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n e and creative prose in Scots, English and Gaelic. Our l G A9 m Scotnotes series of school- and college-level study guides na Bir P ert provides invaluable background information to a range h R oad of major Scottish writers. We also produce collections of essays in our Occasional Papers series. Our website contains a substantial and growing body of downloadable essays, articles, papers and classroom notes, and gets TRAVEL DIRECTIONS over 10,000 visitors per year. Other free online resources include the peer-reviewed International Journal of Birnam Institute Scottish Literature and the ezine The Bottle Imp. Station Road Each year, ASLS produces and distributes over 3,500 Birnam publications to its subscribers, and a further 2,800 to Dunkeld PH8 0DS secondary schools and libraries. Approximately 3,000 books are sold each year through the trade. We hold The Birnam Arts & Conference Centre (BACC) is just off the annual conferences on Scottish writers in such diverse main A9 Perth to Inverness trunk road. The BACC houses the locations as Glasgow, Kirkwall, , Dumfries Beatrix Potter Exhibition which is signposted by brown “thistle” and Skye. Other conferences address issues relating to signs from the A9. Scottish language, and the place of Scottish literature and language in the classroom. Our schools conferences are By road from the South: suitable for CPD (Continuous Professional Development), Birnam is 12 miles north of Perth. Follow signposts for Birnam and and attract teachers from across Scotland. Dunkeld, turning right off the A9. The BACC is in the centre of Supported by Creative Scotland, ASLS campaigns the village. for a greater appreciation – at home and abroad, in schools, colleges and universities – of Scotland’s literary By road from the North: culture. Turn left off the A9 following signs for Birnam and Dunkeld, then immediately right for Birnam. The BACC is approximately 600 www.asls.org.uk yards further on, on the right. By train: Birnam and Dunkeld station is two minutes walk. From the station follow signs leading you through the underpass and on down to the main road. Turn right at the main road – the BACC is 100 yards further on the right. THE ASSOCIATION FOR SCOTTISH LITERARY STUDIES BOOKING FORM

THE PALIS o I would like to book ___ place(s) at the 2011 ASLS Annual Conference at the following rates (includes coffee/tea and lunch): OF HONOURE ___ ASLS Members/Students/Unwaged: £28 ❧ ___ Full rate: £35

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______11 June 2011, Kinnaird Hall, Birnam Institute, Dunkeld ______PROGRAMME ______9:30 Registration & coffee ______10:00 Welcome – Ian Brown email:______10:15 Nature in the poetry of – Priscilla Bawcutt o I enlose a cheque for £_____ (made payable to ASLS) 10:45 The ‘pure liege unleird’: political attitudes in This year’s ASLS Annual Conference turns its attention to what has been called ‘the aureate age’ in Scottish arts, the the work of Gavin Douglas – Nicola Royan o Please debit my Visa/Mastercard £_____ 11:15 Plenary & questions flowering during the reign of James IV of vernacular poetry epitomised in the work of Gavin Douglas (1476–1522), who 11:30 Tea & coffee Card number: dedicated his Palis of Honoure to the king. Douglas exhibits 11:45 Cultural concerns in | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | The Book of the Dean of a zeal to educate his countrymen in the importance of classic Lismore – Willie Gillies texts and to enrich the vernacular language. The poetry of Expiry date: ____ / ____ 12:15 Carver and the music of the period Douglas’s close contemporary, David Lyndsay (1486–1555), – Jamie Reid Baxter who had a very different attitude to the purposes of writing, Signature: ______12:45 Plenary & questions is represented by his reforming drama Ane Satyre of the 1:00 LUNCH Thrie Estaitis, but also by his lesser-known comic verse. The Please return this form to: 2:00 George Buchanan, chieftain of the poet race importance during this period of Classical Gaelic can be seen (Latin!) – Roger Green in the collection known as The Book of the Dean of Lismore ASLS Scottish Literature 2:30 Lyndsay and Buchanan: contrasts in reforming (1512–42), and Scotland’s fourth major language during the period is amply illustrated in the Latin verses in a range 7 University Gardens dramaturgy – Sarah Carpenter University of Glasgow of forms and styles of the greatest of the Scottish Latinists, 3:00 Irony and audience in Sir David Lyndsay: the Glasgow G12 8QH George Buchanan (1506–82). UK case of Squyer Meldrum – Rhiannon Purdie 3:30 Plenary & questions Tel/Fax: +44 (0)141 330 5309 Cover image: replica Stirling Head, no. 32, from the King’s Presence Chamber, , 3:45 depicting a Roman Emperor wearing paludamentum rather than a toga, email: [email protected] Tea & coffee symbolic of peacetime rule, and with plumes behind his head. Internal image: replica Stirling Head, no. 20, from the King’s Presence Chamber, Stirling Castle, 4:00 Plenary & close of conference depicting a female Worthy, perhaps with a musical notation around the border. www.asls.org.uk Images © Crown Copyright, reproduced courtesy of Historic Scotland. 5:00 Concert in Dunkeld Cathedral (finishes5:45 pm) www.historicscotlandimages.gov.uk