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Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century. A research group at the University of Edinburgh, co-directed by Professor Penny Fielding and Dr Robert Irvine. https://www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk.
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!
16.10.2025 11:58 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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!
16.10.2025 17:29 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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!
30.06.2025 17:18 — 👍 46 🔁 3 💬 7 📌 0CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) bit.ly/4krM5PC
07.07.2025 21:21 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Applications 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.
10.04.2025 17:10 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0A 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!
12.04.2025 12:10 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0This 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
13.04.2025 08:29 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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.
14.03.2025 08:46 — 👍 16 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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.
11.03.2025 13:54 — 👍 13 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1An 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.
Applications for the next @bars.bsky.social / @bavs-uk.bsky.social C19 Matters Fellowship are officially OPEN til 12 May 2025.
Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions!
@mckeever.bsky.social
@uoe-llc.bsky.social
A special shoutout this International Women’s Day to two Scottish women writers, Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton, whom @kateferrier.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of writing about for a ‘Women in History’ event taking place today in Linlithgow. Many thanks to the organisers for including us!
08.03.2025 14:53 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Flyer for the advertised event. Text reads: Scottish and Irish Gothic 11 April 50 George Square, 1.06 2pm - 6pm Followed by a reception Keynote by Claire Connolly Speakers: Christina Morin, Dale Townshend, Matthew Sangster, Maddy Potter
We’re thrilled to announce our research event on Scottish and Irish Gothic on 11 April, with a keynote by Claire Connolly and a fabulous lineup of speakers. We look forward to welcoming you.
Full details and registration below:
www.swinc.englit.ed.ac.uk/scottish-and...
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 amcintoo@ed.ac.uk by Thursday 30 January 2025
CFP: Cultures of Care in Scottish Women’s Writing
special issue of SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW
ed. by Dr Sarah Dunnigan & Dr Ainsley McIntosh
Please send abstracts for consideration by 30 January 2025
Full details below
Fantastic CfP here from two SWINC colleagues - do share widely!
19.12.2024 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
CFP: Scotland & the Coast | L’Ecosse et le Littoral
24th International Congress of the French Society for Scottish Studies @sfetudesecossaises.bsky.social
15–17 Oct 2025, University of La Rochelle
Guest speaker: Kathleen Jamie
Proposals for papers (French/English) by 15 March
sfee.fr/congres2020/
Hello Bluesky from us here at the Centre for Robert Burns Studies👋 Follow us for news and information on upcoming events as we approach Burns season 😁📚✍🏼
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