THE ASSOCIATION FOR Getting to Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Road: SCOTTISH LITERARY STUDIES Cross the Skye Bridge from Kyle of and follow the A87 for approximately six miles. Turn left onto the A851 towards Armadale for approximately thirteen miles, past Primary School. The entrance to Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is on the left. Ferries: Creative The conference is organised in partnership Cal-Mac Ferry: to Armadale – 30 minute crossing. Cal- with Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. Accommodation Mac also run ferries from North Uist and Harris to Uig in the north (including breakfast) is available for of Skye. Tel: +44 (0)800 066 5000 Ferry: Glenelg to Kylerhea – 5 minute crossing, Easter Archipelagos delegates within the college at preferential to October. Tel: +44 (0)1599 511 302 rates: Bus: Citylink: Daily bus service to Broadford, from Inverness and Explorations of Islands in Glasgow. They also run services all over . Their best prices are found on their own website. Scottish Literature and Culture Single Room: £45 per night Megabus: Daily services to Inverness from Perth, Glasgow, Twin Room: £78 per night Edinburgh and London. Their best prices are found on their website. ASLS Annual Conference 2018 Stagecoach: Local bus service from Broadford. 30 June–1 July, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, To book accommodation, contact: Train: First ScotRail: Rail service from Inverness to , Glasgow to Mallaig. A sleeper service runs from London to Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Inverness and from London to Fort William. They also run services all over Scotland. Sleat GNER: Daily service to Inverness from Edinburgh and London, Isle of Skye stopping in many other places between Inverness and London. Their best prices can be accessed on their website. IV44 8RQ

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www.asls.org.uk Mallaig ASLS This conference will investigate the many portrayals, both historical and Booking Form contemporary, of the rich, distinctive cultures of the Scottish islands or o I would like to book ___ place(s) at the 2018 ASLS Annual Conference at the following rates (all rates include teas/ islands with Scottish connections through poetry and song, fiction and coffees and Saturday lunch): non-fiction, drama, film, art and music. ASLS members/Speakers/ Students/Unwaged: ____ £50 Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June (cont.) Full price: ____ £70 18:00 Optional buffet 14:00–15:30 Session 3 (a) o I would like to book ___ place(s) at the 2018 ASLS Annual 19:45 Opening of conference and welcome (Boyd Robertson) • Iain Crichton Smith’s permanent island (Jean Berton) Conference Dinner at £40 per head. • Transcriptions of landfalls: voyages to the island of St Kilda 20:00–21:30 Three Points of a Compass (Ian Stephen) • Somhairle MacGill-Eain and Iain Crichton Mac a’Ghobhain: Due to the number of papers presented, the conference will • Knit your own Atlantic archipelago: representations of Scottish islands have parallel sessions. To assist us with programming, please imagining islands (Peter Mackay) in instructional knitting literature (Siún Carden) indicate which sessions you are likely to attend (you can • The “small green world” of Orkney: the land and seascapes of change your mind on the day): George Mackay Brown (Linden Bicket) Session 3 (b) • The Shetlandic literary tradition: a writer’s personal response • Transatlantic parallels: Shetland and Newfoundland in early o 1A o 1B | o 2A o 2B | o 3A o 3B | o 4A o 4B (Robert Alan Jamieson) nineteenth-century travelogues (Pam Perkins) • Marjory Kennedy Fraser’s Celticising of Hebridean music Name:______Saturday 30 June (John Patrick Pazdziora) • Auld Rock meets Nordic Noir: a Danish gaze on Shetlandic 9:30–11:00 Session 1 (a) Address:______Scandinavian-ness (Gunhild Agger and Hanne Tange) • Contrasting cultural perspectives in Sue Glover’s The Straw Chair ______(John Hodgart) 15:30–16:00 Coffee • The representation of Scottish islands in seventeenth- and 16:00–16:45 Dreaming of Islands ______eighteenth-century travel accounts (Marion Amblard and • The art of marrying the musical with the poetic: compositional ______Sabrina Juillet Garzon) techniques (John Purser) • Bàrdachd baile: ath-mheasadh (Township poetry of the Western Isles: email:______a re-evaluation) (Iain Howieson) 19:00 Conference Dinner Session 1 (b) 21:00 Ceilidh o I enlose a cheque for £_____ (made payable to ASLS) • Robert Louis Stevenson’s creative archipelagos: mapping the territory o Please debit my Visa/Mastercard £_____ between Scotland and Samoa (Caroline McCracken Flesher) Sunday 1 July • “I went to stay in Orkney . . .”: the influence of Orkney in 9:15–10:45 Session 4 (a) Card number: Ian Hamilton Finlay’s work (Alistair Peebles) • The portrayal of the St Kilda parliament in poetry, photography and • Islands and identity in the drama and fiction of J. M. Barrie and | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | historical narratives (Philippe Laplace) S. R. Crockett (Cally Phillips) • A microcosm of a wider wicked world: Inchcolm in Simon Taylor’s Expiry date: ____ / ____ 11:00–11:30 Coffee Mortimer’s Deep (Ian Brown) Signature: ______11:30–13:00 Session 2 (a) • Isobel Wylie Hutchison: a female insight into the Scottish islands and • Scottish islands and Norse settlements in the novels of Vilborg their people (Hazel Buchan-Cameron) Or book online at www.asls.org.uk Davíðsdóttir and Margaret Elphinstone (Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir) Session 4 (b) • “Poor Peedie Grottie Buckies”: literary language in twenty-first-century • Innis-mhuir na Gaidhlig/Innis-mhuir nan Gaidheal (The Gaelic Sea of Orkney (Simon Hall) Islands/The Gaels’ Sea of Islands) (Nathaniel Harrington) • Description of a practical creative project in North Uist • The Isle of Rum: community development on a national nature reserve Please return this form to: (Linda Cracknell) (Andrew Samuel) ASLS Scottish Literature Session 2 (b) • John Murdoch and nineteenth-century Islay (Calum Cameron White) 7 University Gardens ASLS • Halfway between Canaan and Garrabost: religion in Derick Thomson’s 10:45–11:15 Coffee University of Glasgow Lewis poetry (Petra Poncarová) Glasgow G12 8QH • “If anything appear Questionable”: John Brand’s account of his 1700 11:15–12:15 Archives and archipelagos: a panel conversation UK visit to Zetland (Anne McKim) (Nicholas Allan (chair), Alan Riach, Fiona Stafford, Tel: +44 (0)141 330 5309 • From Scottish isles to South-sea islands: exploring Robert Louis David Wheatley) email: [email protected] Stevenson’s archipelagic writing (Julie Gay) 12:15–12:30 Conclusion of conference (Alan Riach) www.asls.org.uk 13:00–14:00 Lunch 13:00 Optional buffet lunch