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

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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:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...

Pls share

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.

www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...

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...

We're so excited to welcome SSNCI!

Our next JST #JacobiteStudies workshop is upon us on Tue, 8 April at 5pm UKT, and we'll be welcoming Dr Katarzyna Gmerek, who will be updating us on her longstanding research into the Jacobite O’Byrn family through their movements from Ireland to Central Europe.

jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

Post Doc!

"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"

Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland

www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...

#Skystorians 🗃

Hello everyone! RIISS (Aberdeen's Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies) is now on Bluesky. We're excited to see familiar faces and make new friends. Please do give us a follow if you're interested in Scottish and/or Irish Studies.

Announcement! Deadline extended to 20 April for submitting an abstract to our annual conference @abdnriiss.bsky.social on 'Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland'!! For more see
ssnci.org/annual-confe...