Event Archive

2023

October

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  Supernatural Stories and Scott

  31 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:30

  Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz's 'Reading Scotland' programme for the 2023-2024 academic year kicks off with a talk by Dr Anna Fancett, University of Aberdeen, on Walter Scott's presentation of the supernatural.

2021

August

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  The Launch of 'Walter Scott and Song': Celebrating Scott 250

  17 August 2021, 18:00 - 23:55

  Join us for a virtual celebration of the 250th anniversary of Walter Scott's birth, and the opening of the University's new online exhibition, Walter Scott and Song: Retuning the Harp of the North, on Tuesday 17 August from 6pm (BST).

July

• Alison Lumsden to deliver lecture at International Walter Scott Conference

  06 July 2021, 14:00 - 15:30

  The Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to host the Twelfth International Walter Scott Conference, welcoming University of Aberdeen Professor Alison Lumsden for a plenary lecture.

2020

October

• #BLM: Developing a more diverse curriculum for LLMVC

  20 October 2020, 14:00 - 16:00

  Event for all LLMVC staff and students

2019

May

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  Director's Cut: Ruth Beckermann

  25 May 2019, 15:00 - 17:00

  Join celebrated documentary filmmaker Ruth Beckermann for a screening of her award-winning film The Waldheim Waltz (2018), followed by a Q&A, chaired by Dr Katya Krylova.

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  GWW Centre Research Seminar - Patrick Ellis

  13 May 2019, 15:00 - 16:30

  Join us for this George Washington Wilson Centre Research Seminar with visiting speaker Patrick Ellis (Georgia Institute of Technology).

2018

July

• Alliance, Antagonism, Authorship: Eleventh International Scott Conference

  10 - 13 July 2018

  Walter Scott’s ties with France were personal as well as intellectual and artistic. His wife wasof French birth and his interest in France was manifested both in his non-fiction (with his Life ofNapoleon and the final Series of Tales of a Grand-father) and in his novels, since he chose 15thcenturyFrance...

2016

July

• Textual Editing: Twenty-First Century Practice Workshop 4: University of Glasgow

  06 July 2016, 13:00 - 17:30

  The Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities and the Universities' Committee for Scottish Literature would like to announce the last of its four workshops designed to provide doctoral students of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature with the knowledge and skills required for the scholarly editing of texts from the period.

April

• TEXTUAL EDITING: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PRACTICE: WORKSHOP 2: UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

  06 April 2016

  A series of workshops for doctoral students in literary studies

February

• TEXTUAL EDITING: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PRACTICE

  17 February 2016

  A series of workshops for doctoral students in literary studies