OSSIAN THEN AND NOW

An international conference
Université Paris 7 and UNESCO
With the National Galleries of Scotland
Sat 19th November 2005

Morning session (at Paris 7)
Chair : Professor Paul Volsik (Université Paris 7)
10h00 : Howard Gaskill (Honorary Fellow in German, University of Edinburgh)
"The Homer of the North"
10h45 : David Hewitt (Professor in Scottish Literature, University of Aberdeen)
Ossian, Scott & Byron
11h30 : Pause
11h45 : Angus Peter Campbell, poet
Paper + reading from his works

12h30 : Lunch break

Afternoon session (at UNESCO)
Chair : Duncan Macmillan (Emeritus Professor in Art History, University of Edinburgh)
15h00 : Murdo Macdonald (Chair of History of Scottish Art, University of Dundee)
Art and the Scottish Highlands: An Ossianic Perspective
15h45 : Tom Normand (Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Memory, myth and melancholy; aspects of history and photography from Scotland.
16h30 : Calum Colvin (Professor of Fine Art Photography, University of Dundee)
About the exhibition “OSSIAN : Fragments of Ancient Poetry"
17h15 : private tour of the exhibition with reading from Ossian
18h00-19h00 : Reception

For further details and booking contact Prof Frederic Ogee: ogee@paris7.jussieu.fr

CALUM COLVIN : PAINTING & DRAWING

Hoopers Gallery
15 Clerkenwell Close
London EC1R 0AA
tel. 020 7490 3908
www.hoopersgallery.co.uk

From Friday 28 October 2005

Gallery talk
Calum Colvin in discussion with Francis Hodgson
3rd November 2005 7pm