THE ASSOCIATION FOR Getting to Sabhal Mòr Ostaig Road: SCOTTISH LITERARY STUDIES Cross the Skye Bridge from Kyle of and follow the A87 for Crossing the approximately six miles. Turn left onto the A851 towards Armadale for approximately thirteen miles, past Primary School. The entrance to Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is on the left. The conference is organised jointly by the Ferries: Highland Line Cal-Mac Ferry: to Armadale – 30 minute crossing. Cal- ASLS and by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. Mac also run ferries from North Uist and Harris to Uig in the north of Skye. Accommodation (including breakfast) is Tel: +44 (0)8705 650 000 in the 19th Century: available for delegates within the college at Ferry: Glenelg to Kylerhea – 5 minute crossing, Easter preferential rates: to October. Tel: +44 (0)1599 511 302 cross-currents in Bus: Citylink: Daily bus service to Broadford, from Inverness and Single Room: £32 per night Glasgow. They also run services all over . Their best prices Double Room: £56 per night are found on their own website. Scottish writing Megabus: Daily services to Inverness from Perth, Glasgow, Edinburgh and London. Their best prices are found on their ASLS Annual Conference 2012 To book accommodation, contact: website. Stagecoach: Local bus service from Broadford. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Train: Friday 8th – Sunday 10th June, 2012 Sandra Byrne First ScotRail: Rail service from Inverness to Kyle, Glasgow to Mallaig. A sleeper service runs from London to Inverness and from Deputy Facilities Manager London to Fort William. They also run services all over Scotland. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig GNER: Daily service to Inverness from Edinburgh and London, stopping in many other places between Inverness and London. Sleat Their best prices can be accessed on their website. Isle of Skye IV44 8RQ

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Mallaig Booking Form o I would like to book ___ place(s) at the 2012 ASLS The nineteenth century saw the romanticisation of the Highlander, the rise of tartanry Annual Conference at the following rates and the emergence of the modern Scottish tourist industry. It also witnessed the worst (coffees/teas and Saturday lunch included): excesses of the Clearances and the beginnings of an exodus from the Highlands to the ___ ASLS Members/Students/Unwaged: £40 industrial cities and to the colonies. This conference will examine the literary culture of ___ Full rate: £50 Scotland – Highland and Lowland – during this transformational period, and will explore o I would like to book ___ place(s) at the ASLS Annual its interactions and intersections. Conference Dinner at £30 per head

PROGRAMME Name:______Friday 8th Saturday 9th – Evening Address:______18:30 Optional buffet 19:00 Conference dinner ______20:15 Opening of conference 21:00 Ceilidh: featuring Margaret Bennett (Boyd Robertson and Ian Brown) ______th 20:30 Contacts and tensions between Sunday 10 ______Highlands and Lowlands 10:00 Màiri Mhòr and the land struggle (Allan MacInnes) (Mark Wringe) email:______21:15 “The Highland Drover”: the plays of 10:30 “That fairyland of poesy”: the o I enlose a cheque for £_____ (made payable to ASLS) Archibald Maclaren Highlands in 19th century novels by (Ian Brown and Gioia Angeletti) women (Pam Perkins) o Please debit my Visa/Mastercard £_____ 22:00 Bar open 11:00 Coffee 11:30 Neil MacLeod, bard of Skye and Card number: Saturday 9th Edinburgh (Meg Bateman) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | 9:15 What can Walter Scott offer us today? 12:00 From Celtic Revival to Scottish Literary (Christopher Whyte) Renaissance (Douglas Gifford) Expiry date: ____ / ____ 9:45 The poetry of Ailean Dall (Ronald Black) 13:00 Optional buffet lunch Signature: ______10:15 Coffee On-site accommodation is available for 10:45 James Hogg and the Highlands conference delegates and others: (Suzanne Gilbert) 11:15 The great folk collectors (D. W. Stewart) Single room: £32 per night (includes breakfast) 11:45 Break Double room: £56 per night (includes breakfast) 12:00 The Edinburgh journals and the To book, please contact Highlands (David Manderson) Sabhal Mòr Ostaig directly – 12:30 Gaelic periodicals (Sheila Kidd) see overleaf for details 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Robert Louis Stevenson: the Lowland Please return this form to: Highlander (Christopher MacLachlan) ASLS 14:30 The unknown William Livingstone: Scottish Literature 7 University Gardens ASLS four songs (Christopher Whyte) Cover image: William Charles Macready as “Rob Roy 15:00 Coffee McGregor”, 1848 – © National Portrait Gallery, London University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QH 15:30 Art, the Highlands and the Celtic Interior image: Dr Norman Macleod; engraved frontispiece of the book Caraid nan Gàidheal (Friend of the Gael), UK Revival (Murdo Macdonald) 1867 – © Gaidheil Alba / National Museums of Scotland. Tel: +44 (0)141 330 5309 16:15 Conclusion of papers Licensor www.scran.ac.uk email: [email protected] www.asls.org.uk