The Burns Supper at 225 Years
A free online gathering to celebrate 225 years of the Burns Supper & discuss its nomination to the Inventory of Living Heritage in the UK
To facilitate international participation there are 2 DATES: 9 March, 7–8 AM GMT:
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My essay on “infectious madness” and the epidemiology of social unrest is out soon. It was great fun to have been part of this wonderful project. Congratulations and thanks to John Gardner and David Stewart!
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My latest article is now out in Studies in Romanticism: Romantic Sociability, Deaf Comedy, and John Poole's Deaf as a Post (1823) muse.jhu.edu/article/909932 Open access for the next 27 days.
The front cover of The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism & Race, edited by Manu Chander. The cover picture is of Kehinde Wiley’s Prelude. In the art work a Black youth in a long overcoat is viewed from behind, and replaces the central figure in Caspar David Friedrich’s famous painting of a solitary figure looking out across misty mountain tops.
The first page of chapter 6, Disability & Race by Essaka Joshua
A big thank you to @profchander.bsky.social for including my essay on “ Disability & Race” in a vol much needed in the ‘80s, when I was an undergrad. Thanks, too, to St Hugh’s Oxford, for letting me air my work as the Lady Ademola lecture. Lady Ademola is an inspiration.
The 1830s, ed. John Gardner and David Stewart is now out. I have an essay on madness in it. If you’re in Cambridge on 24 July you can catch the book launch. www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
4 days left to get your free download of Disability & the Gothic.
Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026:
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BBC News - 'I learned languages and travelled Europe through Erasmus' - BBC News
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Tickets are now available for the annual conference of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow, to be held on 17 January 2026. The programme features contributions by IASSL members Pauline Mackay, Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman, Paul Malgrati, Struan McCorriscken, and John Watson.
Auf alle Fälle!
#SoInEtwaIstEsGeschehen
BBC News - Embassy concerned by under-threat language courses in Nottingham - BBC News
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Screenshot der Webseite des im November eröffnenden Jenaer Zentrums für Romantikforschung mit einem Ausschnitt des Bildes „Three Seascapes“ von Joseph Mallord William Turner: Bei dem um 1827 entstandenen Bild handelt es sich um Studien von Meeresufern in Öl.
Es ist offiziell: Die Romantikforschung an der @uni-jena.de wird in Form eines Zentrums institutionalisiert; im November wird es eröffnet. Unter anderem wird Kunsthistorikerin und Fellow Cordula Grewe einen Vortrag zu arabeskem Denken und Gestalten halten. Weitere Infos: romantik-zentrum.uni-jena.de
Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell
A new intellectual biography of #Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought.
Goethe: A Life in Ideas by @matthewgbell.bsky.social is out now. Learn more and get your copy today: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The call for submissions & nominations for the 2025 Jack Medal is open until 30 November. We welcome articles & chapters on subjects related to Reception or Diaspora in Scottish Literatures (including Scots, English, Gaelic, and Latin). scotlit-iassl.org/awards/the-j...
Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists.
Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
#skystorians
Link to the book if you want to order if for your university libraries: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The image shows a blue book with the title Narrative Universes of Disability: Global Perspectives, edited by Someshwar Sati, Shilpa Das and Banibrata Mahanta. The publisher is Springer.
If you want to find out about the first German translation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the subject of translating disability, my chapter on this has just been published in the book Narrative Universes of Disability. It includes a great image of Frankenstein's creature reading Werther.
Der MDR hat »Sieben lesenswerte Bücher über den Bauernkrieg« zusammengestellt. Mein »1525. Thomas Müntzer und die Revolution des gemeinen Mannes« ist darunter. Danke für die Blumen! #1525 www.mdr.de/kultur/liter...
The full run of Scottish Studies - from 1957 to date - the journal of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh has now been digitised and is available online: open.journals.ed.ac.uk/ScottishStud...
📩 The first IASSL newsletter of 2025 has been dispatched! If you are a member, check your inbox, or read it on our website: mailchi.mp/579e4758f9bf... 📩
Congratulations to @eleoma.bsky.social! 🎉
🏵️ Announcing the 2024 Jack Medal! 🏵️ Eleoma Bodammer @eleoma.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social was awarded the medal for the chapter ‘John Stuart Blackie (1809-1895): Translating Faust I in Scotland (1834).' Congratulations! 🎉 Read her full statement about the award: tinyurl.com/2ac53d5j
