SWINC annual roundup 2026

All welcome but please email r.p.irvine@ed.ac.uk if coming.

2.00–5.00pm, 11 November 2026

Teaching Room 02, Old College (access via Law Reception)

Panel 1

Chair: Bob Irvine

2.00–2.20:       Sara Hamed, ‘Oriental Antiquarian Knowledge and Scottish Literary Networks 1790–1810.’

2.20–2.40:       Madeleine McQuilling, ‘Guy Mannering and the Lost Child Narrative: Reading The Waverley Novelsas Early Detective Stories.’

2.40–3.00:       Hilary Clydesdale: ‘“The Coast of Sky[e] is highly Romantic”: Lighthouses, Language, and the Afterlives of Walter Scott’s Lighthouse Yacht Journal (1814)’.

3.00–3.20:       questions

Tea/coffee break

Panel 2

Chair: Penny Fielding

3.40–4.00:       Carol Dow: A feminist Paganism – the awakening of Laura in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes.

4.00–4.20:       Désha Osborne, ‘Of a “lively dark eye,” “chilly and tender”: Jane Austen, the Morality of Empire, and the Scottish Presence in Mansfield Park and Sanditon.

4.20–4.40        Bob Irvine, ‘Allan Ramsay and Nationality: a model from Central Europe’.

4.40–5.00        questions