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Michael Morris (Liverpool John Moores) - This paper revolves around the cultural history of the Atlantic world, particularly in the long eighteenth century. It is concerned with recovering the memory of Atlantic slavery in a Scottish context, and it considers the implications of this recovery for contemporary debates on Scottish (and British) identity in a post-referendum context. It also looks to engage with the concept of the 'archipelago', bringing together theories around Caribbean creolization with the Four Nations approach which re-considers 'the British Isles' as an 'Atlantic Archipelago'.
Michael Morris is a lecturer in English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833: Atlantic Archipelagos (Routledge, 2015); 'Yonder Awa: Slavery and Distancing Strategies in Scottish Literature' in Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past (Edinburgh UP, 2015); 'Robert Burns: Recovering Scotland's Memory of the Black Atlantic' in Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, 37, 3, 2014; and 'Multi-Directional Memory, Many-Headed Hydras and Glasgow' in Britain's Memory of Slavery: Local Nuances of a National Sin (Liverpool UP, forthcoming).
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