Programme

Scotland in Europe Conference V (21st-23th September, 2022)

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Wednesday 21st September

Registration from 14.00

14.30–14.45

Welcoming Address room 131

15.00-16.00

Keynote Lecture: Przemysław Biskup; Chair: Aniela Korzeniowska

The Challenges to Scotland’s Post-Brexit Bid for Independence in the Form of Changes in the International System

 

 

 

Section 1 room 131

Section 2 room 132

16.00-18.00

Chair:Aniela Korzeniowska

Political Perspectives

Chair: Izabela Szymańska

Multimedia Perspectives

16.00-16.30

Wojciech Lewandowski

Not So Much United: Comics, Scotland, and the Future of the Post-Brexit United Kingdom

 

Dominika Lewandowska-Rodak

James Robertson and Roland Barthes: the Role of Photography in And the Land Lay Still

 

16.30-17.00

Krzysztof Winkler

Scotland in a New Geopolitical Reality

Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko

Coffee, the Woman, and Justice for All: BBC’s Radio 4’s James McLevy

17.00-17.30

Robert L. Hodgart

What Next, Scotland – Problematic Times Ahead?

Aleksandra Ożarowska

Exoticising Scotland: the Image of Scotland in 19th-Century Italian bel canto operas

Thursday 22nd September

9.30-10.30

Keynote Lecture: Silke Stroh Chair: Monika Szuba

Scottish Writers of Colour and Their Place in the Canon: a European Perspective room 131

 

Section 1 room 131

Section 2 room 132

10:30-11:30

Chair: David Malcolm

Scottish Poetry Today and Yesterday part 1

Chair: Silke Stroh

Robert Burns in Europe

10:30-11:00

Monika Kocot

The Music of What Happens in Kenneth White’s Poetry

Jochen Petzold

From Depoliticising Burns to Trumpeting the Revolution: Ferdinand Freiligrath and the Early Reception of Robert Burns in Germany

11:00-11:30

Monika Szuba

In the Fold: Thomas A. Clark’s Poetic Practice

Aleksandra Budrewicz

The Polish Reception of Robert Burns in the 19th Century

11:30-12:00

Coffee break

room 121

12:00-13:30

Chair: Barry Keane

Translating into Scots

Chair: Aleksandra Budrewicz

Historical Perspectives

 

12:00-12:30

Adrianna Stańczak

Scottish and European Folklore in the Scots Translation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Clément Guézais

Signed with Ink or Written in Blood? Comparing the Narratives of the Franco-Scottish Friendship in the Later Middle Ages

 

12:30-13:00

David Malcolm

Fit wye am ah daein thon?: On Owersetting Classic European Verse intae Scots

Paweł Rutkowski

Small Things in Motion: The Jacobite Material Culture in the 18th Century

13:00-13:30

Derrick McClure

Polish Poetry into Scots: a Growth Industry

Katarzyna Gmerek

That Gloomy Dreamer. A Scottish Teacher of 19th-century Eastern European Romantics

13:30-15:30

Lunch break

 

15.30–17.00

Chair: Dominika Lewandowska-Rodak

The Utopian and the Real(hybrid)

Chair: Petra Johana Poncarová

Scottish Poetry Today and Yesterday part 2 (hybrid)

15:30-16:00

Katarzyna Pisarska (online)

The Utopian Imagination of J. T. McIntosh

Barry Keane

Memories of Sea and Stone. On Alan Riach’s The Winter Book (2017)

 

16:00-16:30

Aniela Korzeniowska

Ali Smith and Ian Rankin. How Two Contemporary Scottish Novelists Bring the European Past into the Present

Anastasiia Fediakova

Features of Existentialism and Doubleness in the Works of Iain Crichton Smith

 

16:30-17:00

 

Uwe Zagratzki

“Europe for Scotland” – The Contextualisation of a Political Campaign

Morgan Martin (online)

Where has the Sea Mither gone? : Orkney identities and environmental precarity in the work of Margaret Tait and Bessie Skea

 

19:00

Conference Dinner in Sofra Restaurant, Wilcza 71

Friday 23rd September

 

Section 1 room 131

Section 2 room 132

9:30-11:00

Chair: Jochen Petzold

Around Translation (hybrid)

Chair: Derrick McClure

From Drama, through Language to Sport in Literature

9:30-10:00

Kathleen O’Donnell (online)

The Role of Works in the Translation of Scottish Literature in the Greek-Speaking World: the Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson and ‘In Imitation of Ossian’ by Thomas More

 

Petra Johana Poncarová

Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar and Symbolist Drama in Scottish Gaelic

10:00-10:30

Izabela Szymańska

Polish Translations of George MacDonald’s Works Through the Prism of Their Paratexts

 

Anna Łukaszewicz

/r/ and /l/ lenition in Scottish English: a Sociolinguistic Perspective

10:30-11:00

Attila Dosa

Recent Translation and Reception pf Scottish Literature in Hungary: Trends, Tendencies and Paradigm Shifts

 

 

Michał Mazurkiewicz

Sport in Scottish Literature: Robin Jenkins and Other Selected Examples

11.00-11.30

Coffee break

room 121

11.30-12.30

Closing Guest Lecture: Magdalena Charzyńska- Wójcik Chair: Izabela Szymańska

A Scot Found in Translation. Forensic Investigation into the History of a Certain Book room 131