Conference

19 - 23 June 2013
SFU Vancouver
515 West Hastings Street

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The following sessions are free and open to the public:

Wednesday, 19 June, 8:00 pm
Liam McIlvanney, University of Otago, New Zealand
Scottish Poetry in the South Seas

Thursday, 20 June, 7:00 pm
Marjory Harper, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Minds on the Edge:  Immigration and Insanity in Canada, 1867-1914, with particular reference to British Columbia

Friday, 21 June, 1:30 pm
Louis de Paor, National University of Ireland, Galway
"Genuine mountain butter and clever margarine": The tyranny of the vernacular in twentieth-century poetry in Irish

Friday, 21 June, 7:00 pm
Singing against the Silence:  The Gaels of Nova Scotia (Short film, Dir. Michael Newton, St. Francis Xavier University)
AND
Steafan Hanvey, Look Behind You! A Father and Son's Impressions of teh Troubles in Northern Ireland Through hotograph and Song (Multi-media presentation)

Sunday, 23 June 11:30 am
Moynagh Sullivan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Reading too far and Crossing the Line: Mother Brown meets Maw Broon