The fourth World Congress of Scottish Literatures, hosted by the School of English at the University of Nottingham, will take place from Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 7th July 2024.

• congress website, programme & registration details

Both the School of English and the city of Nottingham enjoy a richly interlinked history with Scotland and Scottish writing. The School has particular specialist research in Older Scots, Romanticism, literary Modernism, and in the contemporary. Nottingham and its Midlands environs recur in the writing of Walter Scott; Byron’s ancestral home of Newstead Abbey lies just north of the city; J. M. Barrie earned a living writing for the Nottingham Journal; and the University holds the papers of Catherine Carswell. We even make an appearance in Trainspotting.

We hope that the Congress will be an opportunity to continue the mission of the International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures, to bring together scholars from all over the world situate Scotland in a global and transnational scope.
Hosting the Congress south of the border also offers us an opportunity to revisit the historical relationship between England and Scotland, and the effect that collaboration has had on the world. Nottingham, meanwhile, is indelibly marked by an outlaw imagination, and we are looking forward to a Congress held in that spirit.

Following the Environmental Scotland webinar organised by Carla Sassi (University of Verona) in September 2021, ‘Environmental Scotland II’ gathers various viewpoints and approaches toward a topic that has long been central in Scottish literatures. The invited panelists are Timothy C. Baker (University of Aberdeen), Léna Ferrié (University of Western Brittany), Peter Mackay (University of St Andrews) and Camille Manfredi (University of Western Brittany). Organised and chaired by Monika Szuba (University of Gdańsk), the webinar will take place on Monday 22 April 2024 at 5 pm CET.

• abstracts, bios, and ZOOM information