Join us in Glasgow Robert Fergusson (1750-74) this September for a one-day symposium!!
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The project 'Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies' Robert Fergusson (1750-74) is organising a symposium based on Fergusson's textual afterlives, on 6 September 2024 at University of Glasgow. Deadline for proposals: 1 July 2024. 📣 robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk/events/symposi…

The Scottish Novel in 1824 | 1 July 2024 | The University of Edinburgh The symposium, with a keynote lecture from Prof. Ian Duncan, marks the bicentenary of the publication of Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Scott’s Redgauntlet. Register at: ed.ac.uk/literatures-la…

Thigibh còmhla ri oileanaich iar-cheumnach bho Ionad Eòlas na h-Alba is na Ceiltis Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies aig University of Glasgow airson dà latha làn de thaisbeanaidhean, dheasbadan, agus thachartasan sòisealta - an làthair agus air-loidhne. 📝 eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-scot…

Excellent afternoon in Edinburgh discussing James VI & I 1625-2025 at the inaugural event of the several scheduled. Organisation today down to Sorbonne Dean Sabrina Juillet Garzon- an excellent afternoon among friends. IASSL Billy Kay History Scotland Alistair Heather

The McLellan Poetry Prize, awarded as part of the McLellan Arts Festival on the Isle of Arran, invites submissions in Scots and English, closing on 2 June 2024. arrantheatreandarts.co.uk/poetry-competi…

The Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies Postgraduate Symposium, 'What is Scotland? Reinventions and Connections' (23-24 May), is now open for registration (online & in-person attendance). Reserve your spot at eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-is-scot…

Some news of the 13th International Walter Scott Conference, which will be hosted by the University of South Carolina, on May 22-25, in Columbia, SC.

The library, home of the G. Ross Roy Collection, has planned a major exhibition for the occasion.

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8 PGR | ECR bursaries available for delegates presenting at the 4th World Congress of Scottish Literatures. Deadline: 5 pm, 17 May 2024. nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac… Supported by Edinburgh University Press Nottingham English Scottish Text Soc IASSL & Universities Committee for Scottish Literature

Save the date! The Société Française d’Études Victoriennes et Edouardiennes is hosting its annual conference at Grenoble University on Jan 30-31, 2025. Theme: 'A Scottish Air: Scottish inspirations and models'. Submit your 500-word proposal to Marion Amblard by June 10, 2024.

Early Bird registration for the 4th World Congress of Scottish Literatures, 3-7 July 2024, Nottingham English, closes on Tuesday 30 April. 🐦 scotlit-iassl.org/2024/04/25/reg…

Rody Gorman’s multilingual version of 'Buile Shuibhne, Sweeney: An Intertonguing', in English, Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic with lingua gadelica, phonemic pieces and round-trip translations, is now available from Francis Boutle Publishers.
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A thank you to Áine Allardyce whose painstaking collation of the impact of the QAPrizes for @GlasgowBurns has revealed the barely believable figure of 1.3 billion global impressions for our Burns stories from Nov to Feb Association for Scottish Literature IASSL British Association for Romantic Studies 18th Century Studies

Important stuff from the great Murray Pittock MP

Steven coleman Phil Pix3lpro Sara Salyers Murray Pittock is the Master, IMO, at factually countering the established Unionist propaganda we call 'history' regarding the Jacobite Rebellions.

Don't miss Alison Jack's talk on 'Social and Religious Isolation in Iain Crichton Smith’s 'In Church' at the III UAM Scottish Studies Seminar, April 24, 2024, 3:30-5:30 pm, Aula de video 1, módulo II. #ScottishStudies #InPersonEvent
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Have you checked out the latest issue of Litteraria Pragensia, 'Literature and the Environment', edited by Robin MacKenzie and Petra Johana Poncarová?

Some great pieces on Tormod Caimbeul, Edwin and Willa Muir and Alec Finlay (dailies) @alecfinlay.bsky.social
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Please come! 26 April. May interest U of G Scottish Literature Society, IASSL, Association for Scottish Literature (sign up via the link below)

The 23rd International Congress of the French Society for Scottish Studies (SFEE) will be held from 2-4 May 2024 at the University of Edinburgh. Provisional programme now available sfee.fr/congres2020/

Join the French Society for Scottish Studies International Conference 'Unions/Disunions,' hosted by Nathalie Duclos and Robert Irvine, at Edinburgh University, May 2-4, 2024.
Keynote by Prof Robert Crawford
Société Française d’Études Écossaises Nathalie Duclos