Scot Lit 50 PGR

A Postgraduate Symposium in Celebration of 50 Years of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚

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And that’s a wrap! Huge thanks to all our speakers, attendees and organisers who have helped today run smoothly and have contributed to its success – what a great insight into the impressive wealth of research we have going on here in Scottish Literature. Consider us inspired!

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Our speakers from Panel Two will now be invited back on to the screen for a brief Q&A; submit your thoughts and questions to the Q&A function in Zoom to get involved.

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We can’t believe it’s nearly over! To round off this rich discussion on post-1900 Scottish Lit, we have Nia Clark (@nia_alexandra_c), who will be speaking about ‘Liz Lochhead’s ekphrastic writing and engagement with the work of others in The Colour of Black and White (2003)’.

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Time to feast on (excuse the pun) our next presentation, which comes from Gina Lyle (@murielsnark), presenting her research on ‘Tracing Meat Histories: Gender, Power, and Class in Scottish Literary History’!

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We’re now very happy to welcome Grace Borland Sinclair (@roboticleaf), whose ‘A mutual giving and assisting and respecting’: Interconnectivity and Difference in Naomi Mitchison’s Not By Bread Alone’ is sure to be a treat!

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To hear more from Dr Pickard, you can find her here, @EmilyPickard9

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Graciously kicking off Panel Two for us is Emily Pickard, who will be speaking on ‘Mrs (Mac)Grundy’s Panopticon: Censorship, Motherhood, and Class in Willa Muir’s Mrs Grundy in Scotland’.

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Keeping in with the modernists, we have Fiona Paterson up next, with a presentation on ‘Borrowed Language and the Importance of Context in the Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid’.

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Welcome back after a brief break: we hope you’re refuelled and ready for another round of stimulating research! Panel Two takes us into the 1900s through a host of topics on modern and contemporary literature. Remember to tweet along with us using #ScotLit50PGR

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The whole team and our audience are invited to take a comfort break until 3.00pm, and are encouraged to fetch hot drinks and sustenance before we return with another panel brimming with fresh postgraduate research. See you again shortly!

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Thank you very much to all for submitting such thought-provoking questions to this inspiring group of researchers, your insight and support has been so gratefully received by all!

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Now we will welcome all our speakers back on screen for a brief Q&A; send along your questions in the chat function in Zoom to contribute to this discussion.

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Rounding out a really vibrant panel, please enjoy John Watson’s upcoming presentation, ‘The Year of Burning: A Textual Phenomenology of the Clearances’.

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@kps1533 @ScottishLit Unfortunately we were unable to secure a recording of today's presentations. Feel free to send through any questions you might have for particular presenters and we will pass along your interest!

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First in our pre-1900 Scottish Literature panel, we are thrilled to welcome Stuart McCorrisken with a presentation spectacularly entitled ‘Wild Knights, Monstrous Men and Devilish Creatures: The Supernatural Foes of Medieval Scots Literature’.

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Jessica Reid is unfortunately unable to appear today to share her research on ‘‘The New Claret-Club’: A New Addition to the Seventeenth-Century Canon’. To ask more about Jessica’s work, pop a question in the Zoom chat, or send an email to [email protected].

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For the musically inclined, our next presentation from Rosyln Potter on ‘‘By my own hand’ – Women’s manuscript collection, song culture and bawdry in early modern Scotland (1611–1704)’ is sure to be of interest.

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The next presenter in our lineup, Lorna Macbean (@Lorna_Literacy) was sadly unable to make it along to speak on ‘The Threshold to William Lithgow's Discourse: Paratext and Peregrinations’. Do send us along any questions you might have for Lorna regarding her research!

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We unfortunately are not able to welcome Emily Hay with her discussion of ‘Making a Myth: Mary Queen of Scots in Text, 1558-1587', but hope to briefly spotlight a very exciting thesis engaging with depictions of Mary Stuart.

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Warm welcome from @murielsnark to kick off the @ScotLit50pgr symposium! Extremely exciting line-up of ScotLit PGR speakers all afternoon. Here we go!