
Walter Scott in the Settler Colonies
Old Government Buildings, Wellington,
16 August 2021
This one-day symposium marks the 250th birthday of Walter Scott and considers his legacy in the settler colonies. It will be accompanied by a display of relevant holdings at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.
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Image Credit: https://www.scottsabbotsford.com
PROGRAMME
MONDAY 16 AUGUST
10am Welcome (GB 117, Old Government Buildings)
10:15-11:15 Dialogue 1: Scott and the Poetry of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Chair: Dougal McNeill
- Philip Steer (Massey University): “Scott’s Minstrelsy, the Ballad,and the Work of Settlement”
- Jane Stafford (Te Herenga Waka): “Dunedin in the Gloaming: Scott, Scottishness and the Poetry of Jessie Mackay”
11:15-11:30 Morning Tea
11:30-12:30 Dialogue 2: Treaties, Laws, Settlement
- Chair: Adam Grener
- Valerie Wallace (Te Herenga Waka): “Walter Scott and Legal Patriotism in the Scottish Settler Empire”
- Nikki Hessell (Te Herenga Waka): “Scott and Settler Treaty-Making”
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:15pm Dialogue 3: Here and Now: How to Do Things with Scott in the Settler Colonies Today
- Chair: Jane Stafford
- Adam Grener (Te Herenga Waka): “Unsettling Pedagogies: Teaching Scott Today”
- Dougal McNeill (Te Herenga Waka): “‘Writing from the people’: Albert Wendt, Walter Scott and the Historical Novel”
2:15pm-2:30pm Afternoon Tea
2:30-3:30 Keynote
- Chair: Nikki Hessell
- Liam McIlvanney (Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies, Otago University): “’Empire and Indigeneity in ‘The Two Drovers’”
3:45-4:45 Exhibit (National Library, Molesworth St)
To register, please contact Nikki Hessell (nikki.hessell@vuw.ac.nz). Registration is free but places are limited.