author Catherine Helen Spence. Her first book, Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century was published in September 2024 with Edinburgh University Press.

Juliet Shields is Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle, which sits on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish people. She is interested in how understandings of authorship and literature that coalesced in the 18th- and 19th-century Anglophone world continue to determine what we teach and study today, and in the authors and audiences鈥攖hen and now鈥攖hat have challenged those understandings.  Her most recent books include, Scottish Women鈥檚 Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century: the Romance of Everyday Life (2021) and Mary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World (2021). She is working on a biography of Margaret Oliphant for Edinburgh University Press鈥檚 Scottish Women Making History series and a study of Walter Scott and race.

Arun Sood is lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter. Previously, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress; and lecturer in Romanticism at the University of Plymouth, following the completion of his AHRC-funded PhD at The University of Glasgow. His most recent articles include a study of Walter Scott鈥檚 Waverley in relation to 19th-century Cuban anti-slavery literature (Scottish Literary Review, 2024) and an exploration West African oral cultures in Mungo Park鈥檚 Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 2023). His books include ; a critical monograph on Robert Burns; , a novel set across the Isle of Skye and North India, which was recipient of the 2024 Kavya Book Prize; and , a non-fiction artbook exploring the intersections between sound, art, ecology, and place released with an. With a particular interest in collaborations, Arun鈥檚 research and creative practice is underpinned by varied interests including diaspora, oral cultures, sound, song-collecting, cultural memory, and the global 18th and 19th centuries.

Silke Stroh is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Koblenz (Germany). She specialises in postcolonialism, diaspora studies, and the relationship between minority issues and national identity. In this context, she has published widely on various aspects of Scottish literature in English, Scots and Gaelic, from the medieval to the contemporary period. She is the author of Uneasy Subjects: Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry (Rodopi 2011) and Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination: Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 (Northwestern University Press 2017), as well as co-editor of Empires and Revolutions: Cunninghame Graham and his Contemporaries (Scottish Literature International 2017) and "Mosques, Manses, Muirs, and 鈥楳oors鈥: Representations of Muslims and Islam in Scottish Culture" (special issue of the Scottish Literary Review, 2021). Currently, she is preparing a monograph entitled, Narratives of Transmigration: Multiple Movement and Cultures of Memory in the British Colonial Diaspora, as well as a new research project on Black and Asian Scottish literature.

Julianna Wagar (she/her) is a PhD student in the English and Film Studies department at the University of Alberta. She received her MA in English Literature from 51社区黑料 under the supervision of Professor Leith Davis. Her research is focused on reclaiming women鈥檚 romance reading through BookTok and other forms of social media. Her broader research interests include romance novels, women鈥檚 reading, contemporary publishing, Scottish romance novels, and intersectional feminism. Julianna has worked as a Research Assistant on 鈥淭he Lyon in Mourning鈥 Project and the Women鈥檚 Print History Project. 

Professor Leith Davis at SFU's Harbour Centre campus
Professor Amy Parent delivering the St. Andrew's and Caledonian Lecture

Full Conference Program

Unsettling Scottish Studies: Canons, Chronologies, Colonialisms

November 22nd-23rd, 2024

Room 1400-1420 (51社区黑料Harbour Centre)

Friday Nov. 22nd

Academic Symposium

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 (University of Washington)

  1. Leith Davis (SFU), 鈥淯nsettling Scottish Studies: Starting Places鈥

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

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

  4. Sarah Sharp (University 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

鈥 End of Academic Symposium 鈥

鈥 Performance/Public

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)]

鈥 End of Performance/Public 鈥

Academic Symposium

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 University)

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

  2. Angela Esterhammer (University 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 (University of Dundee), 鈥淎vowing Slavery in Scottish Studies鈥

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

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

    Chair: Angela Esterhammer (University of Toronto) 

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

  2. Kaitlyn MacInnis (SFU), 鈥淐entering Sheep in Scottish History" 

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

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

  5. Alex Dick (University of British Columbia), 鈥淲alter Scott, The British Fishery Society, and Coastal Poetics鈥

4:00-4:30 PM: Break

4:30 -5:45 PM: Undergraduate Research Presentation and Poster Session: 鈥淯nsettling Scottish Studies鈥 with 51社区黑料students from the ENGL 433W class

5:45-7:00 PM:  Dinner for presenters 

鈥 End of Academic Symposium 鈥

鈥 Performance/Public

7:30-9:30 pm:  A cultural celebration: 鈥淪torywork: Music and Dance from the Scottish Gaelic and M茅tis Traditions鈥: featuring Shot of Scotch Highland Dancers and V鈥檔i Dansi M茅tis Dancers and musicians. 

鈥 End of Performance/Public 鈥

Saturday November 23rd 

鈥 Academic Symposium

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

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

    Chair: Euan Healey (University of Glasgow)

  1. June Scudeler (SFU), 鈥淚ndigenous Literary Nationalisms and Ethical Approaches to Indigenous Literatures鈥

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

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

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

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

鈥 End of Academic Symposium 鈥

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

10:45-11:15 am:  Break

鈥 Performance/Public 鈥

11:15 AM-12:15 PM: Annual St. Andrews and Caledonian Lecture

Welcome by Steve Collis, Chair, English Department, 51社区黑料

Public talk by Nisga鈥檃 scholar Professor Amy Parent/Noxs Ts鈥檃awit (Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Education & Governance in the Faculty of Education at 51社区黑料) "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: Performance by the Nisga'a Ts'amiks Vancouver Traditional Dancers

鈥 End of Performance/Public 鈥

12:45-1:30 PM:  Lunch for presenters

鈥 Academic Symposium 鈥

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

    Chair: Sharon Alker (Whitman College)

  1. Dana Graham Lai (SFU), "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 (University of British Columbia), 鈥淒霉thchas: Decolonizing Scottish Identity in a Canadian Context鈥

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

  4. Pam Perkins (University 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 (University 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 University), 鈥淨ueerness and Influence in Scottish Fiction鈥

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

  4. Julianna Wagar (SFU), 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 Irish Heather (248 East Georgia Street, Vancouver)

*We acknowledge the generous support of the following organizations: the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada; 51社区黑料鈥檚 Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; the Office of the Vice-President, Research, 51社区黑料; the St. Andrew's and Caledonian Society of Vancouver; the Community Engagement Initiative, 51社区黑料; the Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen; the James Hogg Society.