Scotland and the South Seas: Writing the Wide Pacific
28-30 June, Chaminade University of Honolulu
3140 Waialae Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96816
Program of Events
Thursday June 27, 3.00-4PM
Sullivan Family Library, Chaminade University of Honolulu campus
Remediating Stevenson’s Hawai`i
Exhibit opening and presentation – Michelle Keown, Solomon Enos
This presentation and exhibit showcase a range of graphic adaptation work by Hawai`ian artist Solomon Enos, including a set of preliminary sketches for a planned graphic remediation of two Robert Louis Stevenson stories – ‘The Bottle Imp’ and ‘The Isle of Voices’ – set in Hawai`i. Also on display will be completed graphic adaptations of the two stories produced from the collaboration between students and staff from the Edinburgh University Literature Faculty and Edinburgh College of Art.
Friday June 28, Chaminade Campus
Pick up from Courtyard Marriott, Waikiki, at 8AM for conference participants
Registration open, Ching Conference Center Lanai, 8.15AM-12PM
Light breakfast and coffee-tea available on lanai, 8.15
*Please note, all sessions will be held in the Ching Conference Center
8.30: Traditional Hawaiian blessing and welcome to Chaminade
Session 1A – 8.45-10AM, Ching Conference Center
Scotland to Hawai`i (Mandy Treagus – moderator)
Vanessa Smith (University of Sydney), “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Oceanic debts: ‘The Bottle Imp’ and the Isle of Voices”
Toni Thibodeaux (Middle Tennessee State University), “Molokai and Father Damien: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Polynesian Märchen and the Struggle Against Colonialism”
Bud Clark (University of Hawai`i Maui College), “Moral Legislation and the Kanaka Maoli: Scottish arguments for Preserving Hawaiian Indigeneity”
Session 1B – 8.45-10AM, Eiben 201
Polynesia, Scotland and Material Culture (Sabrina Juillet – moderator)
Nicole Crawford and Darrell Jackson (University of Wyoming), “Stealing Culture: Polynesian Objects and Scottish Authors”
Susan Frye (University of Wyoming), “Embroidering the New World: The Wildlife Collection of Mary Queen of Scots”
Kirsten Mollegaard (University of Hawai`i at Hilo), “Stitching a Portrait: The History Behind the Princess Ka’iulani Panel of the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry”
10-10.15AM – Coffee available, Ching Conference Center Lanai
Session 2A – 10.15-11.45AM, Ching Conference Center
Stevenson Studies in Samoa (Caroline McCracken-Flesher – moderator)
Joanne Wilkes (University of Auckland), “Robert Louis Stevenson, the Vailima Letters and Margaret Oliphant”
Lucio de Capitani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), “Small Scales and Silent Stares: Stevenson’s Samoan ‘Discovery’ of Microhistory”
Catherine Mathews (Independent Scholar), “Samoa and Robert Louis Stevenson: Methodologies of Political and Humanitarian Intervention”
Session 2B – 10.15-11.45AM, Eiben 201
Scottish Shadows in the Antipodes (John Plotz – moderator)
Liam McIlvanney (University of Otago), “Scottish Vernacular Writing in Colonial New Zealand”
Sarah Sharp (University College Dublin), “‘Their bones to whiten in the desert’: The Bush Grave in the Scottish-Australian Literary Imagination”
12PM – Bus pick-up back to Courtyard Marriott – lunch on your own
3.30-5PM: Mary Jane Tuttle McBarnet Plenary, Professor Roslyn Jolly (University of New South Wales)
Hawai`i State Judiciary Center, King Street, Honolulu
5.00-7PM: Reception, Iolani Palace
Saturday 29 June, Chaminade Campus
Pick up from Courtyard Marriott, Waikiki, at 8am for conference participants
Light breakfast and coffee-tea available on Ching Conference Center lanai 8.15AM
Session 4A – 8.45-10AM, Ching Conference Center
Questions of Exile and Re-centering (Bud Clark – moderator)
Alan Riach (Glasgow University), “First Facts Being Location and Movement: Questions of Exile, Answers in Time”
John Plotz (Brandeis University), “SF Stevenson: From Scotland to the Galapagos”
Julie Gay (University Bordeaux-Montaigne), “Remote Highlands and Lonely Islands in Stevenson’s Scottish and Pacific Writings: Recentring the Margins”
Session 4B – 8.45-10AM, Eiben 201
Stevenson and Colonial Discourses (Joanne Wilkes – moderator)
Michael Ratnapalan (Yonsei University), “Between Scotland and Polynesia: Religion in Stevenson’s Pacific fiction”
Hannah Tickle (University of Wyoming), “Anarchy in Eyeliner: Subversive Narratives of Colonialism in Robert Louis Stevenson”
Mandy Treagus (University of Adelaide), “Emptying the Adventure Romance: Stevenson’s ‘The Ebb-Tide’ and Realism”
10-10.15AM – Coffee available on Ching Conference Center Lanai
Session 5A – 10.15-11.45AM, Ching Conference Center
Romanticism in the Pacific (Michelle Keown – moderator)
Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley College), “Borders, Belatedness, and the Nature of Plotting in Stevenson and Scott”
Michael Goode (Syracuse University), “Oceans Apart: the Darien Disaster and Disunited Kingdoms in Galbraith’s The Rising Sun and Scott’s Rob Roy”
Caroline McCracken-Flesher (University of Wyoming), “Omai the Traveller meets George the Tourist: A Pacific Voyager at the King’s Visit to Edinburgh, 1822”
Session 5B – 10.15-11.45AM, Eiben 201
Imperialists & South Seas Privateers (Richard Hill – Moderator)
Michael Demson (Sam Houston State University), “‘To see South Wales some mornin’: Peter Mackenzie and Post-Peterloo Resistance in Scotland”
Allison Francis Paynter (Chaminade University of Honolulu), “Literary Perils of Piracy: The Strange Case of Alexander Selkirk”
Sarah Paterson-Hamlin (Independent Scholar) “The Marvellous Year: Co-colonialism in Scotland and Aotearoa”
11.45AM-12.45PM – Lunch on Ching Conference Lanai
Session 6A – 12.45-2PM, Ching Conference Center
Exploring Pacific Landscapes
Nathalie Jaeck (University of Bordeaux), ““The world all new painted”: Stevenson’s reassessment of the rhetoric of landscape in Kidnapped and the South Sea Tales”
Marion Amblard (University of Valence) and Sabrina Juillet (University Paris 13 Sorbonne Cité/Pleiade), “The representation of Scotland in the writings of the early explorers of New Caledonia/ Nouvelle Calédonie”
Session 6B – 12.45-2PM, Eiben 201
Traces of Scots in the Pacific (Vanessa Smith – moderator)
Audrey Murfin (Sam Houston State University), “Captain John Cameron: Literary Scot in the Pacific”
Carol Miller (University of Wyoming), “Robert Louis Stevenson’s Paratextual Positioning of A Graven Pilgrimage to Samoa”
Roland Alexander (Cambridge University), “‘Gloriously Unashamed’: Epistolary Shamelessness in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific and Scottish Writings”
Bus pick-up at 2.15pm back to Courtyard Marriott
Sunday 30 June, Waioli Tea Rooms, Manoa Valley
8AM bus pick-up from Courtyard Marriott
8.30AM – breakfast at Waioli Tea Rooms
9.00-10AM: Closing Plenary, Professor Penny Fielding (Edinburgh University)
10.30AM – Stevenson Tour of Makapu`u, North Shore, departs, returning Waikiki approx. 1.30 PM
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