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Scotland & the Coast 🌊 – Call for Papers! The 24th international congress of the French Society for Scottish Studies will be in La Rochelle, Oct 15-17, 2025. Submit your proposal by March 15, 2025!

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📩 The first IASSL newsletter of 2025 has been dispatched! If you are a member, check your inbox, or read it on our website: mailchi.mp/579e4758f9bf... 📩

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Word of the day is ‘hingum-tringum’: 19th-century Scots for feeling feeble or barely presentable, and just about hanging together.

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Really happy to be able to present my paper on aliens in the Enlightenment, and on a panel with my good friend @1part-harmony.bsky.social too!

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#otd 1846 Frederick Douglass spoke at Perth's City Hall: www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-...

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Upcoming IASSL webinar on 20 March! Kirsteen McCue and @paulmalgrati.bsky.social will talk about 'BOSLIT: Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation: Creating Digital Futures and Networks', the history of BOSLIT, and its new beginnings. All welcome! scotlit-iassl.org/2025/03/04/b...

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Turneresque clouds on Port Meadow this evening

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Visiting friends in New York

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This situation with the US is affecting my physical and mental wellbeing. It's so shocking, this bullying behaviour. What's worse is that many Americans are spewing harmful, mean rhetoric about CDNs on X. It's like walking into a party and getting punched in the face by your cousin for no reason.

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Banned Book of the Day: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison Frequently banned for its honest depictions of racism, abuse, and trauma, this powerful novel remains one of the most vital works in American literature. Some people still can’t handle the truth. #BannedBooks #OnlyBadGuysBanBooks #ReadFreely

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Just arrived: @kandicedarcia.bsky.social and I see how authors were selling points as print proliferated in Britain. Our case studies look at young, old, disabled, and racialized women to see how marketing amplifies difference and positions women authors as commodities. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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My wisdom pill for the week

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“JD Vance is a terrible father. How many little girls will grow up able to say their dad traded their rights away for a bit of political power and a pat on the head from the world’s worst man?” open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...

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Just one more day left to submit abstracts for the conference -

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“not only is there no invocation of the free market […] Smith does not believe in a capitalist marketplace wholly free from restriction or regulation” —Evan Gottlieb on the origins & legacy of Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” #18thCentury #ScottishEnlightenment www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/invi...

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In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

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Women Writers of the Scottish Literary Renaissance: handmaids, midwives, mothers, mistresses, cooks, nannies, & skivvies to that literary revolution. Oh, & contributors, too. Let’s not forget about their own writing! Again… #InternationalWomensDay #BookWormSat www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/edwi...

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Happy to promote this book! "The Ecological Plot identifies the foundations of modern notions of ecology, economics, and realist fiction, maps how they evolved through the works of Victorian writers [...] and shows how they resurfaced in the works of Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson a century later."

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The Black Eagle canoe at Simon Fraser University. This is a replica of famed dugout canoe 'Loo Taas' (Wave Eater). Bill Reid & assts carved it from a 750-year-old cedar tree for Expo ’86. It was the first Haida ocean going canoe to be carved on the Northwest Coast in more than 100 years.

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Nan Shepherd (1893–1981), b. #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance 🎂 🧵 1/8 www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quie...

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if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

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Did my MA during the pandemic and now trying to do a PhD with the threat of fascism looming ahead and revolution down south. I also have a teen trying to navigate all this. What I am trying to say is...it's hard to focus...having some difficulty.

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False alarm. This is not Wobbly. But he's still cute.

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Amazing...

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Many thanks to @penfielding.bsky.social for this fascinating chapter, "Usurpt by Cyclops: Rivers, Industry, and Environment in C18 Poetry," and for introducing me to the study of river poetry. I am loving it. #ecocriticism

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In Germany "Between 950,000 and 1.25 million people have demonstrated against the far-right so far. This weekend, many more are expected to join: More than 200 protests are planned."

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“The Bottle Imp” does give an interesting twist to Greater Fool Theory, though

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I am deeply saddened to report that the words "but babe, I bought THIS book for my PhD research" have stopped working. Please hold me in your hearts at this critical juncture as I defend myself from scurrilous accusations such as "they can't ALL be for your PhD" and "this is TOO MANY BOOKS".

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New addition to our series 'Ten Minutes With': this time, IASSL convener Marie Hedon chats to Arianna Introna (Open University). Arianna's research interests lie in Scottish literature, disability studies, the medical humanities, and the social history of the welfare state. youtu.be/YtW6LAHVJSs

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I've been wondering what movie we're in but I think it might be the Doctor Who episode with the aliens that want to start a nuclear war so they can profit off of the destruction.

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