The Sociability of Scottish Women Writers, c. 1782-1854

Celebrating 200 years of Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824) Symposium Schedule A Joint Event organised by Walter Scott

The Bannatyne Manuscript and its legacy

A symposium Edinburgh, late 1568: lockdown. Stuck at home for three months because of the Plague,

SWINC Autumn 2023 Research Seminar

Join us for our autumn roundup of work presented at conferences over the summer: 18th October

Typographical Antiquities

SWINC is delighted to welcome to Edinburgh Deidre Lynch of Harvard University, one of the world’s

SWINC Talk by Dr Richard Barlow

You are warmly invited to join us for our first SWINC talk of 2023! Dr Richard

Writing the North

Writing the North explored the literature of Orkney and Shetland. A collaborative project, it brought together literary historians,

SWINC Autumn Workshop ’22

Join us for our autumn roundup of work presented at conferences over the summer: 12th October

Scotland’s Coastal Romanticisms

5 February 2022: Co-hosted with IASH, this one-day workshop seeks to expand our understanding of the coastal

Scott’s Ghost-seeing

14 May 2021: Professor Ian Duncan will present this SWINC lecture to inaugurate our celebration of

Symposium: Religion and Scottish Literature

January 22 2020: we celebrate the launch of the Scottish Network for Religion and Literature at

Scotland in 1819: a SWINC workshop

June 14th 2019: Join us for an afternoon workshop featuring Professor James Chandler (University of Chicago).