Programme
A Triangular Traffic:
A symposium on Literature, Slavery and the Archive

2-3 November 2007, University of Dundee

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Friday 2nd November 2007
All sessions will be in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Queen Mother's Building at the University of Dundee unless otherwise indicated
9.15Coffee and Registration.
9.45 Welcome
10-11.15 Plenary address (Chair: Peter Kitson, President of the English Association)
Marcus Wood (Professor of English, University of Sussex), "Free to remember what? Some thoughts on 2007 in comparative perspective."
11.45-1pmThe archive of slavery (Chair: Aidan Day, University of Dundee)
Brycchan Carey (Reader in English Literature, Kingston University), 'Lost protests, hidden watermarks, and suspiciously neat handwriting: abolitionism in manuscript'
Nigel Leask (Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow), 'Robert Burns, Helen Maria Williams, and the Poetics of Abolition'.
Alan Rice (Reader in American Studies and Cultural Theory, University of Central Lancashire), 'Commemorating Abolition: Revealing Histories in North-West Museum Archives and Stores'
1-2Lunch
2-3.15Scotland and the Slave Trade: (Chair: Anthony Parker, University of Dundee)
Eric Graham, (Honorary Post Doctoral Fellow of the Scottish History Department of Edinburgh University) 'The Accounts of two Scots apprentices in the Slave Trade'
Siobhan Convery (Senior Archivist, University of Aberdeen) 'Documentary sources for the slave trade: the University of Aberdeen's collections'
3.15-3.45 Break
4.15-5.45Reading by James Robertson (Dundee Contemporary Arts Meeting Room) Chair: Jim Stewart, University of Dundee
(Please note that the DCA requires you to have a ticket for this event.)
6.00Film screening of Burn (Introduced by Peter Kitson, DCA);
tickets should be purchased from the DCA reception desk
Saturday 3rd November 2007
9.45Welcome
(Nicholas Davey, Dean of Humanities, University of Dundee)
10.00 - 11.15The politics and poetics of memory (Chair: Gordon Spark, University of Dundee)
James Procter (Senior Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Newcastle), 'A Compensatory Literature? 'Small Island Read 2007' and the Recollection of Slavery'
Gemma Robinson (Senior Lecturer in English Studies, University of Stirling),'"From the plantation earth": Martin Carter and subjects of slavery'
Abigail Ward, (Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies, Nottingham Trent University), 'Transforming Documents into Monuments: Beryl Gilroy's Stedman and Joanna'
11.15 -11.45Coffee break
11.45-1Documentary screening (Marcus Wood, University of Sussex)
1.00Lunch
2-3.30Panel on Literature and Slavery (Chair: Jane Goldman, University of Glasgow)
Caryl Phillips, Nigel Leask, Marcus Wood and Peter Kitson
4.30-5.45Reading by Jackie Kay (Dundee Contemporary Arts Meeting Room)
Chair: Gail Low, University of Dundee (Please note that the DCA requires you to have a ticket for this event.)
5.45-6.30Wine Reception (DCA Activity Room)
6.30-.7.45Reading by Caryl Phillips (Dundee Contemporary Arts Meeting Room) Chair: Femi Folorunso, Scottish Arts Council
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8pm Conference Dinner at the APEX hotel