Symposium
At Home in Scotland: Stories of Place opened with a symposium at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh on Friday, 9th May 2014. The event ran from 9.00 to 17.30.
Friday, 9th May 2014, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
9.00-9.20: Registration
9.20-9.30: Opening remarks
Alison Garden and Muireann Crowley
9.30-11.00: Panel one (chair: Cormac Ó Callanáin)
Wendy Ugolini (History, University of Edinburgh)
Narratives of 'Not belonging' amongst Italian Scots
David Farrier (English Literature, University of Edinburgh)
Making it Home: using poetry and film to build communities between refugee and local women in Scotland
Melanie Smith (Widening Participation, University of Edinburgh)
Widening Participation
Emma Callander (Traverse Theatre)
Scotland's stages - how stories of place, nation and identity are presented through the form of theatre
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-13.00: Panel two (chair: Lucy Linforth)
Meghan Bidwell (National Library of Scotland)
‘Fit dae we hae n far dae we hae it?': Cultures of Readership and the National Library of Scotland
David Forsyth (National Museum of Scotland)
Displaying the Nation: the National Museum’s Scotland: A Changing Nation gallery
Elaine Kelly (Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh)
Music History, National History and Infant Nation States
Peggy Hughes (Dundee Literary Festival)
From Chip Shops to the Ether: Book events in liminal spaces
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.30: Panel three (chair: Erin Catriona Farley)
Lena Wånngren (Hollaback! Edinburgh)
Hollaback! Edinburgh: Sharing Stories, Reclaiming Spaces
Diana Morton (Museums Alive!)
Museum outreach, local communities and sense of place
Stephanie Lehner (English, Queen’s University Belfast)
Empathic Witnessing: The Role of Storytelling for Memoralisation and Mourning in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Aaron Kelly (English Literature, University of Edinburgh)
Place and displacement
15.30-16.00: Coffee
16.00-17.15: Panel four (chair: Sarah Laurenson)
DJ Johnston-Smith (Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh)
‘No, no! Let us stay where we are...’ Clearance and dislocation in post-war Edinburgh
Michael Given (Archaeology, University of Glasgow)
Archaeology: telling stories about the past
Erin Catriona Farley (Storyteller and folklorist)
Jockie Barefoot
17.15-17.30: Concluding remarks
18.30-20.00: Keynote lecture: Donald Smith (chair: Michael Given)
Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School
Donald Smith (Scottish Storytelling Centre)
Scotland’s Storytelling Renaissance [Eventbrite link]
Friday, 9th May 2014, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
9.00-9.20: Registration
9.20-9.30: Opening remarks
Alison Garden and Muireann Crowley
9.30-11.00: Panel one (chair: Cormac Ó Callanáin)
Wendy Ugolini (History, University of Edinburgh)
Narratives of 'Not belonging' amongst Italian Scots
David Farrier (English Literature, University of Edinburgh)
Making it Home: using poetry and film to build communities between refugee and local women in Scotland
Melanie Smith (Widening Participation, University of Edinburgh)
Widening Participation
Emma Callander (Traverse Theatre)
Scotland's stages - how stories of place, nation and identity are presented through the form of theatre
11.00-11.30: Coffee
11.30-13.00: Panel two (chair: Lucy Linforth)
Meghan Bidwell (National Library of Scotland)
‘Fit dae we hae n far dae we hae it?': Cultures of Readership and the National Library of Scotland
David Forsyth (National Museum of Scotland)
Displaying the Nation: the National Museum’s Scotland: A Changing Nation gallery
Elaine Kelly (Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh)
Music History, National History and Infant Nation States
Peggy Hughes (Dundee Literary Festival)
From Chip Shops to the Ether: Book events in liminal spaces
13.00-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.30: Panel three (chair: Erin Catriona Farley)
Lena Wånngren (Hollaback! Edinburgh)
Hollaback! Edinburgh: Sharing Stories, Reclaiming Spaces
Diana Morton (Museums Alive!)
Museum outreach, local communities and sense of place
Stephanie Lehner (English, Queen’s University Belfast)
Empathic Witnessing: The Role of Storytelling for Memoralisation and Mourning in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Aaron Kelly (English Literature, University of Edinburgh)
Place and displacement
15.30-16.00: Coffee
16.00-17.15: Panel four (chair: Sarah Laurenson)
DJ Johnston-Smith (Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh)
‘No, no! Let us stay where we are...’ Clearance and dislocation in post-war Edinburgh
Michael Given (Archaeology, University of Glasgow)
Archaeology: telling stories about the past
Erin Catriona Farley (Storyteller and folklorist)
Jockie Barefoot
17.15-17.30: Concluding remarks
18.30-20.00: Keynote lecture: Donald Smith (chair: Michael Given)
Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School
Donald Smith (Scottish Storytelling Centre)
Scotland’s Storytelling Renaissance [Eventbrite link]
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