IASSL member Domenico Di Rosa @glasgow.ac.uk is going to take part in the panel 'The Caledonian Trans Reveal' at the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social, 4 March, 5:30 pm, in person & streamed. tinyurl.com/ycydpfvy

The @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdnriiss.bsky.social Spring Seminar Series begins this week. Members of the public and students and scholars from other institutions worldwide are welcome to attend. Please contact Michael Brown ([email protected]) to request the link and join online.

The lastest episode of the podcast @thecarryingstream.bsky.social features two IASSL members: @paulmalgrati.bsky.social as the host and Kirsteen McCue as the guest, discussing Scottish folk song and European music: pod.link/1865430519

New publications by our members: "The Page as Gendered Cultural Recess: Female Creative Anxieties in Margaret Oliphant’s 'The Library Window' (1896)" by @leoniejungen.bsky.social has appeared in "Writing Angst". Available in open access: tinyurl.com/mrmwwpwe

New publications by our members: Lejla Mulalić has co-authored the volume 'A Country of Their Own: Writing Scotland as a Woman' (University of Sarajevo Press), which discusses Rona Munro, Liz Lochhead, Sharman Macdonald, Agnes Owens, and Kathleen Jamie. 🔓 Read in open access: tinyurl.com/4v2knp4y

CfP: 'Scotland and the In-Between,' the annual conference of the French Society for Scottish Studies, will be held at Université de de Lorraine, Nancy, 12-14 November 2026, co-organised by IASSL member Céline Sabiron. Papers may be delivered in French or English. Full CfP: tinyurl.com/5h8v293z

CfP: 2026 Postgraduate Symposium of the @studyscotlit.bsky.social, @glasgow.ac.uk, 8 May 2026. Submissions deadline: 15 March 2026. Hybrid attendance will be an option; PG travel bursaries will be available, courtesy of the Andrew Tannahill Fund. ucsl-scotland.com/2026-pg-symp...

New publications by our members: Maike Dinger's monograph 'Discourse, Voice, and the Politics of Participation in the Scottish Independence Referendum' has been published by @springernature.com. One chapter is dedicated to Scottish indyref literature. tinyurl.com/358bk4hx

Call for Papers: Centre for Scottish & Celtic Studies Postgraduate Symposium, 28 May 2026, @glasgow.ac.uk & online, 'People, Place and Movement'. Abstracts and enquiries: [email protected], deadline: 2 March 2026. Proposals are welcome from postgraduates at any stage of their career.

Save the date for the next International Walter Scott Conference: 28-30 June 2027, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. Keynotes by Philip Connell and Porscha Fermanis & a special session marking the anniversary of Ian Duncan’s 'Scott’s Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh' @princetonupress.bsky.social.

New publications by our members: Céline Sabiron's monograph 'Unveiling Lady Scott: Walter Scott, French Influence and Transcultural Connections' was recently published by @universitypress.cambridge.org.

New publications by our members: Carla Sassi's article 'Merciful Solidarity Across Space and Time: Affective Communities in Contemporary Scottish Fiction' (2014–2024) was published in 'English Studies' (2025). tinyurl.com/2ph5fsdj

Jetstone Books expand the portfolio of Scottish titles, producing new editions of works by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and John MacDougall Hay. William Malcolm’s Grassic Gibbon biography 'History of a Revoluter', also by Jetstone, was shortlisted for Saltire Research Book of the Year. tinyurl.com/ykvmssbm

New publications by our members: 'Setting the Stage: New Wave Scottish Drama from the 1970s and 1980s' (ASL, 2025), edited by Steven Cramer and John Corbett. The volume includes plays by Peter Arnott, Ian Brown, Jo Clifford, Sue Glover, and Rona Munro.

The recordings of CIVIS seminars on contemporary Scottish Literature, organised by Marie Hedon, Corey Gibson, and Kirsten Stirling, are now available as a recordings: 'Poetry and Public Life in Scotland'; 'Poor Things Revisited'; 'IndyRef and Scottish Literature'. lerma.univ-amu.fr/contemporary...

The Carrying Stream is a new podcast for Scottish words and ideas, hosted by IASSL EC member Paul Malgrati. The first episode, now available on Spotify and Apple Podcast, features poet and Gaelic translator Taylor Strickland; Scots writer and activist Billy Kay; and Burns scholar Moira Hansen.

The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research concerning John Galt. Two types of research projects—archival and digital—are eligible. The deadline for applications is 31 January 2026.

New publications by our members: Fiona J Mackenzie's biography 'The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw' (Birlinn, 2025) explores the legacy and life of the American born folklorist, musician, and photographer who played a major part in preserving Hebridean music and traditions.

The Scottish Catholic Studies ArtsLab (SCAL) was recently launched at @glasgow.ac.uk, with the aim to explore the contribution of Catholics and Catholicism to Scottish cultural and intellectual life. One of the directors of the Lab is IASSL member Craig Lamont. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3uwj3uhj

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 Crozier: 'Edinburgh in Snow' (about 1928), National Galleries of Scotland, tinyurl.com/mryzywuk

The latest issue of the IASSL newsletter has been dispatched to all members and is also available online: have a read for updates about awards, publications, grants, events, calls for papers, and more. 📩 📫 tinyurl.com/tvf3rna4

New survey by the @glasgowburns.bsky.social - how do you celebrate Burns Night? Feel free to respond and share!

The recording of the IASSL webinar 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100', with talks by Mhairi Brennan (Aston University), Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh), and Petra Johana Poncarová (Charles University, Prague), is now available on YouTube.

New publications by our members: John Galt's 'Transatlantic Tales and Essays', edited by Angela Esterhammer, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social. The first complete scholarly edition of Galt’s short fiction and essays on transatlantic themes, including previously unpublished texts.

Great news from colleagues at the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature: the newly launched Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is going to be awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Nominations are open for the 2026 prize. 🏆📚

Recent publications by our members: Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir @haskoliislands.bsky.social, '"She Strode into the Room like a Challenge": Revisioning Nineteenth-Century Arctic Exploration in Stef Penney’s Under a Pole Star (2016),' Études Écossaises 24 (2025). Available in open access.

Tickets are now available for the annual conference of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, to be held on 17 January 2026. The programme features contributions by IASSL members Pauline Mackay, Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman, Paul Malgrati, Struan McCorriscken, and John Watson.

Warm congratulations to IASSL member @drleith.bsky.social (Simon Fraser University Research Centre for Scottish Studies) on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society.

New interview in our series: IASSL convenor Marie Hedon chats with Bill Malcolm, Joint Administrator of the Mitchell Literary Estate and author of the 'History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon' (2025), shortlisted for the Saltire Best Research Book of the Year.

Tonight (Tue 25 November) at 7 pm UK time: 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100', an online seminar exploring Macdonald's legacy as a filmmaker, writer, journalist, editor, and a leading figure in Gaelic initiatives. Bidh fàilte bhlàth romhaibh uile / All welcome!

Congratulations to Dr Suping Li, winner of the 2025 Ross Roy Prize, for her dissertation ‘”If I have wander’d in those paths”: The reception of Robert Burns in China’, defended at @uofglasgow.bsky.social. It examines the full spectrum of Burns’ Chinese reception in translation, criticism and music.

12 days left to submit/nominate articles and chapters to the 2025 Jack Medal! The call closes on 30 November. The prize is awarded for new research on subjects related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic, and Latin). scotlit-iassl.org/awards/the-j...

Call for Papers: 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Scotland Along the New Silk Road (17-20 June 2027, Nanjing Normal University, China). Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2026.

Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...

The Great North Road: a manuscript that R. L. Stevenson left unfinished has been completed by the novelist Stuart Campbell and will be published by Rymour Books on 13 November. Events in Blackwell’s bookshop, Edinburgh (7pm, 12 November) and Hillhead Public Library, Glasgow (2pm, 22 November).

Next IASSL webinar: 'Finlay J Macdonald at 100', 25 November 2025, 7 pm UK time. The webinar explores Macdonald's legacy as a filmmaker, producer, writer, and journalist. Talks by Mhairi Brennan, Rob Dunbar, @macailpein.bsky.social, and @poncarova.bsky.social. Bidh fàilte bhlàth romhaibh uile!

Call for Papers: ‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing. The 2026 annual conference of the Association for Scottish Literature will be held at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on 26–28 June.

A new addition to the video interview series '10 Minutes With' that introduce our members: this time, IASSL convenor Marie Hedon chats to Peter Mackay, Senior Lecturer at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social and Scottish Makar.

The new issue of Studies in Scottish Literature, 'Dreaming the Daily Darg', is now available. Edited by IASSL executive committee member Corey Gibson, the issue includes essays by other IASSL members, Marie Hedon, Arianna Introna and Joe Jackson. scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/ scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/

The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Deadline: 31 January 2026. More information: thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...

Call for Papers: 18th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language, Literature, and Culture, 1-4 July 2026, University of Bristol. Submission deadline: 14 November 2025. icmrsllc2026.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers published: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 2026 @rannsachadh2026.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Congratulations to IASSL members @rhonabrown.bsky.social and @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social on their new edited publication: '‘O’er a’ my labours sey your skill’: Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson' (Taproot Press), published as part of the @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social project.

A talk by IASSL member Fernando Toda @usaloficial.bsky.social on the translations of Barbour's Bruce and Hary's Wallace into Spanish: 2 October, 5:30 UK time, in person at @uofglasgow.bsky.social & online. Book your free ticket!

Bidh Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig a' tilleadh! 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 aig @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Cumaibh sùil air @rannsachadh2026.bsky.social.

The latest issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies is now available in open access, with contributions by IASSL members Anna Fancett, Arianna Introna, and Petra Johana Poncarová.

The Review of Scottish Culture is now open for submissions to Issue 31. ROSC encourages multi- and interdisciplinary research on the ethnology of Scotland. journals.ed.ac.uk/rosc

The call for submissions & nominations for the 2025 Jack Medal is open until 30 November. We welcome articles & chapters on subjects related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic, and Latin). scotlit-iassl.org/awards/the-j...

If you missed our latest webinar 'Bridging Cultures: Scottish Literature in Korean,' organised by colleagues from Yonsei University, the complete recording is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel.

Today (Monday 8 September 2025) at 13:00 UK time / 21:00 South Korea time: our webinar 'Bridging Cultures: Scottish Literature in Korean.' All welcome!