(9th July – 17th August 2018) WEEK ONE : MODERNISM WEEK TWO : MODERNISM WEEK THREE : SCOTTISH LITERATURE WEEK FOUR : SCOTTISH LITERATURE WEEK FIVE : CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE

DEAN rd th th Monday 23 July Monday 30th July Monday 6 August Monday 9th July Monday 16 July Greg Walker, PhD, University of Edinburgh 8.00 pm Welcome Reception 8.00 pm Welcome Reception 9.30 am Practice Makes Perfect: Katherine 8.00 pm Welcome Reception 9.30 am Form, Embodiment, and Precarity in Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature Grant House Common Room Grant House Common Rm. Manseld and Writing Short Stories Grant House Common Room Janice Galloway and A.L. Kennedy Tuesday 7th August ASSOCIATE DEANS Professor Kirsty Gunn Tuesday 24th July Dr Tim Baker Tuesday 10th July University of Dundee University of Aberdeen 9.30 am Hugh MacDiarmid: Poet and 9.30 am Scotland Is Everywhere: David Robert Irvine, PhD Vassiliki Kolocotroni, PhD 2.15 pm Postgraduate Studies 2.15 pm Postgraduate Studies 9.30 am ‘scales are dashed / from your Revolutionary Greig’s Europe English Literature English Literature Information Seminar University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow stem’: Imagism and A ect Information Seminar Professor Alan Riach Dr Trish Reid Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre Dr Colin Herd Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre The University of Glasgow Kingston University London University of Glasgow 2.15 pm Library Tour 3.15 pm National Library of Scotland Visit 2.15 pm Library Tour ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER 3.15 pm Scottish Poetry Library Visit 3.30 pm Credit Information Seminar 4.00 pm Arthur’s Seat Hike 2.15 pm Library Tour 7.30 pm Cinepoems Challenge st Text and Context: Grant House Common Room Tuesday 31 July Lauren Pope, University of Edinburgh Screening and Awards 4.00 pm Arthur’s Seat Hike 4.00 pm Arthur’s Seat Poetic Expedition Wednesday 8th August British and Irish Literature 9.30 am Revisions in James Robertson’s The Tuesday 17th July 7.30 pm Reading: James Robertson From 1900 to the Present; DIRECTORS Wednesday 11th July Last Testament of Gideon Mack 9.30 am Ideas are Bullet-Proof: 9.30 am James Joyce’s A Portrait of the th Dr Linda Tym Form and Politics Katy Hastie, University of Glasgow 9.30 am Mina Loy: ‘according to the new Wednesday 25 July Creative Writing; Artist as a Young Man Southern Adventist University in Alan Moore’s and David Lloyd’s Calum Rodger, PhD, University of Glasgow reckoning’ Dr Matthew Creasey 9.30 am Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s 2.15 pm Scottish Parliament Visit V for Vendetta Contemporary Theatre and Performance Dr Sarah Hayden University of Glasgow Sunset Song Dr Chris Murray University of Southampton st TUTORS Professor Alison Lumsden Wednesday 1 August University of Dundee 2.30 pm City Art Centre & 2.30 pm International Research Symposium The University of Aberdeen 3.00 pm Credit Information Seminar DAILY PROGRAMME 9.30 am The Makars: Edwin Morgan and Fruitmarket Tour G.06 50 George Square th Grant House Common Room (9th July – 17th August 2018) MODERNISM Thursday 26 July Liz Lochhead 5.00 pm Credit Information Seminar Wednesday 18th July Free Evening James Leveque, PhD, University of Edinburgh 9.30 am The Imitation of Life: Dr Calum Rodger Grant House Common Room Thursday 9th August 7.30 - Patrick Errington, University of St Andrews 9.30 am Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway Muriel Spark’s The Prime of University of Glasgow Breakfast Pollock Halls Miss Jean Brodie TBC Saltire Scholars’ Seminar 9.00 am Thursday 12th July Dr Jane Goldman 9.30 am Eimar McBride's A Girl Is a Dr David Goldie University of Glasgow 7.30 pm Creative Writing Open Mic Night Half-Formed Thing 9.30 am Lectures /Seminars George Square SCOTTISH LITERATURE The University of Strathclyde 9.30 am Beyond Impressionism in Ford Dr Carole Jones Alexandra Campbell, University of Glasgow Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier 7.30 pm Reading: JL Williams & 8.00 pm SUISS Playfair Reception Thursday 2nd August 10.45 - University of Edinburgh Co ee The Library Café Éadaoín Lynch, University of Edinburgh Dr Barry Shiels Colin McGuire Grant House Common Room 11.15 am 9.30 am Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things 2.30 pm Translation Workshop with University of Durham Friday 27th July EMTF Fellows CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE Thursday 19th July Dr Michael Shaw 11.15 am Seminars / Workshops George Square 7.30 pm Cinepoems Showcase The University of Glasgow Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre, 9.30 am Burke’s Black Watch and McGrath’s Eleanore Widger, University of Dundee and Challenge Launch 9.30 am The Economics of The Waste Land 7.30 pm Reading: Janice Galloway Funded by Creative Scotland The Cheviot, the Stag and the Dr Henry King 7.30 pm Reading: Sara Shaarawi and 1.15 pm Lunch The Library Café Jessica Orr, University of St Andrews Black, Black Oil Friday 13th July Malmö University Friday 3rd August Kieran Hurley Dr Robert Irvine Friday 10th August 6.00 - CREATIVE WRITING th The University of Edinburgh Dinner (July) Pollock Halls 9.30 am J.M Synge’s The Playboy Friday 20 July 9.30 am David Greig's The Strange Undoing of 7.30 pm Prudencia Hart and the Scottish Nicky Melville, PhD, University of Glasgow of the Western World 9.30 am Sinéad Morrisey and Leontia Dr David Wheatley 9.30 am Liminal Women: Jean Rhys’s 1.15 pm LONG WEEKEND Supernatural Flynn: Lyrics and Long Poems 4.30 - Carmel Doohan, University of Glasgow Good Morning, Midnight Dinner (August) Pollock Halls University of Aberdeen Professor Penny Fielding in Precarious Days 8.00 pm Tim Craven, University of Edinburgh Professor Emeritus Angela Smith The University of Edinburgh Dr Gail McConnell 8.00 pm Ceilidh University of Stirling 8.00 pm ‘Farewell Party & Ceilidh Queen’s University, Belfast 8.00 pm Evening Events Grant House St Trinnean’s & Nelson Rooms THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE St Trinnean’s & Nelson Rooms St Leonard’s Hall 8.00 pm FAREWELL PARTY 7.30 pm Waiting for Godot Common Rm. St Leonard’s Hall (Unless otherwise stated) Molly Ziegler, University of Glasgow Edinburgh International Festival, Lewis Church, PhD, Queen Mary University The Lyceum Please make your own lunch arrangements on Saturdays and Sundays. WEEK SIX : CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE WEEK ONE : CREATIVE WRITING WEEK TWO : CREATIVE WRITING WEEK THREE : CREATIVE WRITING WEEK FOUR : CREATIVE WRITING WEEK FIVE : THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE WEEK SIX : THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE

Monday 13th August Monday 9th July Monday 16th July Monday 23rd July Monday 30th July Monday 6th August Monday 13th August

9.30 am Critical Silence, Disability, and 8.00 pm Welcome Reception 9.30 am Katherine Manseeld's 9.30 am Independent Publishing Lecture 9.30 am Form and Becoming in Janice 8.00 pm Welcome Reception 9.30 am Critical Silence, Disability, and Martin McDonagh's The Grant House Common Room (Lecture) Modernist Short Stories (Lecture) Jenny Brown, Jenny Brown (Lecture) Galloway and A.L. Kennedy Grant House Common Room (Lecture) Martin McDonagh's Cripple of Inishmaan Professor Kirsty Gunn Associates Dr Tim Baker Tuesday 7th August The Cripple of Inishmaan Dr Hannah Tweed th Tuesday 10 July University of Dundee 11.15 am Seminar (3hr) University of Aberdeen Dr Hannah Tweed University of York 2.15 pm Postgraduate Studies 9.30 am Scotland Is Everywhere: David 9.30 am ‘scales are dashed / from your 50 George Square 11.15 am Masterclass with Damon Herd University of York Information Seminar (Lecture) Greig’s Europe (Lecture) stem’: Imagism and A ect th ‘Creating Comics’ 11.15 am Seminar 2.15 pm Postgraduate Studies Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre Tuesday 24 July Dr Trish Reid 2.15 pm Postgraduate Studies Information Seminar Dr Colin Herd Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Kingston University London 3.15 pm Scottish Poetry Library Visit 9.30 am Seminar (3hr) Information Seminar Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre University of Glasgow 11.15 am Seminar 11.15 am Seminar (2hr) 7.30 pm Cinepoems Challenge Screening 50 George Square Tuesday 31st July Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre Tuesday 14th August and Awards 2.15 pm Library Tour 50 George Square 4.00 pm Arthur’s Seat Poetic Expedition 10.15 am Seminar (3hr) 5.00 pm Discussion: ‘Let Them Lead the Way’ 2.15 pm Library Tour Tuesday 17th July 3.00 pm Credit Information / Traverse Theatre 9.30 am Writing Desire in Written on 7.30 pm Reading: James Robertson 50 George Square Essay Writing Session the Body 3.00 pm Credit Information Seminar Tuesday 14th August 10.15 am Seminar (3hr) th 2.15 pm Scottish Parliament Visit Grant House Common Room Grant House Common Room Wednesday 25 July Dr Simon Malpas 50 George Square 4.00 pm Arthur’s Seat Hike The University of Edinburgh 4.00 pm Arthur’s Seat Hike 9.30 am Seminar 2.15 pm Writing Half Day 9.30 am Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song Wednesday 1stAugust (Lecture) th 2.30 pm Workshop: Gender and Professor Alison Lumsden Wednesday 8 August th Wednesday 11 July th Performance with Mamoru Iriguchi th Wednesday 18 July 9.30 am The Makars: Edwin Morgan and Wednesday 15 August University of Aberdeen 9.30 am Ideas are Bullet-Proof: Form and Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square (Lecture) Liz Lochhead 11.15 am Seminar (2hr) 9.30 am Seminar (3hr) 11.15 am Masterclass with Rachel McCrum (Lecture) Politics in Alan Moore’s and th 9.30 am Ali Smith's Autumn Wednesday 15 August 50 George Square 50 George Square ‘Unfearing Misreadings: Dr Calum Rodger David Lloyd’s V for Vendetta Dr Helen Stoddart 2.30 pm City Art Centre & Destabilizing Language, University of Glasgow Dr Chris Murray 9.30 am Seminar University of Glasgow 2.00 pm Visit to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Fruitmarket Tour Sound, and Meaning’ 11.15 am Masterclass with Russell Jones University of Dundee TBC Workshop: Playwright Studio 2.30 pm Talbot Rice Gallery Tour Little Sparta Project Room 1.06, Brave New Worlds – 11.15 am Seminar Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square 9.30 pm Loud Poets Thursday 19th July th 50 George Square Creating Speculative Worlds TBC PLAYWRIGHT STUDIO Scottish Storytelling Centre Thursday 12 July Free Evening Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square PERFORMANCE 9.30 am The Economics of The Waste Land 2.15 pm Writing Half Day 11.15 am Seminar (2hr) Thursday 9th August Thursday 16th August Dr Henry King 7.30 pm Creative Writing Open Mic Night Thursday 16th August 50 George Square (Lecture) Thursday 26th July Malmö University nd 2.15 pm Writing Half Day Thursday 2 August 9.30 am Seminar 9.30 am Vahni Capildeo: Creolising 10.15 am Seminar (3hr) 9.30 am Seminar 7.30 pm Cinepoems Showcase and 11.15 am Masterclass with Colin Herd 2.30 pm Translation Workshop with Perspectives in UK Poetry 10.15 am Seminar (3hr) 12.00 pm Workshop: V for Verbatim Challenge Launch ‘Rough and Sudden: 50 George Square EMTF Fellows Nat Raha 50 George Square Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Poetry &/as Happenings’ 2.15 pm Writing Half Day Hugh Robson Lecture Theatre University of Sussex 2.15 pm Writing Half Day 4.00 pm Blackout Friday 13th July Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square 8.00 pm SUISS Playfair Reception Funded by Creative Scotland 7.30 pm Reading: Sam Riviere and 7.30 pm Reading: Janice Galloway Summerhall 7.30 pm Reading: JL Williams and 7.30 pm Reading: Sara Shaawari and Nat Raha 11.15 am Masterclass with Zoe Strachan 7.30 pm Reading: Sam Riviere and Nat Raha Colin McGuire th rd Kieran Hurley Grant House Common Room ‘Looking for the devil in Friday 27 July Friday 3 August th th th th Friday 20 July Friday 10 August Friday 17 August Friday 17 August the detail’ 9.30 am Burke’s Black Watch and McGrath’s 10.15 am Seminar (3hr) Project Room 1.06, 9.30 am Liminal Women: Jean Rhys’s (Lecture) The Cheviot, the Stag and the 50 George Square 9.30 am Seminar 9.30 am Seminar 9.30 am “The Spectacle of New Death”: 50 George Square Good Morning, Midnight Black, Black Oil 2.15 pm Writing Half Day 2.30 pm Workshop: Funny Bones: Miéville’s Three Moments of 2.15 pm Writing Half Day 2.30 pm Workshop: Fifteen Rules of Acting Professor Emeritus Angela Smith 8.00 pm Farewell Party & Ceilidh Ali de Souza, Practical Techniques of an Explosion and the 8.00 pm Ceilidh Dr Robert Irvine University of Stirling Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Stupidity. An Introduction to Anesthetisation of Violence St Trinneans and Nelson Rooms, The University of Edinburgh St Trinnean’s & Nelson Rooms 11.15 am Seminar (3hr) St Leonard’s Hall Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Theatre Clown with Plutôt la Vie Dr Elsa Bouet St Leonard’s Hall 2.15 pm LONG WEEKEND Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square Edinburgh Napier University 50 George Square 7.30 pm Waiting for Godot Edinburgh International 8.00 pm FAREWELL PARTY 8.00 pm FAREWELL PARTY 8.00 pm MODERNISM FAREWELL PARTY Festival, The Lyceum