The Celtic Revival in Scotland Timetable

Thursday 1 May 2014

1:00–1:30: Registration and Reception

1:30–1:50: Welcome and opening remarks

Panel 1 Panel 2 2:00–2:30 Nicola Gordon Bowe, ‘Embroideries Liam Mac Mathúna, Douglas Hyde and out of old mythologies’: analogies between the wider world of the Gael inspiration and practice in the arts of the Celtic Revival in Dublin and Edinburgh 2:30–3:00 Sally Foster, Celtic collections and Wilson McLeod, Gaelic learners and the imperial connections: the V&A, language movement, 1870-1930 Scotland and the multiplication of plaster casts of ‘Celtic crosses’ 3:00–3:30 Elizabeth Cumming, Here Come the Rob Dunbar, Was there a Celtic Revival Celts! The Scottish National Pageant of in Canada? 1908

3:30–4:00 pm: Tea

Panel 3 Panel 4 4:00–4:30 Stuart Eydmann, The harp as an Stuart Wallace, John Stuart Blackie and emblem of the Celtic Revival, with the Celtic Revival in Scotland particular reference to Scotland 4:30–5.15 John Purser, ‘The Lay of the Last Bernhard Maier, ‘Widening the Jacket’: Minstrel? Don’t count on it’: The Celtic John Stuart Blackie and Germany Revival in Scottish Classical Music

5:15–5:30: Break

5:30–6:30: Murdo Macdonald, The Art of the Scottish Celtic Revival Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery

7:00–8:30: Drinks reception and private view of A Wide New Kingdom: The Celtic Revival in Scotland, Talbot Rice Gallery.

Friday 2 May 2014

10:00–11:00: Donald Meek, The Celtic Revival and the beginnings of Celtic scholarship in Scotland Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery

11:00–11:30: Coffee

Panel 5 Panel 6 11:30–12:00 Natasha Sumner, Perceptions of Aonghus MacKechnie, Gaeldom’s Fianníocht: Sgeulachdan na Féinne in monuments and the Great War: why was a the wake of Fingal raw lump of rock used as Blair Atholl’s War Memorial? 12:00–12:30 Ersev Ersoy, Towards the Celtic Mairi MacArthur, ‘Two Island Notables’: Revival: Tracing William Sharp’s the founders of Iona Celtic Art Ossianic Inspirations 12:30–1:00 Frances Fowle and Heather Stana Nenadic, Scottish Artisans and the Pulliam, ‘Weakly imitative…’? Celtic Revival c. 1870-1914 Celtic sources for The Evergreen and the question of authenticity

1:00–2:00: Lunch

Panel 7 Panel 8 2:00–2:30 Elizabeth Elliott, Old-World Calum Cameron White, ‘Fragments of an Verse and Scottish Renascence: the Ancient Polity’: the Radical Celtic Politics of influence of Allan Ramsay John Murdoch 2:30–3:00 Owen Dudley Edwards, Jake King, ‘Beyond the power of any one Stevenson and the Celts man’: the study of Scottish place-names during the Celtic Revival 3:00–3:30 Linden Bicket, ‘The Quiet Man’: a Aonghus Mac Leòid, Gaelic Nationalism reappraisal of Maurice Walsh, and Revival Imagery in the works of Donald forgotten revivalist Sinclair (1885–1932) and Angus Robertson (1871–1948)

3:30–4:00: Tea

Panel 9 Panel 10 4:00–4:30 Fernando Fernández Palacios, Marion Löffler, The Scottish Celtic Revival The Role Of The Picts In Some and Wales Historical Works From 1860 To 1880 4:30–5:00 Martin Crampin, The visual culture Kate Louise Mathis, ‘An Ideal Wife?’ of the Celtic Revival in Wales Alexander Carmichael’s Deirdire & Revivalist ideals of beauty, dignity & death 5:00–5:30 Hugh Cheape, ‘Racy to the soil …’ Claudia Rosenhan, A Sublime Articulation of the Celtic Revival Deformation of Nature: Catherine Carswell’s through material culture Novels and the Celtic Revival Movement

6:00–7:00: Roy Foster, Yeats and Scotland Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery

7:30 for 8:00: Conference Dinner, Rainy Hall

Saturday 3 May 2014

10:00–11:00: Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart, The making of Alexander Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery

11:00–11:30: Coffee

Panel 11 Panel 12 11:30–12:00 Priscilla Scott, Female Interaction Matthew Jarron, ‘A Tinge of Precocity’: in Scottish Gaelic, Pan-Celtic and Art, Politics and the Celtic Revival in Celtic Revival Circles Dundee 12:00–12:30 Abigail Burnyeat, Anima Celtica: Margaret Stewart, High jinks at the Ella Carmichael as Revivalist and art school? ... surely not! scholar 12:30–1:00 Lesley Orr,‘To embrace the whole Susan Seright, George Bain’s Celtic Art world’: Annie H Small, the Women’s Revival Missionary College and the influence of the Celtic Revival (1894-1914)

1:00–2:00: Lunch

Panel 13 Panel 14 2:00–2:30 Virginia Blankenhorn, Gaelic Michael Shaw, ‘Where Sorcerers Song and Songs of the Hebrides Swarm’: The Role of the Occult in Scotland's Celtic Revival 2:30–3:15 Per Ahlander, ‘The Seal Woman’: Mark Williams, Fiona Macleod and the A Celtic Folk Opera by M. Kennedy gods of the Gael Fraser and Granville Bantock

3:15–3:45: Tea

3:45–4:15: Panel discussion

4:15–4:30: Closing