Presented by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
and the British Society of Sports History, Scottish Network
To mark the ongoing exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Playing for Scotland: The Making of Modern Sport, we are teaming up to present a one-day conference on Scottish sport’s historic and contemporary relationship with the arts, broadly defined. Suggested papers topics might include (but are not limited to):
- The painting of Scottish sport and sportspeople
- Scottish sport and cinema
- Scottish sport and literature
- Scottish sport and photography
- Scottish sport and statuary
- Scottish sport, cartoons, and comics
- Scottish sport, plays, and performance art
Abstract submission is now closed. Please contact Imogen Gibbon or Matthew McDowell with any queries.
Program
9.00-9.15 Registration with tea/coffee
9.15 – 9.30 Welcome · Imogen Gibbon, Chief Curator and Deputy Director Scottish National Portrait Gallery
9.30-9.50 The Search for a Great Scottish Football Novel · Andy Mitchell, Compiler and Editor Scottish Sport History
9.50-10.10 Against All Odds: The Underdog Myth in Scottish Football Fiction · Cyprian Piskurek, Lecturer British Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University
10.10-10.30 Gordon Williams, Straw Dogs, Gregory’s Girl and Denis Law’s Book of Soccer · Ian Scott, Curator Sport, Leisure & Newspapers National Library of Scotland
10.30-10.50 Football, Popular Culture, and Identity in the Novels of Irvine Welsh · Dr Anthony May, Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities Manchester Metropolitan University
10.50-11.10 Session discussion
11.10-11.30 Tea/Coffee/biscuits
11.30-11.50 What to Wear for Gymnastics: Thinking through Artworks and Absences in Museum Collections · Tiffany Boyle, PhD Candidate Department of Art History Birkbeck University of London
11.50-12.10 Margaret Morris: Artist, Educationalist and Remedial Therapist · Wendy Timmons, Programme Director: MSc Dance Science & Education University of Edinburgh, Iliyana Nedkova and Maria Papageorgiou
12.10-12.30 Has the Highland Fling – Flung? Interrogating the Art/Sport Binary within Highland Dancing Practice · Bethany Whiteside, PhD Candidate (Sociology of Participatory Dance) Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
12.30-12.50 Session discussion
12.50-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.20 A Rich Tapestry with many a Web and Weave · Dr Hugh Dan MacLennan, broadcaster, author and Professional Fellow Academy of Sport, University of Edinburgh
2.20-2.40 Fitba’ Daft: Scottish Sport and the Silent Screen · Maria A. Velez-Serna, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant University of Glasgow and Caroline Merz, PhD researcher University of Edinburgh
2.40-3.00 Session Discussion
3.00-3.20 Tea/coffee
3.20-3.40 ‘Papa had a famous deer hunt yesterday’: The Sporting Life of John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl (1755-1830) · Nel Whiting, PhD Student University of Dundee
3.40-4.00 Sir David Baird of Newbyth (1795-1851) in “The Golfers” by Charles Lees, RSA – “Whatever he took in hand, he steadily pursued until he acquired the complete mastery of it.”A review of his achievements by David Affleck, East Linton
4.00-4.20 Charles Lees and the Grand Curling Match on Linlithgow Loch, 1848: the portrait of a society? · John Burnett
4.20-4.40 Session discussion
4.40-4.45 Conclusion
5.00-5.30 Walkround Playing for Scotland exhibition
