Attending the 4th World Congress of Scottish Literatures at Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN Nottingham English and interested in publishing with SCROLL? Come and chat to the editorial board! We welcome proposals for monographs and edited collections. brill.com/SCRL

Last day of the 4th World Congress of Scottish Literatures. P Ó Muircheartaigh CeltScotStudies on the Gaelic Caribbean and the project 'From Lismore to Barbados' blogs.ed.ac.uk/themacnicolpro…

Last keynote lecture of the 4th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Rhona Brown Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow University of Glasgow on 'Editing Eighteenth-Century Scots Poetry', especially Robert Fergusson (1750-74) robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌍

I had a fantastic time IASSL WCSL in Nottingham presenting findings from my PhD research & (re)connecting w amazing colleagues-absolutely buzzing w ideas from my panel&our roundtable on links between politics&literature in post-indyref Scotland. Thanks everyone! TBC 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚

Many thanks to IASSL and Nottingham English for a fantastic World Congress. Our PI, Rhona Brown was thrilled to keynote and discuss #ProjectFergusson! Thanks to all attendees for a fantastic few days in Nottingham.

The 4th World Congress of Scottish Literatures at The Real Notts Uni organised by Nicola Royan #girlyswot & colleagues was a huge success. It was also the 10th anniversary of the first Congress, organised by MP as founding convenor with Rhona Brown. Looking back on a decade of success!

Lecturing tonight on Allan Ramsay’s Edinburgh at The Georgian House NTS - terrific exhibition & some tough questions!

Had a really great time at IASSL last week! Thanks to all who attended and made it such a fabulous congress. Thanks too to the fabulous Nottingham English for hosting!

Kind review of my book by Corey E Andrews in Journal for British studies: “Robert Burns & Scottish Cultural Politics is a compelling exploration […] its strengths can be found in Malgrati’s ample narrative gifts” Paperback coming soon Edinburgh University Press cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congratulations to Suping Li, who this week passed her PhD viva subject to minor corrections on the Reception of Robt Burns in China & to supervisors, MP & Pauline Mackay Another great result for Robt Burns Studs University of Glasgow IASSL UofG Critical Studies Ronnie Young

The new issue of ROSC is now available in open access. Congratulations! The journal is open for submissions to Issue 30. 👉 journals.ed.ac.uk/index.php/rosc

Tickets are now available for the symposium 'Robert Fergusson's Textual Legacies' on 6 September at University of Glasgow as part of the project ‘The Collected Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies’.

This week, Rodge Glass launches 'Joshua in the Sky,' a creative nonfiction book interrogating Scottish literature (K. Jamie, A. Gray, M. Faber) alongside (auto)biography Taproot Press Glasgow, 5/9, with Sara Sheridan Edinburgh, 18/9, with Esa Aldegheri tinyurl.com/bd8pdjaa

📢 The call for submissions and nominations for the 2024 Jack Medal is open until 30 November! The Medal, named in honour of Prof. Ronald Jack, is awarded annually for the best article on a subject related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures. scotlit-iassl.org/the-jack-medal/

On 12 September 2024, Gerard Carruthers will give a talk to the Edinburgh Walter Scott Club and the Muriel Spark Society on 'Edinburgh & the Borders in Scott and Spark'.

Book recommendation: "Lion and Eagle: Polish Poetry in Scots Translations" edited by Derrick McClure & Tom Hubbard (Grace Note Publications). It's a bilingual publication featuring poems by Mickiewicz, Slowacki, Norwid, Konopnicka, Wyspianski, Galczynski, Konarski and more! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇱