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Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Join Scotland's leading historians, writers and performers on 21 November, at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, for the Centenary Conference of Hugh MacDiarmid's A DRUNK MAN LOOKS AT THE THISTLE. Opened by Sir Tom Devine, presented by Sally Magnusson. Tickets here: www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/a-dr...

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A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle: Hugh MacDiarmid and a Hundred Years of the Scottish Renaissance - Glasgow Life

The Centenary Conference 1926 - 2026

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

IASSL event coming soon! On Friday 23 October at 8.30 pm (UK time) on Teams, we're hosting our second online webinar on "Narratives of Illness and Dis/ability in Scottish Literature". Find more about this here: scotlit-iassl.org/author/scotl...

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Please refer to the conference programme and abstracts for more details! www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/clar-ama-na-...

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

My own paper focused on "Cultural hybridity and ageing: the representation of older women across Iain Crichton Smith/Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn’s Gaelic and English works" which is part of my PhD research. Very grateful for the great questions and discussion afterwards!

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Followed by a last panel on translation and Scottish literature, with insightful talks on Scottish Gaelic poetry in Chinese (Daisy Li li) and on the politics of translation in contemporary Scottish Gaelic literature (Anne Morrison)

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In the following days, we were also lucky to hear from writers Donald S. Murray on the theme of creativity and bilingualism, and from Kevin MacNeil who gave a fascinating lecture on moral vision and form in Iain Crichton Smith's writings

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Prof Nigel Leask also gave a fascinating talk on the little known writer Joseph MacLeod - a writer I was very happy to discover! ‘The Deeds of the Dead Remain’: Joseph MacLeod’s ‘Open Letter to the Countess of Sutherland’

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As well as fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on women writers of the Scottish Renaissance like Helen Cruickshank (Elaine Morrison) and Nan Shepherd (John Corbett). @elainemorrison.bsky.social

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A full day of talks on Saturday, including important considerations of Scottish Renaissance writers: Dàin do Eimhir and Auntran Blads: the impact of Sorley MacLean and Douglas Young in 1943 (Emma Dymock) Contexts, texts and resistance: MacLean, Garioch and MacDiarmid (Alan Riach)

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A plenary lecture by Murdo Macdonald on the wonderful Crosbie illustrations for Sorley MacLean’s Dàin do Eimhir, and their wider contexts

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Followed by a consideration of "Dread and Revelation in Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich’s short stories" by Aonghas MacLeòid, who has recently published a Scotnotes volume on the author!

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Starting strong with a fascinating paper by @poncarova.bsky.social on "Contacts between Gaelic and Scots in Twentieth Century Gaelic Magazines" drawing, notably, on her research on Ruaraidh Erskine

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Other highlights include a talk on a Scots township poet Billy Henderson (John Howieson), on the historical novel Mortimer's Deep (Smilla Steiner), Walter Scott's lighthouse Yacht Journal (Hilary Clydesdale), the Scottish filmmaker Margaret Tait (Anne Ciecko)

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As well as fresh and thought-provoking perspectives on women writers of the Scottish Renaissance like Helen Cruickshank (Elaine Morrison) and Nan Shepherd (John Corbett). @elainemorrison.bsky.social

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A plenary lecture by Murdo Macdonald on the wonderful Crosbie illustrations for Sorley MacLean’s Dàin do Eimhir, and their wider contexts

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Followed by a consideration of "Dread and Revelation in Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich’s short stories" by Aonghas MacLeòid, who has recently published a Scotnotes volume on the author!

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Abair làithean mìorbhaileach a bh'againn aig @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social airson a' cho-labhairt @asls.org.uk 2026! Mìle Taing a h-uile duine. Looking back on a wonderful few days at the ASL conference in Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. So many thought-provoking papers and stimulating conversations.

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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...

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International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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

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Société Française d'Études Écossaises @sfetudesecossaises.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Honoured to have received acclaimed Scottish poet and essayist and former Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie as part of our annual conference on Scotland held in La Rochelle. Thank you @lesleygraham.bsky.social

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Lesley Graham @lesleygraham.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Two really great panels this morning at the @sfetudesecossaises.bsky.social conference in La Rochelle with Daphné Cousin-Martin, Glenda Norquay, Julie Gay, Katie Garner and Gabrielle Fath.

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Thank you so much for sharing this!

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Gabrielle Fath @gabriellefath.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Such an honour to have received the MA award! Thank you for organising such a wonderful conference @enas-agestudies.bsky.social

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/01/2025

CFP: Cultures of Care in Scottish Women’s Writing Special issue of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW ed. by Dr @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social & Dr @ainsley76.bsky.social Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025 Full details below

CALL FOR PAPERS
'CULTURES OF CARE IN SCOTTISH WOMEN'S WRITING'
Papers are invited for a special issue which will explore the myriad ways in which the concept of care has been imagined by Scottish women writers. 'Care' encompasses a diversity of meanings across philosophical, moral, and spiritual traditions; in practices which range from social to medial to therapeutic, and beyond; and in semantic terms evokes ideas of nurture, protection, welfare; feelings of solicitude, concern, love. ‘To care for’ someone, or something, is both to experience, and to enact, such affect with vigilance and a kind of watchful attention.

We are interested in the ways in which Scottish women writers - across a variety of genres and forms - have imaginatively explored the concept of care as ethos and/or practice.

We also invite a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches from (for example) environmental humanities; medical humanities; history of emotion studies.

Themes which might be explored include, but are not limited to: care of, and for self; care of, and for others, including communities and networks; care for nature, environment, and non-human others; therapeutic and/or medical care; concepts of welfare (individual and collective); ideas of nurture; expression of affect and emotion (including anxiety); care as cultural activism; writing/ creating as an act of care; the experience of being taken care of.

Please send 200-word abstracts and a short bio to s.m.dunnigan@ed.ac.uk and amcinto9@ed.ac.uk by
Thursday 30 January 2025

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 27/01/2025

Three Poets Between Languages: An Encounter in English, French & Scots 6 Feb, Edinburgh – free An exchange of experiences, ideas, poetic practices & languages with multilingual & Scotland-based poets Elodie Laügt, @paulmalgrati.bsky.social & Anne Pia ifecosse.extranet-aec.com/events/detai...

THREE POETS BETWEEN LANGUAGES: AN ENCOUNTER IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SCOTS
Thursday 6 February 2025
17:30
Institut français d'Écosse W Parliament Sq, Edinburgh EH1 1RN
Free

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