Looking forward to discussing our new research into the Burns Supper at 225 Years in January!
Tickets now available for the 2026 @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference @uofgarc.bsky.social 👇🏼 all very welcome - do share widely!
#BurnsSupper225Years
Investigating Irish & Scottish Women Writers of Children’s Literature
12 Dec @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free
Exploring regional & national identities in children’s literature c.1750–1940 – an era of major cultural & political upheaval in Ireland & Scotland
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat...
BAVS2026 has a shiny new website! www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026! To celebrate, we are extending our CFP to December 12th. Do come and join us
Congrats to Suping Li on winning the Roy Prize for best PhD in Scotlit in 2025. A pleasure to supervise her work on the reception of Robert Burns in China, the third of my former PhDs to win this award @glasgowburns.bsky.social @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk ucsl-scotland.com/2025/11/24/r...
A poster advertising the O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh for 2025. It will be delivered by Professor Brendan Kane at 4.15 on 10 December, in 50 George Square
This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
“Among the writers I have always read and, willy-nilly, have taken as a model is R. L. Stevenson”
—Italo Calvino
The Only Art is to Omit
Robert Louis Stevenson special issue (2012)
#RLSDay
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www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2012/11/edit...
I'm told this will be out in early to mid December. Please forgive coming episodes of shameless self-promotion and make a note of launch dates in your diaries!
UCC 19 February
Boston College 11 March
NYU Glucksman House 12 March
Royal Irish Academy 25 March
www.cambridge.org/ie/universit...
We’re delighted to shared details of this free, 1-day symposium, organised by our friends and colleagues @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social and Dr Lois Burke, on 12 Dec 2025.
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/investigat....
More info here: www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/investigatin....
Do share widely!
A fun afternoon spent yesterday at the annual @swinc-edi.bsky.social autumn roundup - many thanks to all those who came!
A wonderful afternoon spent yesterday for our annual SWINC Autumn Round-Up. Thanks to each of our fantastic speakers @drcleoocy.bsky.social, Dr Hilary Clydesdale, Dr Désha Osborne, and @mckeever.bsky.social for 4 wonderful papers - and to all those who came along for stimulating discussions!
Recorded on 4 Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels”
#C19th #romanticism
www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvr...
Poster for the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, "Lights of the North" 22 October – 1 November Tickets on sale now sisf.org.uk Illustration shows a green, craggy mountain rising behind a small white single-storey cottage. The cottage has a central door with a small window on either side. Above the mountain, swimming through the sky, are a slightly spectral-looking seal and whale.
Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Lights of the North
22 Oct–1 Nov
Tickets are on sale for the 2025 Scottish International Storytelling Festival, exploring Scotland’s northern identity – sharing tales, songs & myths from the world’s northern arc
www.sisf.org.uk
Now available on the BARS Blog:
BARS President's Report 2025
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6068
We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE!
We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates.
Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!
Coming from @edinburghup.bsky.social
Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks
Ed. by @drleith.bsky.social & Kevin J. James
Exploring Jacobitism & its cultural legacy, analysing works in English, Irish & Scottish Gaelic, & Scots
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...
PhD thesis submitted!
CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) bit.ly/4krM5PC
Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'.
ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)
A new Five Questions interview up on the BARS Blog (@bars.bsky.social) - @mckeever.bsky.social on his new monograph, Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c.1770–1830: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5944.
A little over 2 weeks left to apply for the 2025/26 BARS/BAVS C19 Matters Fellowship - offer of institutional affiliation @ Uni of Edinburgh for an ECR working in C19 studies.
Deadline MONDAY 12 MAY!
Further details below:
We’re delighted to share details of ‘Nature Nurture: Edinburgh’s Childgarden Heritage, Cultures of Care, and Scottish Women’s Writing’, a symposium on 6 June, organised by our friends and colleagues @selcie.bsky.social!
Get your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-nur...
See you there!
It was a pleasure to speak at the @swinc-edi.bsky.social symposium yesterday&to hear wonderful scholarship from @claireconnolly.bsky.social @madelinepotter.bsky.social @dalegothic96.bsky.social and Matt Sangster! Thank you for inviting me, Maddy and @penfielding.bsky.social!
This was a fab event and so great to be back in Edinburgh - thanks @swinc-edi.bsky.social @penfielding.bsky.social @madelinepotter.bsky.social @drtinamorin.bsky.social @dalegothic96.bsky.social @mjrsangster.bsky.social
Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swinc-scot...
We look forward to welcoming you! /2
Just two weeks to go until our next seminar, Scottish and Irish Gothic!
Join us on 11 April for papers from Christina Morin, @dalegothic96.bsky.social, @mjrsangster.bsky.social, @madelinepotter.bsky.social, and a keynote from @claireconnolly.bsky.social
Not to be missed! Register via link below /1
Delighted to share my research findings from my @bars.bsky.social Stephen Copley Award work in London this January. My guest blog post is linked below.
Thanks once again to BARS for funding my Scott family research!
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5869
Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.
Don't forget to submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. Applications are due this Saturday (15th March)! See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.
An excellent opportunity here for an unaffiliated ECR working in C19 studies to gain institutional affiliation @uoe-llc.bsky.social with mentorship from @mckeever.bsky.social.
Do share widely!
Applications close 12 May 2025.
