The World Congress of Scottish Literatures: Call for Papers
The fourth World Congress of Scottish Literatures will be held from the 3rd to the 7th July 2024 at the University of Nottingham in England. The Congress is a major international gathering of scholars with a research interest in the study of all Scottish literatures, across all of Scotland’s languages, with an emphasis on Scotland’s place in the world.
While the fourth World Congress does not have a specific theme, our scope is transnational, and we would especially welcome papers on subjects that reflect the specific context of the Congress in Nottingham: the relationship between Scotland and England from earliest times to the present, a relationship which has had profound implications for the entire world, and which is a significant relationship in literatures in Scots, Gaelic, English, French and Latin from earliest evidence to contemporary production. Under this broad umbrella, we hope to address the following strands:
• Scoto-English relationships: personal, inter-textual, political, cultural and historical
• Scotland in Empire and the Empire in Scotland
• Outlaws, outliers and exiles
• My enemy’s enemy is my friend: Gaelic literary relationships beyond Scotland – Shaped by Landscape: literary understandings of land, sea and the environment – Scottish writing and World Literature
• Scottish medievalisms and the premodern use of the past
• Ultima thule: early Scottish engagements with Europe
• Outward-looking Romanticism
• Post-Couthy: literature in Scots since the Unions
• Drama, theatre and performance
• Contemporary Gaelic literature and media
• Diasporic writing: Scotland in a global world
Proposals for papers, posters and presentations should include an abstract of c. 200 words, and your affiliation. Papers in English, Scots or Scottish Gaelic are welcomed; however, the conference is unable to provide simultaneous translation services for papers not delivered in English.
The deadline for ALL proposal submissions is 31 October 2023.
Please send submissions to the Congress Committee at Nottingham: wcsl24@nottingham.ac.uk.
Congress Website: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/english/iassl/index.aspx.
Congress Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/ScotLit2024