Online Events

To provide a platform for an exchange of ideas and to connect our diverse and global network of members, IASSL organises online events. Browse through the recordings of past events below.

Upcoming events

WEBINAR RECORDINGS

Environmental Scotland IV

  • Garry MacKenzie (poet and translator): ‘Ben Dorain: A Conversation with a Mountain (2021)
  • Coinneach Maclean (author and independent scholar): ‘The Tourist Gaze on Gaelic Scotland’

Finlay J Macdonald at 100 | Fionnlagh Iain MacDhòmhnaill aig 100

  • Mhairi Brennan (Aston University)
  • Rob Dunbar (University of Edinburgh)
  • Petra Johana Poncarova (Charles University, Prague)

Bridging Cultures: Scottish Literature in Korean

  • Meehyun Chung and L. M. Ratnapalan (both Yonsei University): ‘Lilias Horton Underwood’s Korean translations of Robert Louis Stevenson’
  • Paul Tonks and John M. Frankl (both Yonsei University): ‘Modern Korean Engagements with Scottish Writers: Exploring the Literary and Intellectual History of Korean-Scottish Relations’

Environmental Scotland III

  • Dana Graham Lai (Simon Fraser University): ‘”The Art of the Weak”: Place and Placelessness in the “Autobiography, poems and songs of Ellen Johnston, “the Factory girl”‘
  • Alexander Dick (University of British Columbia): ‘Island Lords: Walter Scott, Coastal Poetics, and the Politics of Infrastructure’

BOSLIT: Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation

  • Kirsteen McCue (University of Glasgow)
  • Paul Malgrati (University of Highlands and Islands)

Scottish Literature’s Unexplored Archives II

  • Kate Hill (University of Lincoln): ‘The Home-made Archive: Women and DIY Museums in Twentieth-century Scotland’
  • Brianna E. Robertson-Kirkland (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland): ‘No Man is an Island: Archival Finds and The Corri Family in Edinburgh’
  • Craig Lamont (University of Glasgow): ‘Allan Ramsay: An Intensely Local Archive’
  • Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow) and Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh (University of Edinburgh): The MacNicol Papers: ‘”From Lismore to Barbados” and Beyond’

Environmental Scotland II

  • Léna Ferrié and Camille Manfredi (University of Western Brittany): ‘Industrial and Marine Forces of the North Sea in Peter Iain Campbell’s Photography’
  • Timothy C. Baker (University of Aberdeen): ‘Crisis and Utopia: Scotland in the Anthropocene’
  • Peter Mackay (University of St Andrews): ‘Cornucopia; or Not Talking About the Iolaire’

Environmental Scotland

Scottish Literature’s Unexplored Archives