ASLS Schools Conference 2021
The ASLS Schools Conference will offer CPD in areas of language and literature for teachers of English at Secondary, for BGE, National 5, and Higher. The presentations will cover drama, […]
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Book launch: ‘The Crooked Dividend: Essays on Muriel Spark’, ed. by Gerard Carruthers and Helen Stoddart
OnlineJoin us to celebrate the launch of The Crooked Dividend, a collection of essays from Spark scholars and experts, proceeding from the 2018 Muriel Spark International Symposium. Hear from co-editor Dr […]
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The Portable Fairy Hill: The Scottish Gaelic Storytelling Tradition in the Highlands and Nova Scotian Diaspora
Online eventHeadstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the folktales of the Scottish Highlands preserve the history and […]
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ASL Schools Conference 2022
James Watt South Building Engineering Way, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQThe ASL Schools Conference will offer CPD in areas of language and literature for teachers of English, for BGE, National 5, Higher, and Advanced Higher. The presentations will cover drama, […]
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Cultural and Sexual Politics in Interwar Scottish Literature
A free online symposium on representations of class, gender, and nationality in Scottish literature from 1918 to 1939. The inter-war years were a period of economic, social, and political instability […]
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Encoding and Analysing “The Lyon in Mourning”
Online event“The Lyon in Mourning” manuscript (1747–1775), currently held by the National Library of Scotland, is a unique document in Scottish history. Compiled by Jacobite clergyman Robert Forbes after the suppression […]
ASL Schools Conference 2023
James Watt South Building, University of Glasgow Engineering Way, Glasgow, United KingdomThe ASL Schools Conference will offer CPD in areas of language and literature for teachers of English, for BGE, National 5, Higher, and Advanced Higher. The presentations will cover drama, […]
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More Books About Buildings and Crime: The Architecture of Scottish Crime Fiction
Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SPThere are few literary genres in which maps, floor-plans and architectural features matter so deeply as in crime fiction. From the earliest days of ‘Tartan Noir’, Scottish crime writers have […]
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Haste Ye Back (again): Editing the Memoir of Dorothy K. Haynes
Boyd Orr Building, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8SPFirst published in 1973, Haste Ye Back is a lively and intimate portrayal of Aberlour Orphanage in Banffshire, where Dorothy K. Haynes (1918–1987) spent four formative years in her childhood. Best known […]
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Scottish Literary Review Special Issue Launch Symposium: Queer Form in Scottish Writing
Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, G11 6EWThis one-day symposium is a landmark opportunity to discuss the status of queer writing in Scottish literature. The event celebrates the launch of the Scottish Literary Review special issue, ‘Queer Form in […]
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