for the Scots on this list, what a Melbourne University seminar is
discussing shortly...best wishes from Max
Subject: Critical Cultures September 5
CRITICAL CULTURES
Critical Cultures is an interdisciplinary
postgraduate seminar series organized by students
in the Faculty of Arts. It seeks to establish a
space in which postgraduates engaged in similar
fields of cultural research in various
departments throughout the university can meet
and present their research. The seminars offer
presenters the opportunity to expose their
research to a broad academic audience beyond both
real and imagined disciplinary boundaries. In
2005 the seminars will be centered around the
theme of 'City Cultures.'
Seminars are held on the first Monday of the month, 4.00-5.30 pm.
Gryphon Gallery, School of Graduate Studies (1888 Building).
MONDAY 5th SEPTEMBER:
'Rebus & Laidlaw Divided Yet United: The History
& Changing Face of the Port Cities of Glasgow &
Leith'
The cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh (and the
latter's immediate port, Leith) have a long
history of rivalry and conflict which dates back
well before the seventeenth century. This paper
aims to analyse these conflicts and their
respective futures by way of readings of the
novels of two Scottish crime fiction writers, Ian
Rankin and William Mcilvanney, as seen through
the eyes of their central characters, John Rebus
and Jack Laidlaw in an attempt to answer the
question, where is, if any, the common ground
between the two, past, present and future.
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