IASSL organises a triennial conference, the World Congress of Scottish Literatures. The first Congress was held in Glasgow in 2014, the second in Vancouver in 2017, and the third, deferred due to the pandemic, was held in Prague in 2022. The fourth congress took place in Nottingham in 2024. The fifth one is going to be organised in Nanjing on 17-20 June 2027.
Between Congresses, we aim to hold smaller events, whether online, through our Dialogues series, or in-person, through smaller conferences. These events help us sustain intellectual exchange and keep members up-to-date on developments in the field. Recordings of our past online events are freely available on YouTube. An IASSL regional conference on ‘Scotland and the South Seas’ was organised in 2019 at Chaminade University of Honolulu.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The next instalment in the webinar series ‘Narratives of Illness and Dis/ability in Scottish Literature’ will be held on Friday 23 October at 8:30 pm UK time on MS Teams. No registration needed, all welcome. This session will focus on Scottish Gaelic literature, namely on short fiction by Iain Crichton Smith (1928-1998) and Derick Thomson (1921-2012).
PROGRAMME
- Gabrielle Fath (University of Limerick): ‘Exploring dementia narratives in Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn’s Gaelic short fiction’
- Petra Johana Poncarová (Charles University, Prague): ‘Extreme Emotional States and Mental Health Conditions in the Short Stories of Ruaraidh MacThòmais’
- full details, including MS Teams link
