Ray Burnett (SCIS) Chairs Art, Culture, History and Heritage workshops at ISISA 2010

Posted on by Dr Kathryn A. Burnett

Ray Burnett, SCIS Hon. Research Fellow will chair the Art, Culture, History and Heritage sessions 11 and 14  at the 2010 ISISA conference, Bornholm.  The related sessions 17 and 20 will be chaired by Grant McCall. Papers will be delivered in this stream by a range of international scholars in the field of island studies specifically relating to art, history, heritage and culture.  The  11 and 14 session papers are listed here:

 

Touching the Intangible: Islands as Imaginative Topographies

Suzanne Thomas

 

Art on the ‘Rock’: Struggles and strategies of three young female artists living on the island of Newfoundland, Canada.

Consuelo Griggio

 

Island Cinema: The Constitution of a National Cinema in the Philippines

Joseph Palis

 

The Åland Islands: Strategies of (touristic) events and the construction of Ålandness

Doris Griessner

 

Identities and history writing on islands in the Baltic Sea

Janne Holmén and Samuel Edquist

 

“Just isolated enough to be real”: The island factor in creating culture

Laurie Brinklow

Published by Dr Kathryn A. Burnett

With a background in social anthropology, sociology and cultural studies, Kathryn’s research interests include the mediatization and representation of remote and island spaces; identity, ecologies and place narratives of Scotland’s rural communities, coasts and islands; cultural work, precarity and creative enterprise; Scottish cultural heritage and arts contexts including Gaelic and Scots for applied creative practice; sustainable communities, resilience, development, entrepreneurship, cultural policy and the commons in small island, remote, peripheral and rural contexts. Current external activity includes UWS representative on the Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design Network (ASAD); and Kathryn is an organising group member for UK wide MSIG in Participatory and Collaborative Methods. Contact: kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk

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