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Beyond Borders the World in Scotland Scotland in the World Beyond Borders The World in Scotland Scotland in the World Summer Programme 2014 Including the Programme for Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature & Thought, 23–24 August SECTION PAGE 4 Beyond Borders International Festival of Literature & Thought 1 23-24 AUGUST AT TRAQUAIR HOUSE, INNERLEITHEN, SCOTTISH BORDERS SECTION PAGE 24 A Word of Welcome Beyond Borders: Visual Arts 2 26 JULY - 5 OCTOBER, INNERLEITHEN, SCOTTISH BORDERS As Glasgow welcomes the Commonwealth Games and Scotland prepares for its referendum vote, SECTION PAGE 28 Beyond Borders is delighted to announce its Beyond Borders In Cooperation exciting programme of international cultural 3 16 & 25 AUGUST AT TRAQUAIR HOUSE, INNERLEITHEN, SCOTTISH BORDERS events for summer 2014. SECTION PAGE 31 This year it celebrates the World in Scotland and Beyond Borders Film Festival Scotland in the World and in this brochure you Mark Muller Stuart QC, 4 26-28 AUGUST AT FILMHOUSE CINEMA, EDINBURGH will find all the information you need on our visual Executive Director arts exhibitions, film festival, lectures, dialogue SECTION PAGE 35 events, literary walks, cycle rides, talks and debates Beyond Borders Dialogue both in Edinburgh and in the Scottish Borders. 5 ASSISTING PEACE-BUILDING AND POST-CONFLICT TRANSITION AROUND THE WORLD We hope you enjoy the programme and that you SECTION PAGE 37 can join us to explore some of the key issues facing About Beyond Borders Scotland the world today. THE TEAM, SPONSORS & PARTNERS Beyond Borders is dedicated to promoting 6 international dialogue by using Scotland’s unique cultural and political heritage to foster greater understanding between nations and cultures. FESTIVAL OVERVIEW Saturday 23 August TÊTE-À-TÊTE The main tent will be closed from 9:30am – 10:30am 1:50pm until 2:45pm for lunch. SECTION Rob Penn’s Road Please feel free to explore other to Glentress more intimate venues in and around Traquair House where you Rob Penn 1 can meet and listen to some of our fascinating speakers while enjoying 10:00am – 11:00am your lunch. For more information Truth and Lies in on each talk please see pages 18-21. Beyond Borders the Other-world Mary Kenny 2:00pm – 2:30pm International Festival Reclaiming 11:00am – 11:45am Traquair's History of Literature and Bearing Witness Geoffrey Baskerville, Flora Dr Margaretta Jolly, Dr Meg Jensen Maxwell Stuart and Catherine 23–24 AUGUST and Mark Muller Stuart QC Maxwell Stuart Thought 2014 Venue: Chapel 12:00pm-12:50pm Travel beyond borders to explore world cultures, peoples and City of Peace, 2:00pm – 2:30pm ideas, with this eclectic festival of debate, books, art, film, City of Blood Rob Penn: music and nature, at Traquair in the tranquil Scottish Borders. Justin Marozzi and Allan Little Road to Nowhere Join us at the frontier for talks, walks and cycle rides. Rob Penn 1:00pm – 1:50pm Venue: Croquet Lawn Tickets: What’s the Point of Day pass - £24 the Commonwealth? 2:00pm – 2:30pm Includes drinks reception Magnus Linklater, Kamalesh Paul Conroy: Weekend pass - £45 Sharma, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Seeking Sanctuary Individual events - £9 and Sir Kieran Prendergast Paul Conroy Walks and cycle rides - £6 Venue: Exhibition Space Children - go free Students - 20% discount Box Office: 0131 557 7775 www.beyondbordersscotland.com 5 FESTIVAL OVERVIEW FESTIVAL OVERVIEW Caroline McNairn: 4:45pm – 5:35 pm 1:00pm – 1:50pm 2:00pm – 2:30pm Dreaming of Heroic Days Spies, Whistle-blowers Ukraine – Dispatches Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: Andrew Brown and and the NSA from the Barricades Story of a Death Foretold Konstantin Akinsha Luke Harding and Allan Little Dr Brian Brivati and Oscar Guardiola-Rivera Venue: Terrace Pavilion prominent Ukranians Venue: Yurt 5:45pm – 6:30pm 2:00pm – 2:30pm An Act of Scottish Union? TÊTE-À-TÊTE 2:45pm – 3:45pm Emin Milli and Dr Meg Peter Sacks and Mark Time to decide - The Jensen: Bearing Witness Muller Stuart QC 2:00pm – 2:30pm Independence Debate Emin Milli and Dr Meg Jensen Jim Naughtie: Jim Naughtie, Michael Fry, Stephen Venue: Library The Madness of July Sunday 24 August Gethins and Michael Moore MP Jim Naughtie and Allan Little 2:00pm – 2:30pm Venue: Chapel 8:00am – 10:00am 3:55pm – 4:35pm Ludmila Nemyria: Rob Penn’s Road to 2:00pm – 2:30pm Princes and Painters Behind the Scenes of 20 St Mary’s Loch in Mughal Delhi Ludmila Nemyria Paul Conroy: Rob Penn William Dalrymple Venue: High Gallery Seeking Sanctuary Paul Conroy 10:00am – 11:00am Venue: Exhibition Space 4:45pm – 5:35pm 2:45pm – 3:35pm Where the Wild Things How Do International The Rule of Law: Are – A Borders 2:00pm – 2:30pm Institutions Make Peace? What it Means and Foraging Walk Peter Sacks: Joost Hiltermann, Andrew Gilmour, How to Spread It Ian Edwards and Fi Houston The Debatable Land David Gorman, Tim Phillips and Sir Kieran Prendergast Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC, Andrew Peter Sacks Gilmour, David Marshall and Oscar 11:00am – 11:45am Venue: Terrace Pavilion 5:45pm – 6:20pm Guardiola-Rivera Are we Eating Ourselves 2:00pm – 2:30pm The State of the Union into Oblivion? 3:45pm – 4:35pm Steve Richards Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Paul Ludmila Nemyria: A Parallel Life McMahon, Iqbal Wahhab Behind the Scenes of 20 Bonnie Greer and Steve Richards and Aaron Cezar Ludmila Nemyria Venue: High Gallery 12:00pm – 12:50pm Lifting the Veil Ramita Navai, Yasmin Alibhai- Brown and Bonnie Greer 6 7 SATURDAY TALKS, WALKS AND CYCLES TALKS, WALKS AND CYCLES SATURDAY Rob Penn’s Road City of Peace, to Glentress City of Blood Join author and cycling enthusiast Rob Penn on a relaxed short ride from Traquair House to Glentress Forest while he recounts stories Join Allan Little as he quizzes author and adventurer Justin Marozzi from his recent Amazonian adventure with Freddie Flintoff, cycling about his new book on Baghdad and what it is like to travel on a the world's most controversial road. wing and a prayer across the world's fault lines in Afghanistan, Darfur, Libya and Somalia in the 21st Century. Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 9:30am – 10:30am Venue: Traquair House Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 12:00pm – 12:50pm Venue: Main Marquee Truth and Lies in What’s the Point of the the Other-world Commonwealth? Take a stroll - on the supernatural side - in the enchanting woods of Traquair House, as local Traditional Storyteller Mary Kenny invites Join Magnus Linklater as he quizzes Commonwealth Secretary you to join her for tales and ballads from ‘the land seldom seen’. General Kamalesh Sharma, Ugandan born columnist and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and former High Commissioner Sir Kieran Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 10:00am – 11:00am Venue: Traquair House Prendergast about the future of the Commonwealth. Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 1:00pm – 1:50pm Venue: Main Marquee Bearing Witness Join Mark Muller Stuart QC and academics Dr Margareta Jolly and Dr Meg Jensen as they explore why the recording of life narratives is so crucial to the protection of fundamental freedoms. Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 11:00am – 11:45am Venue: Chapel 9 SATURDAY TÊTE-À-TÊTE TÊTE-À-TÊTE SATURDAY TÊTE-À-TÊTE Paul Conroy: Seeking Sanctuary Reclaiming Traquair's Meet war photographer Paul Conroy as he talks about his British History Red Cross exhibition, Seeking Sanctuary, which sheds light upon the lives of Syrian Refugees in the UK. Geoffrey Baskerville talks to Flora and Catherine Maxwell Stuart Date: Saturday & Sunday 23–24 August Time: 2:00pm – 2:30pm Venue: Exhibition Space as they discuss the history of Traquair during the 20th and 21st centuries and how the family brought the House back to public life. Emin Milli and Dr Meg Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 2:00pm - 2:30pm Venue: Chapel Jensen: Bearing Witness Rob Penn: Meet Azerbaijan's top blogger Emin Milli when he talks to Dr Meg Road to Nowhere Jensen recounting his experience as a political prisoner. Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 2:00pm – 2:30pm Venue: Library Listen to cyclist and BBC's Rob Penn as he talks about the joys of cycling and his recent Amazonian adventure with Freddie Flintoff. Caroline McNairn: Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 2:00pm – 2:30pm Venue: Croquet Lawn Dreaming of Heroic Days The late Caroline McNairn’s work is exhibited at Edinburgh’s Summerhall this summer. Talk to curator Andrew Brown and art critic Konstantin Akinsha and find out more about the Scottish Borders artist. Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 2:00pm – 2:30pm Venue: Terrace Pavillion 10 11 SATURDAY TALKS, WALKS AND CYCLES TALKS, WALKS AND CYCLES SATURDAY Ludmila Nemyria: A Parallel Life Behind the Scenes of 20 Watch footage documenting a day at the barricades of the Maidan Join critic, playwright, and all-round public intellectual, Bonnie Revolution throughout the day, and talk to Ludmila Nemyria about Greer, as she talks about her extraordinary memoir, A Parallel Life, her vision behind the documentary. in which she charts her journey from her childhood in the poverty stricken South Side of Chicago, through the 1960s in the civil rights Date: Saturday & Sunday 23–24 August Time: 2:00pm – 2:30pm Venue: High Gallery movement, onto to her rise in Britain as one of this country’s leading cultural commentators. Date: Saturday 23 August Time: 3:45pm – 4:35pm Venue: Main Marquee Spies, Whistle-blowers The Rule of Law: and the NSA What it Means and Listen in when BBC Correspondent Allan Little talks to journalist How to Spread It and award-winning Guardian correspondent Luke Harding about this new book The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Meet Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, Most Wanted Man.
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