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ASL Schools Conference 2022

James Watt South Building Engineering Way, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

The 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, poetry, short stories, novels, non-fiction, creative writing, and storytelling, in English and Scots. Please note, this event is aimed at teachers and teachers-in-training, specifically those […]

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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 and insecurity across Europe. In Scotland, established notions of class, gender, and nationality were questioned as never before, revitalising ideas of language, art, and culture. […]

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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 of the final Jacobite Rising in 1746, the work consists of ten small volumes of transcribed conversations, narrative accounts, poems, songs, letters and even material […]

ASL Schools Conference 2023

James Watt South Building, University of Glasgow Engineering Way, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The 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, poetry, novels, film and television, and creative writing, in English and Scots. Please note, this event is aimed at teachers and teachers-in-training, specifically those who […]

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More Books About Buildings and Crime: The Architecture of Scottish Crime Fiction

Scottish Parliament Edinburgh EH99 1SP

There 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 exploited the symbolic and structural significance of buildings in framing their various scenes of the crime. In this lecture, crime writer and academic Liam McIlvanney […]

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Haste Ye Back (again): Editing the Memoir of Dorothy K. Haynes

Boyd Orr Building, University Avenue Glasgow G12 8SP

First 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 as a writer of gothic and supernatural fiction, here Haynes’s vivid imagination brings to life the residents, caretakers and stories of the institution that irrevocably […]

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Scottish Literary Review Special Issue Launch Symposium: Queer Form in Scottish Writing

Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow, G11 6EW

This 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 Scottish Writing’, co-edited by Zoë Strachan and Darryl Peers. The day will gently disrupt the form of the academic symposium, giving attendees plenty of opportunity […]

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ASL Schools Conference

James Watt South Building, Engineering Way, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ

The 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, poetry, novels, short stories, language study, and creative writing, in English and Scots. Please note, this event is aimed at teachers and teachers-in-training, specifically those […]

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Book launch: The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature

Student Common Room, St Andrews Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow, G3 6NH

The School of Education at the University of Glasgow is delighted to host the launch of the publication The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature – the first collection of its kind. Ian Brown, Thomas Owen Clancy (series editors), Maureen A Farrell, and Robert A Davis (volume editors) wish to invite you to join us for the […]

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