10.45 am Panel 1: “Islands at the edge of modernity: picturing the Western Isles” Andrew Blaikie, Peter Moore & Matt Sillars
11.30 am Break
11.45 am Session 1 ‘Connected by the Sea’
“The Imagined Edge’, Toby Carr
“An exploration of the perceived effect of intergenerational community coastal rowing on shared social identity and wellbeing”, Mari Todd & Matthew Slater
12.45 pm Lunch
1.45 pm [Parallel Sessions]
Session 2 ‘Drawing & Print’
“On the Rocks – Drawing at the Edge”, Cally Yeatman
“Temporal Edges”, Jean Newman
“Printing at the Edge and Over: transitional space in the artistic language of collaborative print”, Sandra De Rycker
Panel 2:
“Watermarks from the Water's Edge”, Richard Keating, Iain Robertson et al.
3.15 pm Break
3.30 pm Session 3 ‘Art & Industry’
“Theatrical responses to the Arctic, a Post-Soviet Arctic Story”, Jack MacGregor Reid
“The Ring Net on the Edge: Angus Martin (poet) and Will Maclean (artist)”, Lindsay Blair
4.30 pm Panel 3: “‘Whale Songs’; and the possibility of escaping the human”, Alex South, Katherine Wren, Lesley Harrison
5.30 pm Online transmission ends for the day
Day 2 - Thursday 16 December
Day 2 - Thursday 16 December
9.00 am Technical testing and registration
9.15 am Keynote 2: Margaret Bennett
10.15 am Break
10.30 am Session 4 ‘Community & Sense of Place’
“The nature and influence of Up Helly Aa (UHA) in Shetland”, Wilma Goodlad
“The other landscape: holistic interpretations of place”, Frank Rennie
“Over the societal edge: a new analysis of the contemporary erasure of Gaelic”, Conchúr Ó Giollagáin
12pm Launch of UHI Community Landownership Academic Network (UHI CLAN), Bobby Macaulay et al.
12.30pm Lunch
1.30 pm Keynote 3: Niall Sharples
2.30 pm [Parallel Sessions]
Session 5 ‘Urban Liminal and Contested Spaces’
“Underpasses Are Liminal Places”, Rebecca Lambert
“Falling through the gaps: young vulnerability, resistance, agency and creativity in street situations”, Vicky Johnson
Roundtable
“The Liminal Zone: The seashore as a metaphor for the interface between teaching and creative practice”, Mandy Haggith et al.
3.30 pm Break
3.45 pm Session 6 'Edge Effects & Borderlands'
“Violent borders & rhizome infiltrations: Seaweeds, mutant flows & fascist micro-assemblages in 2666”, Simon Ryle
“Along the verge: engagement, edge effect and entanglement”, Caroline Dear
“Conceptualising landscape as an edge effect”, Rod Lovie
5.15 pm Conference conclusion & announcement of the 2022 UHI HARC/SILK Research Theme