"Ultima Thule: Exploring Northern Scotland and Scandinavia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"

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A one-day conference to be held at the

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
The University of Edinburgh
Hope Park Square
(click here for a map)

on Friday 30 January 2009

 

Programme:

9.30 am Registration and Welcome
9.45 am

Session 1
Dr. Maria Leavenworth (Umeå University): "Exotic Norths?"
and
Dr. Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh): "North Britain"

11.15 am Coffee
11.30 am Session 2
Dr. Felicia Tolentino
(Umeå University): "Visualized experience and romantic framing. Aesthetical values in 19th century arctic narratives"
and
Mr. Peter Graves (University of Edinburgh): "MacGillivray and Linnaeus: Two Itinerant Young Naturalists and their Notebooks"
1.00 pm Lunch
2.00 pm Session 3
Professor Heidi Hansson
(Umeå University): "Between Nostalgia and Modernity: The Nordic North in Late 19th century Travel Texts"
and
Professor Colin Kidd (University of Glasgow): "The Norse Factor in 18th and 19th century Scottish Ethnogenesis"
3.30 pm Tea
4.00 pm Roundtable Discussion
5.00 pm Reception at the School of Scottish Studies

 

Registration:

There is no charge for participation in the conference but, as places are limited, registration is essential.
To book a place, please email Linda Andersson Burnett: s0092360@sms.ed.ac.uk


The conference is co-sponsored by:
The University of Edinburgh Northern Scholars Scheme
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
T
he University of Umeå.

 

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