Locating James Hogg

 James Hogg Society Biennial Conference
19-21 July, 2017

University of Stirling,

Scotland

 Call for Papers

To ‘locate’ means to establish, place, or situate, but also to discover, to settle, and to orient. Where, when, and how do we ‘locate’ James Hogg, be it culturally, politically, linguistically, geographically, or in respect of period, genre, or style?  How do we position Hogg’s writing and reputation in current and historical debates about nation, tradition and identity, or within the work of other writers, past and present? What does his restless preoccupation with matters of origin, tradition and locality reveal about our own situatedness (or lack of it) as readers and critics? 

The James Hogg Society invites proposals for 20-minute papers and 90-minute panels on the theme of ‘locating James Hogg’.

Abstracts of 300 words should be sent, by 31 January 2017, to locatinghogg@stir.ac.uk

  

Conference Team:

Suzanne Gilbert
Duncan Hotchkiss
Adrian Hunter
Barbara Leonardi