Programme
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
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
