The 2016 Sfeec conference, organised jointly with the LERMA research group (Aix-Marseille University) aims at looking at the history of Scotland and the numerous women who have contributed to it, from Mary Queen of Scots to Nicolas Sturgeon toaday, or the newly-appointed Scottish Makar Jackie Kay. Starting from the idea that history books sometimes imperfectly convey the significance of their contribution, the conference will look at the part played by women in the constitution of our notion of Scotland, historically, politically and artistically. 

Date: Thusday, November 17 - Saturday, November 19

Conference Venue : Université Aix-Marseille, Maison de la Recherche, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, 29 Avenue Robert Schuman, Aix-en-Provence

Janice Galloway

Janice Galloway is an internationally-acclaimed author of novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction, collaborative works with sculptors, painters, musicians, typographers, photographers and videographers. Her books include  The trick is to Keep Breathing (1989), Clara (2002),the collection of short stories Blood(1991), This is Not About Me (2008) and All Made Up (2012), and most recently, Jellyfish (2015)

Professor Glenda Norquay

 Glenda Norquay is Chair of Scottish Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University.  She has published widely on Scottish women’s writing and on Robert Louis Stevenson.  She is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, working on late nineteenth-century transatlantic literary geographies. 

Professor Ian Brown

 Ian Brown is emeritus professor of Drama at Kingston University, former President of the ASLS and current Convenor of the Saltire Society. He was General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature and is series co-editor of The Edinburgh (now International) Companions to Scottish Literature. His edited collection The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama (‘essential reading’ – Alan Riach) was published by EUP in 2011 and his Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity (‘transformational’ - Anne Varty) by Rodopi in 2013. His History as Theatrical Metaphor: History, Myth and National Identities in Modern Scottish Drama will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016. A playwright and poet, his latest poetry collection, Collyshangles in the Canopy was published in 2015.