RSE Susan Manning Workshop.
Programme:
14.00 Registration
14.15 Welcome
Panel 1: Literary and Musical Traditions
14.30 Ralph McLean: ‘Literary Symbols: Language and style in the 1707 Union debates’
14.55 Vivien Williams: 'From bagpipe to fiddle, flute, piano, and poetry: piobaireachd experiments'
15.20 Discussion
Panel 2: Nostalgia and Progress
15.30 Sally Tuckett: ‘Plaided Panoramas? The past and present of textiles in Scotland’
15.55 Nicoletta Asciuto: ‘Lighting technologies in Scottish poetry’
16.20 Discussion
16.30 Coffee break
Panel 3: Appropriating Antiquity
17.00 Margaret Stewart: ‘Edinburgh of the Modern Athenians: cityscape, architecture and
a classical cast collection’
17.25 Matteo Zaccarini: ‘Classicists, philhellenes and the reception of ancient Greece in
Edinburgh’
17.50 Discussion
18.00 Conclusions
18.15 Wine reception
This workshop was made possible thanks to the RSE Susan Manning Memorial Fund.
TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT please send an e-mail to matteo.zaccarini2@unibo.it