We are happy to announce our programme for the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Postgraduate Conference 2021. We have an amazing variety of papers to look forward to and are so excited to hear from all our speakers.
10.00 - 10.15 – Opening Remarks
10.15 - 11.30 – Gaelic Languages, Histories and Linguistics
Annie C. Humphrey, ‘Gall Gaedhel and Echtrainn: Gaels and Norse in Pre-Norman Ireland and the Isles’
Isla Parker, ‘Storytelling as Feminist Rebellion: Tales of the Mingulay Widwife’
Erin McNulty, ‘New Speakers, New Norms: Manx Language Revitalization and Linguistic Change’
11.45 - 1.00 – Colonial and Imperial Conflicts
Harry Lewis, ‘Irish Jacobite Revolts against the Glorious Revolution in the Caribbean’
Subhashis Pan, ‘Scottish Orientalism: A Distinctive Scottish Attitude in the British Colonial Enterprise in India’
Zhuodan Yao, ‘Two Scotsmen in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries’
1-2 – Lunch
2.00 - 2.45 – Conflict at Home, Protests and Perceptions
Johnnie Gallacher, ‘The contradiction of Gaelic involvement in the 1644-45 Royalist rebellion: Recovering repressed memories from Scotland's Formative Period’
Juliette Desportes, ‘Geographies of Assertion: Protest and Resistance on the Annexed Estates, 1752-1784’
3.00 - 3.45 – Conflict in Contemporary Media
Alexandra Dold, ‘Outlander's Jamie Fraser: Rebel or Hero?’
Maike Dinger, Dinger’s ‘Conflicting narratives – narratives of conflict? Popular activism and media representations during the 2014 referendum debate’
4.00 - 5.00 – Keynotes
Rebecca Mason, 'Negotiating Family, Navigating Conflict: Women in the Courts of Early Modern Scotland'
Andrew Lind, TBC
