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 The first complete scholarly edition of Galt’s short fiction and essays on transatlantic themes, including previously unpublished texts.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!

📬 The latest issue of the IASSL newsletter, with information about recent and upcoming events, new publications, calls for papers, and much more, has just been dispatched to all members! 📬 You can also read it on the IASSL website: scotlit-iassl.org/membership/n...

John Buchan was born on 26 August 1875 #OTD in Perth. To mark the anniversary, @uofglasgow.bsky.social hosted earlier this year a lecture by IASSL trustee @murrayp.bsky.social, who has also written on Buchan for our latest newsletter. Lecture: tinyurl.com/4dhnta72 Newsletter: tinyurl.com/6sf56zxx

Deadline reminder: applications for the 'Robert Burns and the Environment' PhD Studentship at @glasgowburns.bsky.social close on Monday 18th August 2025. Research Outlines are welcomed on any aspect of 'Robert Burns and the Environment' broadly conceived.

'Diasporic documents from the Gaelic Atlantic,' in-person one-day workshop at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, 5 September. Speakers include IASSL members Rob Dunbar, @pomuirch.bsky.social, and Silke Stroh. All welcome, registration required.

New publications by our members: Ines Gstrein's article 'Towards a New Formalist Approach to Short Fiction: Janice Galloway’s Jellyfish as a Case Study' appeared in Short Fiction in Theory and Practice 14:1 (2024), as part of a special issue on the short story and ecology. Congratulations!

We are delighted to announce the next IASSL webinar: 'Bridging Cultures: Scottish Literature in Korean,' Monday 8 September 2025, 13:00 BST / 21:00 KST. All welcome! Papers by Meehyun Chung, L. M. Ratnapalan, Paul Tonks and John M. Frankl.

Congratulations to IASSL member Patra Jumsai Na Ayudhya who has recently become one of the Student Ambassadors of the Asia Scotland Institute. Patra is interested in bringing a wider range of Scottish writing to Thai audiences. 🇹🇭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

IASSL is delighted to announce that the Fifth World Congress of Scottish Literatures is going to be held at Nanjing Normal University on 17-20 June 2027. Find out more about our events & congresses: scotlit-iassl.org/events/

New publications by our members: Karin M. Danielsson's article on learning, liberation, and posthumanism in Eric Linklater's novel The Wind on the Moon appeared in the @springernature.com journal Children’s Literature in Education (March 2025).

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. Archival and digital projects are eligible. The Grant will be awarded annually. thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...

William K. Malcolm’s biography, 'History of a Revoluter: The Life of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon,' was launched in May 2025. It is the most substantive study of Leslie Mitchell to date, featuring forty illustrations and full critical apparatus. Congratulations!

To promote the work and activities of our diverse network of members, IASSL runs a dedicated series of short videos, '10 Minutes With'. Visit our website to browse through the individual interviews. 🌐🎤

Did you miss the IASSL webinar 'Environmental Scotland III' on Wednesday? The recording is now available on our YouTube channel! Dana Graham Lai (Simon Fraser University) on Ellen Johnston and Alex Dick (University of British Columbia) on Walter Scott.

📩 The spring issue of the IASSL newsletter (2025/II), featuring latest publications, calls for papers, grant calls, and much more, has just been dispatched! All members receive it directly by e-mail, and it is also freely available on our website.

Tonight at 6 pm UK time / 7 pm CET time: webinar 'Environmental Scotland III', with Dana Graham Lai (Simon Fraser University) on the autobiography, poems and songs of Ellen Johnston and Alexander Dick (University of British Columbia) on Walter Scott and coastal poetics. All welcome!

Online Zoom Forum: 'Edwin Muir: The Spiritual, Ecological, and Community Vision in his Life and Work.' Wednesday 21 May 2025, 7pm-9pm GMT. Featuring contributions by IASSL members Charles Sabatos and Geraldine Coleman @ginorgym.bsky.social.

Upcoming online event by The Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, 6 May, 7 pm GMT: 'Gaelic and Scots: Cultural Connections and Inspirations in the 20th Century'. Talks on Douglas Young, George Campbell Hay, William Neill, translation, and the magazine Gairm. Free but ticketed.

Wednesday 30 April 2025 10 am CET, at Université de Bretagne-Occidentale & on ZOOM: 'Radical Scottish Gaelic Magazines in the Twentieth Century and Contacts with Brittany' by @poncarova.bsky.social, hosted by Héritage et Création dans le Texte et l'Image & Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique.