Dr Scott Lyall organises A Celebration of the Life and Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Feb 7, 2025
Summary
For I Will Give You The Morning Star: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The great Scottish novelist James Leslie Mitchell, better-known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon, died on 7 February 1935. Just thirty-three years old, he had published an astonishing range of books in his cruelly short but hugely influential writing career, including Sunset Song, a novel of truly iconic status regularly voted Scotland’s favourite by the reading public.
This event, chaired by Prof Alison Lumsden, will mark the 90th anniversary of his death. Renowned academics, Gibbon specialists and writers will celebrate his legacy and explore the enduring fascination of his life and work: Dr William K. Malcolm, Gibbon's authorised biographer; Dr Alison Baxter, granddaughter and biographer of Jean Baxter to whom Sunset Song is dedicated; Gibbon experts Dr Scott Lyall and Prof Uwe Zagratzki, plus choice readings by Dr Shane Strachan.
The event is supported by the School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University.
From January 22nd to January 24th Screen Academy Scotland is organising a Symposium and different film screenings on Eco Narratives and Sustainability in Film with support of an AHRC grant and in collaboration with the University of Portsmouth.
Prof. Bashabi Fraser is an invited panellist for an event at the National War Museum, London
Aug 25, 2017
Summary
The National War Museum in London is holding an event entitled 'Refugee Stories of the Indian Partition' on 25 August 2017 and Prof. Bashabi Fraser has been invited to take part as a Panellist.
Prof. Bashabi Fraser at Edinburgh International Book festival, 2017
Aug 23, 2017
Summary
Bashabi Fraser and Alan Riach have an event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 23 august, including the launch of their book 'Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish and South Asian Poetry'.
