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Société Française d’Études Écossaises

2025 Annual conference

L’Écosse et le littoral / Scotland and the coast

La Rochelle Université

Amphithéâtre Michel Crépeau, Pôle Communication Multimédia Réseaux, 44 av. Albert Einstein

9.30am-10.30am            walking tour of La Rochelle (group 1)

11.00-11.30am               Welcoming participants

11.30am-1pm                 panel 1. Power(s) and the Coast / Pouvoirs et littoraux

Chair: Nathalie Duclos (université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)

John R. Young (University of Strathclyde), The Covenanters and the coast: coastal and maritime security and military intervention in Ireland in the War(s) for the Three Kingdoms.

Edwige Camp-Pietrain (Université Polytechnique des Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes), Crown estate properties on the Scottish coast under devolution: political and economic issues.

Ugo Bruschi (University of Bologna), The Legacy of Darién in 1690s and 1700s Scottish Political and Constitutional Discourse.

1pm-2pm                         lunch (Technoforum)

2pm-3.30pm                   panel 2. The Coast as a Crossing Point / Le littoral comme lieu de passage

Chair: Rémy Duthille (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)

David Leishman (Université Stendhal Grenoble), Steaming through the sea of books: Steamboats, Scott and North British consumer nationalism.

Mathieu Mazé (Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin), Le tourisme culturel sur les littoraux écossais (1770-1850).

Clément Guézais (Université d'Artois), Dangers d’écueils, rencontre des vents, incertitude et sables mouvants : La carte écossaise du géographe Nicolas de Nicolay.

3.30pm-4pm                   tea & coffee (Technoforum)

4pm-5pm                         walking tour of La Rochelle (group 2)

Dinner (own arrangements)

9.00am-10.30am                 panel 3. Writing and Describing the Coast / Ecrire et décrire le littoral

Chair: Danièle André (université de La Rochelle)

Daphné Cousin-Martin (Université de Rouen), An investigation of coastal associations in Val McDermid’s crime novel The Distant Echo.

Glenda Norquay (Liverpool John Moores University), Landlocked: counter-coastal narratives.

Julie Gay (Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale), “We are still here upon the water side”: Terraqueous Littorals and Coastscapes in Robert Louis Stevenson's Fiction.

10.30am-11.am              tea & coffee (Technoforum)

11.00am-12.00am               panel 4. The Coast as a Site of Mythology / Le littoral : lieu de la mythologie

Chair : Emmanuelle Andres (université de La Rochelle)

Katie Garner (University of St Andrews), Resounding Myths in the Gulf of Corryvreckan, 1800-1900.

Gabrielle Fath (University of Limerick), The ‘Cailleach’ and coastlines in Iain Crichton Smith/Mac a’ Ghobhainn’s poetry and fiction.

12.00am-1.30pm           lunch (Technoforum)

1.30pm-3pm                   panel 5. Discourse on Coastal Resources / Discours sur les ressources du littoral

Chair : Gilles Robel (Université Gustave-Eiffel)

Matt McDowell (University of Edinburgh), Coasts, islands, and international networks in Scottish sport: a contemporary-historical reinterpretation.

Rémy Duthille (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Seaweed and the Scottish Enlightenment: A study of Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical Account of Scotland (1791-1799).

Camille Manfredi (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), « Canny, uncanny » : figurations du littoral écossais dans les arts et discours pro- et anti-éoliennes.

3.00pm-3.30pm                   tea & coffee (Technoforum)

3.30pm-4.30pm             Keynote: Prof. Steve Murdoch (The Swedish Defence University, Stockholm), Scottish Ports and Baltic Trade, 1651-1667: A Comparative Analysis of the Cromwellian and Restoration Periods

                                          Introduced by Florence Petroff (université de La Rochelle)

4.30pm-6.30pm             SFEE Annual General Meeting

7.30pm                             Conference Dinner

9.00am-10.30am            panel 6. Coastal Communities / Les communautés littorales

Chair : Clarisse Godard Desmarest (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

Kathleen H.B. Cowe (independent scholar), St Combs: a Scottish fishing community – Continuity and Change.

Euan Healey (University of Glasgow), “Have they not sent us down to the rocks, and the shore of the sea?”: exploring experiences of coast, shore and sea in the Highland Clearances.

Asha Hornsby (University of St Andrews), Fishing for Meaning: Nineteenth-Century Whaling Surgeons, Shetland, and the ‘High North’.

10.30am-11.am              tea & coffee (Technoforum)

11.15-12.15am               Exhibition  (médiathèque Michel Crépeau)

12.15am-1.30pm           lunch (Technoforum)

1.30pm-2.30pm             In conversation with Kathleen Jamie.

Introduced by Lesley Graham (Université de Bordeaux)

2.30pm-3.30pm             panel 7. Images of the Coast / Les représentations du littoral

Chair: Christian Civardi (Université de Strasbourg)

Marion Amblard (Université Grenoble Alpes), Impressions d’Écosse : les représentations de l’espace littoral dans les tableaux de William McTaggart.

Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet (université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne), Le littoral dans « le nouveau cinéma écossais ».

3.30pm-4.00pm             tea & coffee (Technoforum)

4.00pm-5.30pm             panel 8. The Coast as a Network / Le littoral : lieu de réseaux

Chair: Clotilde Prunier (Université Paris Nanterre)

Thomas Archambaud (University of Glasgow), The whale and the elephant coalesced in one: Scottish kin-based networks of trade, science and diplomacy on the coast of Coromandel and the Malaysian peninsula, c. 1770-c. 1790.

Rebecca Wilkieson (University of Strathclyde), The development of Scotland’s maritime infrastructure through the transatlantic trade, 1690-1750.

Morag Munro-Landi (Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour), C for CalMac or for ‘calamity’? F for Ferguson (Marine), or for ‘fiasco’? The ongoing coastal connectivity crisis in North Ayrshire.

6.30pm-7.30pm             Concert by Carentona, Scottish and French Celtic music (médiathèque Michel Crépeau)

7.30pm                             Dinner (own arrangements)