This panel discussion as part of Explorathon 2021 is presented by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh.

It examines the ownership of Scotland’s landscape, both imaginary and practical. We explore urban imaginaries and rural utopias, regeneration and land ownership, histories and futures of landscape, all asking the question: whose Scotland is it anyway?

An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Sara Tafakori (Postdoctoral Fellowship 2020; London School of Economics and Political Science):

Imagining the ‘crippled’ nation: a decolonial approach to intimate publics

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An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Ronald A. Johnson (American Philosophical Society Fellowship 2021; Baylor University):

Contradictions in Atlantic World Emancipation and Enslavement

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An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Professor Uğur Üngör (IASH-SSPS Research Fellowship 2021; University of Amsterdam and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies):

‘Behind the Sun’: The Logic and Forms of Violence in Syrian Prisons

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An IASH Work-in-Progress seminar, delivered by Dr Julie Park (Visiting Research Fellow 2021; Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York University):

Line-Making as Life Writing: Eighteenth-Century Commonplace Books

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