09:30 Welcoming address (Dean/ Head of School)
09:45 Introductory remarks (PI & CI)
10:00 Kenneth White Keynote Address – The Nomadic Intellect
11: 00 Cairns Craig (Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen)
“This is today/ raised out of history”: Kenneth White, Existentialism and the Other Side of History
13:00 Alexander Broadie (CI Existential Philosophy and Literature Research Network)
Painting the invisible: A philosophical comment on Kenneth White’s poem “McTaggart”
13:45 Alexandre Gillet (University of Geneva):
Towards planetary propedeutics: Kenneth White and the mapping of the world
14:30 Philip Tonner (Lecturer in Education, University of Strathclyde)
Kenneth White, dwelling and nomadism: a geopoetic education for the 21st Century
15:15 Discussion & Concluding Remarks
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION, RECITAL AND FILM SCREENING
16:00 Welcoming Address (Mungo Campbell – Deputy Director, The Hunterian
16:15 Introduction – Scottish Government Representative(s)/ College of Arts Representative
16:30 Alastair McIntosh (Director of the GalGael Trust, Leading Environmental Campaigner, Visiting Professor in the College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow)
Geopoetics, the Auld Alliance and the Harris Superquarry Campaign
Presentation slides
17:15 Kenneth White poetry recital: Open Word, Open World
18:15 Introduction to film Nomad (BBC Scotland, dir. Eleanor Aitken, 1983)
18:30 Film screening (25 minutes)
19:00 Questions & Discussion
Existential Philosophy and Literature 