Event date:
Wednesday 28 June to Thursday 29 June
Time:
14:00
Location:
50 George Square 2.03
Fantasy, Fairy Tales and the (Non) Human
28th June 2017 2.00-5.00 50 George Square 2.03
Keynote: John Plotz (Brandeis University) ‘World Without Us: The Problem of the Nonhuman in fin-de-siècle Fantasy’
Sarah Dunnigan (University of Edinburgh) ’Transfigurations: Hogg and the Spiritualised Fairy Tale'
Rebecca Langworthy (University of Aberdeen) ‘The Tales at the Heart of the Tale: Scottish Sources in George MacDonald's Phantastes'
Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh) ‘Tolkien and Death’
For further information and to register please email swinc@ed.ac.uk