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🏴 🇮🇹 A new Scoto-Sicilian literary collaboration is being developed at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social by IASSL members Derrick McClure and Letizia Leonardi, including a book featuring 11 poets and 6 translators. 📣 The team are looking for Sicilian writers interested in translating from Scottish poetry.
New publications by our members: Murray Pittock has published 'The Shortest History of Scotland' in the Shortest History Series. It was the no. 4 bestselling book in Scotland in May. tinyurl.com/3actvxcn
In May, IASSL held its election for offices. Bob Irvine is the new convener, supported by a committee of re-elected and newly elected members, based at universities in Scotland, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, USA, and China, representing IASSL's global reach. tinyurl.com/yf5j35c6
CfP: 'Hogg’s Worlds Now'. The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that it will be holding a conference at @glasgow.ac.uk on 2-4 July 2027. tinyurl.com/432anhdm
If you missed the first webinar in the new series 'Narratives of Illness and Dis/ability in Scottish Literature' last week, featuring talks by Holly Faith Nelson and Graham Morgan, the full recording is now available on the IASSL YouTube channel. 🎦
The Scottish Polish Cultural Association organises an online launch for 'Eagle and Lion: Polish Poems and Scots Translations' (Grace Note Publications, 2025), edited by IASSL member Derrick McClure and Tom Hubbard. 3 June, 7:00 pm, on ZOOM. To register, please email: [email protected] 🇵🇱 🏴
The latest issue of the IASSL quarterly newsletter has been dispatched to all members earlier this week, with information about projects, awards, publications, conferences, and upcoming events. All recent newsletter issues, including the current one, are available on our website. 📬📩
The latest episode of the podcast @thecarryingstream.bsky.social, founded and hosted by our member @paulmalgrati.bsky.social, features French historian Clément Guézais and focuses on the medieval Auld Alliance. 🇫🇷 🏴 pod.link/1865430519
New publications by our members: the article 'Periodicals Published under the Banner of Waverley' by Anne McKee Stapleton has appeared in the Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social, published by @rs4vp.org.
On 11-12 May 2026, IASSL members Nigel Leask and Peadar O Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social organised a symposium in the Barbados Museum & Historical Society, entitled ‘Perspectives on the Gaelic Caribbean: Irish, Scottish and Caribbean Connections’. The recording is now available on YouTube.
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures
IASSL issues a quarterly newsletter which features latest news from the field and promotes the achievements of our members. If you would like to receive it and submit your news, please join the IAS…
Anne McKee Stapleton considers how American and Scottish #editors harnessed Walter Scott’s global popularity to establish periodicals. Learn how the Waverley Magazine and Waverley Journal fostered literary alliances among women under the banner of #Waverley: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Victorian Periodicals Review
New episode out, featuring Dr Clément Guézais and his cutting-edge reworking of the medieval Auld Alliance 🇫🇷🏴
pod.link/1865430519
