Nestled into the corner of the Scottish suffrage exhibition (the walls lovingly adorned with transcriptions of suffrage letters and memorabilia), Glasgow’s People’s Palace Museum was an apt location for the talks planned over the weekend. Continue reading
Organised around the focus of ‘Melville’s crossings’, the event covered the breadth and depth of Melville studies and paid close attention to Melville’s dialogues with philosophy and aesthetic theory, his own travels across the globe, and the idea of borders and thresholds within his works. Echoing these crossings, the event itself traversed the boundary between the academic and the public, including panels, seminars, and plenaries but also public engagement in the form of an afternoon at the British Library. Continue reading