George MacDonald's Scotland, 2017

Wednesday 19^th July

9.00- 10.30

Registration: Sir Duncan Rice Library Ground Floor.

10.30-10.45

Welcome Address

10.50-11.50

Keynote lecture A: David Robb: 'Voice from the North: MacDonald Images Scotland' Chair:

11.50-12.50

Panel 1

‘The Scottish Novels’

Chair:

Workshop One

Special Collections

Jennifer Koopman (Dawson College, Montreal) – “Donal’s Doric Skirmish and the Rise of the Critic Hero”

Rachael Durkin (Edinburgh Napier University) - 'She’s a Straddle Vawrious at least!': The Spurious Stradivari Violin and its Role in the Contextualisation of George MacDonald's Robert Falconer

David Jack (Independent Researcher) – “Translating ‘Robert Falconer’”

12.50-13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.30

Keynote Address B: Colin Manlove: 'George MacDonald's Journey Fantasies'. Chair:

14.35-15.35

Panel 2

‘Huntly, real and imagined’

Chair:

Workshop Two

Special Collections

Rebecca Langworthy (University of Aberdeen) – “Haunted by Huntly, Representations of Huntly in the work of George MacDonald”

Per Klingberg (Örebro University, Sweden) – “Trickster Turned Sadist: The Role of Scottish Folklore in George MacDonald’s “The Carasoyne”

Adam Walker (Bucknell University) –“MacDonald and the Scottish Faerie-Faith”

15.35-15.50

Coffee

15.50-16.50

Panel 3

‘Home’

Chair:

Workshop Three

Derek Stewart (University of Aberdeen) – ““My story has not to do with city-life”: Real and Imaginary Urban Spaces of Alec Forbes of Howglen”

Special Collections

Joshua Rawleigh (Gordon College) –“‘The Hand of Age Upon Me’: George MacDonald and the Restoration of Home in Lilith”

Rita Horvath (Yad Vashem) – “Traumatic Theodicy: The Archetypal Journey in George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind ”

17.00pm

Book Launch: Blackwells

Thursday  20^th July

9.30-10.30

Keynote Lecture C: Dimitra Fimi: Chair:

10.35-11.35

Panel 4

‘Configuring Beyond’

Chair

Amanda Vernon (Wycliffe Hall, Oxford) – Clinging to what is good: MacDonald and the 'Defense of Poesy' 

Deborah Pfuntner (Texas A&M University) – “Flora MacDonald in George MacDonald’s Fantasies: Secularizing the Goddess-Figure”

Elena Pasquini – “George MacDonald and the Angels of Phantastes”

11.35-11.50

Coffee

11.50-12.50

Panel 5

‘MacDonald’s Philosophies’

Chair: Franziska Kohlt (Brasenose College, Oxford)

Maxim Medovarov (Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod) –“George MacDonald and the Heritage of John Scotus Eriugena: Between Celtic and Eastern Christian Traditions”

Kirstin Mills (Macquarie University, Sydney) – “Scottish Science, Scenery, and Supernaturalism: George MacDonald’s Landscapes of the Mind”

Josh Richards (Williams Baptist College) - "Neoplatonism and the Incarnation in George MacDonald's Unspoken Sermons"

12.50-13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.30

Keynote Lecture D: John Pazdziora: ‘“The City was All a Show”: The Role of Landscape in George MacDonald’s Novels.’ Chair:

14.35-15.35

Panel 6

‘MacDonald’s Contemporaries’

Chair

Sharin Schroeder (Taipei Tech in Taiwan) – “Margaret Oliphant and George MacDonald as Scottish Writers for a British Audience”

Ginger Stelle (Asbury Theological Seminary) - Annals of Two Novelists: Connections between George MacDonald and John Galt

Franziska Kohlt (Brasenose College, Oxford) – “From Scotland to Utopia (via Hammersmith): William Morris, George MacDonald and the utopian aesthetic“

15.35-15.50

Coffee

15.55-16.55

 Mark Patterson: Garden Walking tour. Cruickshank Botanic Gardens.

Wine Reception

19.00 Conference Dinner

Howies, 50 Chapel St, Aberdeen AB10 1SN

Friday 21^st July

8.45 (Buses Leave at 9pm sharp)

Huntly Visit

9am -10

Bus

10-11

Walking tour town

11-12

Huntly Castle Visit

12- 12.45

Brander Library Exhibition/ Refreshments

12.50-13.50

Bus

14.15-15.00

Discussion panel ‘George MacDonald in Huntly’ Led by Deveron Projects Team

15.00- 15.15

Coffee

15.15-16.15

Panel 8

‘MacDonald and Beyond’

Chair

Fany Karda (University of Aberdeen) - Phantastes: Fairy Tales and Myth Have Ties to the Real World

Grant MacAskill (University of Aberdeen) – [TITLE TBC]

Oliver Langworthy (University of St Andrews) – It’s All Greek to Me: Anodos and George MacDonald

16.20-17.00

Discussion Panel: Future trajectories of George MacDonald Studies Chair:

17.00-17.20

Conference Close