Forum for Research in the Languages of Scotland and Ulster. LANGUAGE AND MODERN SCOTTISH FICTION

A one-day conference in the A.K. Bell Memorial Library, Perth, on Saturday 9 December 2006.

10.00. James Kelman's Vernacularities: Scott Hames 10.40. Gaelic novels and the question of language: Moray Watson 11.20. Coffee. 11.40. Varieties of Scots in recent short stories: Derrick McClure 12.20. Annual General Meeting of the Forum for Research in the Languages of Scotland and Ulster.

Agenda.

1. Chairman's Report 2. Treasurer's Report 3. Eighth International Conference on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Islay 2006: report on conference and subsequent events 4. AOB.

1.30. Lunch. 2.30. The Normalising of the Gaelic Novel provisional title: Mark Wringe 3.10. 'Sir, Have you Always Been a Puppet?' Ventriloquism in the work of Alasdair Gray: Niall O'Gallagher 3.50. Coffee. 4.10. General discussion. 5.00. Close of conference.

The conference fee of 30 (25 unwaged) will include morning and afternoon coffee, and will entitle the participant to a year's membership of the Forum.