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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 24d

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
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Dr Gerard McKeever - Scotch Novels

YouTube video by The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 28d

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

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.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Jul 21

Now available on the BARS Blog:

BARS President's Report 2025

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6068

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Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

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!

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jul 8

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
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Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · Jun 30

PhD thesis submitted!

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Jul 7

CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) bit.ly/4krM5PC

CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) | NAVSA

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · Jul 7

Applications 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'.

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University College Cork Vacancies

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Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social · Apr 10

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.

Five Questions: Gerard McKeever on Regional Romanticism – BARS Blog

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · Apr 24

A 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:

Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Mar 17

📣Calling all #ECRs who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic post - the @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social Nineteenth-Century Matters fellowship at the Uni of Edinburgh is now live! See below for details ⬇️ victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/n...

Nineteenth-Century Matters 2025 – University of Edinburgh

OutlineNineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its ninth year, it is aimed …

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SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social · Apr 17

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!

Nature Nurture: SELCIE Symposium

Edinburgh’s Childgarden Heritage, Cultures of Care, and Scottish Women’s Writing

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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · Apr 12

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!

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Claire Connolly @claireconnolly.bsky.social · Apr 13

This 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

SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social · Jan 27

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...

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

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Penny Fielding @penfielding.bsky.social · Apr 1

I have brilliant colleagues. @swinc-edi.bsky.social

Book Launch

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SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social · Mar 28

Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swinc-scot...

We look forward to welcoming you! /2

SWINC Scottish and Irish Gothic

Join us for a research event exploring Scottish and Irish Gothic literature.

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SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social · Mar 14

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

BARS Stephen Copley Research Award Report: Jodie Marley on The Scott Family and Edinburgh Romanticism in the London Archives – BARS Blog

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Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social · Mar 14

Fellowship opportunity here at Edinburgh for unaffiliated ECRs in C19 studies. Very happy to chat to anyone who’s interested in applying.

British Association for Romantic Studies ECRs & Postgraduates @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social · Mar 13

We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!

Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social · Mar 11

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.

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SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social · Mar 13

An 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.

British Association for Romantic Studies ECRs & Postgraduates @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social · Mar 13

We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!

Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · Mar 13

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
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British Association for Romantic Studies ECRs & Postgraduates @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social · Mar 13

We're delighted to announce that applications for the 2025-26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship are now open!

Deadline for applications: Monday 12 May 2025.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · Mar 8

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!

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SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social · Jan 27

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...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Dec 19

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

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

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SWINC @swinc-edi.bsky.social · Dec 19

Fantastic CfP here from two SWINC colleagues - do share widely!

Ainsley McIntosh @ainsley76.bsky.social · Dec 19

📣 CFP for a special journal issue of Scottish Literary Review @scotlit.bsky.social, co-edited with @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social ✨ Please share widely 🙏

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