FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Strathclyde proposes to host a 2-day conference on
14/15
January 2000 to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert
Fergusson. Entitled, 'Brothers in the Muse: Burns, Fergusson and the
Vernacular Revival', it will address the issues in Scottish literature
and
language arising out of the eighteenth century in general and out of the
relationship of Fergusson and Burns in particular. It is anticipated
that
addresses will be given by major scholars in fields such as: The
Language
of Fergusson and Burns; Fergusson's Poetry; Radicalism in Fergusson and
Burns; Irish and Scottish Revolutionary Writing; Jacobitism and
Jacobinism;
Fergusson and Irish Tradition; The Burns Canon; Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns
and the Song Tradition and Scottish and Irish literary relations in the
eighteenth century
. Suggestions for papers in these and other relevant areas are now
invited
from scholars with an interest in the period. Papers will be of
approximately 30 minutes' length and those proposing them should submit
a
100-word abstract either to Dr Ken Simpson (Centre for Scottish Cultural
Studies, Livingstone Tower, University of Strathclyde) or Professor
Murray
Pittock (Scots-Irish Research Network, Dept of English Studies,
Livingstone
Tower, University of Strathclyde) by 28 February 1999. Refereed
publication
of selected papers is anticipated, and it is intended that the
conference
be held under the joint auspices of the Glasgow-Strathclyde School of
Scottish Studies.
Submission may also be made via email to the above address.
Dr Ken Simpson, Director, Centre for Scottish Cultural Studies
Professor Murray Pittock, Convenor, Scots-Irish Research Network
at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XH.
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