ISIC 16 2022 - Island Studies International Conference“Creativity, Ingenuity, and Practice”
Shetland UHI, Shetland, Scotland
June 22 – 25 2022
WELCOME MESSAGE FROM SICRI and the CENTRE for ISLAND CREATIVITY

The organizers of the 16th International Small Island Cultures (ISIC) Conference extend a warm
welcome to all participants. Jointly organized by the Small Island Cultures Research Initiative(SICRI) and the Centre for Island Creativity at the University of Highlands and Islands, this year’s
ISIC event focuses on Island creativity, ingenuity, and practice and aims at engaging presentersfrom different disciplinary fields, as well as practitioners interested in island issues, to share
their research and experiences. While the focus is on creative islands, the event also aims at
promoting a critical research agenda for island studies in general.
Islands have long been centres of creativity, ingenuity, and innovation. ISIC 2022 seeks to shareknowledge of, and celebrate facets of, island creativity that highlight the many ways island
societies put their diverse creative skills into practice, from their distinct responses to political,
environmental, economic, and social challenges, to the development of island creativeeconomies and the promotion of community well-being.

The following themes will be explored during this event:1. Creative Economy on Islands
2. Experience of the Island-based Creative Practitioner
3. Creative Entrepreneurship on Islands
4. Creative Approaches to Island Political, Environmental, Economic and Social Challenges
5. Creative Approaches to Sustainable Island Tourism
6. Other themes relating to Islands Studies will also be considered
On behalf of the ISIC 16 organizing committee and the hosts, we extend a warm welcome toyou all!
Dr Andrew Jennings, Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki, Dr Meng Qu
Organizing Committee
Dr Andrew Jennings, Centre for Island Creativity, Shetland UHI & ISIC 2022 host
Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki & Dr Meng Qu, SICRI Co-convenors
Dr Simon Clarke, Shetland UHIProfessor Roxane Permar, Centre for Island Creativity, Shetland UHI
Dr Siun Carden, Centre for Island Creativity, Shetland UHI
Dr Maya Darrell-Hewins, Centre for Island Creativity, Shetland UHIThe Small Island Cultures Research Initiative (SICRI) is aninternational network that facilitates communication andcollaboration between researchers and cultural practitioners
working with small island communities. It was established in2014 and its principal aim is to research and assist the maintenance and development of thelanguage, literature, music, dance, folkloric and media cultures of small island communities.
It seeks to create partnerships and develop initiatives with research partners and appropriate
strategies to benefit small island cultures and those researching them. Key to SICRI’s activities
is the principle that external researchers should develop their projects in consultation withisland communities and should reciprocate such cooperation with appropriate assistance andfacilitation of local cultural initiative.
The Centre for Island Creativity (CIC) supports
research,
post-graduateteachingandknowledge exchange across the Highlands andIslands of Scotland. A core value is therecognition that remote locations where creative practitioners and thinkers choose to havetheir studio or production base are each a centre of research and graduate learning. The
Centre runs both taught and research post-graduate degrees.

Preliminary Timetable (subject to change)

CONFERENCE TIMETABLE
Wednesday 22nd June
08:30 - 17:30

Day trip to the North Isles of Yell and Unst

19:00 – 22:00

Evening event on the island of Bressay

Online Presentations are in Yellow

Thursday 23rd June
08:30 – 08:45 Bus Transfer from Islesburgh Lerwick to NAFC Scalloway
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome address by Professor Jane Lewis, Principal, Shetland UHI
09:15 -10:45 Session 1, Island Creative Economy, Industries & Sustainability
Presenter
Andrew Jennings
Thais G. Franken
Sacchi Giovanna
Orsa Beck
Chair:

Presentation
Vikings, Gandigusters and Sparls – What is Shetland?
Placing Culture and Creativity at the Heart of the Aruban
Sustainable Development
Small Islands Ecosystem Services: resilience pathways
through climate change challenges
Indigenous knowledge is the key to sustainable creative
ecology
Questions and Comments

10:45 – 11:00 Teas / Coffees

11:00 -12:30 Session 2, Island Environment, Climate Change & Sustainability
Presenter
Roxane Permar
Glenda Lozada
Marilena Mela
Siun Carden

Presentation
Nordic Connections: Learning from the past to shape thefutureSelf-management organizations in Puerto Rico
A spatial configuration of energy stories: Tracing landscapeagencies in Shetland
Creativity and Crisis: Scottish islands, covid and climate
Questions and Comments

Chair:

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch at Da Haaf, NAFC Scalloway
13:30 - 15:00 Session 3, Creative Practitioner & Cultural Heritage Talks
Presenter
Maggie J. Whitten HenryJon Corbett
Simon Clarke
Maria Chnaraki

Chair:
15:00 -15:15 Teas / Coffees

Presentation
Recursive islandness in creative practice:
Entangled negotiations with abundance, loss,
tradition, and time
Digitally Challenging Diaspora. Creative
approaches to overcoming physical distance ina remote island community.
A Future for the Past? Development of theUnst Space Station on a Scheduled Monument
Island Amphitheaters of Sustainable
Education: Creative Mazes of Integrated
Cultural Heritage
Questions and Comments

15:15 -16:45 Session 4, Island Creative Economy & Diversification
Presenter
Jack Dyce

Hideki Hasegawa
Roshni CaputoNimbark
Jens Westerskov

Presentation
In Gingenuity: Imagination, initiative, and innovation in thedesign, manufacture, production and marketing of new island
gins from The Hebrides and Northern Isles of Scotland, andDanish Bornholm
Corsican swine breeding and charcuterie processing from a
traditional insular society to a new insular communities basedon a creative economy
Modern Barbarians: Whaling Economies of the Faroe Islands
Beating Capitalism?: the grocery store case ofcommunity economy transitioning in the Danishsmall islands
Questions and Comments

Chair:

16:45 - 18:15 Session 5, Island Creative Entrepreneurship & Community Engagement
Chair:
Presenter
Ana Cristina Correia Gil

Presentation
Cultural entrepreneurship and insular identity inthe Azores archipelago: the dynamics ofcontemporary publishing houses and authors
Charlotte Slater
Success of Social Enterprise in Scottish Island
Communities
Nishimura Satoru
Drivers of immigration in Amami Islands, Japan:
Change of life style, Diversity andMulticulturalism
Stephen Foster & Mike Evans
Common Property, Collective Action, and thePublic Good: the impact of property law on areimagined post-industrial waterfront island.
Questions and Comments
18:15 - 20:00 Dinner in Scalloway (see following note)
20:00 – 22:00 Shetland Film Evening at NAFC, Scalloway with Kathy and Roseanne
22:00 – 22:15 Bus transfer NAFC Scalloway to Islesburgh Lerwick

Friday 24th June
08:30 – 08:45 Bus transfer from Islesburgh Lerwick to NAFC Scalloway
09:00 - 10:30 Session 6, Creative Economy on Islands
Presenter
Verena Thomas

Presentation[Collective presentation] Voyaging the ancient and contemporary
creative economies of the Pacific Islands

Panellists: Frances
Koya Vaka'uta
Letila Mitchell
Jackie Kauli
Questions and Comments
Chair:

10:30 -10:50 Teas / Coffees
10:50 -12:40 Session 7, Other themes relating to islands studies (Gender, Military History &Island Concepts)
Presenter
Henry Johnson
Joelson Maodina Anere

Philip HaywardPeter Goggin
Evangelia Papoutsaki &Sueo Kuwahara

Presentation
Promontories, Islands and Military History
Creative approaches to island political, environmental, economic,
and social challenges –new patterns, new dynamics, inBougainville women’s leadership –case study on the Arawa
women’s federation???
Islands, sky islands and cloud forests
Saint Brendan, “Red Snowman,” and the Age(s) ofDiscovery: Islands as Rhetorical; Metaphorical, andGalactic Stepping-Stones.
“Shodansho” - a place for laughter and chatting: awomen led community response to aging small island
communities in Japan
Questions and Comments

Chair:
12:40 -13:30 Lunch at Da Haaf, NAFC Scalloway

13:30 -15:20 Session 8, Island Tourism & Sustainability
Presenter
Helene MartinssonWallin
Michael Röslmaier &Dimitri Ioannides
Melville Cooke
Fiona Steele
Francesc Fusté-FornéPresentation
Sustainable and Experience based Cultural-and Natural
Tourism in Rural Gotland – The Tjelvar Project
Neolocalism Inspired by Home Sharing: The case ofHeimaey
Jamrock Reggae Cruise as a floating festival
Creative Approaches to Sustainable Island TourismFood marketing in Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands
Questions and Comments

Chair:

15:20 -15:30 Teas / Coffees
15:30 -17:00 Session 9, ISIC Workshop 1Presenter
Verena Thomas

Presentation
Co-creative approaches to storytelling and collective
expression of islandness
Questions and Comments

Chair:
17:15 – 17:30 Bus Transfer NAFC Scalloway to Islesburgh, Lerwick
19:00 – 22:00 Conference Dinner at Islesburgh, LerwickSaturday 25th June
08:30 – 08:45 Bus Transfer from Islesburgh Lerwick to NAFC Scalloway
09:00 -10:30 Session 10, Islands in Literature
Chair:Presenter
Andrew Mac Pherson

Presentation
Reimagining Canada as an Archipelago: Two Islands as
Depicted in Recent Speculative Fiction
Creative Icelandic substitutions of English
loanwords
My island’s the house I sleep in at night: Nissopoesis andisland-making
Against Disinformation, Misinformation andMalinformation: Language of Non-Literary Texts
in-depth reportage podcasts in an island andarchipelagic setting
Questions and Comments

Agata Michnowska
Laurie Brinklow
Randy T. Nobleza

10:30 -10:45 Teas / Coffees
10:45 -12:35 Session 11, Art, Islands & Creativity in Precarious Times
Chair:Presenter
Meng Qu

Presentation
From Island Arts to the Art Islandness

Shiu Hong Simon
TuSolène Prince &Meng Qu
Alia Hamadeh

Island Revitalization and the Setouchi Triennale: Ethnographic
Reflection on Three Local Events
The Making of Art Islands – Assemblages of contemporary artand tourism on Bornholm and Naoshima
Contemporary island historiography and environmental
codifications of architecture: the art museum on Naoshima
Kate Listonis
The Island, the Bench and the Sofa at Home:
The archipelago-like network of artists andaudiences involved in the exhibition Town Hall
Meeting of the Air,2021, and its 2022 tour.
Questions and Comments
12:35 -13:25 Session 12, ISIC Workshop 2
Presenter
Karin Murray Bergquist

Presentation
This Spectred Isle: A Map of Stories
Questions and Comments

Chair:
13:25 -13:40 Conference Closing and announcing award for students' presentation
14:00 -14:15 Bus Transfer from NAFC Scalloway

Guidelines for Presentations
All Presentations are to be 15 minutes in length.
Online Presentations please submit your prerecorded presentation by June 10th .
Pre-Recorded Oral Presentation:
1. Requirements
a. Pre-recorded a 15 mins presentation
We suggest you write an outline or script of your audio presentation.
You can use the speaker notes section in PowerPoint or print your notes to keep youraudio on track.
Also see here for further guidelines: https://slidemodel.com/how-to-record-apresentation-in-powerpoint/
2. Presentation options
a. Do a live presentation (in this case you are asked to join 15 mins before the panel
starts to check technology and connection),orb. Play the pre-recorded presentation and be available for Q&A (this option might be
best if you experience poor connection)

Please let us know whether you would prefer to deliver your online presentation live!
Submit to: papoutsaki@yahoo.co.uk and epapoutsaki@unitec.ac.nz
Live Presentations
If you are going to use PowerPoint, please also submit your slides by June 10th.

Map Lerwick to NAFC Scalloway

The conference will be held at NAFC https://www.shetland.uhi.ac.uk/study-withus/college-centres/scalloway-campus/ in the ancient capital of Scalloway
https://scalloway.net/ . There will be a bus transfer leaving from Islesburgh in Lerwick
at 08:30 in the mornings. There will also be a transfer back to Lerwick in the evenings.

Cultural Day Info – Wednesday 22nd June
Still places available!

1. The trip to the North Isles, Yell and Unst 08.30 – 17.30
We will set off at 08:30 from Islesburgh in Lerwick. We will head to Toft for the ferry toYell. On the way you’ll see the huge Viking Windfarm being built, which is central toShetland’s future sustainable energy future.
In Yell we will stop at the Old Haa https://www.oldhaa.com/ , which has been working
with UHI to develop its online presence.
Next, it’s across Yell to Gutcher for the ferry to Unst, Britain’s most northerly island
http://www.visit-unst.com/ . We’ll visit the remains on a Viking longhouse and havelunch at the Balta Light https://www.facebook.com/BaltaLightBar . We’ll hear fromSorcha Leavey from the Saxavord Spaceport https://saxavord.com/ .
On the way Dr Andrew Jennings and Dr Simon Clarke will share their knowledge ofShetland’s history and culture.
We should have time to visit Muness Castle, Scotland’s most northerly castle, on our way
back south. We aim to return to Lerwick by 17:30.

2. Bressay Evening 19.00 – 22.00
Malcolm Innes, the Director of the Centre for Island Creativity, has arranged an event
on Bressay, https://www.bressay.org/visit , the island which lies across from Lerwick,
and where he lives. There will be an evening of entertainment with a light meal of
Shetland delicacies and a chance to meet, mingle and chat to a varied selection ofislanders. Bressay is a small island community of 340 people that lies a short 7 minuteferry journey from Lerwick town centre. This event will be hosted at the Speldiburn
Community Hub on Bressay, a vibrant community managed facility that has provided
new life for a redundant primary school on the island https://www.bressay.org/ .
The venue will provide ample opportunities to listen to a talented young Bressay
musician and talk to a range of Bressay folk (both born and bred islanders and others
who have chosen to make Bressay their home). The venue has a wide range of local
arts and crafts on display (and available to buy) and you will be served a local specialityof soup and bannocks. The locals would be delighted to talk to you about the newly
planted Bressay Community Woodland, plans for a housing survey of the island,
ambitious redevelopment and expansion plans for the Community Hub, about life on
the island and especially about how Bressay’s own tiny Up Helly Aa fire festival is better
than the world famous one just across the water in Lerwick!
At the end of the evening, the return trip on the 21:45 ferry will see you back in Lerwick
just before 22:00.

Map Sumburgh Airport to Lerwick

The airport is in Sumburgh 24.5 miles south of Lerwick. There are taxis, but those arevery expensive. There are also buses. Here is the bus timetable -Timetable Sumburgh
to Lerwick https://www.zettrans.org.uk/site/assets/files/1084/south_mainland.pdf

Thursday Evening Information
On Thursday evening at 20.00 there will be a Shetland Film Evening at NAFC, with Kathy
Hubbard, who established the Shetland Film Festival among many other things andRoseanne Watt, film maker and poet https://www.roseannewatt.com/ .

Delegates will need to find their own dinner. Scalloway has two restaurants and aChinese carryout.
If you’d like to eat at either the Cornerstone,
http://www.thecornerstonebandb.com/restaurant-cafe.html , which has a fish andchips menu on Thursday, or at the KB Bar and Restaurant
https://www.facebook.com/oohaahscalloway/ , please do let Andrew Jennings know,
so that the restaurants can be told beforehand and tables reserved.
KB Menuhttps://www.facebook.com/oohaahscalloway/photos/p.305520318223731/305520318
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Map of Lerwick

Islesburgh Centre