Our Events

2018  Mapping Small Island Communicative Ecologies Seminar SCIS@UWS

Research Seminar Creativity and Culture HUB,  School of Media, Culture and Society  Wednesday 17^th January 2018  14:00- 15:00 UWS Ayr Campus  GT 45

A/Prof. Evangelia Papoutsaki, UNITEC, New Zealand:

Mapping Small Island Communicative Ecologies

Link here for further information: Communicative Ecologies Research Seminar Jan 2018

 

 

 

2017  SCIS Research Workshop and Knowledge Exchange Event: Enterprising Culture

Dates: Tuesday 21st – Wednesday 22rd February 2017 Venue: SAMS (Scottish Marine Institute), Oban

Arts and humanities students and supervisors are invited to participate in this two day co-hosted (COST and SGSAH) inter- disciplinary event that will provide an opportunity to examine the interface between new minority language speakers, cultural entrepreneurship and research good practice in island and remote rural communities. The event seeks to build networks and share knowledge at all levels of research enquiry. With a focus on sharing examples of arts and humanities doctoral research and community policy case studies, participants will experience Scotland’s west coast community of Oban and participate in a range of ‘walking and talking’ research activity as well as key presentations, site visits and round table discussions.

Key themes for the two day event include:

• Sharing good practice on minority language community research engagement and brokerage with particular emphasis on doctoral experiences;
• Inviting a better understanding of the minority language and culture issues facing communities, entrepreneurs, host communities and new minority language speakers and the research potential this offers;
• Drawing on multi-disciplinary and multi-lingual contexts to inform discussions regarding (i) the commodification of minority language and new speakers, (ii) the role of language and cultural enterprise in local and national policy, (iii)

‘futureproofing’ minority language cultures in ‘fragile’ and remote places;

• Realising the value of place/language as fluid/living cultural practice and enterprise with key community contributions including poet and writer Norrie Bissell, Isle of Luing, Scotland, and James Harrison representing CultureVannin, Isle of Man;
• Developing a pivoting perspective by which both research undertaken, challenges presented and new questions yet to emerge can be brought forth and offered for review and critique by both new and experienced researchers togethe

Event organisers:

Dr Kathryn A Burnett, University of the West of Scotland         Kathryn.Burnett@uws.ac.uk

Professor Mike Danson, Heriot Watt University                                             M.Danson@hw.ac.uk

Professor Bernadette 0’ Rourke, Chair of COST Action IS1306 New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges:  http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1306                b.m.a.o’rourke@hw.ac.uk

Mr Michael Rayner, University of the ighlands and Islands     Michael.Rayner@uhi.ac.uk

For expressions of interest please contact:  Professor Mike Danson                                                                     M.Danson@hw.ac.uk      or Dr Kathryn A Burnett

Kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk.

See Final Event Programme here:

 

2013  SCIS Research Talks and Archive Screenings Media Academy Knowledge Exchange Event

Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Resettlement of Tristan da Cunha (1963-2013) Friday 1st November 2013   Venue: Wellington Suite, Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow

In 1961 the island’s volcano erupted and the entire community were forced to leave Tristan for safety with no prospect of certain return. The plight of the Tristan islanders was a global media event. Their story was one that intrigued  and invited comment in terms of our ideas of island living, remoteness  and sustainability in the changing  times of the early 1960s. These ideas continue to inform how we think and represent island communities today, here in Scotland, and beyond. The Tristanians were offered immediate refuge in Scotland, with Shetland playing a pivotal role, but they were actually ‘settled’ in England where they worked and lived for some two years.  In 1963 the islanders eventually returned to Tristan to rebuild their lives on this most remote of islands.  Today the community continues to thrive.

This UWS research and knowledge exchange event offers a series of talks and archive film and media screenings which each commemorate this remarkable story from the despair of 1961 evacuation to the elation of 1963 resettlement. It also provides an occasion to focus on the present, the successful rebuilding of a sustainable Tristan da Cunha and to invite reflections on 50 years of change on islands here in Scotland, in Tristan, and elsewhere. Our theme for the day is that of the images, the issues, and the reality of small island community life. Our examples are largely drawn from Tristan da Cunha but also from the island communities of Scotland, including the Hebrides and Shetland. A range of speakers including academics, educationalists, film-makers and island community enthusiasts will share experiences and information together with the audience. For full details of the programme of talks and screenings please link here.

If you would like to attend this UWS Scottish Centre for Island Studies event then please contact kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk to reserve your place, or call Dr Kathryn A Burnett on 01292 886482 with your details.  There is no charge for this event but please note places are limited. Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided for full day attendees. Alternative lunch for purchase is available on site and nearby.   All welcome.

For directions to the venue please link here: http://www.thegrandcentralhotel.co.uk/location/

 

2012 -2013  (currently under update)

 

2011   Scottish Centre for Island Studies Research Seminar

Venue: UWS, Paisley Campus, Room G114, Gardner Building

Friday December 2nd 2011 Time: 13:00 – 16:00

In addition to a general update on the previous year’s activity and plans for SCIS this event will be an opportunity to meet other colleagues from UWS and elsewhere with an interest in island studies and island related research. All welcome. Please contact kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk to express your interest in attending. The meeting will be followed by a two research papers relating to the work by  the current SCIS PhD students and  also an update  on current British Academy funded research at the centre.

Research Presentation:  Kirsten MacLeod, update on Phd research projects relating to community media and creative practice followed by screening extracts from Isle of Bute film project.

Research Presentation:  Tristan da Cunha: the Volcano Years 1961-1963 (British Academy Funded Project) Reflecting on a 50 year anniversary of media representations of remote and peripheral island communities. A seminar paper presented by   Kathryn A. Burnett & Ray Burnett, Scottish Centre for Island Studies, School of CCI, UWS.

Please contact kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk to express your interest in attending.

All welcome.

2011   Scottish Centre for Island Studies Research Seminar

Venue: CCA, UWS Space, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

11th March 2011      14:30 – 16:00

Theme:  Creative Media Practice

SCIS PhD student Rachael Flynn will present her paper “Using the written letter as a fine-art source to inform and stimulate a creative practice-led enquiry.” Rachel is due to deliver a  version of  this paper to  the * conference. Rachael is supervised by Dr Kathryn A Burnett and Mr Tony Grace, bother School of CCI, UWS.

All welcome.

 

2011   Scottish Centre for Island Studies Research Seminar

Venue: CCA, UWS Space, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

22nd September 2011      16:00 – 18:00

Theme: Visual  Media Practice & Island Studies

SCIS welcomes visiting academic Professor Suzanne Thomas, University of Prince Edward Island. Suzanne will lead a research seminar on island studies and visual media practice as part of her current residency with SCIS in Autumn 2011. This creative practice research event is open to UWS academic staff, researchers and postgraduate students particularly exploring SCIS related research activity on visual media and island studies but all are welcome. Please contact kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk to express your interest in attending.

 

 2010   Scottish Centre for Island Studies Research Seminar

Venue: UWS, Paisley Campus, Room G116, Gardner Building

18^th June 2012  September    09:30 – 13:30

In addition to a general update on the activity and plans for SCIS this event will be an opportunity to meet other colleagues from UWS and elsewhere with an interest in island studies and island related research. All welcome. Please contact kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk to express your interest in attending. The meeting will be followed by a short research paper relating to current research at the centre.

“Portaying the Hebrides: the irresistible lure and the irredeemable legacy” seminar paper presented by   Ray Burnett &  Kathryn A. Burnett Scottish Centre for Island Studies, School of CCI, UWS

 

2010   Scottish Centre for Island Studies Research Seminar

Venue: CCA, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

Thursday 9^th September 2010 13:00 – 15:00

The Scottish Centre for Island Studies in association with the Small Islands Film Trust is hosting a small research focussed event of film screenings and related discussions on the 9^th September 2010 in the UWS space at the CCA, Glasgow.

Geopolitics: Political Spaces – Cultural Spaces

Two different factual documentaries providing accounts of the history and communities affected by the establishment of the ‘Rocket range’ – RA Hebrides on ‘Uist’ in 1957 will provide the basis for a research seminar exploring themes of  geo-politics, peripherality and cultural representations. This will be followed by a discussion of iconography and identity: place and non-place and a screening of the Ealing classic  Rockets Galore!

 

Screenings:        Trusadh Series Deserting Uist (2010) MacTV;  Na Rocaidean (2008) MNE TV Rockets Galore! (1957) Dir: Michael Relph

For information contact Dr Kathryn A Burnett, School of CCI, UWS (kathryn.burnett@uws.ac.uk)