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The C21 Scottish Fiction conference took place on 2nd September 2014 in the Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester. 

9.00 – 9.30         Registration

9.30 – 9.45         Jane Stedman and Kate Turner 
                             Welcome and Opening Remarks

9.45 – 10.45         Monica Germanà, University of Westminster                               
                              Interrogating Authorial Control and Authenticity: Contemporary Women's Gothic

10.45 – 11.45         Panel One: The Futures of Tradition

                Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir, University of Iceland
                Reflecting the Present: The Referendum Debate and the Twenty-First Century Scottish Historical Novel

                Sarah Murchison, University of Aberdeen
                ‘In this day and age’: Kirk, Calvinism and Confessions in James Robertson’s The Testament of Gideon Mack

                Vivien Estelle Williams, University of Glasgow 
                Words as music/music as words: the bagpipe and Kirsty Gunn’s The Big Music (2012)

11.45 – 12.00        Coffee Break

12.00 – 1.00        Panel Two: Gothic, Psyche and Nation

                Alan Gregory, University of Lancaster
                Banksian Neurodiversity: Literary Configurations of Autism Spectrum Disorders in Iain Banks’ The Quarry

                Neil Syme, University of Stirling 
                National Revenants: Inheritance and the Uncanny in the Work of James Robertson and Ali Smith

                Georgia Walker Churchman, University of Loughborough
                Towards a new understanding of the Scottish Gothic: reading style in James Robertson, Bella Bathurst and Elsbeth Barker

1.00 – 2.00         Lunch

2.00 – 3.00        Aaron Kelly, University of Edinburgh
                              Scottish Fiction: Normality and Its Discontents

3.00 -  4.00       Panel Three: Gender and Nation in the Twenty-first Century

                Rupert Pirie-Hunter, Victoria University, Wellington
                Reading Agnes Owens in the 21st Century

                Hywel Dix, University of Bournemouth
                Fate, Fortune, and Elective Affinity in Contemporary Scottish Women’s Writing
 
                John McKay, University of York
                James Kelman’s ‘failing, flailing hard man’

4.00 – 4.15        Coffee Break

4.15 – 5.15          Panel Four: Where are we going?

                Arianna Introna, University of Stirling
                A ‘shock to Scottish vanity and a beacon of Scottish pride’? Patterns of Banal Nationalism and Forced Positivity in Scottish Literary Criticism and                     the Referendum Debate

                Mark Wringe, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI
                Pushing Back the Boundaries of the 52nd State: How new Gaelic fiction is ‘boldly going’ where it’s never gone before

                Fiona Tolan, Liverpool John Moores University
                Bringing it Home: Localising the Global in Ali Smith’s Fiction

5.15 – 6.15         Zoe Strachan
                           Queer Scottish Fiction

6.15 – 7.15         Wine Reception 

7.30                   Conference dinner

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