The 16th International Conference on Small Island Cultures
Date: June 22-25, 2022
Place: Shetland, Scotland
Conference Theme: Creativity, Ingenuity, and Practice
Hosted by: The Center for Island Creativity, University of the Highlands and Islands (see here for official conference site)
Program: click here
Islands have long been centres of creativity, ingenuity, and innovation. This conference sought to share knowledge of and celebrate facets of island creativity. We invited proposals for papers, panels and creative workshops that highlighted the many ways island societies put their manifold creative skills into practice, from their distinct responses to political, environmental, economic and social challenges, to the development of island creative economies and the promotion of community well-being. In line with this theme, we welcomed submissions on the following topics:
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
ISIC 2022 Day 1 Session 1 - Island Creative Economy, Industries & Sustainability
Andrew Jennings
Vikings, Gandigusters and Sparls – What is Shetland?
Thais G. Franken
Placing Culture and Creativity at the Heart of the Aruban Sustainable Development
Sacchi Giovanna Sacchi
Small Islands Ecosystem Services: resilience pathways through climate change hchallenges
Orsa Beck
Indigenous knowledge is the key to sustainable creative ecology
Questions and Comments
ISIC 2022 Day 1 Session 2 - Island Environment, Climate Change & Sustainability
Roxane Permar
Nordic Connections: Learning from the past to shape the future & Creativity and Crisis: Scottish islands, covid and climate
Glenda Lozada
Self-management organizations in Puerto Rico
Marilena Mela
A spatial configuration of energy stories: Tracing landscape agencies in Shetland
ISIC 2022 Day 1 Session 3 - Creative Practitioner & Cultural Heritage Talks
Maggie J. Whitten Henry
Recursive islandness in creative practice: Entangled negotiations with abundance, loss, tradition, and time
Jon Corbett
Digitally Challenging Diaspora. Creative approaches to overcoming physical distance in a remote island community.
Simon Clarke
A Future for the Past? Development of the Unst Space Station on a Scheduled Monument
Maria Chnaraki
Island Amphitheaters of Sustainable Education: Creative Mazes of Integrated Cultural Heritage
ISIC 2022 Day 1 Session 4, Island Creative Economy & Diversification
Jack Dyce
In Gingenuity: Imagination, initiative, and innovation in the design, manufacture, production and marketing of new island gins from The Hebrides and Northern Isles of Scotland, and Danish Bornholm
Hideki Hasegawa
Corsican swine breeding and charcuterie processing from a
traditional insular society to a new insular communities based on a creative economy
Roshni Caputo- Nimbark
Modern Barbarians: Whaling Economies of the Faroe Islands
Jens Westerskov
Beating Capitalism?: the grocery store case of community economy transitioning in the Danish small islands
ISIC 2022 Day 1 Session 5, Island Creative Entrepreneurship & Community Engagement
Ana Cristina Correia Gil
Cultural entrepreneurship and insular identity in
the Azores archipelago: the dynamics of
contemporary 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 and Multiculturalism
Stephen Foster & Mike Evans
Common Property, Collective Action, and the Public Good: the impact of property law on a reimagined post-industrial waterfront island.
ISIC 2022 Day 2 Session 6, Creative Economy on Islands
[Collective presentation] Voyaging the ancient and contemporary creative economies of the Pacific Islands
Panellists: Frances Koya Vaka'uta Letila Mitchell Jackie Kauli
ISIC 2022 Day 2 Session 7, Other themes relating to islands studies (Gender, Military History & Island Concepts)
Henry Johnson
Promontories, Islands and Military History
Peter Goggin
Saint Brendan, “Red Snowman,” and the Age(s) of Discovery: Islands as Rhetorical; Metaphorical, and Galactic Stepping-Stones.
Evangelia Papoutsaki & Sueo Kuwahara
“Shodansho” - a place for laughter and chatting: a women led community response to aging small island communities in Japan
Laurie Brinklow
My island’s the house I sleep in at night
Kirsten Gow
The Scottish Island Passport
ISIC 2022 Day 2 Session 8, Island Tourism & Sustainability
Helene Martinsson- Wallin
Sustainable and Experience based Cultural-and Natural Tourism in Rural Gotland – The Tjelvar Project
Michael Röslmaier & Dimitri Ioannides
Neolocalism Inspired by Home Sharing: The case of Heimaey
Melville Cooke
Jamrock Reggae Cruise as a floating festival
Fiona Steele
Creative Approaches to Sustainable Island Tourism
Francesc Fusté-Forné
Food marketing in Tórshavn, the Faroe Islands
Sonia Haoa Cardinali Rapa Nui Archaeological Heritage ProtectionISIC 2022 Day 3 Session 10 - Islands in Literature
Andrew Mac Pherson
Reimagining Canada as an Archipelago: Two Islands as Depicted in Recent Speculative Fiction
Sonia Haoa Cardinali
Rapa Nui Archaeological Heritage Protection
Philip Hayward
Islands, sky islands and cloud forests
Randy T. Nobleza
Against Disinformation, Misinformation and Malinformation: Language of Non-Literary Texts in-depth reportage podcasts in an island and archipelagic setting
ISIC 2022 Day 3 Session 11 - Art, Islands & Creativity in Precarious Times
Meng Qu
From Island Arts to the Art Islandness
Shiu Hong Simon Tu
Island Revitalization and the Setouchi Triennale: Ethnographic Reflection on Three Local Events
Solène Prince
The Making of Art Islands – Assemblages of contemporary art and tourism on Bornholm and Naoshima
Alia Hamadeh
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 and
audiences involved in the exhibition Town Hall
Karin Murray Bergquist
The Spectred Isle: A Map of Stories.
Organizing Committee
Dr Andrew Jennings, Centre for Island Creativity,
University of Islands and Highlands & ISIC 2022 host
Dr Evangelia Papoutsaki, SICRI Co-convenors
Dr Meng Qu, SICRI Co-convenors
Dr Simon Clarke Shetland, UHI
Professor 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 UHI
Reviewing Committee
Prof. Philip Hayward, Editor SHIMA-The International Journal of Research into Island Cultures
Dr Siún Carden Centre for Island Creativity Shetland UHI
Dr Maya Darrell-Hewins Centre for Island Creativity Shetland UHI
Dr Helen Dawson, Affiliate Research Fellow, Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology Freie Universität Berlin
Prof. Henry Johnson, University of Otago, New Zealand
Prof. Glenda Bonifacio, Chair and Professor, Department of Women & Gender Studies University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada