SWINC Autumn Research Seminar 2024

Please join us for our annual autumn round up.

Details

When: Wednesday 9 October 2024

Time: 14:00-17:30

Where: Room 3.29, 50 George Square

Programme

Session 1 – 2–3.30pm. Chair: Penny Fielding

Paul Barnaby, ‘The Not-So-Merry Men: Robin Hood and his Outlaw Band in French Translations of Ivanhoe.’

Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman, ‘“’Twas strange – ’twas passing strange!”: quotation as code for distanced reading in the novels of Susan Ferrier.’

Ainsley McIntosh, ‘“Dead men don’t bite”: dissecting disability in Stevenson’s Treasure Island.’

3.30–4.00pm – coffee break

Session 2 – 4.00–5.30pm. Chair: Gerry McKeever

Hilary Clydesdale, ‘“The few friends who may see this journal”: Scott’s “Voyage in the Light House Yacht to Nova Zembla and the Lord Knows where” (1814).’

Désha Osborne, ‘“My Two Lassies”: Enslaved Children and the Creation of Family Narratives in British East Florida and Aberdeenshire.’

Penny Fielding, ‘Printers and Devils: Reporting Sedition in Scotland 1790–1820’.