@abdnriiss.bsky.social
Promoting research into the languages, histories and literatures of Ireland and Scotland, and of their global diasporic communities. Est. 1999 at the University of Aberdeen.
Sarah Sharp @abdnriiss.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social received the Honourable Mention for the article ‘The Settler Colonial Cotter: Situating “The Cotter’s Saturday Night” in Post-Revolutionary America,’ published in the Burns Chronicle @edinburghup.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/255n2rm6
Kang-yen Chiu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) is the recipient of the 2025 Jack Medal. Sarah Sharp (@abdnriiss.bsky.social @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social) was awarded the Honourable Mention. Congratulations! 🏵️ Find out more about the awardees: tinyurl.com/255n2rm6
The @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @abdnriiss.bsky.social Spring Seminar Series begins this week. Members of the public and students and scholars from other institutions worldwide are welcome to attend. Please contact Michael Brown (m.brown@abdn.ac.uk) to request the link and join online.
Yesterday we celebrated the official launch of our final print-only book, The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen, in their historic Trinity Hall. This epic work charts the history of the 7 Trades, and Aberdeen itself, from Medieval origins to present. Pick up a copy here abdn.site/7Trade
Our scheme closes to application on Friday! If you are an ECR with a doctorate, please do consider making an application.
A reminder that our fellowship scheme is open for a second year!
We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025.
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We're back with the New Voices next week! Maurice Casey from QUB will be sharing his research paper 'Hotel Lux: Researching an Irish Woman's World in 1920s Moscow'. Join us at 4pm on Tuesday by contatcing Dr Sarah Sharp for the link.
The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Deadline: 31 January 2026. More information: thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...
Coming to a computer near you this afternoon! Email Dr Sharp if you'd like to hear Dr Zukovs fascinating paper.
Our latest issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies is now out, and free to read!
This is a special 'New Voices' issue featuring the work of Early Career Researchers. We hope it will be the first of many such issues #SupportECRs
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We have more exciting things lined up this semester. The New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is back and has a stellar line-up of emerging researchers. To attend simply contact Dr Sharp at the address on the poster:
Bookending the summer, in September we also saw the publication of the inugural New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. Full of fresh new scholarship from emerging researchers, the issue is fully open access here: jiss.aberdeenunipress.org
📢 We're seeking a volunteer Treasurer!
📍 Glasgow | ⏰ ~4 hrs/month
💼 Join our Board & support the legacy of Alasdair Gray.
📅 Apply by Thurs 6 Nov 2025, 5pm
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I am so sorry, my colleague's surname is Bow not Boy. A slip of the keys!
We've also welcomed a number of amazing publications over the summer. In May, Dr Bradford Boy edited a new issue of the Journal of Scottish Thought focused on John Witherspoon. All articles are available open access for you to enjoy: jst.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/37/info/
Applications are invited for the 2026 CISS Scottish Writing Fellowship at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. Flights, accommodation & stipend for 2 months at the Caselberg House near Dunedin. Apply at the link below by 31 October. Good luck…! www.otago.ac.nz/ciss
📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
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It was a great joy to welcome so many new and familiar faces to RIISS over June! Tune back in tomorrow to hear what else we had going on this summer.
The workshop was supported by Royal Society of Edinburgh funding. You can learn more about the project here: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
But we weren't done. On 25th June, contributors gathered at RIISS to discuss the upcoming Routledge Companion to Scottish Literature.
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In June, we also co-hosted a symposium bringing together policy makers, statutory and non-departmental public bodies, academics, industry and civil society organisations from across Ireland and Scotland to discuss current actions and challenges around empowering Gaelic and Irish speaking communities
A great first day at @ssnci.bsky.social in Aberdeen. Learned a ton, almost melted in the heat, and had a great evening in Aberdeen’s lovely Botanic Gardens.
Had a great time presenting in the @ssnci.bsky.social conference! Aberdeen, as a city, is often taken for granite in my opinion.
Thanks to all speakers, organisers, attendees, and everyone involved in our annual conference and thanks to @abdnriiss.bsky.social for hosting us!!!!
We hosted @ssnci.bsky.social for their conference on one of the hottest weekend's of the year in Aberdeen. Lots of sun and lots of incredible research shared!
Hello everyone, we've been a bit quiet whilst we've been figuring out our social media(s) but WE'RE BACK BABY! And boy have we been busy this summer...
The SSNCI will hold its 2025 Annual Conference at the @abdnriiss.bsky.social at the University of Aberdeen on 19-21 June 2025! To find out more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
We're holding an informal 'brown bag' lunch work-in-progress today at 12pm in the Humanity Manse (19 College Bounds) to hear about her project. If you're on campus do pop along!
Dr Elisa Cozzi is here to research the nineteenth-century Dante scholar John Taaffe and his connections to Scottish Romanticism. You can read more about her project here: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...