This lecture on Polish cinema by Rohan Crickmar is part of Focus on Poland Strand at Edinburgh International Film Festival and will take place on 28th June in the Filmhouse, Edinburgh. The event is free and all are welcome!

More information about the lecture can be found here.

The first volume of Elsewhere stories in Polish translation is finally online! The original texts by prominent, Scottish and non-Scottish, writers were commissioned by the Edinburgh International Book Festival and published on the Festival’s website. As the title of the series suggests, its main themes revolve around journey, distance, escape and confrontation with the ‘other’. The aim of the project is to grant all these fantastic works a new life elsewhere, namely in Poland – in top-notch translations prepared by undergraduate and postgraduate students and other translation enthusiasts affiliated with the University of Gdańsk. The volume was co-edited by Marta Crickmar.

You can have a look at it here.

The Captivating Criminality Network’s fourth UK conference, Crime Fiction: Detection, Public and Private, Past and Present will take place in Corsham Court, Bath Spa University, from 29th June until 1st July 2017. Abstracts are due by 13th February 2017.

More information about the conference can be found here.

The 2016 ASLS Languages Conference, “Scots and Gaelic Writing in the Scottish Renaissance: Language and Legacy” will take place at the University of Glasgon on 5th November.

Conference’s website can be found here.