Symposium for Seventeenth Century Scottish Literature
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Day 1 Schedule:
10:45-11:00 Zoom opens
11:00-11:15 Welcome and introduction
11:15-12:15 Keynote
Why is the Scottish literature of the seventeenth century so little known?
Professor Alasdair MacDonald, University of Glasgow
12:15-13:15 Screen break
13:15-14:15 Parallel panels session
Panel A: Beyond the Monoglot
The importance of Latin in seventeenth-century Scottish literature
Pat Mason, University of Glasgow
Political, religious or otherwise? The presence and use of Scots in correspondence at the turn of the century
Sarah von Eyndhoven, University of Edinburgh
The Morphic Landscape of Folklore: Robert Kirk and ‘The Secret Commonwealth’
John Watson, University of Glasgow
Panel B: Learned Women and Literary Experiences
Two Esther Inglis Manuscripts: Traces, Texts and Transformations
Sine Harris, University of Glasgow
Lilias Skene: Quaker Poet and Social Activist in Seventeenth-Century Aberdeen
Roslyn Potter, University of Glasgow
Scottish Perspectives on the writing of Catharine Trotter Cockburn
Heather Wells, University of Glasgow
Day 2 Schedule:
10:45-11:00 Zoom opens
11:00-12:15 Panel A: Scotlands, Britains, and Gàidhealtachds
The Seventeenth-Century Literary Histories of Anglo-Scoto-Britain
Dr Sebastiaan Verweij, University of Bristol
Alba and Scotland: the Gaelic limits of seventeenth-century Scottish literature
Dr Thomas Black, University of Nottingham
The Burial of Mary, Queen of Scots: Royal Martyrdom, National Consciousness and the Birth of Great Britain
Dr Allison Steenson, University of Padua
12:15-13:15 Screen break
13:15-14:15 Parallel panels session
Panel B: Covenanting and The Canon
From One ‘Remarkable Year’ to Another: Reading ‘The Beavtie of the Remarkable Yeare of Grace, 1638’
Dr David J Parkinson, University of Saskatchewan
Transmitting the Covenant: The formation of a Covenanting ‘canon’ in the seventeenth century?
Dr Neil McIntyre, University of Glasgow
‘If this knot loused be, it’s thy Loss’: the Thrissels banner and the Explication
Shauna Hood, University of Edinburgh
Panel C: Northern Renaissance(s)
Anna Hume’s translation of I Trionfi and the creation of a female literary space
Lindsay Church, Dalhousie University
Passionate Retreat: Neo-Stoicism and Petrarchism in early seventeenth-century Scotland
Dr Patrick Hart, Bilkent University
Expanding the female canon: the Octonaries of Esther Inglis (1570-1624)
Dr Jamie Reid-Baxter, University of Glasgow
Day 3 Schedule:
10:45-11:00 Zoom opens
11:00-12:15 Panel A: Re-readings and Re-imaginings
William Lithgow’s ‘Kind Ellenor though black by nature born,’ (1632)
Lorna MacBean, University of Glasgow
Royalist masculinity in crisis: Tarugo’s Wiles: or, the Coffee House
Jessica Reid, University of Glasgow
An unpleasant new addition to the seventeenth-century canon?
Dr Theo van Heijnsbergen, University of Glasgow
12:15-13:15 Screen break
13:15-14:30 Keynote and book launch
Scottish Literature and the Atlantic: Rereading Failure
Dr Kirsten Sandrock, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
