Programme

Day 1 - Wednesday 15 December

Day 1 - Wednesday 15 December

  • 9.00 am Technical testing and registration
  • 9.30 am Opening Address by Principal Todd Walker
  • 9.45 am Keynote 1: Mike Pearson
  • 10.45 am Panel 1: “Islands at the edge of modernity: picturing the Western Isles†Andrew Blaikie, Peter Moore & Matt Sillars
  • 11.30 am Break
  • 11.45 am Session 1 ‘Connected by the Sea’
    • “The Imagined Edge’, Toby Carr
    • “An exploration of the perceived effect of intergenerational community coastal rowing on shared social identity and wellbeingâ€, Mari Todd & Matthew Slater
  • 12.45 pm Lunch
  • 1.45 pm [Parallel Sessions]
    • Session 2 ‘Drawing & Print’
      • “On the Rocks – Drawing at the Edgeâ€, Cally Yeatman
      • “Temporal Edgesâ€, Jean Newman
      • “Printing at the Edge and Over: transitional space in the artistic language of collaborative printâ€, Sandra De Rycker
    • Panel 2:
      • “Watermarks from the Water's Edgeâ€, Richard Keating, Iain Robertson et al.
  • 3.15 pm Break
  • 3.30 pm Session 3 ‘Art & Industry’
    • “Theatrical responses to the Arctic, a Post-Soviet Arctic Storyâ€, Jack MacGregor Reid
    • “The Ring Net on the Edge: Angus Martin (poet) and Will Maclean (artist)â€, Lindsay Blair
  • 4.30 pm Panel 3: “‘Whale Songs’; and the possibility of escaping the humanâ€, Alex South, Katherine Wren, Lesley Harrison
  • 5.30 pm Online transmission ends for the day

Day 2 - Thursday 16 December

Day 2 - Thursday 16 December

  • 9.00 am Technical testing and registration
  • 9.15 am Keynote 2: Margaret Bennett
  • 10.15 am Break
  • 10.30 am Session 4 ‘Community & Sense of Place’
    • “The nature and influence of Up Helly Aa (UHA) in Shetlandâ€, Wilma Goodlad
    • “The other landscape: holistic interpretations of placeâ€, Frank Rennie
    • “Over the societal edge: a new analysis of the contemporary erasure of Gaelicâ€, Conchúr Ó Giollagáin
  • 12pm Launch of 91±¬ÁÏ Community Landownership Academic Network (91±¬ÁÏ CLAN), Bobby Macaulay et al.
  • 12.30pm Lunch
  • 1.30 pm Keynote 3: Niall Sharples
  • 2.30 pm [Parallel Sessions]
    • Session 5 ‘Urban Liminal and Contested Spaces’
      • “Underpasses Are Liminal Placesâ€, Rebecca Lambert
      • “Falling through the gaps: young vulnerability, resistance, agency and creativity in street situationsâ€, Vicky Johnson
    • Roundtable
      • “The Liminal Zone: The seashore as a metaphor for the interface between teaching and creative practiceâ€, Mandy Haggith et al.
  • 3.30 pm Break
  • 3.45 pm Session 6 'Edge Effects & Borderlands'
    • “Violent borders & rhizome infiltrations: Seaweeds, mutant flows & fascist micro-assemblages in 2666â€, Simon Ryle
    • “Along the verge: engagement, edge effect and entanglementâ€, Caroline Dear
    • “Conceptualising landscape as an edge effectâ€, Rod Lovie
  • 5.15 pm Conference conclusion & announcement of the 2022 91±¬ÁÏ HARC/SILK Research Theme
  • 5.30pm END