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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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Did you know Derrick McClure has published the first-ever poetic translation of Andreas and The Fates of the Apostles into any language! Old English + Scots verse side by side. 📖 #Translation #ScotsLanguage

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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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Love Burns? ❤️🔥 Check out Leith Davis’ latest essay on Robert Burns & Romantic-era book illustration in The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns (Oxford UP, 2024). A fresh look at Burns's early memorialisation. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Jean Baxter, dedicatee of Sunset Song, finally gets her due! 🌅 Another Song at Sunset by her grandaughter, Alison Baxter, reveals her influence on Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Available now on Amazon.

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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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🏵️ Announcing the 2024 Jack Medal! 🏵️ Gioia Angeletti received the Honourable Mention for the article ‘Scottish Literature of Migration and Transculturality: Subversive Reticence and Gender Negotiations in Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape Writings.' 🎊 Congratulations! Full statement: tinyurl.com/2ac53d5j

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

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The John Buchan 150 Lecture, celebrating the anniversary of the author's birth, will be delivered by @murrayp.bsky.social on Tuesday 11 March 2025 at 5.30pm at @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Online tickets are available on Eventbrite (link in the article).

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Who was Robert Fergusson—poet, prodigal son, or tavern rat? 🤔 Watch Rhona Brown's lecture on Scotland’s "unofficial poet laureate" at the National Galleries. 🎥 Recording available now!

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Last Call for Poems! 📝 "Contemporary Responses to Robert Fergusson" – Taproot Press invites poetry submissions in Scots, English & Gaelic. Deadline: Feb 28, 2025. Submit now! 🔗

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New Book Alert! 📚 Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c.1770–1830 by Gerard Lee McKeever tracks the rise of regional identity in literature. A must-read for Romanticism & Scottish studies fans!

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Online exhibition alert! 🌐 Rewriting the Script: The Works and Words of Esther Inglis is live, bringing her manuscripts, calligraphy & self-portraits to the world. Curated by Anna Nadine Pike at Edinburgh University. Check it out!

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Latest from SCROLL @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social: 'Scotland and China: Literary Encounters', edited by Li Li and John Corbett. The volume surveys the role of China in Scottish literature, and the translation and reception of Scottish literature in China. brill.com/display/titl...

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Two new John Galt editions are out! 📖 The Provost (ed. Caroline McCracken-Flesher) & Sir Andrew Wylie, of That Ilk (ed. Sharon Alker) are now available in the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt.

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Donna Heddle & @paulmalgrati.bsky.social (@insuhi.bsky.social) are the co-editors of 'France and Scotland in Literature: Auld and New Alliances', a new volume exploring connections between French & Scottish Literature. To be published by @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social in 2026. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇫🇷

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Scholarships for Scottish Universities' International Summer School 2025! SUISS offers courses in literature and creative writing, taught in July and August in Edinburgh. Apply by 25 April: www.suiss.ed.ac.uk/application/...

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What Past Have We Now? A new contemporary Scottish literature seminar explores the political horizons of Devolution. Spring webinar: IndyRef and Scottish Literature 📅 March 27, 2025, 5-6 PM (UK). Registration link:

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Celebrating Esther Inglis! 🎉 One of the most creative women of the 16th century, Inglis' work is on display at the 'Renaissance: Scotland and Europe 1480-1630' exhibition in Scotland's National Library April 21, 2025. Don't miss it! 📜✨

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Bu chòir do luchd-rannsachaidh tiotal, geàrr-sheanchas (100-200 faclan) agus eachdraidh-beatha ghoirid (~50 faclan) (sa Bheurla no sa Ghàidhlig) a chur gu [email protected] ro 7 Màrt 2025. Faodar pàipearan a thaisbeanadh air-loidhne no gu pearsanta. tinyurl.com/46vnpczp

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CfP: 'Scotland Within and Outwith: Internal and External Perceptions of a Nation,' annual Postgraduate Conference, Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies, @uofglasgow.bsky.social, held on 30 April 2025. Submit an abstract and brief biography in English / Gaelic by 7 March 25. tinyurl.com/46vnpczp

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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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Congratulations to Rob Sutton on his recently published article 'Echoes of Albany: The Transatlantic Reflections of Anne Grant in Memoirs of an American Lady', published in Humanities 14:2 (2025) as part of the special issue on eighteenth-century travel writing. 🔓 Available in open access! 🔓

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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/...

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📢 New PhD Opportunity with @glasgowburns.bsky.social on Burns and the Environment! 📢

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IASSL currently offers a free 3-year membership to PhD students working on Scottish literatures or languages! Simply fill in the PhD membership form available from scotlit-iassl.org/membership/ and email it to [email protected]. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌐

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Marking Burns Week with our members' research: Corey E. Andrews' 'The Genius of Scotland: The Cultural Production of Robert Burns, 1785-1834' @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social investigates Burns as constructed by warring cultural forces in the literary marketplace. brill.com/display/titl...

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📣MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic. Apply by: 16/3/25. Preferred research topics: Gothic Aspects in Scottish Literature since James Hogg till Jenni Fagan | Satire in English/Scottish Literature since Chaucer to Banksy | Scottish Writers of Postcolonial Identity

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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. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇭🇺

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The recording of our latest webinar, 'Working in the Scottish Archives, At Home and Awa’', is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel! Talks by Kate Hill, @breerob-kirk.bsky.social, Craig Lamont, Nigel Leask and @pomuirch.bsky.social; facilitated by @stevenewman.bsky.social. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌐

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

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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

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