🌍️ On Europe Day, we celebrate our local and cross-cultural connections by highlighting a fantastic initiative, Babble.

Through Babble, UoE students and high school pupils come together to celebrate linguistic diversity.

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#EuropeDay #unitedindiversity

'This is your one opportunity, make wise use of it!'

Happy Europe Day! 🥳

To celebrate, one of our Spanish MA (Hons) students, Anu Abicht, has written us a blog on starting a beach yoga community during her Year Abroad in Almería, Spain 🇪🇸🧘‍♀️
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SPLAS Edinburgh

Òraid Uí Dhomhnaill 2024 aig Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann
The 2024 O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh

All welcome | Fàilte air a h-uile duine

I've recently started a bit of a blogging project on my PhD journey in creative writing. Check out my latest post on the creative writing conference at the University of Edinburgh hosted by our WiR Michael Pedersen
cc: The University of Edinburgh LLCatEdinburgh

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'Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell' - Xuelei Huang Xuelei Huang LLCatEdinburgh speaking about her new book Cambridge Core - 9 May, 17:00 BST. All welcome. chinacentre.ox.ac.uk

I'm so fortunate to get to review amazing shows and films at the Edinburgh Festivals, and even more lucky that The Wee Review somehow keeps putting up with me year after year! It was a pleasure to talk with LLCatEdinburgh about my experiences of writing and of my MSc.

'Edinburgh made me a filmmaker!'

Intermediality: Literature, Film and the Arts MSc graduate Saad tells us about his film exploring Bombay Cinema through the Edinburgh cityscape, and how his time here taught him to 're-think the nuances of cinema as an artistic medium.'

Full interview ➡️ ed.ac.uk/literatures-la…

NEW FELLOWSHIP FOR 2025
We are delighted to announce a new fellowship opportunity in 2025 to mark the 90th anniversary of the British Council 🎉

We are offering two 12-month Fellowships for international early career researchers (at £2,500 per month) starting in January.
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From Arthur's Seat: the new LLCatEdinburgh anthology, in conjunction with Michael Pedersen , includes writing from the UK, France, Chile, Indonesia, Canada and more! On our shelves now!

#books #livres #Edinburgh #Edimbourg #Edinburgh University

Colleagues and students reflect on the passing of our former colleague, Francis O'Gorman, a passionate and prolific expert on the English literature of the long nineteenth century. Francis held the Saintsbury Chair of English Literature from 2016 to 2022.

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I’m putting on a lustre buster of a Creative Writing Conference at The University of Edinburgh on Friday 3rd May. There’s panels with wonderful folk (agents/publishers/profs+) & snacks & readings from the sublime Hannah Lavery & Andrés N. Ordorica & heaps more. & it’s FREE.

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🐲 A-NOCHD! / TONIGHT! 🐲

#gàidhlig #cymraeg #catalan

Do you have a story about the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary? Submit to Edinburgh International Book Festival's Words from the Wards project! The project celebrates the heritage of the Book Festival's new home at Edinburgh Futures Institute. Find our more and submit ▶️ edin.ac/441EL6C

How often do you walk past a 1000 year old rune stone?  The answer is every day, if you work or study near the Main Library! Find out more about the rune stone and the album of sketches by James Skene of Rubislaw (1793-1837) 🔗 libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/diu/2024/04/11…

Our Creative Writing students know how amazing Patrick James Errington is as a teacher. Here's the #PollardPoetryPrize panel confirming how great a poet he is too!

'It is work of remarkable virtuosity which always grounds itself in emotion, in the hard-earned poetics of the heart'

👏Patrick