To mark RLS Day
A new research team from Edinburgh and Chester universities will introduce a major project with partners in Hawai'i, Samoa and Scotland. The project will produce the first ever multilingual graphic adaptation of the three stories from Robert Louis Stevenson's Island Nights' Entertainments (1893), commission new poetry by indigenous Pacific authors, and develop a set of accompanying teaching resources for use in Samoa, Hawai’i and Scotland. In addition, it will produce the first ever documentary film exploring contemporary Samoan perspectives on Stevenson. Be among the first to hear how the team fared in their recent field work in Hawai'i, Tahiti and the Tuamotu Archipelago, this July.
Our Speakers
Shari Sabeti is Reader in Arts and Humanities Education at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on arts, humanities and cultural heritage education and has taken place in a variety of locales including schools, museums, community and commercial contexts. She is the author of Creativity and Learning in Later Life: An Ethnography of Museum Education (Routledge 2017) and numerous journal articles and chapter contributions to anthologies.
Simon Grennan is Leading Research Fellow at the University of Chester, an awarded scholar of visual narrative and graphic novelist. He is author of Thinking Through Drawing (Bloomsbury 2022), A Theory of Narrative Drawing (Palgrave 2017), Drawing in Drag by Marie Duval (Book Works 2018) and Dispossession (Cape, 2015, one of The Guardian Books of the Year 2015). He is co-author and editor of Key Terms in Comics Studies (Palgrave 2022) and co-author of Marie Duval, Maverick Victorian cartoonist (MUP 2020), Marie Duval (Myriad 2018) and The Marie Duval Archive (www.marieduval.org).
Remediating Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific Fiction with Shari Sabeti and Simon Grennan