Event date:
Friday 27 May to Saturday 28 May
Location:
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square
This one-day workshop will discuss patterns of influence and exchange in arts and culture, exploring examples of transatlantic/circumatlantic networks, crossings and connections.
All are very welcome to join the workshop. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/atlantic-exchanges-tickets-25371352398
Queries: dorothy.butchard@ed.ac.uk
10:00: Registration
10:15: Introduction: Transatlantic Themes & Contexts
10:30: TURNING TIDES
- Dr Alison Garden: “We listen for what the waves intone”: Postcolonial Poetics and Atlantic Intertexts
- Alexandra Campbell: Atlantic Tidalectics: Blue Ecologies in Scottish and Caribbean Ecopoetry
11:45: Break
12:00: TRANSIENT POETICS
- Dr Greg Thomas: Transatlantic Exchanges in Regional 1960s British Poetry
- Dr Lila Matsumoto: Poetics of Transition: Gael Turnbull’s Little Magazine Migrant
13:15: Lunch (provided)
14:15: TECHNOLOGIES & EMPIRE
- Dr James Procter: Scripting Empire (Title tbc)
- Nick Spengler: Empires for Liberty and Ships of State: British and US encounters in Herman Melville's Spanish America
15:30: Break
15:45: CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
- Dr Chris Gair: Bob Dylan, The Beatles and T.S. Eliot (Title tbc)
16:45: Discussion: Atlantic Past and Future
17:30: Wine Reception