15:00 Welcoming address: Emmanuel Cocher, Consul général de France, Di-recteur de l’Institut français d’Ecosse Scottish Government Representative: Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secre-tary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs)

15:15 Kenneth White: Keynote address

Common Sense and Uncommon Sense

16:15 Olivier Salazar-Ferrer (Lecturer in French, University of Glasgow)

Kenneth White et Nicolas Bouvier: géopoetique et littérature de voyage

16:45 Ramona Fotiade (PI Existential Philosophy and Literature Research Network)

Exilic Writing, Nomadology and the Thought from Outside: Reflections on Lev Shestov and Kenneth White

17:15 Coffee break/Discussion

18:00 Film screening (47 minutes)

19:00 Discussion & concluding remarks

09:00 Registration / coffee tea and biscuits

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 12:00 Buffet lunch in the Foyer

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

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

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

RSE-Funded Research Network in Existential Philosophy and Literature Franco-Scottish Literary Exchanges: Translation, Diaspora and Nomad Thought

10:15 GalGael Workshop Guided Visit

12:15 Govan Old Church and Govan Stones guided tour

15:00 Welcoming address: Nathalie Korkmaz Directrice de l’Alliance française

Scottish Government Representative: Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs

15:10 Norman Bissell (Director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics)

Kenneth White and the Development of Geopoetics in Scotland

15:50 Olivier Penot-Lacassagne (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3)

Geopoetics is an Eco-politics

16:30 Arnaud Villani (Chaire Supérieure de Philosophie au Lycée de Nice)

Deleuze, Kenneth White et la question du poétique

17:10 Coffee/tea break

17:20 Régis Poulet (Président de l’Institut international de géopoétique)

Le nomadisme intellectuel de Kenneth White en Orient

18:00 Introduction to film Le Chemin du Nord profond (France, dir. François Reinchenbach, 1997) [with English subtitles]

18:15 Film screening (47 minutes)

19 :05 Discussion & concluding remarks