Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies
@abdnriiss.bsky.social
Promoting research into the languages, histories and literatures of Ireland and Scotland, and of their global diasporic communities. Est. 1999 at the University of Aberdeen.
We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025.
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New Voices ECR Visiting Fellowship
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November 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
We're delighted to announce that, after a very successful first year, RIISS will be hosting a further New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow in 2026. Applications are open until 5th December 2025.
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We're back with the New Voices next week! Maurice Casey from QUB will be sharing his research paper 'Hotel Lux: Researching an Irish Woman's World in 1920s Moscow'. Join us at 4pm on Tuesday by contatcing Dr Sarah Sharp for the link.
October 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We're back with the New Voices next week! Maurice Casey from QUB will be sharing his research paper 'Hotel Lux: Researching an Irish Woman's World in 1920s Moscow'. Join us at 4pm on Tuesday by contatcing Dr Sarah Sharp for the link.
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The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Deadline: 31 January 2026. More information: thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...
October 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. Deadline: 31 January 2026. More information: thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...
Coming to a computer near you this afternoon! Email Dr Sharp if you'd like to hear Dr Zukovs fascinating paper.
We have more exciting things lined up this semester. The New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is back and has a stellar line-up of emerging researchers. To attend simply contact Dr Sharp at the address on the poster:
October 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Coming to a computer near you this afternoon! Email Dr Sharp if you'd like to hear Dr Zukovs fascinating paper.
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Our latest issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies is now out, and free to read!
This is a special 'New Voices' issue featuring the work of Early Career Researchers. We hope it will be the first of many such issues #SupportECRs
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This is a special 'New Voices' issue featuring the work of Early Career Researchers. We hope it will be the first of many such issues #SupportECRs
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Issue: Issue: 1(12) (2025)
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October 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Our latest issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies is now out, and free to read!
This is a special 'New Voices' issue featuring the work of Early Career Researchers. We hope it will be the first of many such issues #SupportECRs
abdn.site/121
This is a special 'New Voices' issue featuring the work of Early Career Researchers. We hope it will be the first of many such issues #SupportECRs
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We have more exciting things lined up this semester. The New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is back and has a stellar line-up of emerging researchers. To attend simply contact Dr Sharp at the address on the poster:
October 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We have more exciting things lined up this semester. The New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is back and has a stellar line-up of emerging researchers. To attend simply contact Dr Sharp at the address on the poster:
Bookending the summer, in September we also saw the publication of the inugural New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. Full of fresh new scholarship from emerging researchers, the issue is fully open access here: jiss.aberdeenunipress.org
Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies
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October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Bookending the summer, in September we also saw the publication of the inugural New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies issue of the Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies. Full of fresh new scholarship from emerging researchers, the issue is fully open access here: jiss.aberdeenunipress.org
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📢 We're seeking a volunteer Treasurer!
📍 Glasgow | ⏰ ~4 hrs/month
💼 Join our Board & support the legacy of Alasdair Gray.
📅 Apply by Thurs 6 Nov 2025, 5pm
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📍 Glasgow | ⏰ ~4 hrs/month
💼 Join our Board & support the legacy of Alasdair Gray.
📅 Apply by Thurs 6 Nov 2025, 5pm
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October 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
📢 We're seeking a volunteer Treasurer!
📍 Glasgow | ⏰ ~4 hrs/month
💼 Join our Board & support the legacy of Alasdair Gray.
📅 Apply by Thurs 6 Nov 2025, 5pm
📧 sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.org
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📍 Glasgow | ⏰ ~4 hrs/month
💼 Join our Board & support the legacy of Alasdair Gray.
📅 Apply by Thurs 6 Nov 2025, 5pm
📧 sorcha@thealasdairgrayarchive.org
thealasdairgrayarchive.org/wp-content/u...
We've also welcomed a number of amazing publications over the summer. In May, Dr Bradford Boy edited a new issue of the Journal of Scottish Thought focused on John Witherspoon. All articles are available open access for you to enjoy: jst.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/37/info/
Journal of Scottish Thought |
Issue: Issue: 1(14) (2025)
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October 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
We've also welcomed a number of amazing publications over the summer. In May, Dr Bradford Boy edited a new issue of the Journal of Scottish Thought focused on John Witherspoon. All articles are available open access for you to enjoy: jst.aberdeenunipress.org/issue/37/info/
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Applications are invited for the 2026 CISS Scottish Writing Fellowship at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. Flights, accommodation & stipend for 2 months at the Caselberg House near Dunedin. Apply at the link below by 31 October. Good luck…! www.otago.ac.nz/ciss
Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies
The Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies provides an opportunity to study the literature, history, politics and culture of Ireland and Scotland – and of the Irish and Scottish diasporas – over the pa...
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September 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Applications are invited for the 2026 CISS Scottish Writing Fellowship at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. Flights, accommodation & stipend for 2 months at the Caselberg House near Dunedin. Apply at the link below by 31 October. Good luck…! www.otago.ac.nz/ciss
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📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
CONFERENCE 2026: Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026 – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
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September 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
📣 📣 The CFP for IASIL 2026 is now LIVE! 📣 📣
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPCU) Budapest – 6-10 July 2026
Translating Ireland
The deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, November 28, 2025.
#IrishStudies #Translation #IrishLiterature
Full CFP:
www.iasil.org/2025/09/conf...
Pls share
It was a great joy to welcome so many new and familiar faces to RIISS over June! Tune back in tomorrow to hear what else we had going on this summer.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It was a great joy to welcome so many new and familiar faces to RIISS over June! Tune back in tomorrow to hear what else we had going on this summer.
But we weren't done. On 25th June, contributors gathered at RIISS to discuss the upcoming Routledge Companion to Scottish Literature.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
But we weren't done. On 25th June, contributors gathered at RIISS to discuss the upcoming Routledge Companion to Scottish Literature.
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In June, we also co-hosted a symposium bringing together policy makers, statutory and non-departmental public bodies, academics, industry and civil society organisations from across Ireland and Scotland to discuss current actions and challenges around empowering Gaelic and Irish speaking communities
Ceangal - Connect
Symposium at Aberdeen University on June 9-10 on empowering Gaelic and Irish speaking communities. Our chair
@wilsonmcleod.bsky.social will be part of a panel on the role of dispersed or city-based speaker communities in language revitalisation
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Symposium at Aberdeen University on June 9-10 on empowering Gaelic and Irish speaking communities. Our chair
@wilsonmcleod.bsky.social will be part of a panel on the role of dispersed or city-based speaker communities in language revitalisation
www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/events...
Ceangal / Connect
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September 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In June, we also co-hosted a symposium bringing together policy makers, statutory and non-departmental public bodies, academics, industry and civil society organisations from across Ireland and Scotland to discuss current actions and challenges around empowering Gaelic and Irish speaking communities
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A great first day at @ssnci.bsky.social in Aberdeen. Learned a ton, almost melted in the heat, and had a great evening in Aberdeen’s lovely Botanic Gardens.
June 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A great first day at @ssnci.bsky.social in Aberdeen. Learned a ton, almost melted in the heat, and had a great evening in Aberdeen’s lovely Botanic Gardens.
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Had a great time presenting in the @ssnci.bsky.social conference! Aberdeen, as a city, is often taken for granite in my opinion.
June 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Had a great time presenting in the @ssnci.bsky.social conference! Aberdeen, as a city, is often taken for granite in my opinion.
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Thanks to all speakers, organisers, attendees, and everyone involved in our annual conference and thanks to @abdnriiss.bsky.social for hosting us!!!!
June 22, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Thanks to all speakers, organisers, attendees, and everyone involved in our annual conference and thanks to @abdnriiss.bsky.social for hosting us!!!!
We hosted @ssnci.bsky.social for their conference on one of the hottest weekend's of the year in Aberdeen. Lots of sun and lots of incredible research shared!
Another successful and enjoyable @ssnci.bsky.social conference this year at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social - thanks to the organisers and fellow participants
September 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We hosted @ssnci.bsky.social for their conference on one of the hottest weekend's of the year in Aberdeen. Lots of sun and lots of incredible research shared!
Hello everyone, we've been a bit quiet whilst we've been figuring out our social media(s) but WE'RE BACK BABY! And boy have we been busy this summer...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Hello everyone, we've been a bit quiet whilst we've been figuring out our social media(s) but WE'RE BACK BABY! And boy have we been busy this summer...
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The SSNCI will hold its 2025 Annual Conference at the @abdnriiss.bsky.social at the University of Aberdeen on 19-21 June 2025! To find out more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
Annual Conference 2025 | The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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June 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The SSNCI will hold its 2025 Annual Conference at the @abdnriiss.bsky.social at the University of Aberdeen on 19-21 June 2025! To find out more see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
Dr Elisa Cozzi is here to research the nineteenth-century Dante scholar John Taaffe and his connections to Scottish Romanticism. You can read more about her project here: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
Inaugural New Voices ECR Visiting Fellow Arrives
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April 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Dr Elisa Cozzi is here to research the nineteenth-century Dante scholar John Taaffe and his connections to Scottish Romanticism. You can read more about her project here: www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
We're so excited to welcome SSNCI!
Submit your abstracts by 20 April!
@ssnci.bsky.social will hold its 2025 Annual Conference @abdnriiss.bsky.social on 19-21 June 2025. The theme for our 2025 Conference will be Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
For more details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
@ssnci.bsky.social will hold its 2025 Annual Conference @abdnriiss.bsky.social on 19-21 June 2025. The theme for our 2025 Conference will be Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
For more details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
Annual Conference 2025 – CFP EXTENDED 20 April | The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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April 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
We're so excited to welcome SSNCI!
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Our next JST #JacobiteStudies workshop is upon us on Tue, 8 April at 5pm UKT, and we'll be welcoming Dr Katarzyna Gmerek, who will be updating us on her longstanding research into the Jacobite O’Byrn family through their movements from Ireland to Central Europe.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Our next JST #JacobiteStudies workshop is upon us on Tue, 8 April at 5pm UKT, and we'll be welcoming Dr Katarzyna Gmerek, who will be updating us on her longstanding research into the Jacobite O’Byrn family through their movements from Ireland to Central Europe.
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Post Doc!
"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"
Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland
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"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"
Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland
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#Skystorians 🗃
IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship | IASH
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April 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Post Doc!
"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"
Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
#Skystorians 🗃
"Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture"
Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland
www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...
#Skystorians 🗃
Hello everyone! RIISS (Aberdeen's Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies) is now on Bluesky. We're excited to see familiar faces and make new friends. Please do give us a follow if you're interested in Scottish and/or Irish Studies.
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April 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hello everyone! RIISS (Aberdeen's Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies) is now on Bluesky. We're excited to see familiar faces and make new friends. Please do give us a follow if you're interested in Scottish and/or Irish Studies.