📩 The last IASSL newsletter of 2024 has been dispatched, featuring publications, reports from events, calls for papers, and much more. 📩 Check your inbox or read it here: mailchi.mp/63f3385523bd/i…. All IASSL members are invited to share their achievements and announcements.

The New Voices ECR Fellowship Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies invites EC researchers working on an Irish and/or Scottish research project in the Arts and Humanities to apply for up to £1000 to enable a short-term stay in Aberdeen. Deadline: 19 December 2024. Details: abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-eve… 🇮🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Season's Greetings from the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures | Beannachdan na Ràithe bho Chomann Eadar-Nàiseanta airson Sgrùdadh Litreachas na h-Alba ❄️ William York Macgregor (1855-1923): 'Winter Landscape' (1908), National Galleries of Scotland

Aiste 7 (2024), deasaichte le Sìm Innes & Sheila M. Kidd, ri fhaighinn air loidhne a-nis aig clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/…

The recording of the latest IASSL webinar, 'Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’', is now available on YouTube! Talks by Kate Hill, Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland, Craig Lamont, Nigel Leask and @pomuirch; facilitated by Steve Newman. youtu.be/PBd9fitVe20

A new piece in the series '10 Minutes With...' – meeting IASSL members! This time, IASSL convenor Marie Hedon chats with Attila Dósa, full-time lecturer at Miskolc University in North Hungary, about his work on Scottish literature. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇭🇺 youtu.be/mjeZM3S3oe0

On SQA news of 'Burns to go in Scottish schools'. As I demonstrated in Robert Burns in the Scottish Economy & UK Scottish Affairs cttee report, Burns is central. If people don't know their culture they can't be ambassadors for it David Leask Alexander Linklater Gerard Carruthers saha.scot/saha-co-chair-…

Really excellent piece on the successes of devolution since 1999- which have been extraordinary by comparison to English regions outside the SE.

ICYMI Scottish Parliament has debated the importance of Robert Burns ahead of #BurnsNight. It included praise for the work of University of Glasgow The Centre for Robert Burns Studies; the Burns & the Scottish Economy report by MP & the work underway at UofG's partner Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm scottishparliament.tv/meeting/member…

Ahead of #BurnsNight, I am in my house watching the crazy weather & listening in again to the 2022 White House History podcast on US President Lincoln, his love for Robert Burns & Scotland. The podcast features University of Glasgow The Centre for Robert Burns Studies MP whitehousehistory.org/the-white-hous…

This is simply wonderful news IASSL Association for Scottish Literature Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm Sarah Dunnigan 🌿 British Association for Romantic Studies SGSAH UofG Critical Studies SAHA Royal Society of Edinburgh

📣 New PhD opportunity announced at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies The Centre for Robert Burns Studies on Burns and the environment! 📣

The online exhibition 'Rewriting the Script: The works and words of Esther Inglis' was created in 2024 at the Edinburgh University Library, with the participation of IASSL members Jamie Reid Baxter and Georgianna Ziegler. Explore it at 👉 exhibitions.ed.ac.uk/exhibitions/re…

Buchan 150 lecture at University of Glasgow on 11 March: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-buchan-1…. Themes include Security and Society, Who are We? and the Island, integrating Buchan's political and literary writing Áine Allardyce Craig Lamont @HearaichHerald Alistair Heather Billy Kay

Partner or subject? Experts on the truth of Scotland's role in the British empire MP thenational.scot/news/24901457.…

🏵️ Announcing the 2024 Jack Medal! 🏵️ Eleoma Bodammer @edinburghgerman LLCatEdinburgh was awarded the medal for the chapter 'John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895): Translating Faust I in Scotland (1834).' Congratulations! 🎉 Read her full statement: tinyurl.com/2ac53d5j

🏵 Announcing the 2024 Jack Medal! 🏵 Gioia Angeletti Università di Parma received the Honourable Mention for the article 'Subversive Reticence and Gender Negotiations in Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape Writings.' 🎊 Congratulations! Read her full statement: tinyurl.com/2ac53d5j

J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit' can now be read in Scottish Gaelic, thanks to the efforts of an University of Aberdeen prof. Read about his work, & his future plans to translate texts by H.G. Wells & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into Scottish Gaelic. thenational.scot/news/25112006.… #scottishsfu